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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 1d

Among these performances was our first record for a performance in Love's Labor's Lost! ✨ On January 6, 1862, Mrs. Charles Henri played Moth (also known as Mote) in Love's Labor's Lost at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia. 🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 1d

Today, 34 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and The Taming of the Shrew in Philadelphia from 1854-1864 to bring the record total to 8,084! ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 3d

From this trip, she has been able to gather 237 records for performances in Philadelphia, and another 31 records for performances in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC! ✨

She is now in the process of cleaning up these records and getting them ready to add to our database site! 🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 3d

This summer, @aelagrand.bsky.social visited the Library Company of Philadelphia and UPenn's Kislak Center to consult playbills and collect records of women's breeches performances in Philadelphia! ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 3d

Check it out! Our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social won the @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Book Collecting Prize for her collection of materials related to Shakespearean breeches actresses! ✨🎩 Points Like A Man even gets a shout-out!

Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 12d

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American...

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · Aug 28

Call for Applications: SHARP News Bibliographers

As @bibliowingate.bsky.social's term comes to an end, we're looking to shake things up & establish a bibliography team of 2+ people.

Applications due October 1 2025.

The full call for applications and how to apply:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers – SHARP NEWS

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · Aug 23

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!!
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 is looking for an Associate Editor to join our editorial team. 📢

Deadline is Sept. 5 and more info is linked below. Academic friends please share widely. DM @drerinnerung.bsky.social with questions.

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Associate Editor Opening at Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700

Associate Editor Opening at Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 Restoration is looking for an Associate Editor to join Editors Dr. Laura Rosenthal and Dr. Erin Keating and Book ...

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · Aug 13

Opening at Penn for a Special Collections Accessions Librarian, responsible for acquiring and accessioning all special collections materials for the Kislak Center. The salary range for this position is $66,000 - $89,039. Come work with meeeee!

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Special Collections Accessions Librarian

University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Aug 11

Jumping on the Jane Austen bandwagon and offering a short course from Halloween to her birthday (approx!) - join me! Or help me spread the word! Please and thank you!!

Jane Austen: Reading, Romance, Revolution - Edge Hill University

Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary with Jane Austen: Reading, Romance, Revolution—a course for book lovers exploring her novels through fresh historical and critical lenses, from the French Rev...

www.edgehill.ac.uk

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Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social · Aug 4

We're looking for an Associate Professor/Professor who can
contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September.

Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Two University of Cambridge students are walking on the streets of central Cambridge. Copyright: University of Cambridge (June 2024)

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · Jul 30

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Jul 25

Taking place TODAY:
BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms, 25th July 2025, 3pm-6.15 BST.

Members should have received an email containing Zoom links to attend!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6045

Programme: BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms – BARS Blog

www.bars.ac.uk

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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · Jul 21

Save on plays📚

For 1 week only, until Sun 27th July, enjoy up to 30% off the whole of The Arden Shakespeare Third Series!

Browse the Third Series: bit.ly/4o03Bxf

Browse all sale highlights: bit.ly/40vQoCl

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Anthony Binns @anthonybinns.bsky.social · Jul 17

For those interested in theatre, circus & music hall history, Part 2 of my blog on early 19th century comedian 'Joe Cowell in America' is now online 👉
bit.ly/4eWBhrF
@musichallsociety.bsky.social @youngalison.bsky.social @billyrough.bsky.social @roadsw9.bsky.social @victorianlondon.bsky.social

A Dynasty on Stage:Part Two: Joseph Cowell in America (1821-43) - Anthony Binns

Chapter 1 (Continued): The Life of Joe Cowell (1792-1863) Part Two: Joe Cowell in America (1821-43) The Park Theatre, New York 1821 Joseph Cowell and his young wife sailed the Atlantic for approximate...

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · Jul 9

How’s this for a theatre poster? 1849, Theatre Royal, #Dundee. A bit of a curiosity as it looks like a budding poster designer has sketched out ideas on the back. Always welcome for some thoughts on #Alexander and #Woodward!

#History #Theatre #Pantomime #Turpin #TomKing #Punch

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · Jul 8

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
NEW SERIES
Book History for the Future
SERIES EDITORS:
Lisa Gitelman, New York University, USA
Tom Mole, Durham University, UK
Sarah Werner, Independent Researcher, USA
Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams.
They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative methodologies, digital tools, and global
contexts.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · Jul 5

After a bit of a break, we are back to bring you some more records! ✨ Today, 17 records were added for performances of Romeo and Juliet in Dublin, Leeds, Liverpool, London, and Torquay from 1809-1830 to bring the record total to 8,050. 🎩

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Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social · Jul 1

My first article, "Becoming Jane on stage: queerness in early twentieth-century Austen bioplays," has been published and it is open access 🥳🥳

Huge thanks to the editors at Adaptation Journal and peer reviewers who have been a pleasure to work with

doi.org/10.1093/adap...

Becoming Jane on stage: queerness in early twentieth-century Austen bioplays

Abstract. Bioadaptation has become a recent trend in Austen media, from Becoming Jane (2007) and Miss Austen Regrets (2008) to the BBC series Miss Austen (

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Bridget Bartlett @allo-nothing.bsky.social · Jul 1

Posting to announce:
1. My visa for my postdoc in Swansea has officially been approved!
2. Alice Equestri’s Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture, to which I contributed a chapter, is out now! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · Jun 27

The open access version of Selling Sexual Knowledge is out (hardcopies coming shortly)! Reposting this little thread from December where I take a break from chowing down on holiday treats to talk a little about what it's actually about and why I wrote it.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Jun 26

BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏

@ccp-org.bsky.social
@profgabrielle.bsky.social
@jimccasey1.bsky.social

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 26

There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote.

In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.

1 E.g., Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina
(1865, Charleston, SC), Colored Conventions Project Digital Records
(last visited June 15, 2025), https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/
show/570 (“ ‘Right’ is defined to be the just claim, ownership, or lawful
title which a person has to anything”).

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Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social · Jun 20

Just came across this web resource: 76 digitized handwriting manuals 1600-1800 - mostly with models for handwriting exercises (bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/N-503...). A bored child learning to write doodled in one of them (source: bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/p...).

Flyleaf of writing manual shows doodles of child.

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · Jun 25

Some of Henry David Thoreau’s notebooks, written during the 1850s.

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CSECS/SCEDHS @csecsscedhs.bsky.social · Jun 23

Call for papers | Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work

Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2026.

www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...

Call for papers | Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work CSECS | Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

We are seeking contributions for an upcoming volume on Mary Wollstonecraft. Dealine for submissions: January 15, 2026.

www.csecs.ca

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