Thrilled I've got 150 responses to my survey on personal tutoring! I'm aiming for 200 responses, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral responsibility for students in the last five years, whatever that's called, with ten minutes spare, I'd love to hear from you. Do share if you can.

😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

@transparentaction.bsky.social @whatthetrans.com @heatherpaterson.co.uk A helpful link for young trans 🏳️‍⚧️ people and their parents woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...

Some stunning miniatures on show #philipmould philipmould.com/content/feat... My favourite, a love-locked, Hic Mulier inspired cat in a fab hat, c. 1615 ... 'young lady wearing a masculine-style black & orange doublet & black hat (with hat jewel) & an orange sash' ... brava!

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8 DAYS UNTIL CONFERENCE! Check out our online events offering throughout our four-day conference. We have poetry, theatre, conversation and much more- to view our full schedule visit our conference page. #memosconf2025 #shakespeare #Islam #renaissance #history #literature #theatre

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you don’t hate pie, you hate the pie enjoyer’s zest for life

New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d

Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...

FREE talk next week, plus you'll get to see some of the most fascinating livery company mss and a couple of pageant books 🤩 (remote attendance is also an option) To book, go to www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do...

I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!

ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!

Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!

So the onus has to *also* be on students to want to learn and not just teachers whose labor is spread thin already between teaching, scholarship, and committees. We all bear a responsibility to guard our education and humanity (broadly defined) from bots. 3/3

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

One of the most important things I have learned in my life is that how someone attempts to insult you says an awful lot about them. This weekend, someone in my local community tried to insult me by saying I must be "an illegal" - that is, an undocumented immigrant. 1/

My profile is now viewable on the Rylands Institute website: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/abou... I'll be based at the Rylands from December (2025) to May (2026) undertaking research on sensory experiences and perceptions of cancer. If you're in Manchester during that time, let me know!

Are you curious about the potential for archival practices to shape the study of emotion; why there are letters in the English State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how the culture & politics of Elizabethan England shaped people's experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S008... #earlymodern

One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one! It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism. Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I'm chuffed to announce that I've just signed a contract with Manchester University Press to publish my book 'Plague and the Senses in Early Modern London'.

So so excited to announce that I'll be staying on @royalholloway.bsky.social for the next two years as a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies! ☺️🤸‍♀️

✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨ Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination. (1/4)

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

Spending some time working on the 'doublet with a satten forepart and a Canvas back’ in Middleton's Hengist today, and the more I think about it the more I realise just how ridiculous it would have looked. Wondering if it was made specifically for this play...

I'm currently looking for visiting lecturing/tutoring work for the autumn 💛 I've worked in English, Media Arts and Liberal Arts departments, and have taught poetry, literature, film, television and critical theory. If you know of any vacancies, or anyone that might be looking, please let me know 😊

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar @ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

Material culture folk and dress historians: do we know anything about what a 'Fool's Coat' may have looked like in late C16th to early C17th England?

🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's. Read more👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

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/...

And the STAC 5 data enhancements are complete. You can now search the whole of STAC 5, nearly 40,000 items for Elizabethan Star Chamber proceedings, by short title, plaintiff, defendant, case code, and more. Enjoy! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1...

Great article from Nick Lee that came out of one of his lectures on media and class for Royal Holloway's Introduction to Media Histories that I was teaching on this year: theconversation.com/who-represen...

Thank you Literary Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social for running a little extract from my book 👇 ‘In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story’ lithub.com/in-from-the-...

2/ Background It has been published following a consultation that was begun under the last Conservative government, which promised to bring in what many in the community saw as another 'Section 28'. It goes almost as far as adopting the conservative's line www.wearequeeraf.com/schools-in-e...

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵

Today! There's still time to join us! www.history.ac.uk/events/estat...

hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

📢 A NEW WILLS PROJECT EVENT! 📢 📅 Thursday 24 July 🕐 1-4pm BST Join us online or in person in Exeter for a hybrid wills Transcribathon 📜✍️ Transcribe on Zooniverse alongside like-minded volunteers & help transcribe as many wills as possible! Sign up here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 🧵1/2

After 201 Years the 1824 Vagrancy Act is dead. Let's savor a moment spent kicking its corpse.

Clare's talk is now sold out in-person 😱 There are still tickets available for online, though! Follow the link below to hear all about early modern London's rope dancers from the comfort of home next Thursday 🤸‍♀️

Oh, and point three: previous interpretations of the Equality Act were not “lies”, they were very clearly following legislative intent, which would have been explained to the Supreme Corrupt had they not refused to hear any evidence that would threaten the verdict they wanted.

Un-fracking-believable. 😳 “Transgender people must accept a reduction in their rights after the supreme court decision on gender because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights actually were, one of the commissioners drawing up the official post-ruling guidance has said”.

This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!

Less than a week till our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives! Sign up here to attend in person or online! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... Please repost! ⚔️