Appalling and cruel - I’m really sorry for you and your colleagues.

Ducklings

Pink blossom.

Ducklings and blossom!

Thank you!

And now with a gorgeous cover!

A man of property Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

A great opportunity for someone.

www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Pope Leo on an airplane, standing in the aisle, holding a baseball bat.

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

Just a reminder of the lectureship that we’re currently advertising at Glasgow - closing date is the 14th April. Link below 👇

Shakespeare in the Kitchen Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us ab...

Good morning! I'm getting texts letting me know that people who signed up for alerts are able to preorder today!! Preorders officially open tomorrow.

www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...

✨I could not be more excited to see what arrived in the post today. Not only because it is good to see 2 chapters reach the light of day, but because of the immense scholarship that has gone into this enterprise, with 69 scholars &2 vols my hat goes off to @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social & other editors✨

Job opportunity:

Curator (European Art) at Glasgow Life in Glasgow, UK
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/gla...

Three exciting new books in the 'Shakespeare and Text' Cambridge Elements series:

🎆 Editing an Early Modern Play

🎆 Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography

🎆 Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph

More details: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

@roaringgirle.bsky.social

Shakespeare and the Shape of Words Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Shakespeare and the Shape of Words

It's lovely to see this book finally making its way into the world. Co-edited with my brilliant colleague Richard Stacey, it examines Shakespeare's imaginative shaping of individual words, and parts of words. Thanks to our excellent contributors, and reviewers.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama.

bit.ly/4bEeH7a

Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027

Great opportunity with a terrific team.

MA Scholarship Award for scholars of colour. In 2026, we plan to offer two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. This scholarship is open to candidates studying on either a full time or a part time basis. Apply by 15 July 2026

rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

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...

Pelleas et Melisande

Pelleas et Melisande

Pelleas et Melisande

Gorgeous performance of ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ tonight by the BBCSSO at City Halls. And what an incredible cast!

Tudor Contemporary: Curator's Roundtable Hear from the Curator of our Tudor Contemporary exhibition!

On Friday evening I'll be leading a Curator's Roundtable about my exhibition Tudor Contemporary @heong-gallery.bsky.social at Downing College, Cambridge. Tickets and more information here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tudor-cont...

Screenshot of an Instagram video capturing pope Leo with his mouth open in astonishment

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction.

Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

Great job opportunity working with my better half @sebastianahnert.bsky.social on an exciting new #digitalhumanities project in Cambridge, funded by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social and working with fantastic people at CESTA Stanford and DensityDesign Lab Italy. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Wagner's meditation on love and death.

Saturday evening listening. Davidsen and Spyres sounding lyrical and verbally incisive - no Wagnerian barking here. I’m less convinced by Nézet-Séguin’s conducting, but an engrossing performance so far. #TristanundIsolde

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Glasgow Cathedral

Glasgow Cathedral

Glasgow Cathedral

Glasgow Cathedral

On the trail of Zachary Boyd this morning in Glasgow Cathedral.

Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography

It's out! 🎉🎉🎉

"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography"

Open access (just click "save pdf" for a formatted version)

It was a joy working with Heidi Craig, Kris May, and Dorothy Todd on this Element

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate.

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Job Klaxon! Three great opportunities for up-and-coming postdocs at Newcastle
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

It was almost (almost) too good to eat…

Pastry and coffee.

Well, if you’re going to spend the day looking at old books, proper fortification is needed.