There’s something so inherently bridal about may blossom. So optimistic and joyful… (and, ladies and gentlemen, clouts may confidently be cast!)

Happy birthday to one of the most important women in my life. My nana, Doreen Baines (née Logan) would have been 121 today! She was a brave woman, leaving her family home at 16 after her mother’s death to earn her own living in York. Then meeting and marrying a musician, Albert.

Fabulous dinner at Dory Bistro in Pittenweem. Lovely end to a lovely holiday!

Honest - it’s only my second of the week! 😎 Jannettas Gelateria

Current and previous students ⁦Mansfield College, University of Oxford⁩ I know you have great stories to tell about what your English degree creates for you! #EnglishCreates Video Competition is Live! – University English universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreates…

Today is UK publication day for The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives! If you can’t read the whole book, here it is, epitomised, in a thread …

'The People and the Law'

A free online symposium on popular engagement with the law in early modern England hosted by the Many-Headed Monster, launched today and introduced by Mark Hailwood. Check it out here:
manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/18/the…

Our colloquium on Law and the Early Modern is next month. Join us for a day of panels on the law. Organised by Prof. Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social and Dr. Jonathan Powell (@UniLeidenNews).

KCL, May 10, 10:30-18:00

eventbrite.co.uk/e/law-and-the-…

Restful afternoon walking and reading by the water after a morning of intense Scottish history… ☀️ 😎 Loch Leven is so incredibly clear in the sunshine!

What can a flurry of petitions and counter-petitions about Thomas Morely's disorderly alehouse tell us about popular politics?

Find out in my *new* #OpenAccess article in Journal of British Studies on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern England: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

'Why are universities all over the country closing arts courses and cutting jobs? Front Row investigates and considers the consequences.' Do tune into BBC Front Row tonight: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00….

Peaceful here at Loch Leven… 🥰

The weather in Edinburgh! This was what the sky looked like above Princes Street Gardens as it began to rain this afternoon… Weird! No idea where the drops *came* from… 😳

‘is it not life? is it not the thing?’ (Byron on Don Juan). Two of Oxford’s finest -Fiona Stafford and A E Stallings-getting Byron BBC Front Row on 200 years since his death

#palaeography help - the ?? parte of that royallized kingdome of peace?? s e i ?? ete

Come hear me speak @ 'Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400–1700' seminar at Oxford:

Week 1: Thursday 25 April, 17.00.
‘The First Tudor Succession Tract?’

Venue: Campion Hall, Lecture Room. Please email [email protected] for the link to join online.