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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Welcome to #LisaFest day 3, where today's chapter is by @obscuredrama.bsky.social. One of two Marlowe chapters in the volume, Tom's has the suitably scintillating title, 'Faustus on the Edge of the Universe'. Like @racheljwillie.bsky.social's chapter, Tom's chapter picks up on the imagery of...

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Faustus on the Edge of the Universe

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome to October (the best month of the year, imho) and day 2 of #LisaFest. Today's chapter is by the thoroughly excellent @racheljwillie.bsky.social, who has been a constant source of support and sanity throughout. Rachel's chapter focuses on Lyly's _The Woman in the Moon_, a neglected...

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“O Nature, place Pandora in my sphere”: Embodied (E)motion in Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The first chapter of #LisaFest is by the excellent (and fellow Antipodean) @billangus.bsky.social. Coming up with the order for chapters can be tricky, but I always knew I wanted Bill's to open the collection. In addition to the pleasingly perfect alliteration of its title, Bill's chapter covers...

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Politicians, Projectors, and Parasites: Lurkers at the Margins of Inner Performance

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mine & @matthewsteggle.bsky.social's festschrift for the incomparable @lisahopkins.bsky.social is due for publication on 19 October. Each day until then, I'm going to give an overview of the chapters to get you excited for the volume's early moderny goodness. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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The Edges of Early Modern English Drama

Thanks to the pioneering work of Professor Lisa Hopkins, the field of early modern English drama is now much more attuned to the various edges, spaces, and intersections that characterise the dramatic...

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It concerns me that the HE sector continues to over reward individual accolades such as grant getting (partly a matter of luck) and under reward vital things such as sustained collegiality and commitment to supporting students. It’s not healthy.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New LJ article! And to w(h)et your appetite, Caroline has written a blog post on the plans to bring water back to the moat of the Tower of London. (see what I did there? And who says academics aren't fun?!) thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Wi...

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Even in death he's "the black academic" in the Guardian.

Jason Arday, the black academic who resigned last week as a professor at the University of Cambridge, has been found dead at his home in south London.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

i do not care what this man did or did not do; he has been hounded to death by the British media class (and, frankly, put directly in harm's way by – lmao! – Cambridge University). he unequivocally didn't deserve that.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Such a wide array of London-y goodness… if I do say so myself 😉

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Mrs Dalloway said she would eat the “sharing” bag herself

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Time for another 🧵 about one of the articles from our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today'. Today's will focus on the article, 'Displaying London’s Past to Contemporary Visitors', by Clare Tonks.

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Displaying London’s Past to Contemporary Visitors

This article contributes to our understanding of the development of curatorial practices from the nineteenth century to the present day through the analysis of museum collections that were displaye...

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 25/06/2026

Cleaning out my photos and found this, which may be a helpful guide at this time of year, when discussing jobs with the precarious academic in your life:

Screenshot reads: Things I don't want to hear when I say I feel like I've failed in my career (which, frankly, is more than likely):
1. "You haven't failed: academia failed you." Makes literally zero difference.
2. "You should be really proud of what you've achieved." Who says I'm not?
3. "But you succeeded in writing two books!" Good for me, didn't set out to write books, set out to get a permanent academic job.
4. "The system is unfair. Yeah, again: makes zero difference. Doesn't matter that mediocre posh white men from Oxbridge are gonna hire mediocre posh white men from Oxbridge and not a weird, Autistic, queer, tattooed Australian woman does it?
5. "You're brilliant"/"You're amazing" or similar. Obviously not in the ways that count, which are literally the only ways.

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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Have read this cover to cover again for proofing, and it’s really good. (I mean, I would say that, but it just is). Inventive, committed essays all pursuing edges and angles opened up by the work of @lisahopkins.bsky.social.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

And thank you @aidannorrie.bsky.social & @matthewsteggle.bsky.social for editing my essay so helpfully and patiently I'm very proud to celebrate the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social in such terrific company

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Writing an essay for this fabulous collection & working with @aidannorrie.bsky.social and @matthewsteggle.bsky.social was so much fun. I recommend you ALL work with them* *within reason, that is—don’t suffocate them with a swathe of your scintillating scholarship 😬

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

After a rather drawn-out process, I am so delighted that the festschrift for the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social that @matthewsteggle.bsky.social and I have edited is only a few months out from publication with @dgb-mem.bsky.social! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It's time for another 🧵 on one of the articles that made up our 50th anniversary special, 'London's Past Today'. This time, it is the turn of 'ReOrientalism: Representing London’s Muslim History Through its Adapted Mosques', by Nur Sobers-Khan & Shahed Saleem.

