Callan Davies
@callanjd.bsky.social
early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
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Callan Davies
@callanjd.bsky.social
· Oct 21
I'm delighted, grateful, and a little dazed to be among this year's Philip Leverhulme Prize winners @leverhulme.ac.uk, and among such excellent company.
A little more on my research hopes at the @unisouthampton.bsky.social press release: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...
A little more on my research hopes at the @unisouthampton.bsky.social press release: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...
Very much enjoyed Theatre Royal Haymarket’s Othello last night. But rather than a review this short post talks about ita fantastic production poster.
Watching Othello: Anatomy of a Poster
Watching, seeing, and looking at Theatre Royal Haymarket's Othello and its production poster
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November 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Very much enjoyed Theatre Royal Haymarket’s Othello last night. But rather than a review this short post talks about ita fantastic production poster.
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If any bibliophiles out there fancy bankrupting themselves, Yale University Press has a half-price sale this month. yalebooks.co.uk
Home - Yale University Press London
Welcome to the Yale University Press London home page: explore our books, meet our authors, find out about our publishing mission.
yalebooks.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If any bibliophiles out there fancy bankrupting themselves, Yale University Press has a half-price sale this month. yalebooks.co.uk
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The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
'Science minister Patrick Vallance has rejected concerns that focusing on “doing fewer things better” in research will lead to funding being concentrated in larger research-intensive universities from the Russell Group.' 1/3
Post-16 plan ‘not recipe for Russell Group domination’ – Vallance
Science minister dismisses as ‘bizarre’ fears that government push for ‘teaching-only’ specialists will further concentrate research activity in small number of institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
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Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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I started a Substack!
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
On Shakespeare and Not Shakespeare
New writing about Shakespearean culture (and beyond), arising from new research projects...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I started a Substack!
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society: a brief guide if you’re considering an application | Historical Transactions
blog.royalhistsoc.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
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I started a Substack!
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
On Shakespeare and Not Shakespeare
New writing about Shakespearean culture (and beyond), arising from new research projects...
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🔥
I started a Substack!
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
On Shakespeare and Not Shakespeare
New writing about Shakespearean culture (and beyond), arising from new research projects...
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I started a Substack!
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Coq au vin with baby onions braised and caramelised in some homemade pheasant stock, on a serving platter for our Sunday comfort food.
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Coq au vin with baby onions braised and caramelised in some homemade pheasant stock, on a serving platter for our Sunday comfort food.
The perfect pre-weekend arrival
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The perfect pre-weekend arrival
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It’s all happening: Shakespeare in the Kitchen is slated for publication in April 2026 🍽️📗🎉 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...
Shakespeare in the Kitchen
Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us ab...
www.routledge.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It’s all happening: Shakespeare in the Kitchen is slated for publication in April 2026 🍽️📗🎉 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...
Pickled quinces (from my mum’s garden) to be ready for the Christmas table
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Pickled quinces (from my mum’s garden) to be ready for the Christmas table
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I mean, it takes a pack of utterly stupid people to see a truly massive export industry that is so world class that hundreds of thousands of people are willing to pay tens of thousands to have it, and then to destroy that industry because there people are "forriners".
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I mean, it takes a pack of utterly stupid people to see a truly massive export industry that is so world class that hundreds of thousands of people are willing to pay tens of thousands to have it, and then to destroy that industry because there people are "forriners".
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Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
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Depressing as a historian to learn about Labour's dystopian new immigration policy. This morning I'm reading about Norwich's emergence as prosperous city in late C16th thanks to refugee population fleeing war in Flanders, transforming cloth industry. By 1580s 4,000 or 1/3 of residents were 'alien'.
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Depressing as a historian to learn about Labour's dystopian new immigration policy. This morning I'm reading about Norwich's emergence as prosperous city in late C16th thanks to refugee population fleeing war in Flanders, transforming cloth industry. By 1580s 4,000 or 1/3 of residents were 'alien'.
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Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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Please read this: it’s a joy
Everything about this story is awesome. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
A Farmer, a Designer and a Dating App Unite to Save Some ‘Gay Sheep’
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Please read this: it’s a joy
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'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3
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A wonderfully elaborate binding for Mrs Elizabeth Colles, from the early seventeenth century. It contains three linguistic works, including Thomas Thomas’s Dictionary (Cambridge, 1610). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Rel.d.61.2. #herbook
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A wonderfully elaborate binding for Mrs Elizabeth Colles, from the early seventeenth century. It contains three linguistic works, including Thomas Thomas’s Dictionary (Cambridge, 1610). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Rel.d.61.2. #herbook
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Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each.
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
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November 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each.
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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This is why we should protect the BBC.
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is why we should protect the BBC.