Jonathan Keir
Harker Starmer
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Not having enough questions about
their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

Oh very much same - I just wish she’d have a bit of fun!

Rereading Sense and Sensibility. Edward is the worst!!!! Mrs Jennings kind of the best? Elinor boring. Marianne accurately 17. More breaking news as we have it.

The LRB is selling a lapel badge with the name LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS positioned around the circumference in such a way as to confuse easy reading.

I am, myself, a dedicated reader of the REVIEW OF NODNOT SKOOB.

apparently it came in, uh, 1635

'hamnet-era'

Pleased to have been awarded a Folger Short-Term Fellowship to spend two months in DC for my project on provenance! I’ll be expanding my survey of ownership inscriptions and also thinking about the relationship between oil money and rare book collecting (and the ethical implications for us).

Delighted to have written the Afterword for Katherine Hunt and Dianne Mitchell's fizzing collection on literary and material forms -- available for pre-order now with a discount.

oh! they got this all screwed up!

:(

John Satia and the 1731 Ban on Black Apprenticeship - Jamie Gemmell - 18th May — CEMS KCL Blog On 18th May at 17:00(GMT)/12:00(EST), we will discuss a pre-circulated paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 Ban on Black Apprenticeship’ by Jamie Gemmell (King’s College London). During the seminar...

This looks a very interesting online seminar:

John Satia and the 1731 Ban on Black Apprenticeship

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

#c18th #BlackHistory

thank you!!

Pleased to have been awarded a Folger Short-Term Fellowship to spend two months in DC for my project on provenance! I’ll be expanding my survey of ownership inscriptions and also thinking about the relationship between oil money and rare book collecting (and the ethical implications for us).

These Victorians with their horribly inconsistent handwriting!

No, it’s fine that I called up 7 manuscripts to get through today and so far I’ve read half of one

It's never too late for a rebrand, Bazmatt

Baz Luhrmann was named "Mark Anthony Luhrmann", gained the nickname "Baz" because he looked like Basil Brush, and then - whilst still in school - changed his name by deed poll to "Bazmark Anthony". I've been thinking about this for two days now.

I’ve done my time as a vegetarian. I simply can’t pretend to like the texture of a squash anymore :(

Yes… cheese to disguise the squashness of it…

yay! 🐘

Please: suggestions on how to cook the butternut squash that somehow made its way into our veg box this week? ideally in a way that magically transforms the texture of butternut squash?

A poor-quality black-and-white facsimile of Samuel Johnson's "The Plays of William Shakespeare" frontispiece and title page. the image of Shakespeare on the frontispiece is barely visible except for his white forehead. the rest of the page is mostly black. The title page is legible but not great.

This facsimile of Samuel Johnson's "Plays of William Shakespeare" (1765) really makes that forehead shine

from @archive.org archive.org/details/bim_...

What a perfect film, not a bad piece of casting, every needle drop exceptional

It’s ‘seeing Romeo + Juliet in the cinema’ day 😌😌😌

I read and enjoyed all of Wyndham in school but I reread Triffids a couple of years ago and like… yikes. This I’m finding particularly bad though - it’s the smugness of ‘if you criticise this behaviour you are just as unfit to live as the characters’ that I can’t deal with

I’m halfway through The Death of Grass bc I thought it would be an interesting (?) eco-apocalypse read and I can’t do pandemic novels anymore, but… it’s so gleefully cruel

Impossible to read 1950s apocalypse sci-fi novels without concluding that these men all really, deeply, hated women

I am genuinely so delighted to learn this

A study of historical materialism in the Faerie Queene, called ‘Marx and Spenser’