My blog post on satire and war in Shakespeare is live on the Shakespeare's Globe website. Inspired by the current production of Troilus and Cressida — Read it here: www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blo...

My blog post on satire and war in Shakespeare is live on the Shakespeare's Globe website. Inspired by the current production of Troilus and Cressida — Read it here: www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blo...

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

New publication out! You can read my open access article on the interwoven histories of early modern alchemical and linguistic satire (with plenty of Nashe, Jonson, even a bit of Tomkis, Bacon, and Sprat!) here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #historyofscience #history #literature #earlymodern

New publication out! You can read my open access article on the interwoven histories of early modern alchemical and linguistic satire (with plenty of Nashe, Jonson, even a bit of Tomkis, Bacon, and Sprat!) here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #historyofscience #history #literature #earlymodern

Finally went to the V&A East Storehouse, which had me thinking all about thing theory, curation, and the art of storage. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/rowetati...

Finally went to the V&A East Storehouse, which had me thinking all about thing theory, curation, and the art of storage. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/rowetati...

over on substack, dipping into the Wuthering Heights controversy now the teaser trailer is out and you know what? I’m team Emerald Fennell open.substack.com/pub/rowetati...

over on substack, dipping into the Wuthering Heights controversy now the teaser trailer is out and you know what? I’m team Emerald Fennell open.substack.com/pub/rowetati...

Proofs! #earlymodern #alchemy #history

Proofs! #earlymodern #alchemy #history

Sister is doing some ancestry research and turns out our great great great Grandfather was a Midwest newspaper editor… might explain my urge to print! Also wondering if “Old Sunshine” was a genuine or ironic nickname

It’s the start of a new academic year and, for me, a new post. Looking forward to spending the next year as a Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London 🌴

Now on substack, attempting to blend poetry and east London partying. Do read / share / subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/rowetati...

Trying to read more poetry at random right now and can’t believe I’d never read this absolutely diabolical Robert Herrick poem about boobs

Does Shakespeare matter at the frontline of war? My new - and, sadly, still timely - article on Shakespeare’s use in Ukraine during Russia’s ongoing invasion has just been published open access in Humanities. www.mdpi.com/3454068

I'm not quite sure what I plan to do with it yet, but ahead of my new exhibition fully opening at Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall later in the year, I've set up a BlueSky for the Travelling Players Project! Check out @travellingplayers.bsky.social for what I hope will be some exciting updates 🙂

Dekker compares nighttime #earlymodern London to an indoor theatre when: "a number of shops for joy beganne to shut in...& all the Citty lookt like a private Play-house, when the windowes are clapt downe, as if some Nocturnal, or dismall Tragedy were presently to be acted before all the Tradesmen."

Dekker compares nighttime #earlymodern London to an indoor theatre when: "a number of shops for joy beganne to shut in...& all the Citty lookt like a private Play-house, when the windowes are clapt downe, as if some Nocturnal, or dismall Tragedy were presently to be acted before all the Tradesmen."

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

Another year, another Shakespeare in London summer school complete! Always enjoy this fortnight, but now off to Pasadena for a “research holiday” (if you’re at the Huntington rn hmu!)

🎓 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...

General reminder that if you really enjoy/appreciate a paper, you can reach out to the authors and say so! Trying to incorporate that more in my own practice… so much work goes into papers, it’s always great to hear when they’re useful/used.

The Shakespeare in London summer school is off to a great start. Spent yesterday in the Foyles Special Collections and today on a Shakespearean walking tour!

So much fun working with the @kingsartshums.bsky.social marketing team and the Globe on this ‘Top 5 Shakespearean Film Adaptations’ (and got to live out my inner TikTok star!) If you’re on Instagram - give the original a like too! — www.instagram.com/reel/DL4nTOC... #Shakespeare #skystorians

-- medical historians -- have you come across any instances of patients attempting to intervene in their own medical care out of desperation or irritation? either surgically or therapeutically. please share!

Scum have set an iron age roundhouse replica on fire at the Flag Fen Archaeology Park. They've set up an emergency appeal as they're going to need help to rebuilt it. More here: flagfen.org.uk/news/iron-ag...

