Lucy Munro

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Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hello, Bluesky! I've had an account for a bit but haven't posted, so here's a bit of current research. This is the signature of Margaret Brend Zinzan, from a deposition in the Court of Chancery in April 1626 (TNA, C 24/521). (1/3)

An early seventeenth-century signature saying 'margret zinzan'.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 1h

Moody photographic proof of the fog that descended on the cup-tied between Clapton Orient v. Arsenal on 14 January 1911, courtesy of The Illustrated Police Budget. #lofc #lofcpress #oldfootballphotos

A black-and-white photo from The Illustrated Police Budget, 21 January 1911, of a goalkeeper in a flat cap (right) and a goalpost (left) with a dark, foggy background. The caption reads:

FIRST ROUND ENGLISH CUP.

Looking for the Ball.

On Saturday last London was unfortunately enveloped in a dense fog, but only one match was stopped. This was at Homerton, where Woolwich Arsenal met Clapton Orient. Bower, Clapton’s goalie, is wondering what is happening at the other end. As is seen in our photo, the spectators are completely obscured.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 1h

Answers to readers’ questions in the Hull Daily Mail, 1 February 1909. D.D. “cannot prevent their marriage”, Dr Walford Bodie has appeared at the Hull Empire, and J.B. has an apparently unsolvable query about the Orient’s goalie, Walter Whittaker - "Why not write to him direct"? #lofcpress

A clipping from The Hull Daily Mail, 1 February 1909, reading:

REPLIES TO READERS.

D.D. — No, you cannot prevent their marriage.
H. CRANE. — Yes, Dr Walford Bodie has appeared at the Hull Empire.
E.K. — The gross tonnage of the vessels are: — S.s. Republic 15,378 tons, s.s. Baltic 23,876, s.s. Lusitania 32,000, s.s. Glenlogan 5,723 tons.
J.B. (Barton). — We have made exhaustive enquiries, but are unable to obtain precise information. Whittaker was not with Grimsby Town fifteen years ago, but played for them some thirteen years ago. In the absence of records showing what matches players took part in, it is impossible to answer your query. Why not write to him direct, c/o Clapton Orient F.C., and enclosing stamped envelope for reply.
MICK. — Your question is somewhat difficult to understand, but we believe we gather what you mean. If the house belongs to a firm of brewers, we take it that it would be “tied,” and, notwithstanding what you say, that there is an agreement in existence binding the tenant to sell their ales. We cannot conceive that they would let a house and give the tenant the privilege of buying his stock from whom he thinks proper. If there was an understanding that the tenant was to be “free” — an arrangement we very much doubt — of course he could order his beer elsewhere. Are you quite certain there is no agreement?

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 2h

1 February 1583: an important new publication in the Stationers' Register today: 'A booke declaringe diuers approved remedies to take owt spottes and staines in silkes veluettes and wollen Clothes with diuers cullors howe to die silkes &c'. 1/
#earlymodern

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 15h

Important environmental news from Millfields Road, reported in the Morning Post on 31 January 1912: “Good ice to the extent of several acres is to be found near the ground of the Clapton Orient Football Club”. #lofcpress

A clipping from The Morning Post, 31 January 1912:

HACKNEY MARSHES. — Good ice to the extent of several acres is to be found near the ground of the Clapton Orient Football Club. This may be reached by taking train from Liverpool-street to Clapton or Broad-street to Homerton.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 19h

Making a list with @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social of things mislaid and unlocated in pop songs: good times; young soul rebels; heart (in San Francisco); spiders (from Mars)…

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 19h

Having the edge taken off a defeat at the football by a bar band playing v. creditable versions of The Sound of Silence, Rocket Man, Absolute Beginners (Bowie), The Things We Do For Love…

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 1d

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A List of Complaints from 1926

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 1d

THE POETRY OF FOOTBALL.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 1d

Alongside the match reports is "THE POETRY OF FOOTBALL": a this montage of drawings of heated moments on the pitch accompanied by quotations from Shakespeare. Best not to think too much about the lines' original contexts... (2/2)

