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

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

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! ⚔️

So so grateful and excited to have been invited to speak on this SAA panel put together by Clare McManus and @lucycmunro.bsky.social! I can't believe I'll be speaking alongside all these incredible scholars!! It's genuinely a dream come true 🥹😭

Reminder that this excellent talk by the brilliant Dr Lydia Valentine is this Thursday at 2pm @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social! If you can't make it in person, it will be streamed online, too! All info is on the Eventbrite page

Excited that my book will be published on September 30th ☺️ www.routledge.com/Neighbourly-...

Or you can tune in remotely: deets on website

Hey folks, our lovely @lucyholehouse.bsky.social is doing a cool event at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social this Thursday and it's free! Come along if you're in London 😊 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/partying-t...

Manuscript for my new book with Sue Broomhall on Gender and the Glove in Early Modern England is finally completed….

Get top tips on how to use 'Tradition' to circumvent the law from London's ancient and wealthy livery companies ‪via @lucyholehouse.bsky.social‬ at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/par...

hi lads. @eilissmyth.bsky.social has organised a one-day symposium on Shakespeare and Ireland at TCD in June. Come hear yr boy talk about The State of the Field in Shakespeare and Ireland Studies!

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

My latest interview with Cassidy Cash for That Shakespeare Life podcast, episode 368, on the Little Ice Age and playing companies is now live: www.cassidycash.com/the-little-i...

Congratulations to my astonishing colleague Monica L. Miller whose book, *Slaves to Fashion* is the basis for this year’s exhibit/Gala theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” 🙌🏾🙌🏾 🎉🎉💃🏿💃🏿 www.npr.org/2025/05/05/1...

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Italian route network is done! 8 influential itinerary books from the #16thcentury through the #18thcentury ready for Maps-style route planning. We're on track for sharing the shapefiles in coming weeks as we continue to develop the tool. Watch this space! #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️

If you're feeling lost on anything you can do rn, here are some UK-based charities that support trans, nb, and gender non-conforming ppl that you can donate to: mermaidsuk.org.uk transactual.org.uk/change-actio... www.akt.org.uk/donate/ www.gires.org.uk genderedintelligence.co.uk/support-us

All the knotty legal language on what makes a woman in today's Supreme Court judgement just makes it all the more revolting, these are lives and loves and the very essence of existence being discussed, it's all so dehumanising to trans people. No wonder Kemi Badenoch & the hard right are so happy.