'Don’t wait to tackle open access books cash challenge, REF told.' Great article (not OA so see 🧵) from Jack Grove with quotes from English Association trustee & 2021 REF sub-panel chair Greg Walker, Martin Paul Eve & others.timeshighereducation.com/news/dont-wait… via Times Higher Education

Lovely day in Edinburgh. Really looking forward to hearing Mark Elder and the Halle in Boulanger, and Mahler’s Fifth.

With the boys at the Book Festival to see Michael Rosen, who was absolutely brilliant.

Packed house for the Verdi Requiem #EIF

I’ve had to bow to the inevitable and this is my first day wearing varifocals - ugh. Hoping that the feeling of just stepping off a rollercoaster passes soon.

Pls share: Here we go again! Latest new job at Strathclyde in our team is a Teaching Associate post, 2 year fixed term, across English & Creative Writing. See more heeeeeeere - Teaching Associate (642120) (engageats.co.uk)

AL MORTON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2024 The World of the Ranters Revisited Speaker: Dr Ariel Hessayon 7pm, 24th September 2024 online socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/?p=1687

Rare sighting of an FT literature job, which will feature in part 6 of David Attenborough’s ‘This Fragile Discipline’ jobs.ac.uk/job/DJK368/lec…

Heading towards the weekend.

An early start in Edinburgh. NRS this morning and NLS this afternoon.

A beautifully coloured title page and initial letters from a Bible printed in Paris by Robert Estienne in 1532 (Sp Coll Bi3-b.11).

News is out! This summer I signed with Faber Books to publish a trade book. It's a new history of Tudor & Stuart London, told through guavas & muskrats, Miskito ‘princes’ & Muzo emerald miners, baroque masterpieces & Caribbean gums in court masques. thebookseller.com/rights/faber-a…

Today was one of those days in the archive. Your jaw drops, you exhale, clean your glasses (and magnifying glass), just to be sure you can believe your eyes. These are rare days. Although he would not approve, I’m raising a glass to a very particular seventeenth century shade.

Come to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the premiere of Middleton’s A GAME AT CHESS at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse ⁦Shakespeare’s Globe⁩ with my Research in Action workshop: A Game at Chess at 400 | This Thursday, 12th September. shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/resea…

Titles that seemed like a good idea at the time.

I'm word-oriented, obscurity-loving human. I found a home for myself in early modern studies, where those core traits can be oriented towards ethical, pleasurable communal work. My new book rethinks 'stupidity' and 'pedantry' and 'nonsense' to share that orientation.

This is a magnificent recording that only gets better with repeated listening. If you haven’t heard it, you’re in for a treat.

📣Job klaxon📣 We’re hiring Shakespeare’s Globe for a fixed-term Lecturer & Research Fellow and we’d love to have you join us. shakespearesglobe.com/jobs-and-oppor…

Permanent job alert: Lectureship in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Please share. jobs.ac.uk/job/DJT402/lec…

A beautiful evening. On my way to Matthew Sangster’s inaugural lecture and looking forward to it very much.