Today we're thrilled to announce that Professor Emma Smith will join the Company’s Board, after becoming one of our Associate Scholars in 2021. Hear from Emma and RSC Chair Shriti Vadera: rsc.org.uk/news/professor…

This is such a peach of a review from Matt Ryan for History Today - I couldn’t be happier or more grateful. And freely available online just in time for US publication on Tuesday! Seal Press Basic Books #StraightActing

Geinterviewd door @weekbladmare over ons boek #Spycraft (o.a. op voorraad bij Boekhandel Kooyker 😉) mareonline.nl/wetenschap/een…

It feels like we’ve been suddenly ghosted by summer.

Adriaen Jacobsz was a miller in #Amsterdam, he could not write so he signed a notarized declaration with a little drawing of a mill on Sept. 12, 1640.

Kom op 14 september naar de Nacht van Ontdekkingen in de Oude Sterrenwacht te Leiden en luister, kijk en ruik hoe de 17e-eeuwse Constantijn Huygens zijn parfumrecepten maakte: nachtvanontdekkingen.nl/ineke #geheugenvangeur

Owl tile, Dutch, c. 1640 -1670 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

For my Dutch followers

For my followers living in the Netherlands: why not support a truly fantastic bookstore in Rotterdam, AND enjoy a deep dive into the world of early modern espionage? Come on, treat yourself, you know you want to …

This has resonated hard - & reassured me that I’m not overreacting! It is such a small low-cost gesture to offer academics extended access to emails & affiliation after their contract ends. A little 🧵 collating the v helpful responses I’ve received

📣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…

Professor Nadine Akkerman and yours truly in the Leiden University newsletter! Universiteit Leiden Mare mareonline.nl/wetenschap/een… (it translates itself if asked politely)

One for Letterlocking

For my followers living in the Netherlands: why not support a truly fantastic bookstore in Rotterdam, AND enjoy a deep dive into the world of early modern espionage? Come on, treat yourself, you know you want to …

Loved talking about the feisty Lady Elizabeth Russell, Shakespeare's nemesis, who owned her own prison in which she locked up her enemies, & claimed to be a sheriff (her portrait is on my book about her 👇). Listen to her escapades & armed clashes here: english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-…

Today #StraightActing The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare comes out in North America! I’m more proud and excited than I can say and hugely grateful to Seal Press Basic Books and Hachette Book Group. Here’s the skinny on STRAIGHT ACTING 🏳️‍🌈🎭🪶… (1/3)

Links to all 11 #EstherInglis MSS at University of Edinburgh Main Library and National Library of Scotland, plus one University of St Andrews are now easily accessible via this page: estheringlis.com/ms-locations/ Lots of hard work - congratulations #conservation & #photography teams!