Final call for papers to our conference at NCL on 'unfinished business' in the print trade; where should the study of the British and Irish print trades go to next? Where are the gaps? What are the pressing qs? tinyurl.com/yckp3tt The brilliant Joseph Hone keynotes!

Job! 13 month T&R lectureship as over for our colleague Aditi Nafde jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-… Join us! #medievaltwitter

Everyone working with Jennifer Richards at Newcastle but especially in English at Newcastle and here in MEMS know what a brilliant colleague and researcher she is and how much our field is indebted to her scholarship. So happy to see her elected a Fellow The British Academy

In 1990 I was a very shy PhD student, grateful to have a chance to start again with The British Academy funding.

What an honour to be elected to a fellowship 30+ years later. Congratulations to all new 2023 fellows.

#Jobs : 2 postdoctoral research fellows for 'Wills & Material Culture in England 1540-1790'

1) #EarlyModern (working with historians at Exeter) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

2) #DigitalHumanities (working with Software Engineer at The National Archives, London) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

Beyond excited to announce our new Leverhulme project: The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790’, led by jemma whittle (also Exeter), with me & Mark Bell (The National Archives) as CIs.

#EarlyModern #History #twitterstorians We have just advertised 2 project postdocs ... 🧵

Advocating for #ArtsandHumanities ? I am sharing this summary of The British Academy SHAPE Skills by @EnglishAsso fbaveystock. Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA) School of Advanced Study, University of London IES University English englishassociation.ac.uk/the-british-ac…

If you are around Durham on the 17th and 18th of July, I'd recommend signing up for the DurhamMEMSA conference - only £15! Thanks to IMEMS-Durham!🏰📜🌳

Research in English At Durham Durham World Heritage Site Durham History MEMS

Your periodic reminder that on the first Monday of every month there is an early modern pub night in London for ECRs and PhDs, and anyone else who wishes to join. Held at a (vaguely) historical pub. To be added to the mailing list, do drop me a DM.

This is essential reading: @BritishAcademy Report on the state of 'English Studies' in HE, addressing the challenges, the opportunities, and the value of the subject English Association IES University English

I am Director of Admissions for English here Nottingham English

With the support of English Association I have set up a forum for all admissions tutors in English in the UK. If that’s you, ask your Head of School/Dept to pass on the email message I just sent them.

/small thread …

And the entry for the first woman apprentice bound to a stationer, Joanna Nye, in 1666. Like many young women apprentices, she was probably bound to his wife to learn a trade related to needlework in actuality, but it’s still a cool moment!

A lovely visit to the Tokefield Center, the library and archives of the #Stationers Company. George Tokefield, Clerk of the company during the great fire of 1666, chose to put all the record books in a wheelbarrow and take them home, leaving the silver to melt.

Bookings open til *Dec 16th* for an amazing study day on early modern music hosted by Newcastle Uni Music / ICMuS
including Oskar Jensen Dr Kathryn Roberts Parker
Dr Angela McShane & Bruce R. Smith. 20th of Jan. Book here: tinyurl.com/mrxd86yt
#earlymodern

On Sat 3rd Dec Newcastle University, in partnership with MEMS, we're holding a conference to mark 200 years of our journal Archaeologia Aeliana, with a very special keynote lecture from historian John Grundy. Only £5 for in person. Online is free! tinyurl.com/2p97arnb

⚡️ DATE CHANGE!!! ⚡️

Dr Anna Wall's (Dr Anna Wall) fascinating talk on the literary world of Lucy Hutchinson will now be taking place on Thursday 26th January - please do join us, all welcome!

Pleased to see Sally Weale's article in The Guardian on the huge dismay at the devasting job cuts proposed by Birkbeck, University of London We will all be the poorer tor them. English Association, IES , University English stand with Birkbeck: English theguardian.com/education/2022….

This is such a fantastic project - delighted it is being hosted here English at Newcastle

Two of our amazing colleagues Preti Taneja and Joseph Hone have won the 2022 Leverhulme prizes for their exceptional and impactful research 🧠
Congratulations from all of us here at SELLL 🎉

Went to the Tynemouth quarterly book fair today and found a great janky book on the £2 table: a copy of an early 19c edition of poems, bound with Dolittle’s “Treatise on the Lord’s Supper” with ownership marks dated 1779