'Fascinating' personal library of 'forgotten scholar' rediscovered It is hoped that Zachary Boyd's collection at the University of Glasgow will help shed light on 17th century Scotland and a tumultuous time in European history.

A wee bit of news.

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A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.

I have been warning about this for a couple years (the post below is from February 2023), but you really cannot trust any image or video you see online. It isn’t just Sora 2, it is a host of tools (many open source) that make cloning voice & images easy. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/a-quick-an...

Inventor of Britain | UWP

Will be Open Access when it publishes in a couple of weeks www.uwp.co.uk/book/invento...

Front cover: National 5 Classical Studies. Images taken from frescoes in the villa of mysteries.

I finished writing this tonight. It’s a textbook for National 5 Classical Studies, the first of its kind.

I’m not sure but I think the last Scotland-specific Classics textbook for schools came out in 1983.

Anyway, it’s 220 pages long and will be available for free/donation from tomorrow.

Devoted & Disgruntled Satellite: How Do We Lead Well Together?
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The Age of Magna Carta - Society of Antiquaries of London Join us for a free event celebrating the historic Magna Carta, co-produced by a team of young people on the Events Leadership Team at Westminster City Lions.

The tube's back up and running (or will be shortly!) so why not celebrate by coming to our FREE event from 5-8pm today (hourly slots) and enjoy longsword demonstrations, performances, art and craft workshops, dressing up, a photo booth and more! www.sal.org.uk/event/age-of...

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.

Less than a day until #Globe4Globe 2025! If you haven't registered yet, join us for 24 hours of scholars, practitioners and educators discussing Shakespeare & environmental justice. It's free, it's online, it's live for 24 hours! #G4G2025 events.humanitix.com/globe4globe

2/2 Elizabeth I, born OTD 1533, early in her reign. Greeting Dutch ambassadors in a room decorated to look like a garden, with caged birds at the windows. Possibly painted by Levina Teerlinc.

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This is a momentous Friday - it's up and running! 😄

The fruits of my 2024-5 Nottingham postdoc, transforming an underused space at Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall.

(The only permanent exhibition on early modern drama beyond Shakespeare, within an authentic early modern performance space.)

I was lucky enough to be a guest a few times. Right before starting he would say, "our audience is very well informed, so go as deep as you want, and if need be I'll ask you to clarify." Thought that was pretty amazing, like, the opposite of saying "dumb it down please."

Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.

Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A page from an early edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene with two lines of verse written in the margin in a seventeenth-century hand

England is stored with bridges, hills, and wool,
With churches, wells, and women beautiful

(Source: archive.org/details/faer...)

Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) – unified access to early European printed works (c.1455–1830) from major European and North American libraries.

Open access, with growing links to digitised copies.

Explore via: www.cerl.org/resources/hp...

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...

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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?

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@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