I’ll be speaking at the Teaching #Shakespeare Teacher Roundtable British Shakespeare Association 2025 Conference 2024, chaired by harvey wiltshire. It’s not often I get to wear a teacher hat and a Shakespeare PhD hat at the same time and I'm looking forward to this one! britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

Exciting initial workshop by the fantastic Kayla Martell Feldman (she/they) for the new LEH School #WriteTheGirl commission. All things #Shakespeare, women, and the stories that should have been told. An absolute huge slice of me. One to watch 💯

Tomorrow, eight months’ organising comes to an end & this year’s Shakespeare Centre London Shakespeare’s Globe PGR conference 2024 begins! It’s been a pleasure & now all we need is our attendees - from all over the Globe! They’re flying here right now! SCLGlobeGrad24 #phdlife #AcademicTwitter

And we’re off! ‘Far Fetched: forms of innovation in early modern travel writing’ by Natalya Din-Kariuki, the first of our three plenaries #Innovation Shakespeare’s Globe Shakespeare Centre London King's English

Half way through day one of the 2024 PGR Shakespeare’s Globe Shakespeare Centre London conference. Immersive Romeo and Juliet, re-casting race, Shakespeare films with no Shakespeare. Right up my street! SCLGlobeGrad24 #Innovation #phdlife

A stunning day at the round O for day two of Shakespeare’s Globe Shakespeare Centre London Innovation PGR conference. ‘Steal with pride’ SCLGlobeGrad24

And that’s a wrap. Thank you to all our presenters, plenaries, chairs & attenders: you have made the last two days an absolute privilege. I maintain my party-line: he is what we make of him #Shakespeare SCLGlobeGrad24 Shakespeare’s Globe Shakespeare Centre London King's English

The glorious Yr 11s being delighted that the question was how Lady Macbeth is presented as a strong character 🥰🤩 #queen #gcse #Macbeth

‘Mirroring the statutory six weeks of nearly full pay that colleagues on maternity leave enjoy would attract more men into the classroom, without breaking the bank,’ explains The MTPT Project founder 📝 Emma “Useful” Sheppard 📖 tes.com/magazine/analy…

A fantastic day at British Shakespeare Association 2025 Conference and a pleasure to be on a round table discussing how (or even if we should) we teach Shakespeare’s biography to our students. Thank you for having us English Association! Heidi Drake 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 #BSA2024

Now this, is brilliant 🔑

**Volunteer with us!** Planning is underway for 2024/2025 and we would LOVE to hear from you. - help out at regional and national events - record a PD session - write a blog - help to shape our offer to members Let us know: forms.gle/MpZZUg4mtowDgC… #Litdrive

Can’t wait for this. BGS Drama already have our tickets booked! Leeds Playhouse

Good luck to everyone finding out #GCSE grades today. It’s been a ride watching the legend/gremlin that is my sister go through them this year. Parents, I salute you! Guys and gals: you got this. LEH School Bradford Grammar

A very important meeting this afternoon for Richard Ribeiro. #BGSfamily

After three years of being exclusively #teamdrama, I’m loving being back in #AChristmasCarol mode. Team paragraphs and time to upgrade. An oldie but a goodie! 🎅 🎄 #teamenglish

#FlyingTheFlagForDrama National Drama and Our friends Dramatic Recovery believe all primary learners should access excellent Drama provision in every primary school in the UK.

Women are doing pretty well in academia these days

These misty end of year days! Going to curl up for an hour with this (very!) abridged Frankenstein read/performed by Alex Kingston. Our April show by Helen Edmundson is about its young author Mary Shelley. PS this BBC episode is available for 2 months. 1/2 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Click the pic for all the info - the play, venue, rights etc Mary Shelley by Helen Edmundson runs April 24 - May 3 Wharfeside Theatre Ilkley Playhouse ilkleyplayhouse.co.uk/IlkleyPlayhous…