Hello, I've been quietly working on this and now I'm made up to share that I've signed a contract with @Palgrave to publish my first book: UNPOSSIBLE HISTORY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. As a working-class wool from Merseyside, this is a big deal for me & I'm dead chuffed – cheers!.

Me brother asking for a lift from Liverpool Lime Street and our mum drops this absolute bombshell

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RT @jimmy__mcintosh: Taking any pitches for Issue No.2 of Sir!, by the way. The loose theme is WORK. Want some funny, interesting, and usua….

RT @elpatersonPhD: Bloodsuckers of the Commonwealth is available to pre-order now! .

RT @samsonaws: I am being inaugurated at UCL in 28th May be great to see fellow early modernists so do sign up:

RT @abi_whist: My investigation in today’s @liverpoolpost reveals how the city’s biggest cultural institution ignored allegations of sexual….

I really loved writing this for @EngelsbergIdeas, on chorography, feat. Ptolemy, Ranulf Higden, William Camden, Spenser, Shakespeare, John Stow, William Blake, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nicolas Bouvier, Paul Devereux, Iain Sinclair, Mark Cocker & more .

RT @alastair_benn: The public's appetite for intellectual stimulation is now being met by podcasts. The risks to the written word may prove….

This is how you get someone to open an email, 10/10 newslettering from @The_Fence_Mag

Do you hate January? If so, you are wrong, for January is the best of all months. See my 'Apology for January' in @The_Fence_Mag to learn why Jan is king and my beef with each of the other months.

RT @prospect_uk: For centuries, ars moriendi depicted death, suicide—and what comes after. As MPs consider legalising assisted dying, they….

For @prospect_uk's Good Death series, I wrote about ars moriendi, the art of death & assisted dying debates, feat. Plato, Henry Suso, the Black Death, Hamlet, Keats, Burke, Hume, Tagore, Derrida, physician associates, a privatised NHS & for-profit dying.

RT @NewCritique: 'Once again, reading kept me going this year. I started the year recovering from an operation and seeking somewhere new to….

For @MediaCatMag, I wrote about the survival and flourishing of print media, the lack of trust in business, the symbiosis of advertising and political campaigning, and the magic of cinema

For @whitehotmag, I wrote about sculpture hard and soft, the ‘expanded field’, textiles, and the art/craft hierarchy in a review of group show Thread Count

For @EngelsbergIdeas, I wrote about lost libraries, the Bible, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Donne, Borges, Márquez, Harry Potter and Star Wars &c

For @EngelsbergIdeas, I wrote about Paradise Lost's 'boundless Continent' of blank verse, Milton's beef with 'jingling', English prosody, Campion v Daniel, Dryden rewriting Milton, Marvell's Dryden diss &c

For @EngelsbergIdeas, I wrote about philosophies of sport, feat. Plato, athletic monks, John Milton 'unsweating. regularly', James Milner b2b Hegel, Adorno's anti-football, Zidane's headbutt, Mourinho's affects & more

For @EngelsbergIdeas, I wrote about the Safavid polymath Mullā Ṣadrā's life, career and ‘transcendent philosophy’, with connections to Western philosophers including Aquinas, Kant, Leibniz and Heidegger

For @EngelsbergIdeas, I wrote about the forgotten art of memory, feat. Hamlet, Cicero, 'digital dementia', Homer, Socrates' fear that writing caused forgetfulness, Proust, Islamic ḥuffāẓ, Australian 'songlines', West African griots, and 'cloud' storage