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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
@emqueerguild.bsky.social
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Our new Queer and Trans Histories series is seeking proposals for works that expand the field, uncover overlooked topics, and reimagines how these histories are told.
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...
#LGBTQHistoryMonth
Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June?
Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March!
clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
📣Meeting TONIGHT at 4pm! See you there 🥳📣
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🌟Our February meeting will be the first in our Thesis Lab series, where we'll de-mystify the thesis-writing process together bit by bit🌟
🥁First up: Introduction to Introductions🥁
🤝Bring your expertise, advice, experience, questions, suggestions, or worries - let's help each other 🤝
💘Latest early access release, and it's a chat about Tancred and Gismunda (and its variants!) with Isobel Strevens and @robertcrighton.bsky.social It's a play we've been weirdly obsessed about for a while, so join us for a dive into a house with some issues. #drama www.patreon.com/posts/discus...
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Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
The #CfP for our Summer Conference 2026 on the theme 'The Church and Race' is open now. You can find more information on the theme, how to apply, and bursaries here:
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/ #historians
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Issue 43.4 features work from Revels Office member Laurie Higgins! 👏👏👏
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📢Call For Session Leaders📢
If you're an early modernist with an idea for a session you'd like to run, we'd love to hear from you!
The Revels Office is a supportive and enthusiastic group, so we're the perfect testing ground for new ideas 🌟
Get in touch with us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
Thank you!! 🫶🏻
26.01.2026 10:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just a reminder that our January 'Bring A Problem' session will take place at 4pm tonight! Hope to see you there :)
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🌈📚 Announcing our winter and spring reading group dates and readings! 📚🌈
📚 sign-up to the reading group: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
🥬 enter Vin's raffle: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our January meeting will take place on Monday 26th and will be a 'Bring A Problem' session!
Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶
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/
🎺 We have some more big news: our 20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE THEME! We are proud to present Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World, coming on 13 and 14 July, 2026!🎺
Keep an eye out for more information on how to get involved in the coming days....👀
We are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!
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🎄☃️Merry Christmas from the Revels Office!☃️🎄
We hope you’re having a lovely day whatever you’re up to🌟🤍
Reminder that we have our December meeting at ❗4pm❗ today! Meeting link has been sent out by email - looking forward to seeing you there 🎄☃️🎁
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Society Biennial Book Prize The Society awards a biennial book prize of £500 to encourage original research on any aspect in the field of Renaissance studies and to recognise significant accomplishments by members of the SRS. The SRS Book Prize for the year 2026 will be awarded to the author of the best monograph in Renaissance Studies published (digital/hard copy) between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2025. To be eligible the monograph must be written in English by a current member of the SRS. The prize will be awarded for a book with a topic where the majority of material is within the chronological period 1300-1700. Books about Renaissance history, art, architecture, philosophy, science, technology, medicine, religion, music, the literatures and languages of Europe, and of the countries in contact with Europe during the Renaissance, are eligible. Books will be judged on the following criteria: contribution to Renaissance Studies; quality and originality of research; clarity and eloquence; thoroughness and accuracy in documentation; methodological skill and/or innovation.
Who's entering our Biennial Book Prize 2026, to celebrate the best monographs in Renaissance studies published in 2024 and 2025? Send your scintillating scholarship to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, @racheljwillie.bsky.social, by 31st January 2026.
www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
Our 🎊festive🎊 meeting of the Revels Office will take place on the 22nd December and will be a 'Bring A Thing' session!
This is an opportunity to share any object/text/picture/anecdote that you've come across in your research and think is cool 🖤
Are you an early modern PGR or ECR? Get in touch!
It was so lovely to see so many people at our November meeting yesterday! Thanks for coming, everyone 🌟
If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍
Yesterday we had our November meeting, which was a brilliant talk on the article editing process led by our very own Miriam Haas!
Mirjaam’s session was so informative, filled with insight into the process and plenty of examples from her own experience, which we’re so grateful for.
Thanks Mirjaam!
Hope everyone is doing ok despite the cold!🥶
Our meeting this week (in fact, tomorrow! Mon 24th) will be a workshop on publications and the editing process with the wonderful Miriam Haas!
Sure to be interesting and valuable to everyone, no matter how far into their PhD journey. See you there!
The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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Infographic, with headshot of the speaker: Researching The Rose, Monday Evening online talks. Professor Laurie Johnson – Pub Crawling With Playhouses. 7.30pm 10 November 2025
Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Here's some of the insights shared at our 'What I Wish I Knew': PhD Advice session on Monday🧑💻
Let's start a conversation – if you've got any advice/tips/wisdom, drop them in the comments below! 💞
Revels OG Rachel Hare has co-curated the fantastic exhibition SWOON! taking place on the 8th November at Bristol Museum's M Shed, exploring the history of fainting 😵
For more info on the interactive exhibit, visit Rachel's Instagram page: @rachelhare285 🤍
Such a great session! 16 members in attendance – so lovely to see so many new faces🫶
Huge thanks to Juliana, Bet, Liesl, Patrick, Yuqi and Maria for offering your wisdom to our new starters! It's so valuable to have such a supportive space.
Want to get involved? Email us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
🚨Our October Meeting is happening at 4pm TONIGHT!!! 🚨 So looking forward to seeing everyone for our 'What I Wish I'd Known': PhD Advice session 🎓🖤
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