Yes! A great start but the same people are still, astonishingly, running the State Library of Melbourne. They're not saying, 'we were wrong' but 'you don't understand it, so we'll re-word it'. Rally tomorrow Saturday, at Library 12.30! We must stiffen our spines! (Ba ha ha, books, I'm very tired.)
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Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
π¨ Help our State Library!
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
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Cover image for new volume, Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World, out today
Publication day! Delighted to make my first post here to celebrate this new volume, Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World. So grateful to my co-editor, Rebecca Totaro, to @ardenpublisher.bsky.social for the stunning production, and to all of our amazing contributors.
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Such a loss π
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Much Ado About Rom-Coms
From Shakespeareβs sparring lovers to Hollywood meet-cutes, this free panel unpacks what keeps us hooked on rom-coms β and why we need them now more than ever.
Itβs me!
From Shakespeareβs sparring lovers to Hollywood meet-cutes, this in-conversation event unpacks what keeps us hooked on rom-coms β and why we need them now more than ever.
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Thursday 4 Dec, 6β7pmβ
π Southbank Theatreβ
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Free, but bookings are required: mtc.com.au/much-ado-about-rom-coms
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Real estate advertising board for townhouse 2B: β2B or not 2B, that is the questionβ
10/10, no notes from this Shakespearean
11.11.2025 08:24 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
In passport line in Aotearoa NZ:
Agent: why are you here?
Me: a conference on editing Shakespeare
Agent: ok, you can enterβjust donβt change any of his words
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Oh ye shades of Keats and Shelley, are we come to this? π
09.11.2025 02:07 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Interior view of the building showing massive stone columns with detailed carvings and colorful hieroglyphs as well as the ceiling. The columns are shaped like lotus or papyrus plants and are closely spaced, supporting a decorated ceiling. π· Daniel von Recklinghausen
Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...π§΅1/3
π· D. v. Recklinghausen
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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
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M.W. Rowe | But is it Marlowe?
In late 1952, builders working in the Old Court of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, removed two boards from under an...
βIf the violent, sexually transgressive, atheistical and generally self-destructive Marlowe had had a motto, then βWhat nourishes me destroys meβ would have been more than appropriate.β
M.W. Rowe evaluates new evidence concerning the playwrightβs only known portrait.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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It's always a treat to find a gift book owned or given by a woman, and doubly so when the giver is none other than poet Katherine Phillips. #HerBook
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And then there were none: Australiaβs only shrew declared extinct
The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species β far more than for any other country
*shakes fist at Shakespeare*
βMany people will know of shrews only courtesy of Shakespeare. β¦ [T]he offensive term has stuck through the ages, draining sympathy for and interest in the animal.β
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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βAlmost unheard ofβ: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern womenβs writing
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With the usual prudent caveats about first examples in the OED; I love that Jonson is the first to be cited for "I told you so"
23.09.2025 05:34 β π 15 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare and Environmental Justice - YouTube
In 2025, Globe4Globe returned with the Shakespeare and Environmental Justice Symposium. Taking place live and online across 24 hours on September 12-13 2025,...
A massive thanks to everyone involved in #Globe4Globe 2025! We were thrilled to see 300 attendees join us for 24 hours devoted to Shakespeare & environmental justice. If you missed out, most of the presentations are now available online now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Hello π
We're the official #UniMelb account!
Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus π
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1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
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Brilliant!!! Congratulations!! (β¦now sleep!)
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Statement of support for the Save Meanjin campaign, from colleagues in the Screen and Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne savemeanjin.org
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Historian (1603-1714). #Ravenous π (A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress).
Hostess: #StuartSaturdayLive.
Co-founder #StuartHistFest
Cultural and Literary Historian, EM PhD
Analyst-Feminist-actor-massage therapist-cook- @kylieminogue -Nigella-Kate Bush-Dannii-ALL my views-He/They πβοΈπ
New Academic Book Forthcoming: Early Modern Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I (2025).
She sells the moon. Plays with words for a living. PhD research @ Monash with a focus on narrative design and autoethnography. Banner & Pfp my own. My favourite emoji is π.
historian of modern europe global / citizenship, colonies, militarism / postdoc in the ERC project COLVET @maynoothuniversity.ie / former fellow @italianacademy.bsky.social / PhD @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things
Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
PhD student in history (she/her) β’ History of Early Modern Science and Technology & Material Culture β’ Recipe books & reconstruction β’
ππΉπ Thesis topic: The Art of Scents. Fragrances in 16th-Century France β’
History of senses, of olfaction, of embodiment
Prof of English Lit&Cult @Uni_Stuttgart, interested in literary attention and Shakespeare, PI of @litattention.bsky.social, president of @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social. Views are my own.
Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
PhD student researching the early modern tiring house at KCL
The Revels Office is a friendly and supportive virtual academic network for PGR and ECR scholars of all things early modern! Head to our website for more info on what we do: https://revelsoffice.com
π PhD Student in Early Modern Drama
π€ Early Modernist and Classicist
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Professor Emerita at the University of York, UK, living in Canberra, Australia. Author of The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century: Print, Sociability and the Cultures of Collecting (2020). Born and educated in Northern Ireland.
βVirtue is a currencyβ - Elizabeth Inchbald. English DPhil studying virtual currencies and the aesthetics of debt in 18th century drama, University of Oxford
Australian historian of colonialism, legacies of slavery, & visual culture. Perth, West Australia. Author: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? (Routledge) & Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire (CUP)
Bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Based at University of Bristol
https://www.hannahmoreletters.org/
Maritime Musicians | Assoc. Prof in Early Modern Lit | Shakespeare | Sea Theatre | Blue Humanities |π³οΈβπ
The Australia Institute is a leading think-tank based in Canberra http://australiainstitute.tv | Authorised by E Bennett, The Australia Institute, Canberra 2603
Lecturer Cyber Ethics and all things technology, AI and philosophy. @University of the Sunshine Coast https://ethicsdot.substack.com/