A clipping from The Penny Illustrated Paper, 30 January 1909, featuring line drawings of footballers accompanied by lines from Shakespeare: “OH IT IS EXCELLENT TO HAVE A GIANT’S STRENGTH, BUT IT IS TYRANNOUS TO USE IT LIKE A GIANT — Measure for Measure”; “MORE ARE MEN’S ENDS MARKED THAN THEIR LIVES BEFORE. Richard II”; “SMALL THINGS MAKE BASE MEN PROUD. Henry VI’; “OH! OPPORTUNITY! THY GUILT IS GREAT. Lucrece”; “DEFER NO TIME; — DELAYS HAVE DANGEROUS ENDS. Henry VI”; “THE WEAKEST GOES TO THE WALL. Romeo & Juliet”; ‘TALKERS ARE NO GOOD DOERS. Richard III”; (THE REFEREE) I AM A MAN MORE SINNED AGAINST THAN SINNING. King Lear”. A caption below reads “THE POETRY OF FOOTBALL.”

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 1d

Football and Shakespeare are two of my favourite things but they rarely do well in tandem.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 1d

I KNOW.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 1d

30 January 1909, and The Penny Illustrated Paper's "Football Chat by John Cameron, the Famous Scottish International" comments on the recent win of "Clapton Orient, ever struggling" at Blackpool... (1/2) #lofc #lofcpress

A clipping from The Penny Illustrated Paper, 30 January 1909, reading:

Clapton Orient, ever struggling, won a good game at Blackpool. They started the scoring, thourgh Maclean, five minutes from the kick-off, Scott adding a second point before the interval. Changing ends, Beale put the Orient three goals in front, and only in the closing stages did Blackpool make any reply. It was a great win.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 2d

Transfer news in The Morning Leader, 29 January 1909, as the Orient secure the services of a new defender, F.E. Bullock, "a young man, sturdily built", who "can play in either the right or left position" and "will undergo a course of training before turning out for the Orient”. #lofc #lofcpress

A clipping from Morning Leader, 29 January 1909, reading:

The Orient have made a rather important capture in securing the signature to League forms of F.E. Bullock, the Hounslow and Middlesex county full-back. Bullock, who is a young man, sturdily built, can play in either the right or left position, and several clubs were anxious to secure his services. He will assist the club as an amateur, and will undergo a course of training before turning out for the Orient.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

Great opportunity for an early career researcher historian! #Skystorians

Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 3d

Looking for a postdoc opportunity outside the UK/US? I'm happy to support up to two JSPS postdoc applicants for the coming round for two-year posts starting from Sep./Oct. 2026 onwards at UTokyo. The application to be submitted before the end of March. 1/n

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 3d

29 January 1583: Not too much from today specifically, but one case that's going through lengthy legal processes this month is an eye-popping saga of bigamy, murder, poisoning and lots more, which is too complex to sum up in a few tweets, but involves a woman called Margery. 1/
#earlymodern

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 3d

28 January 1907, and the Orient are “DESERVEDLY GOALLESS” in a “pointless draw” with Blackpool. “Nothing could have been more aimless and scrambling. … There was a total absence of ability to sustain any effort which might have started in a promising way.” #lofc #lofcpress

A clipping from The London Daily Chronicle, 28 January 1907, reading:

DESERVEDLY GOALLESS.

Clapton Orient …. 0 Blackpool …. 0

A pointless draw at Homerton on Saturday, where Clapton Orient entertained Blackpool, was a result quite in keeping with the football exhibited. It cannot be believed that the play of either team was an average sample of Second Division football.
Nothing could have been more aimless and scrambling. The shooting was bad, and in the whole ninety minutes only one ball went with any force in the right direction, and that came from the foot of Leonard. It was the one scoring-like shot of the match - the one solitary instance which drew forth a cheer from the 5,000 starved and shivering spectators.
As a whole the Orient were the more dashing, but the whole of their work lacked finish. There was a total absence of ability to sustain any effort which might have started in a promising way. Aided by the breeze, Blackpool, so far as concerns the location of the ball, had the better of the first half, and, as might have been expected, the wind was sufficient to turn the balance in Clapton’s favour after the resumption.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 3d

The BM catalogue says 'Tortoise, and separate view of a walled, coastal town in the Veneto' for this by Melchior Lorck, mid-16th century.

