Co-Director (@WemloTweets); UVic prof; @cofktweets + @MoEMLondon alumna; digital humanist. I like Early Modern letters, maps, women writers & paratext.
We’ve found the Book of Hours captured by Holbein in his famous portrait of #ThomasCromwell! Cromwell’s book is one of the few objects depicted in a Tudor portrait to survive. @TracyBorman has dubbed it “the most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation - if not more.”
We're sure you already knew this.
But if not, hey, the only surviving playscript in the hand of William Shakespeare is online.
https://t.co/P3weubsqYX
#WilliamShakespeare#Folio400
Today we feel very lucky to have this fabulous post from Emma Rayner, on Mary Astell, and about how her annotations allow us to observe 'with thrilling immediacy, the evolution of Astell’s thought'
…https://t.co/ETb4szNnsm
@UVicButts@MModernity@UVicSC @UVicEnglish @UVicEnglGrad Scott was a wonderful student in my Shakespeare Comedies a few years ago. Congratulations on this publication, Scott!
A previous English 436a student, Scott Matthews, just published this great piece riffing on Mary Butts's letters during Covid lockdown. https://t.co/t8t5icLjbt @MModernity@UVicSC @UVicEnglish @UVicEnglGrad
It was a privilege to be with the team rebuilding @notredameparis, cultural workers using their hands, their heads, and their hearts to forge the knowledge of the past into a better future, for the citizens of Paris and for the world.
@rebatirNDP 🎥 Taylor McKay and @austinmann