Andy Kesson

Possibly the last photo of the @leverhulme.ac.uk Bee-ing Human team, as we work to bring our project to conclusion later this year. We will share the url for our project site soon! @viveknityananda.bsky.social @oliviasmith.bsky.social @racheljwillie.bsky.social @sjjackson32.bsky.social

Performing Shakespeare on an Endangered Planet Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Performing Shakespeare on an Endangered Planet

Katherine Steele Brokaw and Elizabeth Freestone

*Performing Shakespeare on an Endangered Planet*

Free to download until the end of today (18 July)

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

📢JOBS: 2 postdoc research associate positions📢

On AHRC project 'Informing contemporary land use policy through sustainability assessment of farming systems' in pre-modern periods🗃️

- FT from 01/10/25
- #Medieval history (3 years)
- #EarlyModern history (28 months)

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A privilege to stand on/over the Curtain playhouse stage again, and in its adjoining yard (thanks to an architect tour). Feeling very close to all those figures I’m writing about for the #CurtainBook, who were, naturally, so often to be found at these very spots too.

Very hard to imagine anyone being happier to be there

Very much this! 👇 it’s hard out here for creatives, share the good stuff when you can

This is very worth making the time for. And congratulations Professor Samson!

Excellent to see this call for papers for a conference bridging the gap between military, political, social & cultural approaches to conflict, war and violence in the #EarlyModern world. 🗃️

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Sneak preview of the contents page for #VoicesofThunder - a roll call of the incredible 17th century women whose amazing stories I am lucky enough to tell in this book

@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #earlymodern

📢WILL OF THE MONTH SPECIAL📢

The research and transcription for this new post are the fruits of a collaboration between two of our amazing Zooniverse volunteers!

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

You are here? And evaluating the weather crimes?

The weather today: illegally hot. Sort it out, sun.

The Material Culture of Wills Project This channel contains videos created by the Leverhulme Trust project 'The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790'. We’re a team of historians and data scientists from the University of Exeter an...

I finally got around to uploading our 'About the Zoo' video to the wills project YouTube channel.

Take a look for a quick introduction to the research from members of the team, for recordings of webinars and for guides to transcribing wills for us on Zooniverse. 🗃️

www.youtube.com/@MaterialWills

Join writeability’s book club and craft seminar for writers September 2025 through march 2026

Join writeability’s book club and craft seminar for writers September 2025 through march 2026

Been asked to share some speaking events I’m doing! First - WRITEABILITY’S Book Club and Craft Seminar for Writers! The program runs September 2025-March 2026. I will be the featured author for February www.writeability.org/bookclub

It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social

A man at my local coffee place has decided my name is Alfie, and this is such an enormous upgrade in first-name coolness that I can never, never meet friends here lest they very pedantically correct him.

In case not obvious, this research is about dogs

25 time machines into moments in England's past...
I'm so excited to share the cover for A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN 25 POEMS (and thanks to Waterstones for doing the cover reveal on their channels this morning). I hope you love it as much as I do!

Looking forward to our Tudor England & the Antwerp Book Trade conference (8–11 July).

Meet us in Antwerp to hear all about the #earlymodern book trade, religion & reform. Come for the scholarly discussions, stay for the atmosphere!

☟Sign up before the 30th☟

#bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚

Having had... variable experiences with publishers in the past, my hat goes off to the professional and supportive work @uclpress.bsky.social did with our ECR team in producing their edited volume The Hand That Feeds: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-han...

Open to teachers, academics, writers, policymakers, and anyone else with an interest in how English is taught and what it means for us.

Look, Tracey, sometimes I just get hungry. Very mean of you to air receipts like this.

Plenty of time left to register! Join us in Glasgow or online this July 🤩

Decorative theme, or evidence that the squirrel have commandeered all the cushions?

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

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Lecturer in Cultural History (Early Modern) at University of East Anglia Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Cultural History (Early Modern) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Lecturer in Cultural History (Early Modern)
University of East Anglia - Faculty Arts & Humanities - School of History & Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNA978/l...

There were things Cameron’s government did were IMV terrible that directly contribute to the UK’s malaise, but I think a far bigger problem is just “we haven’t actually had a government that has been able or willing to focus on actual governance for a long time now”.

Sound studies, sensory approaches and phenomenology are now so established in the contemporary practice of Shakespeare and early modern studies that it is hard to imagine the discipline without them. But for the pioneering work of Professor Bruce R. Smith (1946-2024) over the past three decades and more, our field would be far narrower, and its future less bright. Through his scholarship in books including The Acoustic World of Early Modern England (1999), The Key of Green (2009), and Phenomenal Shakespeare (2009), and through his tireless championing of colleagues and scholars at all career stages, Bruce was at the heart of a vibrant critical conversation that will continue for years to come. This day is a celebration of Bruce R. Smith’s contribution to sound studies and his generosity to the scholarly community, and an opportunity to reflect on future directions his work has made possible. Speakers will include Oskar Cox-Jensen (Newcastle), Katherine Hunt (UEA), Sophie Read (Cambridge), Jennifer Richards (Cambridge), Olivia Smith (Cambridge), Simon Smith (Shakespeare Institute), Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute), Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores) and Richard Wistreich (Royal College of Music). Colleagues at all stages of career – and postgraduates especially – are invited to join us, sharing reflections on how Bruce’s research has shaped their work, and the future of sound studies.

"The Future of Sound Studies" Symposium to remember Bruce Smith and his legacy, Cambridge, 24 May 2024. Register by 17th May www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-fu...

An actor in a black cap and white ruff plays Shakespeare, with Puck signing in BSL alongside

One wrestler has taken his opponent onto the mat and is now immobilising him, bending his fingers

A fairy-wrestler in blue and gold makeup looks out at the crowd

Titania, Queen of the Fairies, holds her fairy henchman back

It turns out people will do *a lot* for a fairy kingdom

A female wrestler stands outside the ring, holding the bottom rope and looking in

A wrestler with fairy wings and blue and gold makeup raises his right hand in salute

The fairy king speaks in BSL to the audience, with his sidekick Puck as translator stood next to him

A wrestler in a donkey mask puts a naughty fairy in a headlock

Some wonderful pics by Troy Grant of @1623theatre.bsky.social and @wresurgence.bsky.social's Midsummer Mayhem this weekend.

This test performance sold like hot cakes. Expect more BARDCORE productions very soon.