One week till Metalscapes! Sign up here to join us on 27th April, in person in London, as we talk about metal and its travels in the early modern world: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

I always head-cast Tom Hollander as Farebrother !

Bookes are like Cheese, that is neuer well seasoned to euery mans tast; for one will say it is too salt, another wil say it is too fresh, a thirde will say it is to tart, another thinkes it to be too milde; one will haue it too hard, another too soft, another too tough, another too brittle, it neuer pleaseth euery mans tast; no more do Bookes.

Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Really slaps!! Way better than mill on the floss ;)

#SkyStorians & curators: I'm looking for scholarship that reflects on the nature of museum displays of objects of ( #EarlyModern ) art, science & technology, and how their display reveals something about how we (tend to) think about the nature/history of these topics. 🗃️ 🏛️ #HistSTM. Any suggestions?

Likely subtitle heading changes and frontmatter to sort notwithstanding, pretty exciting to see the book coming together in one mega word doc!! 6 weeks till my deadline!!! #amwriting #amediting #amFINISHING

thank you! Can confirm firearm revolution gets a quotation ;) really loved it!

Likely subtitle heading changes and frontmatter to sort notwithstanding, pretty exciting to see the book coming together in one mega word doc!! 6 weeks till my deadline!!! #amwriting #amediting #amFINISHING

Ah yes I am! I’ll post there now

Performance: a tentative unravelling, a commons | King's College London Professor Kélina Gotman explores the strands that have underpinned ‘performance’ discourse over the past 150 years.

Professor Kélina Gotman, Professor of Performance and the Humanities in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, explores some of the strands that have underpinned ‘performance’ discourse over the past 150 years at this Inaugural Professorial Lecture on 18 May.

🔗 Register ⬇️

Reading this aloud but to the beat of the verse in We Didn’t Start the Fire

Peekaboo!

Great time in Denver at #SAA2026 capped off with a visit to the Rockies and some old-timey mining towns #Colorado

Congrats Mira!! so deserved and wonderful!

If you're at #shax2026 and you would like to write a performance review for @shaxbull.bsky.social, or you'd just like to find out more about it, then please come and say hello to me! I look like my profile picture (minus Paul Revere pointing at me) and I'd love to talk to you 🙂

Yes thematically it was foreshadowed but agree it seemed super rushed! Unfortunately my toxic trait is that I’m team Stephen Guest

Denver views #SAA2026

Ending didn’t hit for me. Felt almost dreamlike after the intense realism of the novel. But I think by that point I was so irritated by the pair of them, so I didn’t find their reconciliation especially meaningful. All I cared about was Mrs Glegg!! what did you think?

(Almost) finished The Mill on the Floss on the flight to #SAA2026 and enjoyed this appropriate Eliot / Shakespeare / Hamlet crossover

CfP: When does early modernity begin and end? How do we understand the relation between the early modern & the historical periods that precede and follow it? Is it important to how we construe of early modernity that it be thought of as a boundaried entity, complete in itself? Or might the early modern be less a historical period & more a mode of thought? Much has been written about periodization in relation to the early modern. The Medieval/Renaissance divide (or lack of divide) has been theorized by a range of scholars, most notably perhaps Margreta De Grazia. But this symposium will consider the question of periodizing the early modern in a more forward-looking way, situating this temporal and theoretical construct in relation to our own contemporary moment. Global and postcolonial approaches by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Carlos Garrido Castellano, David Scott, Sanjay Subrahmanyam & others have challenged the spatial & temporal period boundaries, demanding a rethinking of early modernity from a variety of points of view. This symposium will likewise rethink the various positions from which early modernity is construed, aiming to engage scholars from a range of disciplines including contemporary literature & theory, post-colonial studies, history, music, and philosophy, law, medicine, classics & war studies. We will explore the differing ways in which early modernity is & has been periodized within these fields, as well as considering how these different disciplines understand the early modern engagement with (or rejection of) periodisation itself. We will also ask what role periodization has played in enabling the oppressive power structures founded in early modernity to persist into our own present, & what periodizing the early modern can mean for the deconstruction & dismantling of these systems. We invite proposals for 20-minute talks on the topic of ‘Periodizing the Early/Modern.’ Submissions from early career scholars & graduate students are particularly welcomed

#CfP: Annual @cemskcl.bsky.social "Periodizing the Early/Modern", KCL, 11 June 2026. Abstracts by 7 April 2026

This year’s colloquium is on ‘Periodizing the Early/Modern' & organised by Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Lewis, Lucy Munro, & @hsmurphy.bsky.social rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

#Skystorians

Exhibition graphic reading ‘Ink & Innovation’

User notes by mathematical diagrams in a copy of Euclid’s Elements (RIA 24 E 24)

Woodcut scene of philosophers consulting books under and armillary sphere from a copy of Ptolemy’s Almagest (RIA 24 F 19)

Detail from a hand-coloured map of Scandinavia from a copy of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia (RIA 24 E 38)

Excited to share I have curated Ink & Innovation, an exhibition of the @rialibrary.bsky.social earliest printed books for 2026! Check out the blog for more details on our fantastic incunabula on display as well as how to visit and my upcoming talk in April! 🤗📖🎉

www.ria.ie/blog/ink-inn...

CfP: Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog Call for Papers for the Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year’s theme is periodizing the early/modern. The CfP deadline is 7th April. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'.

We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs.

Deadline: 7th April

Full details below.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

Also a great choice! Hope the pint improved! And will await important email 👀💖

Olde Cheshire cheese?

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century'

Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians

My visit home happily coincided with the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society’s Printmaking exhibition, which includes a Second Folio?! although I liked best the execution ticket and this woodblock print of someone hammering books into being!

On Monday, I'm facilitating an informal session for final year dissertation students called:

'How To Write When Writing Feels Hard: Some Pragmatic Hints and Tips'

So, Blsky...any suggestions to pass on?

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🚨🚨 Announcing: SUMMA 🚨🚨

Simple spreadsheet software for calculating with Early Modern English currency.

gjhilton.github.io/Summa/

📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣

@fairbanc.bsky.social

We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free.

Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX