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Book Parts, Chinese edition! product.m.dangdang.com/product.php?pi… Adam Smyth Rachel Sagner Buurma / @rbuurma.bsky.social Joseph A. Howley Jenny Davidson Gill Partington 39StepPress [email protected] Meaghan Brown Helen Smith claire m. l. bourne Hazel Wilkinson Nicholas Dames Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book

Struggling to find the outfit that's going to see me through from meetings about research to discussions with Estates to Kidzbop World Tour.

A great event from Renaissance SRS. Find out more about a great mentoring scheme for women of colour navigating careers as early modern scholars, and learn about some fantastic work from Dr Lubaaba 🍉 and Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)!

I’m pleased to say that English Literature at the University of Glasgow are advertising two new permanent posts. Applications for the James Murray Beattie Lectureships in Victorian Literature, and in Fantasy Literature, close on 6th May 24. More info here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

I am *extremely* excited about this. Please share with anyone who might be keen: we're offering a FULLY FUNDED PhD studentship, exploring:
Colonial Natural Historical Collecting in the South Asian Indian Ocean.
There are some important stories to tell here
ccc.cam.ac.uk/cc-ee/students…

I’m so happy to see this out in the world now! It’s a brilliant poem and was fascinating to work on

What if I told you that angry replies are all grist to her Gill?

We are delighted to announce the call for papers for 'Esther Inglis in Contexts and Culture', a colloquium Centre for Research Collections, 12th-13th October 2024. Papers invited on any aspect of Esther Inglis' life, work, and surrounding contexts. Please share widely! libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/estheringlis/2…

So here it is: I think there’s a bit of writing which belongs to Shakespeare’s sister. academic.oup.com/sq/advance-art…

Repeat after me: correlation does not equal causation.

Delighted to announce that the CFP is now live for Volume 16 (2026) of the Journal of Early Modern Studies, which I am co-editing with Catherine Jenkinson. Submissions due by 30th June.

journals.fupress.net/call-for-paper…

Very pleased to announce the first 2 job listings for PhD positions in 15th-17thC Art History and Literature of Northwestern Europe at the University of Lausanne, in an interdisciplinary Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia project on #presentism , in which I will also be involved. (see thread)

“Show me a child who doesn’t want to hear a story and tell it back. We put them through a utility education and say that the arts are a luxury. The arts develop our natural creativity. If creativity is a luxury, then being human is a luxury.”

Jeanette Winterson, being brilliant.

Gorgeous scene of a Jacobean printing shop, from the title page of Alexander Cooke’s ‘Yet more worke for a masse-priest’ (London, 1622). Notice the typesetter in the background & the ink man left foreground with his ink balls. Cambridge UL Special Collections Syn.7.62.300.