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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My review of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd, of interest to #earlymodern folks, is now available from The Seventeenth Century. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Latest issue of Shakespeare now available! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c... Shakespeare's marriage, #earlymodern centaurs, 'brown matters', eco-imaginaries, Turkish miniseries, and reviews!

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Volume 22, Issue 3 of Shakespeare

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Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

From today’s Times letters page. #DefendExeterUni

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Some people are just lucky to share names with folks who work in the sciences, I suppose!

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Is there an etiquette for asking if the publications listed on a Google Scholar profile _actually belong to that scholar_ without suggesting that they're either lazy or that the misrepresentation is intentional? I'm surprised there isn't a "flag" button of some kind.

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords...

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Adding this to the reading pile! I've put together handy hints on recreating early modern woodcuts in lino, more for whimsy and self-satisfaction than historical research. www.notwithoutmustard.net/lino.html

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not without mustard :: recreation(al) lino

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

#earlymodern peeps! The good folks at UVic HCMC have created a static version of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, so this major work of scholarship remains ACCESSIBLE AND FREE. We're also working to remediate the editions themselves into the @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social ecosystem.

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I guess it's a question of scale. AI can transcribe more content in less time. Your mileage will vary when it comes to accuracy, depending on the state of the facsimiles, the training of the model, etc. Human or AI, you'll want a human to proof-read.

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Count yourself lucky if you've never hit yourself with a hammer after extracting a troublesome nail. I imagine it's something like that.

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

SOLVED. Make sure to use datb.cerl.org/estc rather than the site (hosted on data.cerl.org) that estc.bl.uk forwards you to. Huzzah!

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English Short Title Catalogue

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

#earlymodern folks -- does anyone else get this "no such index [estc]" error when trying to search the ESTC on CERL?

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

For those of you #earlymodern folks playing Arden4 bingo at home, time to mark your sheets! After years of secrecy, @ardenpublisher.bsky.social reveals the full lineup: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Latest lino reconstuction of an #earlymodern woodcut complete -- Moll Cutpurse!

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

✍ Introducing ✍ Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/ AKA What I Did Over Reading Week. #skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing. Love g 🗃️

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Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Having your cake and the option of eating it too is always preferable! ^_^ Again, it's a neat tool and I can see this being a useful teaching platform, especially if there's scope to scale it up (e.g., other scripts, other samples).

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This is great fun -- thanks for putting this together! I think it would help to disambiguate letters if they were presented in context, perhaps with the rest of the word grayed out. It's also more authentic as an exercise that way -- how often do we only transcribe a single letter in isolation?

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hey @lahri.bsky.social is this the same for you if you try to access anything other than the Wayback Machine on a campus machine (i.e., not eduroam)?

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Shocked to find that my institution has blocked access to the @archive.org this morning. Lodging an IT ticket and very, very curious to know the justification. @archive.org is essential for my research and teaching, and I cannot be the only person at @openresleeds.bsky.social affected by this.

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Very proud of my chapter with @effectdefective.bsky.social on "Genre" for the Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and #earlymodern Authorship, out today! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Computational methods and book history goodness!

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Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

ICYMI: The SAA Graduate Committee is looking for new members! These collaborative roles are open to any current Ph.D.-level SAA graduate students. Find more information and apply online by September 2: linktr.ee/saaupdates

Image of a woman standing on a brick wall and writing on a chalkboard while holding a book. Text next to the woman says “we are looking for up to five new members” and outlines the specifications for applying, also found on the SAA website. Apply by September 2. End ID.

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I'd have thought it was much earlier, personally. Does Aristotle have anything to say about this?

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Off to Brisbane for the ANZSA conference and then on to Auckland, where I'm honoured to be giving the 2025 Alice Griffin Shakespeare Lecture! 😁 #earlymodern #escapingtheheat

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Latest issue of the Journal of Marlowe Studies now out! #earlymodern journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Plus open-topic articles by Kelsey Ridge, Philip Gilreath, Rajat Varma, @domlovascio.bsky.social and @matthewsteggle.bsky.social , as well as some performance and book reviews.

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Special section includes contributions by Michael Albright, @claireghansen.bsky.social and Brid Phillips, Angus Gowland, Rachel Robinson, and Rebecca Olson.

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Hey #earlymodern folks! Latest issue of *Shakespeare* just out, with a special section on 'Health and Wellbeing' guest-edited by Joan Fitzpatrick. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

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Volume 21, Issue 2 of Shakespeare

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Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Latest lino reconstruction of #earlymodern woodcut – this one from the title page of Marlowe's _Doctor Faustus_ (1631). Pretty pleased with how this one came out, and got to test out the new lino dot tool!