Jackie Watson

Have a lovely birthday! ☺️ Used to live near Marlborough and still there often. Nice town… Always wish something of the priory was left and I could imagine where Cecil died.

I wish I’d had this when I taught the language change bit if A level English Language. Fab resource for teachers!

I’m so sorry to hear this, Barbara. Your integrity is clear to anyone without an agenda of their own. Message me if there’s anything I can do to help (assuming I’m not blocked too…).

As if a row might be received as a rather nice gift..? I think my father thought that (though didn’t use the phrase!)

Law and Litigation in the reign of Elizabeth I: new descriptions, new perspectives

On 16 February, I'll be chatting to @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social about how the new online catalogue descriptions for Elizabethan litigation in Star Chamber, Requests, and more have opened up the research potential of these vast collections. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Only time I’ve ever been threatened with violence was in Stamford, Lincolnshire - NEVER in London. (I know I’m lucky!) Though I know it must happen, I’ve never seen it - through years of walking through many parts of the capital.

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700).
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

A Shakespearean History of Traffic Could Shakespeare ride a horse? How did Tudor wine orders get delivered? Did playhouses cause congestion? and other questions

Meet Thomas the carter… New post follows Tudors moving around London, on the back of some recent research.  What did Shakespeare’s commute look like and who invented the one-way street?

open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture Welcome to Cambridge Core

Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k)

www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

England's 'island nationhood?' with Professor Lorna Hutson | National Library of Australia (NLA) Professor Lorna Hutson examines early modern legal and poetic texts to explore the concept of England's 'island nationhood'.

Excited about this (free!) public lecture at the NLA by one of the foremost scholars of Shakespeare and early modernity, Lorna Hutson. 19 Feb, 6pm. To register or get an online link, visit:
www.library.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
Don't miss this exploration of the idea of English 'island nationhood'!

So very sad to hear this. Deborah Cameron’s work was such an inspiration for me and my students when I taught English Language A level for many years, and I’ll really miss her sharp, perceptive blog posts - debuk.wordpress.com

Grants Previous grant recipients If you would like to help us support early career scholars in bibliography, please email our Treasurer (treasurer@oxbibsoc.org.uk) to discuss how you can help. Any donatio…

Grants!

We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.

Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.

Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/

Lovely winter afternoon in this little corner…

'Beyond the book: recycling print in early modern England' is out in splendid & lovely English Literary Renaissance.

50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...

(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)

Thomas Middleton, depicted in the frontispiece of Two New Plays, a 1657 edition of Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women

CFP: Tyranny, Resistance, and the Performance of Early Modern Drama #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/cfp-tyr...

Professor Emma Smith awarded Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social who has been awarded a three-year Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project: ‘Imperial bibliography: books, race and value’.

Find out more about the project on our website:

The Will in English Renaissance Drama Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - The Will in English Renaissance Drama

After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill

'Look not so fierce on me'

Happy New Year from the IHR Tudor & Stuart seminar! We will be back at the IHR a week today:

Monday 19 January, 5:30pm, in-person at the IHR, and on zoom:

Holly Brewer (Maryland) @earlymodjustice.bsky.social & Elizabeth Hines (Johns Hopkins): ‘How to Steal the Spanish Silver Fleet’.

All welcome!

What an amazing production of Turandot at @royaloperahouse.bsky.social. Great cast and orchestra in the still wonderful Andrei Serban production. Shocked to recall I first saw it 25 or so years ago…

What an amazing production of Turandot at @royaloperahouse.bsky.social. Great cast and orchestra in the still wonderful Andrei Serban production. Shocked to recall I first saw it 25 or so years ago…

I feel a lot happier asking people to buy it at this price… 😳

Thank you! Hope you enjoy it…

Delighted to say that my book comes out in paperback shortly. Available to pre-order here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistol...
30% off discount code is PAPER30. 🙂

I’m really excited about this @the-rsc.bsky.social from late January: www.rsc.org.uk/all-is-but-f...: and delighted to be chatting with the brilliant Whitney White after the performance on 19 Feb. Do come!

Delighted the new year brings (at last!) vol. 53 of Shakespeare Studies to the world, in all its purple-edged glory: Marlowe stars in the Forum, & the NGP, Articles & Reviews all full of wit & wisdom. Congratulations to Jim Siemon for 11 years of leadership, w/ huge gratitude for our collaboration!

Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

This *is* why Bluesky exists, isn’t it? So clear now you say it, but I’d just never thought. (Have a happy New Year, Tracey… x)

Interesting screen in Steyning church - seems to be a riff on pomegranates…. ☺️

Just one more carol service before Christmas? Don’t mind if I do… Thank you @salisburycathedral.bsky.social