The RSA is participating in a social media campaign with @acls1919.bsky.social this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple & proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research! #earlymodern #RenTwitter #TalkAboutHumanities

Thank you!

Thank you, Hester!

Thank you, Eleanor! And I’m really pleased that Joan la Pucelle is part of the cover - hurrah.

Excited to receive my author copies of Henry VI Part 1 out later this month!

Hear @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and me discussing the play and my introduction today at 6pm BST @engfac.bsky.social

english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/englis...

*Coming soon!*

Edward II has captivated generations with its evocative portrayal of passionate friendship, kingly power and brutal retribution.

This modernised, comprehensively annotated edition edited by @jmasten.bsky.social publishes in May!

Find out more: https://bit.ly/4sSjOGh

Playbill for a 1917 production of Hamlet at Ruhleben internment camp

Excited to see the new issue of the Revue de la Société Française Shakespeare @shakespearefrance.bsky.social, with my piece on Shakespeare’s contested role at Ruhleben internement camp during WWI, which includes this production of Hamlet starring Jamaican actor Sylvester Leon

doi.org/10.4000/15nn9

Society or the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender 2026 Awards Nominations The Society seeks nominations for awards for English-language scholarly work on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) published/completed between June 2023 and May 2026. Items pr...

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award

For more info &/or to nominate a work, see
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline: May 25, 2026

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry VI, Part I

Really looking forward to talking with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social on 6 April about my introduction for the new Henry VI Part 1 (out 9 April). Register for free here:

english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/englis...

Can’t wait to see this with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @amylidster.bsky.social!!!

Revue de la Société française Shakespeare Revue de la Société française Shakespeare Revue en études shakespeariennes – Journal on Shakespearian studies

📢 Le nouveau numéro de la Revue de la Société Française Shakespeare "Shakespeare à la loupe : l’art du détail" vient de paraître !
📢 The latest issue of the Revue de la Société Française Shakespeare on "Shakespeare in focus: the art of small things" is out!
👉 journals.openedition.org/revueshakesp...

I’m really excited to be speaking with Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social about #Cymbeline and its ‘infinit questions of the circumstance of strange chances’ (as one c17th reader put it) on Monday 2 March!

Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June?

Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March!

clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

📣 Still time to get your abstract in for 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', a two-day conference to be held at Oxford on 18/19 June 2026. Generously supported by Corpus Christi, @oxfordcems.bsky.social, and @srsrensoc.bsky.social.

clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

Clio Reframed aims to explore historical writing and historiography produced by women between the sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, asking why, when and to what purpose and effect women chose different historical subjects as their focus; to situate these texts within their social, religious, political, and textual production contexts, with the aim of expanding our critical understanding of historical writing that often elides the participation of women; and to challenge narratives that homogenize women’s interests in history and their writing strategies. It proposes that women’s historical writing is not an essentially gendered or isolated space in which individual contributions and agendas are uniform. Rather, women’s historical writing is diverse, prevalent, and characterized by relational frameworks and networks, involving other writers, patrons, stationers, and readers.

#CfP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750. Oxford, June 18-19, 2026 Abstracts by Feb 28 '26. Featuring a quintessential quartet of keynotes: @rhetorician.bsky.social, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social, & Sue Wiseman www.rensoc.org.uk/event/clio-r... #SRS_Sponsored

The historian’s decision to write about one facet of human experience and not another gives that aspect permanence and significance. For history represents a people’s, a society’s, a culture’s way of remembering itself.

Featuring keynotes by @rhetorician.bsky.social, @cgraffeuille.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Sue Wiseman!

Find out more on our website: clioreframed.hcommons.org

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social

Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

‘Visible Bullets: Shakespeare at the Ukrainian Front and Beyond’ considers the vitality, but also the limitations, of theatre and Shakespearean tragedy, expanding to consider examples from WWI and the ongoing crisis in Gaza.

Does Shakespeare matter at the frontline of war? My new - and, sadly, still timely - article on Shakespeare’s use in Ukraine during Russia’s ongoing invasion has just been published open access in Humanities.
www.mdpi.com/3454068

Thanks, Darren! Hope you’re well too!

My (long!) article on ‘Shakespeare and War’ for Oxford Bibliographies has just been published!

It covers Shakespeare’s time through centuries of reception history & I hope is useful for research on this multifaceted, diverse & (alas) timely topic

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

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Some great titles on here from writers I know and/or admire. Link to full mailout here: view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=17a78157d...
@jltaylor.bsky.social @amylidster.bsky.social @bachrach.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social #Shakespeare

Shakespeare at the Front Join Dr Amy Lidster as she explores how Shakespeare has been used on the front lines of conflicts around the world and why he continues to matter for those most immediately affected by war.

If you’re free, come along (or tune in) to my talk on ‘Shakespeare at the Front’ at the National Army Museum tomorrow (23 August). It’s part of our linked exhibition on ‘Shakespeare and War’, open until 1 September!

Tickets are free and can be booked here: www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...

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The #Shax2025 Program Committee wants to hear from YOU! Submit a program proposal by February 15 for our joint conference with RSA. Members are encouraged to submit proposals to both organizations!

Find more details & get in touch with the program committee's chair at linktr.ee/saaupdates

Always exciting to find your books in the wild at the CUP bookshop! With MLA 2024 underway, you can get 30% off both with discount code 101930, which certainly makes one of them a bargain! 😉

A stormy end to 2023, but hopefully the beginning of something new here...