The cover of the book THE SALT LINE, in large white font. The image shows a single grey car driving on a straight road surrounded by tall fir trees. The sky on the horizon is orange and yellow.
#Reading The Salt Line, by Holly Goddard Jones, and because the novel’s “monster” is ticks, I’ve been scratching while reading! 💙📚
we’ve got human beings on the dark side of the moon but microsoft word will still not let me add a comment to a footnote
A round table with handouts, a glass and a vase of flowers. Rosemary sprigs are scattered amongst the piles of papers.
Got my seat for #Shax2026 performance of BIOphelia. 🌱💐 #Ophelia #Hamlet
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Don’t miss tonight’s #Shax2026 performance of BIOphelia! Actor Amanda Vialva revives Ophelia’s journey to evolve Shakespeare’s story beyond the binary of Hamlet’s existential question (you know the one) and look at how we may adapt as part of nature, and better learn to inter-be…
Yay Danielle! Looking forward to #Shakespeare Futures #Shax2026 @saaupdates.bsky.social
Just spotted your book @saaupdates.bsky.social Doug - looking good on the @universitypress.cambridge.org table! #Shax2026
Heh #Shax2026 @saaupdates.bsky.social come along to the “Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet at Thirty” seminar tomorrow morning led by @benbroadribb.bsky.social @gemmaallred.bsky.social & me!
Congrats @srsrensoc.bsky.social on a great issue; especially looking forward to reading articles by Irish contributors @carriegrif.bsky.social & Niamh Pattwell! 📖 #renaissance
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We look forward to welcoming you to #Shax2026 in Denver NEXT WEEK! Registered attendees will receive a Know Before You Go email before #Shax2026 begins with tips and information to help kick off your conference.
The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April
rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Birkbeck, University of London, is looking for a talented researcher to join a project focused on expanding our understanding of non elite writers and writing in seventeenth century England. As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will join 'Written Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England', an exciting Leverhulme Trust–funded project. The role is offered on a 13 month, part time (17.5 hours a week) contract with a salary of £22,124 rising to £25,189 per annum (pro-rated £44,247 to £50,379 per annum). In this role, you will carry out dedicated research on non elite textual production, working closely with the Principal Investigator, Professor Sue Wiseman, and the Co Investigator, Dr Brodie Waddell. You will have the opportunity to work extensively with manuscripts and printed sources, visit archives, investigate datasets, develop the project database, and contribute to shaping the project’s scholarly outputs - and you may also be involved in textual editing. As Research Associate, you will focus on one of two thematic strands: 1. Non elite writing produced in the provinces, or 2. Writing produced by non elite women. Further details via link
We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I.
0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Project Name Written Worlds funded by Leverhulme Trust at Birkbeck
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Written Worlds 17C Non-elite Writing 2 x Postdocs 0.5. Please consider applying.
A one-eyed tabby cat in a cat tower roundhouse.
#Caturday Anita took some personal time to visit her roundhouse retreat. Even catnip teddy was denied access!
#cats #CatsofBluesky
![An image of Hamlet (Esmonde Cole) with his arm around Polonius (Michael Wagg), with the text “[Actors From The London Stage] is committed to using just five actors, and minimal props and costumes, to stage its shows. In fact, the rule is that all the production’s props and costumes must fit in a single suitcase. So significant is this “showcase,” as the company calls it, that the black hardcase sat center stage with Yorick’s skull—Hamlet’s totem—perched upon it to open the show” over a purple background with the SB logo.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sopgsks5ttyonu7quuyavquu/bafkreifeo63pf3f5k26gdbs2e4svrjf5gh53c24j3fcu5oyozrfgf6mega)
An image of Hamlet (Esmonde Cole) with his arm around Polonius (Michael Wagg), with the text “[Actors From The London Stage] is committed to using just five actors, and minimal props and costumes, to stage its shows. In fact, the rule is that all the production’s props and costumes must fit in a single suitcase. So significant is this “showcase,” as the company calls it, that the black hardcase sat center stage with Yorick’s skull—Hamlet’s totem—perched upon it to open the show” over a purple background with the SB logo.
Edel Semple reviews the Actors From The London Stage’s 2025 production of Hamlet
🎭: performingarts.nd.edu/meet-the-art...
📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981807
📷: Jason Comerford
The cover for the book Joe Country shows the clocktower of Big Ben against an orange sunset.
Can’t get enough of the “Slow Horses” series, so now reading the books including “Joe Country” by Mick Herron. 📚 💙
Loved this series! 📚 💙
Cyclone is so impressive! And staying on for a second game too! 😄 👏 🌀 #Gladiators
The cover of a book which reads: “Cambridge / Elements / Shakespeare and Text / Anne Shakespeare’s / Epitaph / Katherine West Scheil” Black background and mostly white text with a row of old book spines along the bottom of the image
✨OUT NOW!✨
ANNE SHAKESPEARE’S EPITAPH
by @kscheil.bsky.social
an original study of anne’s epitaph in holy trinity church (stratford) as a female-authored shakespearean text.
free to download until MARCH 24: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Boyzone lads, not Westlife!
“In the first week of March the wind blows hard, swaying the reeds and bushes and bending the big trees beyond the lake to its cold breath.”
The first page of ‘What to Look for in Spring”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Following a glowing recommendation, I’ve started reading“Death at the Sanatorium” by Ragnar Jonasson 💙 📚
Did you have a favourite, or one you think will win Best Director? 🎬 I’m behind on my viewing!
Ohhh, this makes sense!
The cover to the book The Invisible Library. It is pale green, with small yellow icons in the corners - a serpent and a lady and a gentleman, and a coach and horses at the bottom.
Rereading a series by @genevievecogman.bsky.social beginning with The Invisible Library - it’s even better than I remember! 📚 💙
Cork city (named three ways)
Printed in Amsterdam between 1661 and 1666, unknown publisher. (BL)
No, apparently not! 👟 😆
Can anyone keep their shoes on tonight on #Gladiators?!
@gladiatorstv.bsky.social
Fire - “That wasn’t a chase, it was a runway!” 😆👏 I just love Unleash!
@gladiatorstv.bsky.social
#Gladiators #UKGladiators