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ReOrientalism: Representing London’s Muslim History Through its Adapted Mosques

‘Three British Mosques’ was co-curated by Shahed Saleem, Christopher Turner, and Ella Kilgallon and exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Pavilion of Applied Arts at the Venice Biennale 202...

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New blog post by Ian Stone: 'With Due Acknowledgement: From Bermondsey’s Tanneries to The London Journal', reflecting on his research on the Leathersellers’ College in Bermondsey and its archival presence, and its place in his wider research and teaching: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#St....

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With Due Acknowledgement: From Bermondsey’s Tanneries to The London Journal
By Ian Stone | Posted 15 June 2026

The acknowledgements of an academic article are a funny thing. They are probably passed over by most readers, whereas they might be the first—and indeed only—part of the article to attract the attention of others eagerly seeking evidence that their contribution to the published endeavour has been rightfully recognised. As a historian, I have always enjoyed reading the acknowledgements because they tell a story, albeit truncated, of how history came to be written. I thought I would expand upon the acknowledgements in my recent article on Leathersellers’ College in Bermondsey to set out the fuller story of how this article went from genesis to publication.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New post on our blog from Stephen Ridgwell: ‘Fugitive Material: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Playbill’: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ri...

A playbill sticker at work. John Orlando Parry, London Street Scene (1836). Wikimedia Commons.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

TERF nonsense on the first day of Pride month? Fuck the fuck off.

Screenshot from a Guardian opinion piece:

Opinion
The new EHRC ruling isn't just about trans people's access to toilets - it's about protecting other vital single-sex spaces
Susanna Rustin

From the start, feminists have fought for spaces that are less visible but which have special status: prisons, refuges, rape crisis centres, lesbian groups, women's health centres and sports

Susanna Rustin is the author of Sexed: A History of British Feminism
Mon 1 Jun 2026 12.00 BST

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This observation from Stefan Collini in the LRB is striking. I don’t think it’s true anymore: there’s a level of glee that seems to underpin the cuts to staff & courses. Rather than being seen for the failure of leadership it obviously is, VCs can crow about their ability to make tough decisions.

What is also needed is some way to have a voice earlier in the decision-making process, to help frame the range of possibilities. After all, vice-chancellors and their senior management colleagues do not want to be butchering disciplines and then having to face down the ensuing storm of criticism.

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Jack Hanlon @jackhanlon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

www.thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ha... A new piece up on the @thelondonjournal.bsky.social blog including some unpublished bits from my PhD; a few of my photos; and some reflections on Smithfield's long life/slow death prompted by Justinien Tribillon's @vittles.bsky.social article about Rungis

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm so pleased to announce this new book series with @dgb-mem.bsky.social - Genders & Sexualities in the Early Modern World Series Editors: Elizabeth Rhodes, James Daybell & Merry Wiesner-Hanks brill.com/page/forthco... Image: The Concert, 1623, by Gerrit van Honthorst; National Gallery of Art

A colorful C17th painting of men and women gathered around a table, playing instruments and singing. In the background are revelers, including a man holding up a glass.

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

New post for our new blog! 'Smithfield is Dead, Long Live Smithfield' by @jackhanlon.bsky.social, in which he reflects both on his historical research on Smithfield Market, and the market's uncertain future. All reads and reposts much appreciated.

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

And here it is! Come to Liverpool in July next year. We have a fantastic [insert appropriate collective noun here] of keynotes: @bkadams.bsky.social, @dnmcinnis.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, Perry Mills & Deborah Payne!

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David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

List of those Starmer has called out for anti-Semitism: - The Universities - The Arts Council - The Green Party - Pro-Palestinian protestors List of those Starmer has not called out for anti-Semitism: - Twitter - Reform UK - The Trump administration Feels like there’s a pattern here.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Inspired by a joke in the latest episode of Bob’s Burgers that Romeo & Juliet was originally typed, please enjoy my views on the typing abilities of early modern playwrights: Shakespeare: aggressive, 2-finger typer Marlowe: gets a twink to type for him Fletcher: is a professional typist 1/2

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It has taken three years, but the first review of my monograph has been published. In some ways, it’s what you want: it concludes by describing the book as “an impressively learned study that adds a fresh voice and a provocative point of view”. Nice, right? Nope. Buckle in. 🧵 1/19

Screenshot from the review, saying:
While the book leaves us with some important questions, Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule is an impressively learned study that adds a fresh voice and a provocative point of view to the ongoing scholarly debate about whether Elizabeth’s female kingship was or was not a vital component of the Elizabethans’ own religiopolitical debate.

