Adrian Streete

@profastreete.bsky.social

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Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; oh, and our cat. My views.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Oct 15

A wee bit of news.

news.sky.com/story/fascin...

'Fascinating' personal library of 'forgotten scholar' rediscovered

It is hoped that Zachary Boyd's collection at the University of Glasgow will help shed light on 17th century Scotland and a tumultuous time in European history.

news.sky.com

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 1d

When opinion supersedes understanding.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%

Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%

yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 4d

Good news, but awful that you and your colleagues are being treated like this.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 5d

The best kind of Fridays.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 7d

Spending today and tomorrow at the Mitchell Library - love this place.

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3

Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026

PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 7d

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI

Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026

PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

careers.universiteitleiden.nl

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

www.cityam.com

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 8d

Please consider applying - ASC at the University of Glasgow is a treasure house, especially in medieval and early modern manuscripts and books.

UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 13d

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!

We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.

Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

📆Closing date: 5 January 2026

#UofGLibraryFellows

Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.

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Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social · 12d

We're HIRING: “The Dept of English at UMass Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning fall 2026, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century British literature, with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora." See below for description, and please share the news.

Details - Assistant Professor of English: 20th-21st Century British Literature | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

careers.umass.edu

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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 13d

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 13d

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!

The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.

For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships

Promotional banner inviting applications for Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries for 2026-27, featuring an interior view of the library.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 15d

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 18d

Three things from this week’s edition of *adventures with old books* that are both true and salutary: keep looking back at what you’ve already found; keep looking; librarians are ace.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 21d

Remember, remember

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 22d

I’m enjoying the autumn colours in and around the University.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 25d

My boys went out guising tonight as, respectively, a ghost, and the ghost of Gustav Mahler. Don’t ask.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 25d

Huge congratulations, Hester!

Reposted by Margot C. Finn, Adrian Streete, Pascale Aebischer

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 26d

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

The cover of a book. Text reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration is of black and white embroidery of flowers, fruit, and animals; it's sitting on a blue and white William Morris print cushion.

The table of contents of a book. The chapter titles read Stuff, Linen, Leather/Wool, Silk, Inky Cloak, Sew, Cut, Fold, Ruff.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Oct 25

A fantastic and moving performance of ‘La Boheme’ tonight by Scottish Opera.

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Oct 24

Pleased to have a chapter in this great chunk of a book. Congratulations to @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe on a job well done.

Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Oct 22

Thanks, Fraser - that’s v kind of you.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Oct 22

First public outing for ‘Zachary Boyd’s Books’ last night. Thanks to the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies for hosting, and to everyone who came along in person and online.

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Oct 17

Not sure what auld Zachary would make of it all, but he was in The Times yesterday and The Scotsman today.

Detail from The Times’ story on Zachary Boyd.

Detail from The Scotsman story on Zachary Boyd.

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · Oct 16

Academics reassembles personal library of Glasgow scholar and cleric Zachary Boyd, who famously criticised the Lord Protector at a service

Papers of Cromwell’s scourge cast light on 17th-century Scotland

Academics reassembles personal library of Glasgow scholar and cleric Zachary Boyd, who famously criticised the Lord Protector at a service

www.thetimes.com

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · Oct 16

Fabulous to see the multiple discoveries made about one of our UofG predecessors by @profastreete.bsky.social - magnificent and proper scholarly hard work.

Reposted by Adrian Streete

University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social · Oct 16

Zachary Boyd (1585–1653) was a minister, poet & #UniversityofGlasgow academic who lived through one of Scotland’s most turbulent centuries. His rediscovered library offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a man who met kings and wrote plays at a time of revolution.

Read more: gla.ac/4o1qCQc

Composite image showing three scenes. Left: Portrait of Zachary Boyd holding a book, painted by George Jameson. Image credit: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Top right: Professor Adrian Streete and Siobhán Convery, Director of Library Collections, examining a dictionary from Zachary Boyd’s personal library. Bottom right: Professor Adrian Streete holding a book among shelves of old volumes from Boyd’s library. Photo credit for both right images: Martin Shields.

Reposted by Charles West, Michael H. Whitworth, Adrian Streete

claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Oct 14

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

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