A huge congratulations to Dr Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal Jaz, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies QMUL English & Drama Queen Mary University of London , who has been selected by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as one of the ten ‘New Generation Thinkers’ for 2024. bit.ly/4dFs9GJ

The video of our First Annual Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies, given by Glenn Roe on 2 May on the topic The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century Archive, is now available to watch on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/50Wwy_A_Eog?si…

Fascinating new article by Caspar Patton (Oxford History) in French History, which shows how little Cardinal Richelieu controlled the press in his early rule – 'Insubordination and the rise of absolutism: the Mercure françois under Richelieu' 🧑‍🎤📰👑academic.oup.com/fh/article/doi…

Off to a great start at QMULSLLF Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences study day, Creative Visual Methods: Practice Outputs & Engagement led by Émilie Oléron Evans 🇵🇸🍉 & Rachel Randall. Workshops coming up from Catherine Grant & andrea aramburú v. Here's Ru Danreuther, BLOC Venue Manager, showing the brilliant venue

Delighted to share my birthday with Lectern Day. 4 July, best birthday present yet.

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the R. Gapper Book Prize 2023 is Nikolaj Lübecker (Oxford Modern Languages), for Twenty-First-Century Symbolism (Liverpool University Press)!

Don’t miss the last session of this term’s #EnlightenmentWorkshop: our very own Roman Kuhn (Roman Kuhn -@[email protected]) on how to use (and re-use) ‘poésie fugitive’ in the 18thC. This Wednesday (29 May), 5pm Magdalen College. All welcome! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-…

Erm... yo, what? Not me finding this out during a brief shopping trip with my wife, and welling up in the middle of Boots. Nope. Not me, at all. ...🥲 (Thanks so much to the noms and judges, this is just...😅)

Join us tomorrow for a chat with museum curators about "artists' things"! Online - 10am (LA) / 1pm (NYC) / 6pm (London) / 7pm (Paris) - sign up for zoom link: getty.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join us in Durham! Three-year postdoc to work on modelling the Black Death with my brilliant colleague Alex Brown and a tech-savvy interdisciplinary team 👇💀😷💻💾🧙

QMUL is about to close its nursery with just a few weeks’ notice. So short sighted and so unfair to staff and the kids. Please sign and share to help us stop this happening: chng.it/CsMGQPzSCN

“The panel is currently all men, so if you could chair that would be really helpful”

Would you like to Play Like a Georgian? On Sat 15 Jun, 1.30 - 4pm you can. Your teachers Hillary Burlock and James Harriman-Smith will get you ready with dance steps and card tricks, ready to impress at the Fancy Ball in the evening. bit.ly/3QXIk8t. #DressingFancyBath

I'm going to be running an online workshop about making games inspired by the past for Chesterherifest, using @v21's Downpour! 🗓️ Saturday June 29th, 2pm BST ✨Free to attend ⬇️ Link in the tweet below!

We're kicking things off with mineralised minds, fiction spinning and Toile de Jouy at the SEMFS 2024 Exeter conference!

Last few days to visit the Dressing Fancy exhibition and strike your pose. The Dressing Fancy programme comes to a close on Sun 30 Jun. Pop along, 11am to 4pm. A collaboration with Dr Meg Kobza. #DressingFancyBath #GeorgianFancyDress #Exhibition

This is really good theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Study Humanities. Run the Country. In classrooms on Monday.

Great analysis of French election result by my excellent colleague Andrew WM Smith -if you’re looking for something in English france24.com/en/video/20240…