Michael Powell-Davies
@MDPowellDavies
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Postdoc on non-elite writing in 17C England @BirkbeckUoL | PhD on Middling Culture and Maritime London, c. 1580-1640 @MEMS_UKC | New writing at @CockpitTheatre
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Joined September 2019
'Unseen things seen are most and best approved: .gold, because rare, is dear and well beloved.'. Join us this time next week for a rare reading of Walter Mountfort's The Launching of the Mary (1632). Details and registration: @birkbeck_arts @BirkbeckUoL
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RT @cockpittheatre: NEW STUFF . Hear new work & engage with other writers, creatives, and theatre-goers at our monthly #rehearsedreading se….
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Written at sea in 1632, Walter Mountfort's The Launching of the Mary hasn't seen a London stage for almost 400 years. Join us at Arts Week 2025 for a script-in-hand reading of this little-known Renaissance play. @BirkbeckUoL @birkbeck_arts . More here:
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RT @cockpittheatre: Our rehearsed reading sessions are back in February. Two more new scripts, read in front of an audience and followed by….
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RT @BritishAcademy_: New British Academy publication "Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798" by @RichardJAn….
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Drama! at the Archive. Whoever made this volume up as a “roll” was a *fool*
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RT @katrionaemily: Have had the most incredible first couple of months working in the press office at @MSF_uk - especially proud today of s….
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Climate change is bringing snakes closer to humans – if you’re bitten, only swift treatment can prevent death and disability
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I've got a (17C?) manuscript that appears to be copied from 'Phot. Bibliothec. Cod. 234' - is this a library reference anybody recognises?.
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RT @ClaireARichie: Only at @TheHuntington do you get matching peacocks on your way to the library and in your manuscript! .
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Tudor bonneted at last! A wonderful day in Canterbury graduating alongside many friends from @mems_ukc 🥰📚🪶
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RT @FERichardsUK: Huge congratulations to @mems_ukc PhD graduates! So lovely to catch up with @NewJack7 @C_L_Harrington @NoahJAS @han_tame….
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Absolutely love this search feature from @DockyardChatham! A letter in 'medium aquamarine', 'light goldenrod yellow', and 'cadet blue'.
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St Paul's as recalled by an English traveller, c. 1650. 😬
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RT @Bill_Gerrard: When you're called on in the Proust seminar but you haven't done the reading
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RT @MiddlingCulture: 🔊🚀Our new suite of resources have LAUNCHED. Step inside the Shakespearean past with our interactive game and web tour….
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Virtual Shakespearean Parlour Room Interactive game (downloadable) and web tour Ready to discover the 1600s yourself? Middling Culture has created a truly immersive virtual tour – the Shakesp…
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In sunny Stratford-upon-Avon to speak at a wonderfully multidisciplinary day of Middling Culture! . @MiddlingCulture @ShakespeareBT
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Looking forward to talking about porters and printed sheets at ‘Learning from Early Modern Books’ today - @LondRenaissance & @Library_Vic
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A fantastic evening of spoken word, Texan gunfights, place-based politics, and a countryside walked by Anglo-Saxon beasts. Join us for more new writing Sunday 7 July!.
NEW STUFF .Our monthly rehearsed reading sessions. Sunday 2 June . Reply 2 All .By Olayinka Sobitan-Solomon aka The Performance Artist.&.Half-Truths and Hleów-Feðer .By Imogen Bole . #theatre #londontheatre #theatremaker #newstuff
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(to finish my Arts Week anyway - more going on!).
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