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German Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📣 Registration is open! Join us in Weimar on 6–7 November to discuss authority and its abuses, governance, and legitimacy in #Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure! We're very much looking forward to welcoming our distinguished speakers, including @pascaleexeter.bsky.social and @lizschafer.bsky.social.🎭

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

London was a great market for eels from the 15th C. onward. Many were imported by the Dutch, but not all. In the late 19th C. fishermen from the Norfolk Broads sold their eels in Billingsgate each fall, & the profits were enough to carry them through rest of the year if need be. 🗃️🧪

Meme. B&W photograph of a man fishing eels from a small boat. He is in the middle of the fens, and you can see the tall grasses at the edge of the water. Behind him is another boat and a small shack. The man, who is wearing suspenders and a hat, is holding a net and looking into the water.

You can see his reflection in the water...a blurry fisherman with a net looking skywards through the floating algae on the surface. He is perhaps in the middle of an existential quandary. For he himself is but a reflection of light that lets us see him, and so allows his image to be captured on film. Is he, then, any more real than his image in the water? What is reality, after all, but a trick of light? The man is stuck; paralyzed by worry about his own being.

The eels swimming under his boat are free of this kind of dread. Natural neo-platonists, they live in the liminal space between Being and Becoming, and that is that.

Meme text reads:
"Fishing the Broads:
An Eelustrious Career"

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Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Winter’s Tale: A Critical Reader is out in paperback on Thursday! to celebrate, I will give away 2 copies to people who share their most interesting and surprising Winter’s Tale facts in the comments. (Also on IG). And for everyone else, you can order at www.bloomsbury.com/us/winters-t...

Five copies of the winter’s tale, a critical reader, spread out in a fan on a filing cabinet. The book includes a woodcut that has nothing to do with the play, but is taken from the Spanish tragedy.

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Dr Eleanor Lowe @loweee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hello! Does anyone here sing 18thc ballads? If so, let me know. UK based for September.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Frame-maker’s workshop, drawn by Salomon de Bray of Haarlem, whose day is today.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

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Skenè Research Centre @skenejournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies is now on Bluesky! It is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal founded in 2014, skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS

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Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies

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Think Human @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🚨Due to popular demand, a few more tickets have been added to this previously sold out event! Sign up now to save your place👇 🎬 bit.ly/3YiK67P

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Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The Gibbs building on campus isn’t spectacular. But the woman it’s named after was. She left a wonderful legacy for Oxford, and for Oxford Brookes. Join us to uncover the story. It’s free and everyone is warmly welcome. 👇

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Take a look at our amazing Oxford Brookes @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social schedule! Tons of events for everyone between 7 May and 10 May this year! There's a QR below you can use too. Come along, I'm really looking forward to it.

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Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Lucy Holehouse on partying through the plague (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/partying-t...) Lydia Valentine on civic racemaking (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/race-makin...) And ClareMcManus on Shax on the ropes (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespear...)

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Partying through the Plague with the London Livery Companies

In 1603, plague struck London.

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Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Amazing series (online & in person) coming up at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social (c/o @lucyholehouse.bsky.social): Performing (in) the Early Modern City'. 3 brilliant talks with exhibited material—for what more can 16th/17th century London fans ask!? www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Thing... (1/2) …

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 08/04/2025

Stop what you’re doing. Go into your Bluesky setting, click Accessibility and toggle on the setting that says ‘require alt text before posting’ and then you’ll *never* forget.

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Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Probably one more session of tidying to go before I've got a complete route network for Italy as published #16thCentury - #18thCentury! I like this view of Northern Italy to show that the #earlymodern routes (red) are not just the Roman roads (green). 🗃️ @emdigit.bsky.social

Screenshot of an ArcGIS map of northern Italy from Milan to Venice showing green waypoints and red and green paths

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 07/04/2025

My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite: ‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’

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Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Are you in Oxford on 7 May? Join us for this important event @oxfordbrookes #humanities 👇👇👇 Free, all warmly welcome!

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

ok. because we all could use a little joy here are some silly medieval hedgehogs for hedgehog day:

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Dr Eleanor Lowe @loweee.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

In case this is of use to anyone...

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Greg Walker - newly appointed Chair of main panel D for REF 2029 - will be speaking to the @univeng.bsky.social OGM this Friday, 1-2pm. Please contact ben.davies@port.ac.uk for the zoom link Hope to see you there. Please spread the word

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Bluesky! Can you out-twitter twitter & do the thing that place used to be really good at: pool info about resources? Which funds are there to support individuals' conference participation & travel? We have this list of external funds, any to add/remove? rensoc.org.uk/features/ext... #skystorians

Main Funding Bodies in Britain and Ireland
Arts and Humanities Research Council
British Academy
Irish Research Council
The Leverhulme Trust
UK Research and Innovation
The Wellcome Trust
Conference Grants
Economic History Society
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation
German History Society
The Mind Association
Modern Humanities Research Association
Social History Society
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
The Society for the Study of French History
Royal Historical Society
Royal Musical Association

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

And then there were three! Though this party is a bit empty. Any #earlymodern -ist want to come and hang out with this lovely bunch? go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

