A manuscript page with a large initial R formed to two intertwined dragons
Today we've launched our digitised Probate Registers and Bishops' Transcripts collections onto Ancestry. Together that's 16 million records covering 1389-1858 - these can be accessed via a subscription to Ancestry or for free here at the Borthwick!
www.ancestry.co.uk/search/colle...
16th century Iron gall ink on paper, top corner of legal proceedings with a brown stain that follows the edges of the written words
16th century Iron gall ink on paper, top corner of legal proceedings with a brown stain that follows the edges of the written words
structural formula of iron gall ink
Look at how pretty this manuscript damage is. Any cross disciplinary scholars want to explain why iron gall ink would repel (water? who knows) in this way? A chemistry friend of a friend provided the structural formula. #earlymodern #skystorians #histsci
You'll be missed! Hope you're doing well!
You'll be missed! Congrats on the book! 🥳
We have a tenure-stream job opening at the University of Prince Edward Island! Please pass this on to anyone with a specialization in Canadian Literature. #Canadianliterature www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Submit your proposal today for financial support for upcoming events in your community! 📖✨
📅 Deadline: 1 April (7 weeks away!) Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
A highlight: Cressida has been traded to the Greeks, who literally pass her around to each covetously kiss her. Her fear & the danger of her position, then her defiant turn to rhetoric as protection, came through strongly with great acting from all. Visceral. Thank you @shakesbashd.bsky.social!
For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
I'm going to a production of "Troilus and Cressida" tonight! I've read this one (long ago) but never seen it. Tempted to make a list of less-performed Shax plays I've been lucky enough to attend.
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Wondering if anyone knows about work on interactions btwn #earlymodern elites and the people--stewards, bailiffs, etc--who managed their estates and property. I'm curious about these relationships, which would have required conversation, some level of mutual trust, etc.
It is such a joy to be researching along and see a friend or colleague's work pop up in the database. What an honour to know someone both personally and professionally! You're all out here with such brilliant ideas!
An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
I always enjoy the Toronto Fringe, but "Iris (says goodbye)" truly deserves the title of Fringe magic -- a wonderfully dynamic musical, polished to a high shine. Not to be missed!
#TheaTO #Theatre #Fringe #TorontoFringe
I'm going to query in the more traditional way too, of course, but I thought this was worth a try!
Hi folks! Would any early modern journal editors be interested in a review of the Kenneth Branaugh "King Lear" or the Kit Connor/Rachel Ziegler "Romeo and Juliet"? Two fascinating interpretations!
What a wonderful reading from Red Bull Theatre -- Barabas came to life as a sympathetic scapegoat before he descended into being a cartoonish villain, and that gave him a nice complexity.
I'm sitting in the one-night-only Red Bull Theater reading of #JewofMalta, wondering how many familiar faces from #SAA2025 I'm about to see!
I have a lead on this now, but thank you so much for spreading the word! I appreciate it very much!
What a joy to take part in the "Intimate Knowledges" #RenSA2025 roundtable and the "Personation" #SAA2025 seminar -- such rich conversations. Very grateful to the organizers and my fellow participants (& our auditors!) for their intellectual generosity
The #NextGenPlen was such a wonderful panel of speakers; four brilliant papers!
Thank you so much to everyone who helped to boost this!
Perfect, thanks Diana!
I've got a lead on this, but thank you so much!
Friends, does anyone have access to Shakespeare Studies 52 and would be willing to send me a pdf of my article? They published my NextGenPlen paper on "personation" from two years ago and I'm keen to relive those glory days! #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 #RSA2025
Feeling absolutely run off my feet by #Shax2025 #RenSA2025, but in the best possible way. What an amazing set of papers and conversations!
Hi folks! I'm rejoining this app just in time for #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 🎭 Looking forward to seeing everyone!
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
