A Bit Lit
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Films, events, courses & podcasts celebrating ideas & creativity. An open conversation begun in lockdown. @andykesson @emmawhipday @callanjd @straymoose101
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ABL4: our first guest, Suzannah Lipscomb, on the Tudor court, a French urban community and the strange confluences of sex, gender, religion and archival challenges they present. abitlit.co/conversations/…
ABL5: Brandi K. Adams on the canon, who belongs and on reading from the margins.
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ABL6: Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) on eighteenth-century disability pride, the importance of collaboration and the easy perils of founding your professional identity on your ability to refute and rubbish others.
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ABL7: medieval sex positivity, plague and revolution, or as we prefer to call them, Dr Eleanor Janega abitlit.co/history/eleano…
ABL8: a new series, Stay at Home Shakespeare, on Shakespeare and domestic space. These are by Emma Whipday and for that reason were first broadcast on Emma Whipday Day, formerly known as Thursday. abitlit.co/schools/stay-a…
ABL9: the very brilliant Rebecca Rideal, champion of other scholars and public access to diverse research, telling us about HistFest and also disappointing Andy Kesson by telling him the seventeenth century was not as sexy as he thought. Sad times.
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ABL10: cuz we are living in a material world, Catherine Richardson tells us about ordinary people in Shakespeare’s time, their material lives and the archives, and champions the importance of storytelling abitlit.co/history/cather…
ABL11: Prof Michael Lewis FSA MCIfA and Dr Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodatlancs tell callan davies about things, objects and surfaces, swapping expertise between literary scholarship and museum curation. abitlit.co/conversations/…
ABL12: the historian Mathew Lyons thinks about isolation, social distancing and lockdown as a historical phenomenon, emphasising our proximity to the past.
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ABL14: @sydneeisanelf on Roma history, archival absence, whiteness and race. #shakerace #raceb4race
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