For me, all pens are single-use pens. If you put me in an empty room, sat me on a chair, gave me a pen, and told me that all I needed to do was hold onto the pen for an hour or I'd be dropped through a trapdoor into oblivion, you'd never see me again.

A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Literature and Creative Education is available at Goldsmiths, University of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec.

My partner's Wolfson nominated book is in the Yale sale: HALF PRICE until the end of the month (Yale website only). This means that you can pick up the paperback for less than £6, a perfect stocking filler. Discount code: FIFTY yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @victoriandetective.bsky.social

For the Dave in your life.

If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!

Assuming that all those chivalric heroes who recently mobilised to protect women and girls from predators are now booking tickets and hotfooting it to Norfolk in order to besiege Andrew 'Mountbatten' Windsor in his new shame-mansion.

Of the Celebrity Traitors, 7 did English Drama,or Dance degrees/training, 3 did History/Art History, 1 did geophysics, and 1 didn't do a degree. Tell me again about how Arts and Humanities degrees never get people anywhere?

An important message to the people of New York City. More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

Our #Shakespeare webinar series continues! Join us on 6 Oct at 6pm to delve into the new OWC edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social & @callanjd.bsky.social All welcome! Register now via Eventbrite & you will be sent a Zoom link before the event. #teamenglish

Found out about this book today and it’s already changed how I’m going to revise my new monograph!

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Announcing New Welsh Voices in English Literature - a new research series at Swansea! I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales. I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.

Bluesky friends, please signal boost! I am trying to read an obituary in the Springfield Republican (1919) for a ESN Goodall who might, just *might*, be the author of the ‘George Eliot Birthday Book’, but it’s behind a paywall 😭 Can anyone help?

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...

Or should it be Disco Implyno?

I may have left my drinking water to cool in the freezer a couple of minutes too long…

As a pop-crazed youngster, I’m delighted to see the word ‘eighventies’ appearing in @davidstubbs.bsky.social’s wonderful history of British comedy ‘Different Times,’ which, in its own right, has frequently made me laugh during an unfunny week. Hits the spot whilst missing both my legs.

Just the corner of our little flat glowing in the evening sunshine.

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Over 1000 signatories in 36 hours! Let's make it 2000 by the weekend 👇 Please sign 👇 Please circulate 👇

Really enjoyed Fantastic Four: First Steps. But I wish I hadn’t known that the mile-tall Galactus, cosmic devourer or worlds, was played by Finchy from The Office. It was a bit distracting.

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour. #MedievalMonday. 1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554 2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304. 3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764. 4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.

Stamer's government keeps calling the situation in Gaza ‘intolerable’ and yet continue to tolerate it. Recognising the state of Palestine is a bare minimum that governments across the world can do to help bring an end to the genocide. All 4 @greenparty.org.uk MPs have signed this letter.

This old post popped up in my FB memories. It’s timely. I didn’t dream about bears last night, but I did hit send on my Mucedorus book this morning. Thanks and apologies to anyone who’s heard me not shutting up about this play. I didn’t realise it’s been eleven years. Also that might get worse.

We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here: ereed.org/collections/...

Black Sabbath didn’t save my life, but they were the soundtrack to my life becoming saved. And they were so funny. Ozzy, you helped me occupy my brain. youtu.be/W6sVXK9o0Ys?...

#JobKlaxon: One year fixed-term lectureship in Shakespeare Studies @cemskcl.bsky.social (1 Sept 2025-31 August 2026. Apply by 27th July 2025. #Skystorians #Shax www.rensoc.org.uk/event/fixed-...

We're in Everything Theatre!! Click through for more about how we're subverting Hamlet this summer 💀👻🌸

Haven’t shared a Friday Funk for a while! 1/2 Here’s some warped disco from P-Funk sister group Parlet. It’s great, and ‘Booty Snatchers’ is just about slow enough to bop to in this heat. Uplifting, full of twinkling synths and undulating harmonies, plus a righteous conga break.

Bumping this up for the Friday crowd — please share and donate, every donation makes a difference x

📢JOBS: 2 postdoc research associate positions📢 On AHRC project 'Informing contemporary land use policy through sustainability assessment of farming systems' in pre-modern periods🗃️ - FT from 01/10/25 - #Medieval history (3 years) - #EarlyModern history (28 months) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Dear chums, if you have a minute, could you take a look at my livery company website and send me your thoughts on how easy it is to navigate and whether it makes you want to know more about the Founders? Or indeed anything else. Thanks in advance :) www.foundersco.org.uk

PhD SCHOLARSHIP! TCD is looking for an outstanding scholar keen to research materials broadly related to a project on the dramatic representation of Romani people, Ottomans, and “Moors” in Renaissance Italian comedies Deadline 4 August all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/ucd-sc... #EarlyModern

In Bristol for #RenSoc25 For my phd/mono I wrote about these statues on St John’s Gate, but never saw them until today. They are Belinus and Brennus, Bristol’s ancient Trojan founders. In 1486 an actor playing Brennus met Henry VII at the gate, bemoaned the city’s ‘decaye’ and asked for cash.

🚨Help pls!🚨I wrote a piece about GenAI boosterism, the collapse of the humanities in UK post92 universities, & who stands to gain from billionaire-owned plagiarism machines replacing artists&critics, but it’s too long for the outlet that originally commissioned it. Looking to pitch it elsewhere. ➡️

In 1671, Rachel (Fane) Bouchier, the Countess of Bath, purchased £200 of books for the library at @tcddublin.bsky.social The books were housed together and known as “The Countess of Bath’s Library.” This week I reconstructed the bequest, with the help of the amazing TCD librarians.

a timelapse of #slowbibliography featuring one of its best practitioners.

I sold an astrological birth chart to Saffron from Republica while she was being interviewed by Gail Porter.

A great Phd opportunity for a Black British student, starting this September. Spread the word! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Dreamt that Bob Dylan was talking about Michelangelo's Creation of Adam and, to illustrate his point, prodded my nose with his finger. Not sure what to do with this.

No, Sly, thank you. youtu.be/3pnoVMEH7QI?...

Handy tip from an 18th century medical guidebook – always remember to prepare your medicinal woodlice in the same manner as your bees

Happy 5 year anniversary to Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into Bristol Harbour :D

Some brilliant colleagues (digital creatives Amy Cutler and Rob Sherman) have kickstarted a new MA programme in *Interactive Storytelling Design: Video Games and Beyond* Please help spread the word!

If you wanna be green, don’t feed the machine. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

Is anyone else having trouble accessing the Lost Plays Database?

Beyond excited for this event, which highlights all the ways you could Have a Strop about being served a warrant in early modern England. Stamping on, throwing, ripping, crumpling, and eating documents all feature. Come join us if you're in the city!

OMG!! The ESTC is back!!!! datb.cerl.org/estc/