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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Submitted with 27 minutes to go!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If he was any sort of cousin could have been useful for mates’ rates on costume fabric!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If it’s a London ref, I assume it is, it’s probably the family in the parish of St Michael Crooked Lane. There was also a family with more than one Roger in Southwark, probably watermen. The epicentre of Hemingeses was Worcestershire - Feckenham, Worcester itself - and Warks, Haselor and Stratford.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Congratulations. I hope it brings you as much joy as my very late PhD did (73 at graduation). You will bring so much to it that you have gained over past decades. Have fun!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s all of those things and so provocative in performance. Saw it first with Ian Richardson as Angelo then years later watched my husband as Escalus (ETT) and Abhorson (RSC). Have never made up my mind about it.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes, please do another. Measure for Measure??

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well done! So well deserved.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just back from the vet with Bess who has an allergic reaction to something probably in the fields. That’s put paid to a morning’s work.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Great to see Beth Sharrock’s excellent article on broadcast paratexts included

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Really interesting episode demystifying Star Chamber. Thank you!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I can no longer get to this so have a ticket going spare. DM me if you’re interested.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Change the job title? Executive administrator or similar? But that would no doubt require an AGM decision.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Booked and now looking out my big hat - but hadn’t realised till I’d booked that it’s not at OT. Hope I can find it!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

And ordered today - to read when I’ve finished Textile Shakespeare!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sunken Ships, Shakespeare, and Whale Watching open.substack.com/pub/shakespe... An evocative post from Callan Davies on all things watery and Shakespearean, from a Swedish warship to whales in Suffolk.

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Sunken Ships, Shakespeare, and Whale Watching

Maritime Shakespeare, Stockholm's extraordinary Vasa Museum, and whales in early modern East Anglia

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thanks for reminder,Tracey. Have just booked.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Love the design and greatly admire the skill!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

These local archives and reports never disappoint!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Iago may have been lean but Jago definitely sounds fat to me. Does Jago also suggest a relationship to Jack Falstaff, too?

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

When I was sorting the photo credits for my recent blogpost TLA asked me to add TLA alongside Guildhall Library, where I actually photographed the items. Feels like a good old fashioned power grab by TLA.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Shakespeare’s colleague John Heminges was apprenticed to grocer James Collins and when Collins died his widow Anne took over as apprentice master/mistress. My latest King’s Women blogpost takes up Anne’s story……….

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Would love to attend but will still be at home looking after my new knee. However I heartily recommend The Book Game to anyone living in Cambridge or surrounding villages! Or, indeed, anywhere else.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Better go gold rather than blue to stand out so #2

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This has to have been one of the most instructive episodes ever of In Our Time. Humbling to learn how much I didn’t know.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My latest post for the Kings Women follows the archival traces of two women in the 1580s who ran their own businesses and took on apprentices, Anne Collins and Annabell Baye, paid up members of the Grocers Company. www.kingswomen.org/post/the-sis... #earlymodern #womenshistory #londonhistory

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The Sisterhood of Grocers

by Meryl Faiers, 9 June 2026My most recent post (20 April 2026) offered a reconstruction of the life of Rebecca Heminges, the wife of a grocer (and actor - John Heminges). Now I'm looking at two of th...

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Interesting thought. The early Grocers’ records (to c1580) group members by location. Very useful.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ll check it out in due course - currently at home with a brand new knee so no London travel for a while!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

They certainly aren’t, Tracey!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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The Sisterhood of Grocers

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

And the very best - and nicest (a very good word) - Frank n Furter in my 35 years of being involved with the Rocky Horror Show.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I’m only two chapters in so far but this is perfect reading from my own little world of the sofa following surgery this week. Such an interesting perspective on England and the world. Am loving it.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just arrived here, too. Greatly looking forward to it as a treat next week.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I’d just finished my A Levels and thought this was amazing. As indeed it was.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Not with the time difference. Enjoy!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Callan Davies provides perfect reading in preparation for a week of heatwave following frost and hail.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Greatly enjoyed reading this and will be despatching a copy shortly to a friend in New Zealand who is an ardent Oxfordian. It will either enrage or convert him!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Fabulous news, Lily! Many congratulations!

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Congratulations! So well deserved.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I love maps - historic and modern - so Callan Davies’s latest article is a particular delight. shakespearestage.substack.com/p/navigating...

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Navigating Shakespearean History

A meditation on mapping and the surveys of Ralph Treswell

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

On f178 ‘ower tyerman’ is probably Steven Magett, fireman if the Admiral’s Men do possibly a fair comparison to the Mountjoys. He pays £3 pa

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