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Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social · 4d

Really exciting work by our colleagues at @musicheritageplace.bsky.social discovering Purcell manuscripts!

Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · 4d

Read about our recent Purcell discoveries!!!

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · 4d

Read about our recent Purcell discoveries!!!

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social · 4d

This is a phenomenal resource for early modernists as well as medievalists. Go and use it!

Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 4d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 4d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social · 7d

I'm pleased to see Daniel Woolf's generous review of "A Renaissance Reclaimed": "the volume is uniformly excellent" @kingsartshums.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social my.bsky.social #skystorians

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Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 8d

Treat yourself - listen on Bandcamp, and then buy it to keep! Bandcamp waive their commission on Bandcamp Fridays, so Musica Secreta will benefit even more from your purchase.

Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social · 8d

Hey hey it's #BandcampFriday everyone and our new album is just right here, right now, celebrating women and music, and you just KNOW you want to order it today!!

musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...

Ricordanze: a record of love, by Musica Secreta

31 track album

musicasecreta.bandcamp.com

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Ana Saez-Hidalgo @shnuska.bsky.social · 8d

🚨New publication
E duobus elige: The Becket Devise & Elizabeth I’s Spanish Dilemma
Renaissance Quarterly
How does Thomas Becket prompt a political & moral dilemma presented to Elizabeth I?
#recusants #anglospanish #pastintopresent
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....

E duobus elige: The Becket “Devise” and Elizabeth I’s Spanish Dilemma | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core

E duobus elige: The Becket “Devise” and Elizabeth I’s Spanish Dilemma - Volume 78 Issue 3

doi.org

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 8d

As the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed, it’s worth remembering that dissenting women were preaching to mixed sex congregations in London as early as 1645. My book Voices of Thunder has a whole section on 17th-century “she-preachers”

#earlymodern

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Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 8d

"She's the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Archbishop of Canterbury, but she's Mrs Mullally to you."

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 8d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social · 8d

I can't help with the linguistic question but palaeographically I can't see anything other than what others have read -- Cuffty

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Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social · 10d

This should be a blast! John Donne and architecture, cfp below.

Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 10d

Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely

Poster: detail from Lincoln's Inn stained glass window showing palatial buildings, with a forest covered landscape beyond. In the foreground are two men in hats and cloaks having a little chat. A dog runs towards them from the right. In the centre of the poster is a black circle containing the following text

TEXT:
Call for Papers on John Donne and Architecture
13th January 2026
Lincoln College, Oxford
Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough
Please send abstract of up to 250 words to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) & Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk) by 14th November 2025

Call for Papers

John Donne’s Architecture

Submission Deadline: 14th November 2025

Event Date: 13th January 2026, Lincoln College, Oxford

Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough.

We welcome 150–250 word abstracts for twenty-minute papers relating to any aspect of Donne and architecture from critics and historians of literature, architecture and related fields. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

The use of buildings in rhetoric or the arts of memory.
Donne’s metaphorical use of architecture, as well as related disciplines such as geometry, cartography, and visual art.
The buildings in which Donne lived, worked and preached (e.g. the Chapel Royal, York House, St Paul’s Cathedral, Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, St Dunstan’s in the West, etc.) and their influence on his life and work.
Donne’s encounters with buildings on his travels through Europe.
The relationship of literary to architectural form.
Please send proposals or enquiries to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) and Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk).

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Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social · 10d

We love to see it!

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Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social · 10d

I suspect they’re part-books — one volume per part, so each of the 4 voices can hold their own copy and sing from it

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 11d

Just two weeks until Voices of Thunder is published! If you’re interested in hearing the stories of a dozen radical seventeenth-century women, it can be pre-ordered now ⚡️#earlymodern #womenshistory

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 11d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 11d

I would like people (nb Stephen is not doing this) to a) stop making up people to be angry at and b) maybe actually visit the North of England before using it as your go to rhetorical example of What Middle Class People Don’t Do.

We have middle class people in the North. We eat fish and chips, too.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11d

"It's genuinely hard to imagine today's Labour activists going to a northern fish and chip shop" is a really self-incriminating sentence. Yeah, when I sit down in The Scrap Box in York or, frankly, anywhere in Whitby, I think 'I can't imagine a middle class person eating here'.

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 12d

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Brepols @brepols.net · 12d

𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱
𝗪𝗮𝗿, 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆
By Aneurin Ellis-Evans

More info: bit.ly/4nZyMYW

#Numismatics #Coinage #RomanEmpire #Augustus #AlexandreiaTroas #Antiquity #Hellenistic #Roman #Greek #Antiquitysky

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Hanna Sinclair @hannasinclair.bsky.social · 12d

Without comment, a snippet from a 2023 article on ChatGPT in the Cherwell.

A snippet of an article on ChatGPT in the Cherwell, February 2023 which reads in part ‘The University notes that the use of AI tools is a “serious disciplinary offence” which “constitutes cheating and is covered under existing regulations”’.

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 14d

#EarlyModern

Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social · 17d

The Reformation Studies Colloquium is April 15-17, 2026 at University College London. I'm thinking of putting a panel together on Performing the Legacies of the Reformation. I'll be doing something on hymns, but if anyone wants to do things on plays, literature, visual culture, or anything else

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 15d

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · 16d

There's a great Researcher Developer role (0.6fte, grade 6) available at White Rose University Consortium, supporting ECRs and PGRs across Yorkshire and Humber whiterose.ac.uk/news/job-opp...

Job opportunity: Researcher Developer - White Rose University Consortium

White Rose University Consortium is seeking a proactive and collaborative Researcher Developer (0.6 FTE) to support postgraduate researchers (PGRs) from across the White Rose Partners, as well as regi...

whiterose.ac.uk

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Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social · 16d

This is dredged from a first year module on EM France I took at Durham so treat with appropriate scepticism but is there anything in Cathy McClive’s work? She taught it — Soc & Culture in EM France but known as Sex in EM France.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 17d

FINAL CALL! ⏰

One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 23d

Interested in exploring rare books, archives, or book history in Antwerp? Applications for the 2025 Nottebohm Fellowship are open for 2 more weeks: tinyurl.com/applyNB

Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 17d

Nigel Farage comparing paracetamol to thalidomide reminds me of Jeremy Corbyn comparing the evidence Russia was behind the Salisbury poisonings to claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Tapping into different seams of the "Don't Believe what THEY tell you" mindset, but with the same goal.

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