Brilliant, exciting, funny. Go to York to the pop-up Rose Theatre. Really enjoyed the Midsummer Night’s Dream matinee yesterday. Shakespeare's Rose Theatre If you are a groundling, take a cushion.

.Ferens Art Gallery

Still trying to teach Shakespeare, but with talks this time rather than workshops. Hull Minster Now all I have to do is write the three lectures.

Don’t miss the moon in ⁦Hull Minster⁩ and tomorrow at 12.30 there is also a free talk on Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor (with no moon references at all)

For an easy introduction to the play Hull Minster In Shakespeare Lunchtime Thurs 27th at 12.30. Free, no need to book just turn up.

Yesterday #KingLear in cinemas on live link and Ian McKellen was amazing. If it gets a second showing, see it. Next week is Winters Tale from the Globe. My Shakespeare lunchtime lecture will be 12.30 in Hull Minster Oct 4th.

Shakespeare lunchtime talk in Hull Minster tomorrow Thursday 4th at 12.30. Free, no booking required. This time it is *The Winter’s Tale* to go with the live transmission at cinemas from the Globe that evening.

Everybody’s favourite local history event is back.

But the food in the market is now truly amazing. My favourites are a goats’ cheese tart followed by a Sicilian cannolo and an espresso.

I'm giving a paper on the Elizabethan Star Chamber with Lincolnshire examples. Joseph Wright Hall, Queen St, Barton on Humber DN18 5QP 19th Oct 19:30. Barton Civic Society says you are all welcome to attend.

Disaster. I have discovered a meme-making website. That is the end of work for a while.

I have just had a thought. Toad-eater is a bowdlerization of turd-eater. Is this already known? I may have been helped by the happy chance that in Hull "toad" is pronounced "turd".

Mrs May says it’s her plan, no plan or remain. MPs will decide. Tell yours how to vote using this simple MP finder/emailer. There is a suggested text but you can delete it and substitute your own. peoples-vote.uk/write_this_wro… Your MP actually wants to hear from you.

Taking a hot-soup break today after calling on the Remainers of Hull (there are plenty) to tell their MPs to support the people's vote. Thanks to Steve Bray for the inspiration. 4th July - Tory wipe Out

If you know anybody in Hull, I am resurrecting this guided walk for two weeks only.

Local History Book Fair - this Saturday (21st) at Hull Holy Trinity (Hull Minster) from 10 am. Free entry. Meet all the local societies and find the local history book that is exactly what you need but that you didn’t know existed.

There is a new blog here on the story of Hull in the plague of 1575-6 elizabethanhull.wordpress.com

For those not finding fresh meat, fruit and veg at the supermarkets. I bought what I needed in Hull market yesterday, lots of choice, no queues.

New blog post on the Plague of 1603 in Hull. Especially for those who found the post on the Hull Plague of the 1570s interesting. elizabethanhull.wordpress.com

This starts with a Hull case.