My latest blogpost for the Kingswomen introduces Rebecca Edwards: she married star actor William Knell at 14, was widowed at 15, then married Shakespeare’s colleague, John Heminges.
www.kingswomen.org/post/rebecca...
#earlymodern
#womenshistory
Flyer for the seminar. 'Kerry Apps 'Encountering East Asia in the Restoration Refurbishments of Ham House, c.1672-98' Royal Anthropological Institute In person tickets - societyforcourtstudies@gmail.com Online - https://courtstudies.org/events/lectures/
A slide from the lecture featuring a richly decorated chinoiserie chair, porcelain vessel with a motif of a boy riding a qilin, and a Chinese kuan cai screen depicting Europeans hunting in a mountainous East Asian landscape.
If you like your historic interiors with a globally-focused twist, on April 27 I will be giving a lecture for the Society of Court Studies on the interiors of the Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale at Ham House.
It's in person in London, or online!
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-...
Today’s the day! 🎉 We're in Sam Alex SG.16 4–5pm for an EACW research seminar 'The Sweet Taste of Empire' - @profkfh.bsky.social in conversation with @fredschurink.bsky.social on sugar, empire and race. Join us!
You’re Dead To Me is going on tour! We’re playing London, Cardiff, Edinburgh & Manchester in the Spring — come along, it’s gonna be so much fun!
Www.YoureDeadToMeLive.com
If you ever wondered what biochemical traces of past users of medical recipes may tell us about early modern haircare, see @uk.theconversation.com's discussion of our @historians.org article:
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
Research supported by @thejohnrylands.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social
My partner has been suffering with long covid for three years. He’s been unbelievably brave and stoic through it all. Take a look at his new Substack on the power of art and literature in coping with chronic illness.
Congratulations Emily! ✨
I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html
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Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura!
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
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Congratulations Hester! ✨It looks beautiful. Can’t wait to read!
Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
'The transience of a flicker of fire [...] compels us to grapple with histories of the ephemeral and the impermanent, even within those places that seem built to last.'
Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt on Knole's connections to colonial history:
Hey Bluesky!👋 We're the Revels Office, an academic network for PGRs and ECRS researching all things early modern📚
Our community is a friendly space to share ideas and resources, ask questions, support each other, and meet fellow early modernists.
Check out our website for more! revelsoffice.com
First autumn SCS seminar. A panel discussion on "New Directions in Royal Histories" with Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), Holly Marsden (Historic Royal Palaces), and Lauren Shaw (Celtic Harmony / University of Roehampton).
Our #Shakespeare webinar series continues! Join us on 6 Oct at 6pm to delve into the new OWC edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social &
@callanjd.bsky.social
All welcome! Register now via Eventbrite & you will be sent a Zoom link before the event. #teamenglish
Join me for a workshop on archival research in the Environmental Humanities at The National Archives!
We're seeking early career participants - apply to attend to hear from speakers, view original documents, and help test our research guidance. #envhum #envhist
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-r...
Today is #WorldChocolateDay!
Here is a #17thcentury #ballad extolling the virtues of #chocolate, printed in the year that the first chocolate (and coffee) house was opened in London....
From Chocolate, or an Indian Drinke, 1652.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KJ...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #otd
Looks beautiful, Hester! Can’t wait to see what’s inside 🥰
Congratulations Patrick!! 🎉 lovely news
Congratulations Greg!!
So much fun working with the @kingsartshums.bsky.social marketing team and the Globe on this ‘Top 5 Shakespearean Film Adaptations’ (and got to live out my inner TikTok star!)
If you’re on Instagram - give the original a like too! — www.instagram.com/reel/DL4nTOC...
#Shakespeare #skystorians
I wrote this guide to being a better reader: how to read, what to read and why
jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read
What questions should writers ask? Katherine Rundell nails it in @thetls.bsky.social
A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵
First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
Book cover: “Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean” Kim F. Hall
The seeds of plantations’ easy transition from “house of horrors” to luxury spas & sites for celebration of white reproduction were planted from the beginning through a phenomenon I call “plantation aesthetics”
boingboing.net/2025/05/21/a...
