I've just been to Rutland, which doesn't even exist.

Looking forward to discussing my book tomorrow at the @mfoxford.bsky.social with brilliant colleagues @manymanyplies.bsky.social, @lukeosullivan.bsky.social & Emma Claussen. 12.30-2.00 if you happen to be in Oxford! 💚

Are you a face of Shakespeare?

This is a great collection, with a brilliant introduction (and afterword, o'course). I commend and recommend!

Mayo Not Drinking isn't really a great stripper name, is it.

CfA: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge (Lund)

We invite early career/postdoctoral scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of one week between 2 November and 6 November, 2026.

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Looks like I picked a good time to start learning Hungarian.

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it.

Detail of the provenance mark reading: Catrina Leoners hoort dit bouck toe, die het vindt die doet haer weer om een appel of een peer die het en doet

First page in the manuscript with a decorated letter A in blue and red and border decoration in green and red

Finder’s fee: seasonal fruit.

Early modern provenance mark on the flyleaf in a 16th-century illuminated manuscript: ‘This book belongs to Catrina Leoners. Whoever finds it should return it to her for an apple or a pear…’

#rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 💙📚📜

I think Willy Maley actually wrote this for his PhD!

Purrformativity. Mewmetic desire.

I hope that happens.

I also love the glimpses of various only partly attributable feet between his legs.

The clubs and bristling spears! The detachable ear! The menacing bulbs of helmets!

You are, after all, fasting.

Two cabbages,
Aert Spiering, c.1600-1620. (British Museum)

Crambe bis posita mors, as Burton/Erasmus would say.

We RE-OPEN at 11:00am on the 1st of April! See you here?

📼 Dr Tom Horne

Though I strongly suspect I've cut, reinstated, and then recut some passages.

In writing my book about the Anatomy of Melancholy, with which I'm now tinkering for the last pre-proof time, I appear to have assembled two documents of cut bits, one of 41,029 words, one of 22,122. The publisher insists the book itself must be no longer than 70,000 words.

All very unBurtonian.

Playbill for the mock epic, Chrononhotonthologos, billed as per the main text above.

Q: what is the most Tragical TRAGEDY that was ever tragedized by any comical Company of Tragical TRAGEDIANS?

A:

In awe of the two women sitting on the Victoria line this morning applying eyeliner -- eyeliner! -- between Highbury & Islington and King's Cross: the shoogliest stretch of this most shoogly line. Their black lines impressively unshoogly.

Oh nooooooooooooooo!

Screenshit

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Simple spreadsheet software for calculating with Early Modern English currency.

gjhilton.github.io/Summa/

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...in a good way??

Thing is, English Greggs does not sell macaroni pie, and so I cannot take it seriously.

That's an interesting metric. I remember hearing a report that the Miners' Strike had been going on for a year, and that being my first awareness of external events; except that I must have already known what the Miners' Strike was.

Good news for a great colleague.

Thank you!