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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 25d

Anyone else see a screaming face, or just me? 😱 TNA C 147/1138

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Domenico Lovascio @domlovascio.bsky.social · Aug 29

Today marks 400 years since John Fletcher’s death: the Jacobean playwright died of the plague and was buried at St. Saviour’s (now Southwark Cathedral) on 29 August 1625. I’m guest-editing a special Ben Jonson Journal issue celebrating this anniversary: coming soon!

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · Aug 28

Lovely big Jacobean portraits by William Larkin of lovely big Jacobean clothes.

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 28

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: William Larkin. Painter of Jacobean costumes & a few faces too. Here, Catherine Lyte Howard, Lady Thynne, in 1613.

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Unchartered Streets @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social · Aug 28

Not sure there’s much I can add to what Clare says, but… if you’ll forgive a little self-indulgence, here are the ads we took out in NME and Melody Maker at the time. The paper’s yellowed a bit over the years, but… the words still seem to say what we meant them to say.

Sarah Records "A Day For Destroying Things" advert in NME and Melody Maker from 1995.

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Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social · Aug 26

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

sites.google.com

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · Aug 24

IT’S HERE!!!!!! My new book, *Sweet Taste of Empire* spotted in the wild!

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 24

@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩

Kim F. Hall’s book, THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE, sitting on a wooden table partly on top of a purple, yellow, blue, and white table runner

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · Aug 25

me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!

The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh

The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh

www.theguardian.com

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Aug 21

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Aug 21

I found a cool Shakespeare thing. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

Document from 1642 made by husband of Shakespeare’s granddaughter found in unlabelled box at National Archives

www.theguardian.com

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

forms.gle

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Unchartered Streets @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social · Aug 17

Ever since it was unveiled, there’s been something naggingly familiar about Orient’s retina-bothering 25/26 season third strip, and… I’ve just twigged what it is: bizarrely, the inspiration seems to be the Field Mice’s dandelion-tastic 91/92 For Keeps tour T-shirt.
#SarahRecords #TheFieldMice #lofc

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hurray! I’m so pleased to see this!

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Yunah Kae @yunahkae.bsky.social · Aug 14

new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 55, No 3

Abstract What does it mean to “know” a witch in early modern culture, and how do questionable knowledge-processes become tested and verified in comedies? Dekker, Ford, and Rowley’s 1621 tragicomedy, T...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Aug 10

Hope this petition isn't getting tedious with you all 👇

83 more signatures and it will have reached 3000

Please keep circulating

Thank you so much

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 👇

chng.it/7F52bThYqn

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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The Journal of Marlowe Studies @marlowestudies.bsky.social · Jun 27

The new issue of The Journal of Marlowe Studies is now available. Over 200 pages of original Marlovian research, book reviews and performance reviews, all open access. journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

Journal of Marlowe Studies

journals.shu.ac.uk

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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 👇

chng.it/7F52bThYqn

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

chng.it

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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

ereed.org

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · Jul 10

Happy Birthday!

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · Jul 8

Wine Street, Bristol, featuring the possible location of a Jacobean playhouse and @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social’s old PO Box.

A Bristol street with some large cream buildings and a food stall.

Another view of the same Bristol street with some a bit further alone, with a modern block in the foreground

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · May 13

Our first university cutting jobs this Tuesday is Keele, where colleagues have been made to feel insecure and anxious for a long time now. Welcome to another miserable day in British Higher Education.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/staff-d...

Staff ‘deeply concerned’ as Keele confirms plans to cut 150 roles

Academic and professional services posts to go, with university blaming ‘unprecedented financial challenges’

www.timeshighereducation.com

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · May 9

Congratulations to Prof. Erika T. Lin and alumni Zoltán Glück and China Sajadian, who were awarded prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships for their book projects! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/three-c... @acls1919.bsky.social @saaupdates.bsky.social

Three CUNY Graduate Center Scholars Receive ACLS Fellowships

Professor Erika T. Lin and alumni Zoltán Glück and China Sajadian are awarded prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships for their book projects.

www.gc.cuny.edu

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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · May 12

OMG!! The ESTC is back!!!!

datb.cerl.org/estc/

English Short Title Catalogue

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · May 8

A rather wonderful PhD opportunity with a fantastic supervisor: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🔥🔥🔥

Femininity, race-making and gender non-conformity in Queen Henrietta Maria’s court performances (1625-42) with Royal Museums Greenwich, Northumbria University and Historic Royal Palaces at Northumbria...

PhD Project - Femininity, race-making and gender non-conformity in Queen Henrietta Maria’s court performances (1625-42) with Royal Museums Greenwich, Northumbria University and Historic Royal Pa...

www.findaphd.com

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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · May 7

I am very much here for the canine readers of @malonesociety.bsky.social publications.

Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · May 7

Barnabe was excited to finally get a chance to take a look at the new Malone edition of The Devil’s Charter. He immediately relaxed when he saw that it was edited by Proudfoot and Woudhuysen.

Black and white dog with a copy of The Devil’s Charter by Barnabe Barnes

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · May 5

I’m mid cleaning this up again after a small technical glitch and close to 2000 signatures from just UK academics! Would be great to get over that line before it’s published…

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · Apr 30

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

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