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Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Experiencing Relief in Early Modern Britain: 1500-1800 We welcome papers from ECRs, PGRs, and established scholars. For more info (e.g., how to submit a paper) please see our website: earlymodernreliefconference2027.wordpress.com #earlymodern #earlymodernists #AcademicSky

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🚨Latest pod drop - it's a chat with @drshirleybell.bsky.social about Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage, a new book covering how dynamic the use of music in drama could be, and which is out now! Go to the show description for links! #drama #theatre #music audioboom.com/posts/891282...

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Discussing: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It was a pleasure to be interviewed for @sbrackenborough.bsky.social’s new early music blog about my book, Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage. You can read the interview here: mosaicoftheair.substack.com/p/witches-wh...

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Witches, Whores and Madmen: Stage Music in the Reign of Charles I

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Last month, I had the pleasure of attending, presenting my paper, ‘“She’s a lady gay”: Challenging the Male Gaze in Ben Jonson’s The New Inn’ and promoting my book, Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage at the wonderful @britgrad.bsky.social conference!

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm going to try doing some writing on substack - once I figure out how it works! - you can find me here substack.com/@mosaicofthe... First up will be an interview with @drshirleybell.bsky.social on her research into the music of Caroline Drama

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's a chat about Music and Emotion of the Caroline Stage with Dr Shirley Bell. Catch all episodes first on our patreon. #discussing #history #music #drama www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

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Discussing: Music and Emotion (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare

Hello, This week it's an early access listen to this discussing episode where I chat with Dr Shirley Bell about her book Music and Emotion o

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Congratulations Shirley! If anyone would like to review this for sonancejournal.com let me know! #earlymodern 🗃️

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About the Journal | Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My book is out!! 🎉📕🎶🥂🎭

Promotional flyer for the book, “Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage” by Shirley Bell

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I really enjoyed speaking about my book at the University of Sheffield today! Thank you to everyone who attended both in person and online, and special thanks to @ellaalton.bsky.social, @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and Mark Jones for being such lovely hosts! @sheffieldcems.bsky.social 🥰

Me holding a manuscript of my new book and standing in front of a screen with a PowerPoint presentation on it with the title “Good Karolin, sing. Help to divert this fant’sy”: Identifying Grief in Karolin’s Song in Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd.

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It was a joy to celebrate my book online at @revelsoffice.bsky.social today! Here is the cute little book bunting I made, a printed copy of my book to use as a prop until the real one arrives, my PowerPoint presentation for today, and my lovely profile on the Revels Office website. 🥳🎉📕

Purple laptop with PowerPoint presentation slide showing a pink background with bunting on the top, title “Book celebration!! (and how to turn your PhD thesis into a book)” with Dr Shirley Bell, and photos of me and my book

Bunting hanging on a bookshelf with front cover of Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage by Shirley Bell

Me and a printed copy of my book to use as a prop until the real one arrives

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🌟On Monday we have a very special event - @drshirleybell.bsky.social will be talking to us about her new book ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’! 🌟 Join us to celebrate Shirley’s wonderful achievement🤩She’ll also be talking to us about the process of talking her thesis into a book🤍

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RILCH at LJMU @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents stuartdrama.com

Text: “Stuart Drama”, surrounded by a host of seventeenth-century playwrights.

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I’ve got some exciting book promotion events coming up over the next couple of months! 🥳🎉📕

Poster of events to celebrate the release of Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage by Shirley Bell: 18 May at Revels Office, 28th May at University of Sheffield, 18th June at Britgrad Conference

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I’ve got some exciting book promotion events coming up over the next couple of months! 🥳🎉📕

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Update: my book will now be published on 31st May. I’ve also got some exciting book promotion events coming up: @revelsoffice.bsky.social on 18th May, @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on 28th May and @britgrad.bsky.social on 18th June!! 🥳🎉📕

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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

We’re so excited to have you speak to us, Shirley! 🤩

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Are you interested in #EarlyModern #history? Did you know there are at least 15 active hash tags and 42 starter packs here on BlueSky for you to explore? Check out this thread 🤓

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

Front cover of ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ by Shirley Bell.

