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Haberdashers' Company Archivist. Early modern London, migration, drama.
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John Gallagher
2 days ago
Very excited for the 2027 Society for Renaissance Studies conference, to be held in the city many are calling the Leeds of the south.
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Prof Tracey Hill
6 days ago
Writing about civic pageantry will never stop being a pleasure. Wranging PowerPoint slides, in contrast, 🤯
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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉
8 days ago
📣 Please share! The UCL Department of Information Studies is pleased to invite applications for the 2026 Widening Participation in Archives & Records Management Summer School from 6–9 July.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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Widening Participation in Archives and Records Management Summer School
Date: 6-9 July 2026 Time: 10am - 4pm Location: UCL Bloomsbury Campus
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/events/2026/jul/widening-participation-archives-and-records-management-summer-school
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John Gallagher
12 days ago
Mulling the editorial direction of Renaissance Studies, and thinking it might be time to open the journal up to articles by humanities scholars who have a very shaky grasp of how science works but fancy having a go
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Meryl Faiers
23 days ago
My latest blogpost for the Kingswomen introduces Rebecca Edwards: she married star actor William Knell at 14, was widowed at 15, then married Shakespeare’s colleague, John Heminges.
www.kingswomen.org/post/rebecca...
#earlymodern
#womenshistory
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Rebecca Heminges (1571-1619)
by Meryl Faiers, 20 April 2026Evidence of the lives of non-elite women is often fragmentary and frequently found in administrative records. The first stage of thinking about the experiences of someone...
https://www.kingswomen.org/post/rebecca-heminges-1571-1619
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Kathleen Commons
about 1 month ago
Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she)
about 2 months ago
Here’s the print reveal of my Spanish Tragedy linocut, where I’m genuinely surprised it worked. VERY satisfying! The carving is very fiddly and takes a long time, and while you’re in progress you think it’ll look terrible. Just another necessary lesson in trusting the process.
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John Gallagher
about 2 months ago
Please do spread the word about the
@srsrensoc.bsky.social
Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of ÂŁ4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
On our Close Readings subscription podcast: Rosemary Hill and Matthew Davies, professor of urban history at Birkbeck, trace the story of London through the multiple invasions that took it from a field of ruins to a busy medieval capital. Listen to an extract:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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London Revisited: The Medieval Capital
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 23 March · 1h 29m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/london-revisited-the-medieval-capital/id1669485143?i=1000755775273
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John McCafferty
2 months ago
5 Mar 1600: Reniaulme de Ascanius
#London
bookseller of Venetian origin buried St Ann Blackfriars
#otd
Leading importer of foreign books to
#London
who was permitted to bring in Catholic books for use by the learned.
#Booktrade
(Bashereyre, St Ann's yard, 2008)
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John Gallagher
3 months ago
Does anyone happen to have access to Brill's Italian Reformation Online resource? They've digitised this manuscript (the libro di memorie of Vincenzo Burlamachi) and I'd love to see it!
primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/itali...
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The Italian Reformation Online — Brill
The Italian Reformation Online — Brill
https://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/italian-reformation-part-1/libro-di-memorie-diverse-della-chiesa-italiana-racolti-da-m-vincenzo-burlamachi-in-geneva-de-15501669registre-contenant-les-noms-des-familles-italiennes-venues-a-geneve-de-15501607-la-liste-de-leurs-ministres-de-leurs-anciens-et-diacres-registre-contenant-les-noms-des-familles-italiennes-venues-a-geneve-de-15501607;irf16
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Has anyone come across this woodcut before? It may have belonged to Abel Jeffes at some point but not entirely sure. EBBA isn't working for me so any help would be much appreciated!
3 months ago
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Has anyone come across this woodcut before? It may have belonged to Abel Jeffes at some point but not entirely sure. EBBA isn't working for me so any help would be much appreciated!
3 months ago
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John Gallagher
6 months ago
I was writing the other day about a document that mentions the Antwerp-born Londoner Lodewijk Theeuws, but I hadn't realised that a claviorgan he built in 1579 still exists at the V&A, and that it's the earliest surviving keyboard instrument made in Britain.
collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O60635/...
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The Theewes Claviorgan | Theewes, Lodewyk | V&A Explore The Collections
Claviorgan, 1579, English, Lodewyk Theewes
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O60635/the-theewes-claviorgan-claviorgan-theewes-lodewyk/
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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉
9 months ago
🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective Inquiry, Exchange and Practice.
@ciaranon.bsky.social
@geolug.bsky.social
@richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx
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Public History in Global Perspective
Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...
https://tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx
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Daniel F Gosling
10 months ago
Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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Dr Jacob H. Deacon ⚔️
10 months ago
'Masters of Defence: Fencers and Fencing in England, c. 1400-1600' Next Friday evening, at 7pm UK time, I’ll be talking about my research for the German Federation for Historical Fencing. You can join the talk here: (
uni-trier.zoom-x.de/j/6650319538...
) Meeting-ID: 665 0319 5383 Password: 4w2v9GN6
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Perhaps a silly question but does anyone know how landlords advertised rental properties in sixteenth-century London?
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Spitalfields Life
11 months ago
LAST CHANGE TO SAVE LIVERPOOL ST STATION FROM THE MONSTER BLOCK! Note the height of Grade II*-listed Great Eastern Hotel in front and observe that this pile is more than twice the height and it will block out all daylight from the concourse.
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11 months ago
“This is the hardest job I’ve ever done. My hands go numb, and I can’t feel them. Over time you get used to the pain.” I said, “That’s what ballet dancers say about their feet.” He said,”Really? So, their feet are our hands.”
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Prof Laurie Johnson
about 1 year ago
Heading to the UK for the Visiting Fellowship in a little over three weeks, and thanks to Tudor House and Southampton City Council for hosting my first advertised speaking commitment (with Sarah Siddons Fan Club!) while there:
southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/barga...
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Talk with Professor Laurie Johnson - Bargate: A Shakespearean Provincial Playhouse - Ticketing
Although Southampton’s Bargate is not a typical Shakespearean playhouse venue, it was an effective performance venue for mayoral command performances and community playing throughout that era. Leading...
https://southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/bargate-playhouse-talk/
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David Bartle
about 1 year ago
I came across this will record for a member where he proposes to use the Haberdashers Company barge in his funeral arrangements.
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This came out a few weeks back. Let me know if you don't have access but would like to have a read. Thomas Nashe’s Harlequin: French Political Satire and the Commedia dell’Arte in Early Modern England | Renaissance Drama: Vol 52, No 2
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Thomas Nashe’s Harlequin: French Political Satire and the Commedia dell’Arte in Early Modern England | Renaissance Drama: Vol 52, No 2
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/732403
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This came out a few weeks back. Let me know if you don't have access but would like to have a read. Thomas Nashe’s Harlequin: French Political Satire and the Commedia dell’Arte in Early Modern England | Renaissance Drama: Vol 52, No 2
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Thomas Nashe’s Harlequin: French Political Satire and the Commedia dell’Arte in Early Modern England | Renaissance Drama: Vol 52, No 2
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/732403
about 1 year ago
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