The 2026 O'Donnell Lecture in #Celtic Studies will be given by Dr Aaron Griffith (Utrecht University) on 8 May at 5.30pm at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Dr Griffith will talk on 'Old Irish: plenty of variation, but of what kind?'. All welcome!
Tickets are free but booking is required:
I’m looking for a social historian who might be able to give a talk for alumni on 1960s Oxford - any thoughts?
Delighted to announce that Volume 15 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online! oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...
So pleased to see this appear! Proud to be in such amazing company… 🥰
Keen to read more academic work on the history of complementary schools teaching the home/heritage languages of migrants communities. Interested in any period (before the present), any language, and any place — doesn't have to be UK/European but historical perspectives essential!
Prof Kate McLoughlin has written for The Guardian about #silence and how it has 'inspired, daunted, comforted and terrified writers throughout the long course of English literature'.
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...
Early modern literature job in my department!
Permanent which is the UK equivalent to tenure track
#earlymodern #acjobs
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Please help spread the word #medievalsky!
Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council:
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...
Have a lovely birthday! ☺️ Used to live near Marlborough and still there often. Nice town… Always wish something of the priory was left and I could imagine where Cecil died.
I wish I’d had this when I taught the language change bit if A level English Language. Fab resource for teachers!
I’m so sorry to hear this, Barbara. Your integrity is clear to anyone without an agenda of their own. Message me if there’s anything I can do to help (assuming I’m not blocked too…).
As if a row might be received as a rather nice gift..? I think my father thought that (though didn’t use the phrase!)
On 16 February, I'll be chatting to @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social about how the new online catalogue descriptions for Elizabethan litigation in Star Chamber, Requests, and more have opened up the research potential of these vast collections. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Only time I’ve ever been threatened with violence was in Stamford, Lincolnshire - NEVER in London. (I know I’m lucky!) Though I know it must happen, I’ve never seen it - through years of walking through many parts of the capital.
Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700).
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Meet Thomas the carter… New post follows Tudors moving around London, on the back of some recent research. What did Shakespeare’s commute look like and who invented the one-way street?
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k)
www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
Excited about this (free!) public lecture at the NLA by one of the foremost scholars of Shakespeare and early modernity, Lorna Hutson. 19 Feb, 6pm. To register or get an online link, visit:
www.library.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
Don't miss this exploration of the idea of English 'island nationhood'!
So very sad to hear this. Deborah Cameron’s work was such an inspiration for me and my students when I taught English Language A level for many years, and I’ll really miss her sharp, perceptive blog posts - debuk.wordpress.com
Grants!
We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.
Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.
Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
Lovely winter afternoon in this little corner…
'Beyond the book: recycling print in early modern England' is out in splendid & lovely English Literary Renaissance.
50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...
(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)
Thomas Middleton, depicted in the frontispiece of Two New Plays, a 1657 edition of Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women
CFP: Tyranny, Resistance, and the Performance of Early Modern Drama #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/cfp-tyr...
Congratulations to Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social who has been awarded a three-year Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project: ‘Imperial bibliography: books, race and value’.
Find out more about the project on our website:
After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill
'Look not so fierce on me'
Happy New Year from the IHR Tudor & Stuart seminar! We will be back at the IHR a week today:
Monday 19 January, 5:30pm, in-person at the IHR, and on zoom:
Holly Brewer (Maryland) @earlymodjustice.bsky.social & Elizabeth Hines (Johns Hopkins): ‘How to Steal the Spanish Silver Fleet’.
All welcome!