GOOD NEWS for the discipline: there are *many* #earlymodern historians. Bad news: we couldn't all squeeze into one pack. So here's the second, do follow all the wonderful researchers in this one as well: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 #skystorians

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Now we’re all settling into this app: the starter packs of #EarlyModern historians for an easy follow — and check the update as some new ones have moved over. 1: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 2: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 There’s still space in that second one so do wave if you’re around and want in! #SkyStorians

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earlymodern historians OG

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

English: Shared Futures UK’s largest English Studies conference…creative writing,language,linguistics & literature - academics, teachers, policy-makers…celebrate strengths,tackle shared challenges,imagine a new future for English Studies across sectors & beyond! www.englishsharedfutures.org/cfp

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Call for Papers — English: Shared Futures 2025

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Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Does anyone know of any work that's been done on the lynxes in the 1585 and 1595 Skinner's company Lord Mayor shows? By which I mean...did they really have a lynx?? And did someone really ride it??? (Surely the answer to this last one is no)

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Dr Ollie Jones @oelj.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The first round Call for Participation for BSA Conference 2025 is open! #BSA2025 'Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons' will be hosted by the University of York, 25-28 June. View the full CfP www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/11/2024

I am weary, yea, my memory is tir’d.

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Karen Boyle @profkarenboyle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Excited to announce 3 #AcademicJobs in Humanities at Uni Strathclyde funded through the Charlotte Lythe bequest. I'm new here, so appreciate your help in getting the word out! The jobs are in History, Media and English/Creative Writing. Details below in my first bsky thread (drumroll please...)

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today marks Equal Pay Day: the day when women stop earning relative to men. With the gender pay gap widening in the last year, the government must keep working to ensure women are paid the same as men for the same work #EqualPayDay #EqualWorkForEqualPay

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 19/11/2024

Let not that doctor e’er come near my house.

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A group of researchers have recreated the clothing of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy from the wall paintings in the cathedral of Faras, which sits at the border of modern Egypt and Sudan.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hey all! Did you know I did a series of videos for Newstead Abbey introducing some of the gems of the collection? From Byron's clothes to his early writings to his will to a tree trunk dedicated to his love for his sister... Check them out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnYn...

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Byron 200 - Byron's Albanian costume

YouTube video by Nottingham City Museums 2022 onwards

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Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Come and find out about our #HeritageLottery funded project Life in a Northumbrian Manor Mini conference 23 Nov 2024, 10am-1pm Hexham Abbey For a free ticket email: berwickarchives@northumberland.gov.uk #archives #history #documents

Poster for Life in a Northumbrian Manor mini conference, 23 Nov 10:00-13:00, The Great Hall, Hexham Abbey

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Dr Eleanor Lowe @loweee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I have always loved history, but I specifically remember getting the first issue of Discovery magazine which was on Elizabeth I and the Armada. Later, I read history books about Elizabeth I and Henry VIII on the school bus, and loved Shakespeare on stage (thanks, Drama teacher mum).

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already? We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: www.rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Today feels like a lot. But the eels still need our love. So... In c. 1500, Roger de Cailli promised 1,500 eels a year to the priory of Castleacre if the monks would pray for the souls of his mother, father, & 2 departed wives. Remember folks: eels are the way out of purgatory. 🗃️🧪

Meme. Medieval painting of an angel leading a group of sinners out of hell. There are 5 sinners, all naked and surrounded by flames. The angel (who is clothed) is reaching a hand out to them. They're grasping for it, and you would, too. There are 4 men & 1 woman, so she's probably thrilled to get out of there. Jerry keeps hitting on her, and he won't take a hint.

Hell is depicted here as the mouth of a giant dark beast. It looks a little like a cat head. The mouth and the ears and the space behind the eyes are all filled with flames. The beast has four sharp fangs at the front of its mouth, but the rest of its teach look rather human. The beast is looking upwards, like a dog groaking for scraps, and it's wide open maw makes it look like it's at the dentist. Despite having a portal to hell inside it's head, the beast looks friendly. If it sidled up to you in a park, and looked at you with those eyes, you'd pet it.

Meme text reads:
"Find someone you love enough
to save with your eels"

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Dr Chris @drchrisc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We now have Bankside’s finest theatre here! The Rose Playhouse has joined! go.bsky.app/3vH7trY

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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I don't think I've seen one of these, so: my attempt at an early modern lit starter pack! (Plus some C18 people because I've decided to go on the offence and y'all are part of long C17 now.) Apologies for any omissions / unwanted inclusions -- if you want on or off let me know! go.bsky.app/Qd456bF

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Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Seen some demand for a Shakespeare starter pack, so I’ve half-heartedly made one. I know I’m missing A LOT of people, so if you’re a scholar/student/practitioner working on/with/against Shakespeare, let me know and I’ll add you (someone else can do an early modern one!) go.bsky.app/UrSRue1

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A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.eurosky.social · 17/11/2024

SOCK [sok] (2) vb. To shroud or wrap a corpse in grave-clothes; to sew a body in its winding sheet. 1591.—'Paid for a sheet to sock a poor woman that died at Byneons, 1s. 6d.' Records of Faversham.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Advice from a Literature teacher and resister: read your history, but don’t forget your literature. Resistance is woven through the words of abolitionism and feminism and anti-fascism. Read the history and the literature.

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