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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 5d

Pleased to have a copy of @drnaomibaker’s new book, ‘Voices of Thunder’. Buy it, read it, order it for your libraries- it’s a brilliant, timely book.

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 7d

The English Department at Hunter College, CUNY is very happy to announce a Tenure Track position in #Medieval British Literature at the Assistant Professor level. Applications from scholars in interdisciplinary and/or global approaches are especially encouraged to apply.

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Jobs | City University of New York

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · 8d

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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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 16d

First day of the new term.

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Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social · 23d

🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!

Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century

Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions also exist from e.g. the NLS). This post welcomes guest-author Roslyn Potter, who is …

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 26d

Today I finished the first draft of my new book. It’s hard to write anything, really, and especially so given the state of the world at the moment. So I’m proud of getting to this point. Cheers.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 27d

Starts Tomorrow
Friday 12 September
2pm
Online
Free
👇

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice share.google/IzXWfke8BpZl...

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice

The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Sep 6

A decent coffee and a few hours to myself - bliss.

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thrilled to see my @royalhistsoc.org Camden edition of the holograph letters of Margaret Tudor in the flesh! Thank you to everyone for their support and encouragement over the years 🤗

You can read more about the edition here: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/05/t...

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Sep 5

I only met him once but still remember his encouragement and warmth. Rest in peace.

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Sep 5

I was delighted to have a chance to be on what turned out to be Melvyn Bragg’s last series of In Our Time and also thrilled that an article in The Times today lists our episode (on George Herbert) as one of the best 15 ever! You can listen to it here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, George Herbert

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the greatest devotional poem writer in English.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is a really astute analysis. Read it if you have access.

University crisis is forcing the REF to lower its expectations - Research Professional News

When dauntingly complex plans meet cash-strapped institutions, something’s got to give, says Anna Grey

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Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email [email protected] for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court

This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · Sep 1

Heads up, English Literature types. The newly formed School of English at MMU is looking to appoint a new Head of School, ideally someone who already holds a professorial Chair. Further details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Head of the School of English (Professor) - (8509) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Aug 29

Indeed it is not!

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · Aug 29

TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE has a COVER👀

(this is a late C16 embroidered coif - never in fact assembled - in the V&A. All the crazy scale with added big cats, like an acid trip As You Like It. I love that it is a bit stained and messy.)

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The cover of a book. Text reads Textile Shakespeare. The lower part of the image is embroidery, black on white, with flowers, fruit, insects, and animals. it is discoloured with age.

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oh, how wonderful - it looks beautiful. Many congratulations, Hester!

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Aug 29

The C sees.

Initial C from early modern printed book.

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Aug 29

Job klaxon: full time, permanent lectureship in Liberal Arts at the University of Glasgow: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM506/l...

Lecturer in Liberal Arts (R&T) at University of Glasgow

Discover Lecturer in Liberal Arts (R&T) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Aug 22

Bellarmine be like, ‘Calvinball!’

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Aug 22

Still time to apply!

Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Aug 12

📣Applications still open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣

In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.

Deadline: 15 September 2025

More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship

Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · Aug 19

My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.

Red book cover with gold lettering, titled The Story of Tudor Art. Instead of O’s, two portrait miniatures with Elizabeth I and the artist Nicholas Hilliard. In white at the bottom the words “A history of Tudor England through its art and objects”

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Aug 16

The mantelpiece has been cleared for decorating, and so his nibs has staked his claim.

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Aug 12

Fantastic concert tonight at the Edinburgh Festival. The LSO and Antonio Pappano on fire in Beethoven and Shostakovich, with some dreamy Sibelius as an encore . #EdinburghFestival

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