We went to the 🐘 but didn’t really get on. They can be a bit funny with birds, those 🐘. Should we soar into 🔷🌤️ instead?

CfPs for this PGR symposium is now open. Please do get in touch with any questions! 🎵🎵 forms.gle/nWFFFCBUFSucXg…

I'm looking for examples of integrated access for deaf and hard of hearing audiences in the arts. This could be theatre, film, TV, games. Anybody has any examples they'd be able to share that I can look into? Thanks! It's for a module I'm teaching.

SRS Annual Lecture 2024, "Piety, Passion & Poetry in 17thC Wales", 21 June 2024, 14.00, Abergavenny. Featuring an incredible lineup of speakers: @treorchyexile, Dr Hannah Thomas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Simon Jackson, Helen Wilcox & Rowan Williams. All welcome! rensoc.org.uk/event/piety-pa…

🚨attention all ECRs/students interested in early modern religion, liturgy, music! 🚨 Applications are now open for our bursary scheme to subsidise transport to & from the conference! Email [email protected] to apply. Deadline 1st June. Good luck!

LJMU currently has advertised fully-funded PhD Studentships. If you fancy doing a PhD with me or with any of my amazingly brilliant colleagues, do get in touch! ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd-s…

📣Job alert: English Literature 1520-1640 Come & work with us Birkbeck: English Birkbeck, University of London! 👉Join a vibrant LRS research culture 👉Department ranked 2nd nationally in #REF2021 👉18 months fixed term 🗓️5 June 2024 deadline jobs.ac.uk/job/DGX768/lec… Renaissance SRS, pls RT

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Alexander Technique + some Byrd Mass for 3 voices in partbook facsimile for the 1st of our voluntary “take a rest from revision & sing just for fun” Peterhouse Choir rehearsals of term just now. (I know, definition of “fun” & “rest” possibly stretched, but all seemed to enjoy!)

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: rensoc.org.uk/statement-on-t…

My keynote from the 2021 conference on the Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries thoughts on working as an itinerant academic working on itinerant ballad sellers. Sadly just as relevant now. Please share widely. earlymodernballads.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/nor…

Our next research seminar is on September 10, 14.00-15.00BST. Join Dr Jenni Hyde, @wallyberry.bsky.social Dr Una McIlvenna 💀🎶 & Jan-Friedrich Mißfelder as they discuss “Sounding the News in Early Modern Europe” emsoundscapes.co.uk/sounding-the-n…

We were very sorry to hear of the passing of Bruce Smith, who was inspirational to the work of the soundscapes network. Our thoughts are with his husband, Gordon, and the rest of his family. He will be sorely missed emsoundscapes.co.uk/remembering-br…

Publication date 😊 It seems my book is being published in December. More details in the link including the very kind words (thanks! 😊) by Catherine Clarke Rachel Willie Damian Murphy Gavin Kearney routledge.com/Sonic-Pasts-Ac…

Deadline fast approaching! Get your proposals in for what promises to be a #SRSlyGood conference #RenSoc25 #Twitterstorians #EarlyModernEvents

Due to one of our speakers finding themselves caught in an unexpected odyssey, this session will now take place on 17th September 2024. See you the other side of Scylla and Charybdis!

Happening today (after being rescheduled from last week) at 2pm UK time, 3pm Europe time! Tune in to hear four of us - Rachel Willie Dr Jenni Hyde, @wallyberry.bsky.social Frieder Missfelder and me - talk about Sounding the News in Early Modern Europe: emsoundscapes.co.uk/sounding-the-n…

Miffed you missed our fantastic discussion of news and song with ⁦Dr Jenni Hyde, @wallyberry.bsky.social⁩, ⁦Frieder Missfelder⁩ & ⁦Dr Una McIlvenna 💀🎶⁩ last week? Catch up with it here! Sounding the News in Early Modern Europe – Early Modern Soundscape emsoundscapes.co.uk/sounding-the-n…

The website for my @BritishAcademy project 'Sing You Now After Me: Catch-Singing and Community in Britain c1550-1650' is live. For research info and resources for community/school singing, head to: hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/singafterme/ Northumbria Uni Northumbria Music Northumbria History

🎶Calling all scholars of early music! 🎶Join us for the "Moving Music" conference Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 24/25 June 2025! Call for papers is below, and deadline is on 1st December!