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Kim Gilchrist

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Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&

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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · Mar 17

Excited to share my new N&Q piece on a previously unidentified cue-script fragment of Mucedorus!

Especially satisfying as it’s a play uniquely associated with regional and non-professional playing (and I’m writing a book about it): academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

An Early Modern Cue-Script of Mucedorus

A small manuscript document kept in the post-1500 western post-medieval manuscripts collection at St John’s College, Oxford, is described in the catalogue

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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! Good to know.

I was also disappointed the box set didn’t include any of the many available outtakes and rehearsal tapes. Wish they sold the book separately.

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 16d

Our #Shakespeare webinar series continues! Join us on 6 Oct at 6pm to delve into the new OWC edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social &
@callanjd.bsky.social

All welcome! Register now via Eventbrite & you will be sent a Zoom link before the event. #teamenglish

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: The Merry Wives of Windsor

In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor from Oxford World's Classics.

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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · 3d

May I ask how the Lamb remix is sounding?

Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · 6d

Found out about this book today and it’s already changed how I’m going to revise my new monograph!

Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 7d

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 11d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Siân Round @sianround.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing New Welsh Voices in English Literature - a new research series at Swansea!

I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales.

I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.

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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · 16d

Mississippi John Hurt: guitar
Nico: harmonium
Bernie Worrell: synths
Bill Evans: piano
Earl Young: drums
Dolly Parton: banjo
Tony Banks: mellotron
Joanna Newsom: harp
Cordell Mosson: bass
David Bowie: stylophone

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 21d

Bluesky friends, please signal boost! I am trying to read an obituary in the Springfield Republican (1919) for a ESN Goodall who might, just *might*, be the author of the ‘George Eliot Birthday Book’, but it’s behind a paywall 😭 Can anyone help?

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 21d

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 22d

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy

www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...

011345 - University of Galway

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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · 25d

Just spotted the very nocuous Simon Price on the opposite platform at East Croydon!

Sadly I’m heading in the opposite direction. Have a fab show.

Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · 28d

Or should it be Disco Implyno?

Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · 28d

It’s a great book!

Can’t believe you left OMD out, though.

Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · Sep 5

I may have left my drinking water to cool in the freezer a couple of minutes too long…

Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · Sep 4

As a pop-crazed youngster, I’m delighted to see the word ‘eighventies’ appearing in @davidstubbs.bsky.social’s wonderful history of British comedy ‘Different Times,’ which, in its own right, has frequently made me laugh during an unfunny week. Hits the spot whilst missing both my legs.

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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · Aug 4

You zoomed in!!! It’s my favourite film, maybe.

Shame the resolution blurs out the Fraggle Rock book.

Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · Aug 4

Just the corner of our little flat glowing in the evening sunshine.

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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · Aug 4

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Aug 1

Over 1000 signatories in 36 hours!

Let's make it 2000 by the weekend 👇

Please sign 👇

Please circulate 👇

Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 30

- 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 👇

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Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · Jul 29

Really enjoyed Fantastic Four: First Steps.

But I wish I hadn’t known that the mile-tall Galactus, cosmic devourer or worlds, was played by Finchy from The Office.

It was a bit distracting.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Jul 28

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour.

#MedievalMonday.
1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554
2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304.
3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764.
4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.

Illuminated bat from the Ashmole bestiary showing a bat on a gold background inside a red and green frame. The bat is brown with black wings and cartoonish, with incongrously detailed human-looking facial features.

Three outlines of three bats as marginalia in a yellowed page from a Bodleian manuscript. The bat marginalia are hastily drawn (likely added by a different hand than the scribe who wrote and illustrated the rest of the text). The bats have simplistic facial expresisons; one has two eyes and a straight line for a mouth, the second has a soft smile, and the third has something between the two.

A page from a bestiary showing Latin text and a black bat illustration in an embossed gold square. The bats wings look feathered and the shape is bird like, suggesting whoever drew it may not have seen a bat up close before.

An immediately strange looking illustration from a medieval Paduan text. A bat flies above an illustration of a man, and both are roughly the same size. The bat has cat like legs and a long tail, and is shaped like a winged rat.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · Jul 25

Stamer's government keeps calling the situation in Gaza ‘intolerable’ and yet continue to tolerate it.

Recognising the state of Palestine is a bare minimum that governments across the world can do to help bring an end to the genocide.

All 4 @greenparty.org.uk MPs have signed this letter.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Jul 25

A *third* of the Commons has called on the PM to recognise Palestine as a state. Never seen anything quite like this.

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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · Jul 25

This old post popped up in my FB memories.

It’s timely. I didn’t dream about bears last night, but I did hit send on my Mucedorus book this morning.

Thanks and apologies to anyone who’s heard me not shutting up about this play. I didn’t realise it’s been eleven years.

Also that might get worse.

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reedproject.bsky.social @reedproject.bsky.social · Jul 21

We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here:
ereed.org/collections/...

REED Online: Collection: Newington Butts Playhouse

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Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social · Jul 22

We SAW him.