I'm not an eighteenth-centuryist, but this sounds brilliant for those of you who are!
03.02.2026 09:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@fairbanc.bsky.social
Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.
I'm not an eighteenth-centuryist, but this sounds brilliant for those of you who are!
03.02.2026 09:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Working from the online edition because the physical copy is on the other side of the room & I cannot move her
20.01.2026 14:37 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π’ Excited to announce this Call for Papers for βClio Reframedβ, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social
Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
#CFP plug for this exciting annual symposium on gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama. Having attended last year I can confirm firsthand what a lovely bunch of people the GOTH team are!
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03.12.2025 12:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0FINAL DAY to submit your abstracts to the MHRA-funded conference on EM practical texts @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are organising @sheffieldcems.bsky.social!
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Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April!
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Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of Β£75 each.
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This one's for you, @tomgavin.bsky.social
07.11.2025 12:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Making this red wine drinker chuckle, thanks William.
07.11.2025 12:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Other highlights include 'What is the vse of beere?' and 'What is the beΕΏt drink?'
07.11.2025 12:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here.
07.11.2025 12:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, βEnglish Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorousβ) π»
06.11.2025 12:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history
Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions
24.09.2025 13:54 β π 12 π 16 π¬ 0 π 0One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP
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So thrilled for you Callan, really well deserved!
21.10.2025 08:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!
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Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
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Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of!
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Proofs looking goooood
03.10.2025 09:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Registration is free for self-funded PGR students and non-waged ECRs, and we can offer six travel bursaries, so there's no reason not to apply!
26.08.2025 14:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!
26.08.2025 14:06 β π 10 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
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Thank you!!
08.08.2025 11:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you so much!!
08.08.2025 11:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's on the website now, so I guess it's real?? Absolutely over the moon (and still a little stupefied tbh) to announce that I'll be starting a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University this autumn, working on transcultural encounters in early modern English writing.
08.08.2025 09:30 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe π¦πΊ
06.08.2025 13:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Another day, another
23.07.2025 16:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78)
17.06.2025 12:49 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Tragedy of Mariam and Revenger's Tragedy, hands down
03.04.2025 09:08 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My review of Hailey Bachrach's Staging Female Characters in Shakespeareβs History Plays is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. Highly recommend this intelligent and accessible book to Shakespeare scholars and theatre practitioners alike.
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