We can now be pretty sure who it was that assembled and wrote most of Great Domesday. That man was Gerard, chancellor of England, cantor of Winchester Cathedral, nephew of Bishop Wakelin: liturgist and singer as well as scribe and administrator. What a time to be a medievalist!

CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’
Submit by 16th May
This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
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The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record Hereford Cathedral Library holds a fragmentary seventeenth-century letter addressed to a ‘Mrs Shakspaire’, concerning her husband’s dealings with a fatherless apprentice named John Butte or Butts. ...

Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beautiful - wonderful tribute

🎷 Day Three of Devoted & Disgruntled 2025
The last day, the get-up-and-do-something day.
We've been talkin', dreamin', schemin’ all weekend — and now the beat’s changed. It's the Day of Action.
Time to move, time to make, time to mean it.

Two weeks until the spring London Shakespeare Seminar with Richard Ashby and Alison Shell! Sign up here — www.tickettailor.com/events/shake...

#Shakespeare #earlymodern

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: The Tempest In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of The Tempest from Oxford World's Classics.

Our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare webinar is on 7 April at 6pm. This month we will be exploring The #Tempest with Dr Lauren Working
@laurenworking.bsky.social & Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social.

The webinars are free and open to all!

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Jeremy Irons 1986 RSC

Difficult times in 1639: high prices and little business being done resulting in 'extraordinarie numbers of poore and miserable people'. Rather than cut benefits for the worst off, the City encourages the companies to 'liberally and charitably' share their money around 👀

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern

Delighted to announce my professorial inaugural at UCL on 28th May, do sign up be great to see you all there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-frame...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Nice new job at UCL Arts and Humanities: Lecturer in Creative Arts and Humanities: Collaboration and Industry
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an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Perhaps the case for all places and peoples that receive income from travellers?

Thanks

@cathfletcher.bsky.social saw your expertise mentioned in an Emma Smith thread - might you know anything about Henry Savile’s travels in Europe 1578-82 or where information might be

Never.

An if you're in Lancaster, UK on Thursday 6 February
you can hear me talk about

"Shakespeare's Soilscapes Tragedies'

at The Storey (7.30pm to 8.30pm)

it will be interesting to see if The Traitors trains more critical thinking over time - like Deal or No Deal refuting the idea that if you want something enough or “believe” enough then the random content of a box will be what you want

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Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court Visit the post for more.

Hello to Bluesky! If you work on early modern law and literature, or any aspect of early modern studies that involves the Inns of Court, follow us, look at our website and come to our online seminars. See mappinginns.wordpress.com

No one buys books Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.

Worth another look: No one buys books open.substack.com/pub/ellegrif...

English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith

Today: our first Shakespeare webinar. Join us online, free, to work through the entire canon of plays and poems over 41 sessions. See out the 47th presidency with us 👇 www.english.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...

Don’t mIss our first Shakespeare webinar: Monday 6pm GMT, link below. Buckle in: this is the first of ….41!

English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith

Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...
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Placing gender justice at the heart of the wellbeing economy The neoliberal model takes GDP growth as the key indicator for societal prosperity. Against this narrow measure, several more equitable and more sustainable alternatives have been suggested. But wh…

blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
YES to this entire blog. Replace money with care and put injustice at the centre of a remodelling of all systems - it's the only way we will survive. It's the only way to avoid a future of billionaires jetting off into space, leaving a charred planet behind them.

The Specter of the Archive An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society.   We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more informat...

Delighted to report that my book, The Specter of the Archive, was awarded the Bainton Prize in History from
@16csociety.bsky.social. It's about an early modern media revolution but speaks directly and pointedly to the one we're living through today.

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Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court Visit the post for more.

Tomorrow I am talking about Thomas Overbury’s letters from the Tower, dramatic courtiership and Inns of Court learning - 28 November at 17.30 (GMT). Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the link. All welcome. mappinginns.wordpress.com

I wrote about my book, Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds. Use discount code ADC24 for 30% off. ambereendadabhoy.com/2024/02/10/sha… #ShakeRace