I'm sticking with giant flying tortoise myself.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 3d

I love Jonathan Anderson anyway and now he is BRINGING RUFFS back to menswear #earlymodern

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 4d

PROB 11 Doodle of the Day

A 17th-century handwritten document, the elaborate capital letter of the title sentence has been decorated by the scribe. It shows a face with it's tongue poking out.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 5d

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 5d

Playing around with some archival material for an essay on playgoing for @saaupdates.bsky.social. In 1620, Sir Robert Monson was accused of saying that you could learn more at a play than a sermon, and he names that play...

A seventeenth-century manuscript, reading "this Defendant tould her that this defendant had bin at a Play which was tituled the Countrye Custome, and that it was an admirable playe to confirme her vertue".

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 5d

"With a rearranged forward rank the Homerton team gave quite a convincing exhibition, and Halse, Boden, and Gibson scored capital goals for them; while the back behaviour of Holmes and Lamberton was of the soundest description." (2/2)

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 5d

"Clapton Orient Astonish Us" cries Football News on 27 January 1906, the Orient's 3-0 away victory over Lincoln getting top billing above the South beating the North. (1/2) #lofc #lofcpress

A clipping from Football News, 27 January 1906, reading:

HAPPENINGS IN THE SOUTH

Clapton Orient Astonish Us.

WHY SOUTH BEAT NORTH.

CUP-TIE EXPECTATIONS.

Exclusively Written for the “Football News”

The surprising happening of the week in the South was Clapton Orient’s victory over Lincoln City. With a rearranged forward rank the Homerton team gave quite a convincing exhibition, and Halse, Boden, and Gibson scored capital goals for them; while the back behaviour of Holmes and Lamberton was of the soundest description.

WHY SOUTH WON.

The South’s victory over the North was obviously due to the superiority of the amateur attack over the mistaken methods the professional forwards employed. The goals Sammy Day and Woodward registered from Wright’s splendid work were a great illustration of this. On a dry day Woodward and Co. would have easily registered four goals.

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Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 5d

Behold!

Proofs of title page of edited collection. Text reads: REPRINTS AND REVIVALS OF RENAISSANCE DRAMA. Edited by EOIN PRICE University of Edinburgh. HARRY NEWMAN Royal Holloway, University of London.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 5d

"Indefatigable bustling", according to the text of the report.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 5d

On 26 January 1914, The London Daily Chronicle and the Daily Express both printed this excellent picture of the Orient’s Richard McFadden charging the goalkeeper but failing to score, as the Os beat Bradford 1-0. "ORIENT WIN BY BUSTLING" declares the Express. #lofc #lofcpress
#oldfootballphotos

A clipping from London Daily Chronicle, 26 January 1914, showing a photograph of Clapton Orient’s McFadden in a white shirt with a dark chevron and dark shorts ahead of a goalkeeper on his hands and knees, with another player in Orient colours and a fourth wearing a striped top in the background. On the left-hand side of the image, the ball is going wide of the net. The title reads “McFadden Nearly ‘Through’” and a caption reads “Clapton Orient beat Bradford at Homerton on Saturday by the only goal scored in the match. Photo: McFadden charges the Bradford goalkeeper, but fails to score.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 5d

George Harris was the landlord at the George in the 1920s, and possibly later too, and Orient chairman in the 1930s. Albert Unwin was an Orient director - I think he did more than one stint, eventually resigning in 1925.

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 6d

Came across this important bit of archival evidence among old lecture notes today... #theatrehistory #playhouses

A page of lecture notes with a somewhat inexpert drawings of the "De Witt" drawing of the Swan playhouse and playhouse frons scenae with two doors and a curtain in the centre, plus comments including "The heavens had stars etc painted on lower side", "Problems" (underlined) and "Inner stage implied in many plays - between double doors / Tent of RIII. Dr Faustus in study. etc. etc."

Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 6d

Same. I usually say “I’m a theatre historian; I can be really boring about this…”

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