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I submitted the manuscript for my book “Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage” this week! 🎉🎶📕

Me sitting at a desk pointing to a computer screen saying “submit your manuscript”.

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police. blog here: drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...

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Policing by consent: an early modern perspective

This post derives from some of the work I’ve been doing on my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship over the last year and a half. For more on these themes, I’ve an article coming out in H…

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Looking forward to presenting my paper on expressions of grief in Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd tomorrow!

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I had an amazing time at the Moving Music Conference in Cambridge last week!

A group of people standing in the courtyard of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Me standing in front of a screen with my PowerPoint presentation on it.

A group of four men singing in a chapel.

A group of people sitting at a table for a formal dinner.

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I’m in Cambridge for the Moving Music conference which starts today at Emmanuel College. I will be speaking about the saraband in Ben Jonson’s Staple of News this afternoon.

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Productive library day! 📚 Finished writing another chapter of my book and made a start to my paper for the Moving Music conference which I will be presenting at in Cambridge later this month.

Picture of me sitting at a desk in the library in front of a computer.

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Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court @mappinginns.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Join us on Thursday 29 May as Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) talks on “To give some colour as if they meant the peace”: a practice-based approach to ‘legality’ in early modern England. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com

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Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

En route to Sheffield for tomorrow's workshop. Made a spur of the moment pit stop in Rothwell, the site of the alleged 16th-century assault that I'll be chatting about.

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

a massive shout out to my wonderful PAR actors who gamely came out onto a university thoroughfare to try enacting proclamations of peace on Monday! #history #PAR #practiceasresearch #skystorians

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️ Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...

A group of actors holding swords and sticks, trying to look threatening

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

just six days out from #eatingtearingthrowing some early modern legal documents! join us in person or online for a wonderful day of practice as research and legal history. tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️ Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...

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Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Beyond excited for this event, which highlights all the ways you could Have a Strop about being served a warrant in early modern England. Stamping on, throwing, ripping, crumpling, and eating documents all feature. Come join us if you're in the city!

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Little snippet from rehearsals 🎭

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Looking forward to taking part in this workshop as one of the actors! 🎭 I’m thoroughly enjoying being involved with this fantastic project. I’m working with some great people and learning so much! Thank you @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social for giving me this brilliant opportunity 🤩 #earlymodern

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

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Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Great to see this article in issue. Did Elizabethans really that the soul was a musical harmony? How and why was idea used in English post-Reformation musical debates? (Open acccess) #earlymodern #musicology

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/

A detail from an image of a book shop from Johann Amos Comenius: "Orbis sensualium pictus", pinted in 1658 in Nuremberg. You see a room full of boxes and backwardsbooks and a (tiny) bookseller reading behind a desk waiting for customers.

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Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Attending the Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social #earlymodern

Entrance of Elmfield Building, University of Sheffield.

Selfie of me at University of Sheffield.

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Association of English Cathedrals @englishcathedrals.co.uk · 05/03/2025

"Helios is a stunning celebration of the sun’s life-giving power and its significance across cultures and faiths" #LiverpoolCathedral has announced a special programme of events for #Helios - including Easter Sunday sunrise service www.englishcathedrals.co.uk/latest-news/...

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A #17thCentury #song for #ShroveTuesday: The prologue to William Hawkins' play "Apollo's Shroving", which was first performed by schoolchildren in Hadleigh in Suffolk in 1627, as they looked forward to the #Shrovetide holiday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6C... #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky

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Martin Peerson: Prologue from Apollo's Shroving - a song for Shrove Tuesday

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Sheffield City Council @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Two exciting bits of Sheffield Castle news to share this morning! Archaeologists have made the ‘exceptional’ discovery of civil war stakes at the Sheffield Castle site. This is the first time wooden stakes like these – used to defend the castle in the 17th century – have ever been found.

Civil War stake undergoes conservation by timber specialist, Steve, from York Archaeology. Copyright of Wessex Archaeology

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Think some starter packs are doing the rounds again, if you're a historian of the body (broadly defined) and you'd like to be added to this one let me know! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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