ILONA BELL
WILLIAMS COLLEGE

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Time for another 🧵 about one of the articles from our landmark 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today'. On this occasion, we're taking a deeper dive into @helenjuliapaul.bsky.social's 'The Grit in the Oyster: Deptford, Enslavement, and the Challenges of Memorialisation' (available OA).

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The Grit in the Oyster: Deptford, Enslavement, and the Challenges of Memorialisation

London was the first slaving port in Britain, although it was subsequently overshadowed by Bristol and Liverpool. It still lags behind the western ports in its attempts to memorialise Britain’s rol...

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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Not a serious question. The reason to boycott the Harry Potter series is not just because of J.K. Rowling’s heinous views. Any money she makes from the show will be used to terrorize trans people. She has made this abundantly clear. This is not a theoretical.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A bumper issue of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social is now available for your reading pleasure! I learned so much from all these articles, so I am really pleased they’re officially out in the world 🥰

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’m currently working with a lot of material that uses in-text references and it fucking sucks. It’s actually insane how many articles etc have an in-text citation that does not appear in the bibliography. And don’t get me started on references that are just to a whole monograph: that’s not helpful!

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Another bump for this; expressions of interest due in by 24 March.

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

labour are as far right as the bnp were 15 years ago and ppl like @stellacreasy.bsky.social, @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social, and @labourlewis.bsky.social think it can be saved by writing a column or a couple of letters. the bnp deal was actually better. think about that. labour is dead. vote green.

This article is more than 15 years old BNP would offer non-white Britons £50,000 to leave UK,
says Nick Griffin Party leader says resettlement grants would be partially funded by scrapping 'ridiculous'
climate change adaptation policies
Haroon Siddique
Thu 29 Apr 2010 12.24 BST

Refused asylum seeker families will be offered up to £40,000 to leave Britain under pilot scheme, says Shabana Mahmood

The home secretary said that Britain will trial a scheme to encourage a small number of asylum seekers whose claims are rejected to exit ...
www.theguardian.com

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A reminder that we are still look for a joint book reviews editor, covering books on modern London. Could that be you? Let us know! Expressions of interest due by 24 March.

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

New article: 'Symbolic Violence and ‘Branding’ in the Puritan Reformation of London, 1634–1660', by Paul Barrett: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I know it’s basically pointless, but I cannot understand how, in 2026, an academic can describe the latter part of bae’s reign as “a time when polemicists were describing the aged female sovereign as ‘unnatural’”. It’s 👏 not 👏 true 👏 The rants of *Catholic* polemicists are not evidence of this!

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Time for another 🧵 on one of the articles from our 50th-anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today'! The article we're highlighting today is Katie Donnington's '(In)human Capital: London and the Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery'.

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(In)human Capital: London and the Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery

London played a key role in the history of transatlantic slavery: it was an important port in the Atlantic trade, a hub of commercial organisation, a market for slave-produced commodities, and a co...

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

So, three answers to this: Joy (2015) is the only film I wanted to walk out of (couldn’t because of husband). Rise of Skywalker (2019) was such a missed/wasted opportunity. The Marvels (2023) is the only film I regret seeing in the cinema, which breaks my heart given my love of Captain Marvel.

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Entering my 2nd month of unemployment (10/10 do not recommend losing your job the week before Christmas) & my gay audacity wants to pursue my dream of starting a bespoke, humanities academic publisher. I love editing, & I want to bring the human back to publishing. Anyone interested in joining me?

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Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I’ve just finished (re)watching Wes Anderson’s 12 feature films in preparation for my book on TGBH, so I present to you my official™ ranking: 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2. The Phoenician Scheme 3. Asteroid City 4. The Darjeeling Limited 5. The French Dispatch 6. Moonrise Kingdom 7. Isle of Dogs

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We are looking for a new Joint Book Reviews Editor to join our editorial board. They would cover the period from 1800, working alongside Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval/early modern period. You can check out the full Call for Expressions of Interest here; and please do also share widely.

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