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Cover proofs for new book, coming out in December!

Not to get too excited, but I've just signed a contract with @reaktionbooks to write ‘Strange Christianities’, a new and different history of the Christianisation of Europe... https://t.co/vQ7EUMQmsd 📚🥳

Teachers of Shakespeare at KS4-5, I'm taking bookings for online and outreach sessions covering contexts; language; critical and creative interpretations; and developing personal informed responses to your studied Shakespeare play. For further info email darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

@CoffeewClassics This jolly Little History of England by @jj_mcgovern

It is always exciting to see the publication of serious new philological work, though perhaps telling that it is authored by an emeritus professor.

Stephen Pollington, author of "WODEN: A HISTORICAL COMPANION," recently published two excellent new books: "RUNES: A GUIDE TO THEIR HISTORY AND USAGE" and "MEAD HALL: A GUIDE TO FEASTING IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLAND." Check them out!

"Adam Sammut's (...) profound study deserves respect for having plausibly presented the interconnections between art, religion, politics, and economics in the Spanish Netherlands during the Counter-Reformation". https://t.co/r3Awte4SVW

Books written in the 1900s

New article published in the Journal of Legal History. It discusses a newly discovered manuscript version of a treatise by William Fleetwood on the application of statute law in the early modern English courts. https://t.co/ktvkyX9JdM

. @jj_mcgovern compares an early draft of John Hooker's 'The Order and usage how to keep a parliament in England in these days' (c. 1571) to it's final print. Hooker's careful revisions give us further confidence in his work. https://t.co/8jRs5cBrB0 #Parliament #History

Herodotus faithfully reported that creatures burrow into the gold-rich earth of India and come up with gold. His informant called them murmekes, Greek for ‘ants’. But the word meant ‘marmots’ in his language, and Peissel reported in the 1990s that Indian marmots burrow in the

Exciting news! Our new issue is out now! We'll be sharing a bit about each of the articles over the coming days, but in the meantime explore for yourself 👇 https://t.co/D3J36BeFOF #history #Parliament

These are some characters from Thomas Lupton's interlude "All for Money" (1577). Which character do you identify with?😭

Excited to share a draft of the cover for the paperback version of SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS. I have been delighted at the public and scholarly engagement with this book and look forward to reaching new readers in paperback form! https://t.co/bKRvH9gkv2

1902 Oxford scholarship exam: tell me, 17-year-old-lad, how and why do nations decline through decadence?

'Were I told that my closest friend was lying at the point of death, and that his life could be saved by permitting him to divulge his theory of Hamlet, I would instantly say, "Let him die! let him die! let him die!" ' (Horace Howard Furness, 1908)

My review for Shakespeare Quarterly of @dmblank's fascinating study, Shakespeare & University Drama in Early Modern England, can be read here. https://t.co/tqdOp7vief

Keen to hear from anyone with stories on Philip.

A new review of my first book READING ROBERT GREENE: RECOVERING SHAKESPEARE'S RIVAL has just been published. https://t.co/tiUSBu6nyi

Endnotes are acceptable in a non-specialist book if some are of substantial length (giving multiple references etc) BUT only so long as the page range to which they refer are clearly indicated at the top. Dreadful if not, since one then has to flip through dozens of endnotes to