Recent articles on How-to History are on Trade Tokens, Leases, Pub Signs and Lascars. Read these and all our posts for free: howtohistory.substack.com

A reminder about the long #16thC starter pack. If you are a scholar of #EarlyModern history who should be on this list and isn't, let me know! There are still a dozen or so spots left ☺️ Also, don't forget that feeds are your friends. Check out #16thC, #17thC , #18thC, etc. #skystorians

So much fun working with the @kingsartshums.bsky.social marketing team and the Globe on this ‘Top 5 Shakespearean Film Adaptations’ (and got to live out my inner TikTok star!) If you’re on Instagram - give the original a like too! — www.instagram.com/reel/DL4nTOC... #Shakespeare #skystorians

I've been a bit quiet recently due to being busy getting our new Sound and Vision galleries ready @mediamuseum.bsky.social They opened today! There was a gaggle of kids having a brilliant time in there when I wandered through this morning 😍 Lovely overview here from @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

Handouts printed and ready to go for next week's Shakespeare in London summer school. Looking forward to meeting this year's international cohort, introducing them to #Shakespeare, and taking them on trips around London, including a performance at the Globe of course ;)

Handouts printed and ready to go for next week's Shakespeare in London summer school. Looking forward to meeting this year's international cohort, introducing them to #Shakespeare, and taking them on trips around London, including a performance at the Globe of course ;)

A long shot, but can anyone make anything out in this bit of binding waste found in a book printed in England in 1608? I can’t even tell what language it’s in.

In a new Artworks series for BBC Radio 4, Dr Clara Jones from @kingsenglish.bsky.social discusses how Virginia Woolf critiqued systems of power and privilege through her work. 🎧 Listen here ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Again, apropos of…something, if you fancy a categorically non ‘straight line from x personal difficulty to y improbable physical accomplishment’ story, you could do worse than grab a copy of Pathfinding, where I manage not to walk the West Highland Way 🙃 www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/kerr...

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

#RenSoc25 except it’s all my non-academic photos

A blockbuster day at #RenSoc25, talking all things how-to, utility, local identity & readership alongside lovely & brilliant scholars — thank you @emilyrowe1.bsky.social for organising our roundtable on satire & sincerity, & @walla7437.bsky.social for chairing our panel on microgeographies!

Just finishing panel 4.11 and feeling both intellectually energized and super proud. I have such smart friends! It’s such a joy to hear their work! YAY! #RenSoc25

Such a wonderful time talking through our modes of reading satire and/or sincerity this morning! Left with more questions than answers of course. Thanks to my excellent co-panellists and all who came #RenSoc25

Talking @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference tomorrow. Come along to hear about how one early Tudor scholar got interested in a mythical rock-eating worm… #EarlyModern #skystorians

Bristol Common Press is ready to peddle at the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference. We are printing two issues of the Bristol Mercury, the conference’s very own newspaper, and delegates can get involved by having a go at printing issues & submitting notices for inclusion in issue 2. Come find us!

Happy to share the flyer for my book 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', which is out this August with @universitypress.cambridge.org. Maybe your library would like a copy?! The 20% discount may be of interest to those heading to @srsrensoc.bsky.social! #earlymodern #drama #renaissance

1-year temp. medieval lectureship at KCL, covering Alice Rio's teaching, closing date 20 July: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Feels like a while since I did an ‘on a train to a conference’ post, but excited for @srsrensoc.bsky.social 2025 in Bristol, especially cus @mazinggrace.bsky.social, @elicumings.bsky.social, Mel Harrison, and I will be chatting about early prose, satire, and sincerity tomorrow!

📻 Catch Professor Anna Snaith from @kingsenglish.bsky.social talking about how Virginia Woolf foregrounded interior lives in her writing, particularly in the novel Mrs Dalloway, in a new Artworks series on BBC Radio 4. 🎧 Listen here ⬇️

It’s been a weird long week but off to a wedding party and feeling cute!

TikTok debut incoming

It’s been such a pleasure (and honour) to speak so regularly at the Globe’s study days this last year. Here’s me talking (and gesticulating!) about Othello and military narratives #shakespeare