Lucy Munro
@lucycmunro.bsky.social
Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
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Lucy Munro
@lucycmunro.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hello, Bluesky! I've had an account for a bit but haven't posted, so here's a bit of current research. This is the signature of Margaret Brend Zinzan, from a deposition in the Court of Chancery in April 1626 (TNA, C 24/521). (1/3)
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Mary Baldwin University is embarking on drastic cuts of its liberal arts programme and of humanities subjects more generally.
A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!)
Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h
A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!)
Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h
Sign the Petition
Protect MBU's Liberal Arts Legacy
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Mary Baldwin University is embarking on drastic cuts of its liberal arts programme and of humanities subjects more generally.
A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!)
Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h
A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!)
Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h
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“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
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15 November 1582: In Mortlake, Dr John Dee is conversing with angels again, along with his scryer Edward Kelley, with whom he has recently reconciled. Dee starts a new record book today, his Quartus Liber Mysteriorum, and they use a 'showstone', or crystal ball. They speak ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
15 November 1582: In Mortlake, Dr John Dee is conversing with angels again, along with his scryer Edward Kelley, with whom he has recently reconciled. Dee starts a new record book today, his Quartus Liber Mysteriorum, and they use a 'showstone', or crystal ball. They speak ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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Issue 300 is SOLD OUT!
As is yesterday’s programme, so #LOFC shouldn’t mind us sharing this extract: a tribute to everyone who helped us along the way, whether they wrote, read, bought, sold, subscribed, sang, drew, designed, made flexidiscs, carried, collected, donated, or supported us in any way
As is yesterday’s programme, so #LOFC shouldn’t mind us sharing this extract: a tribute to everyone who helped us along the way, whether they wrote, read, bought, sold, subscribed, sang, drew, designed, made flexidiscs, carried, collected, donated, or supported us in any way
October 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Issue 300 is SOLD OUT!
As is yesterday’s programme, so #LOFC shouldn’t mind us sharing this extract: a tribute to everyone who helped us along the way, whether they wrote, read, bought, sold, subscribed, sang, drew, designed, made flexidiscs, carried, collected, donated, or supported us in any way
As is yesterday’s programme, so #LOFC shouldn’t mind us sharing this extract: a tribute to everyone who helped us along the way, whether they wrote, read, bought, sold, subscribed, sang, drew, designed, made flexidiscs, carried, collected, donated, or supported us in any way
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It's 5pm and the wyverns are dancing. Orient 4 Doncaster Rovers 0. #leytonorient #lofc
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's 5pm and the wyverns are dancing. Orient 4 Doncaster Rovers 0. #leytonorient #lofc
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Anyone else see a screaming face, or just me? 😱 TNA C 147/1138
September 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Anyone else see a screaming face, or just me? 😱 TNA C 147/1138
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Today marks 400 years since John Fletcher’s death: the Jacobean playwright died of the plague and was buried at St. Saviour’s (now Southwark Cathedral) on 29 August 1625. I’m guest-editing a special Ben Jonson Journal issue celebrating this anniversary: coming soon!
August 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today marks 400 years since John Fletcher’s death: the Jacobean playwright died of the plague and was buried at St. Saviour’s (now Southwark Cathedral) on 29 August 1625. I’m guest-editing a special Ben Jonson Journal issue celebrating this anniversary: coming soon!
Lovely big Jacobean portraits by William Larkin of lovely big Jacobean clothes.
Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: William Larkin. Painter of Jacobean costumes & a few faces too. Here, Catherine Lyte Howard, Lady Thynne, in 1613.
August 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Lovely big Jacobean portraits by William Larkin of lovely big Jacobean clothes.
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Not sure there’s much I can add to what Clare says, but… if you’ll forgive a little self-indulgence, here are the ads we took out in NME and Melody Maker at the time. The paper’s yellowed a bit over the years, but… the words still seem to say what we meant them to say.
August 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Not sure there’s much I can add to what Clare says, but… if you’ll forgive a little self-indulgence, here are the ads we took out in NME and Melody Maker at the time. The paper’s yellowed a bit over the years, but… the words still seem to say what we meant them to say.
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Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
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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August 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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IT’S HERE!!!!!! My new book, *Sweet Taste of Empire* spotted in the wild!
@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩
August 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
IT’S HERE!!!!!! My new book, *Sweet Taste of Empire* spotted in the wild!
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me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh
The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
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Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
docs.google.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I found a cool Shakespeare thing. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years
Document from 1642 made by husband of Shakespeare’s granddaughter found in unlabelled box at National Archives
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I found a cool Shakespeare thing. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
forms.gle
August 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
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Ever since it was unveiled, there’s been something naggingly familiar about Orient’s retina-bothering 25/26 season third strip, and… I’ve just twigged what it is: bizarrely, the inspiration seems to be the Field Mice’s dandelion-tastic 91/92 For Keeps tour T-shirt.
#SarahRecords #TheFieldMice #lofc
#SarahRecords #TheFieldMice #lofc
August 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Ever since it was unveiled, there’s been something naggingly familiar about Orient’s retina-bothering 25/26 season third strip, and… I’ve just twigged what it is: bizarrely, the inspiration seems to be the Field Mice’s dandelion-tastic 91/92 For Keeps tour T-shirt.
#SarahRecords #TheFieldMice #lofc
#SarahRecords #TheFieldMice #lofc
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new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 55, No 3
Abstract What does it mean to “know” a witch in early modern culture, and how do questionable knowledge-processes become tested and verified in comedies? Dekker, Ford, and Rowley’s 1621 tragicomedy, T...
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August 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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The new issue of The Journal of Marlowe Studies is now available. Over 200 pages of original Marlovian research, book reviews and performance reviews, all open access. journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...
Journal of Marlowe Studies
journals.shu.ac.uk
June 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The new issue of The Journal of Marlowe Studies is now available. Over 200 pages of original Marlovian research, book reviews and performance reviews, all open access. journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...
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We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here:
ereed.org/collections/...
ereed.org/collections/...
REED Online:
Collection: Newington Butts Playhouse
ereed.org
July 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here:
ereed.org/collections/...
ereed.org/collections/...
Wine Street, Bristol, featuring the possible location of a Jacobean playhouse and @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social’s old PO Box.
July 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Wine Street, Bristol, featuring the possible location of a Jacobean playhouse and @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social’s old PO Box.
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Our first university cutting jobs this Tuesday is Keele, where colleagues have been made to feel insecure and anxious for a long time now. Welcome to another miserable day in British Higher Education.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/staff-d...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/staff-d...
Staff ‘deeply concerned’ as Keele confirms plans to cut 150 roles
Academic and professional services posts to go, with university blaming ‘unprecedented financial challenges’
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Our first university cutting jobs this Tuesday is Keele, where colleagues have been made to feel insecure and anxious for a long time now. Welcome to another miserable day in British Higher Education.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/staff-d...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/staff-d...
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Congratulations to Prof. Erika T. Lin and alumni Zoltán Glück and China Sajadian, who were awarded prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships for their book projects! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/three-c... @acls1919.bsky.social @saaupdates.bsky.social
Three CUNY Graduate Center Scholars Receive ACLS Fellowships
Professor Erika T. Lin and alumni Zoltán Glück and China Sajadian are awarded prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships for their book projects.
www.gc.cuny.edu
May 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Congratulations to Prof. Erika T. Lin and alumni Zoltán Glück and China Sajadian, who were awarded prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships for their book projects! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/three-c... @acls1919.bsky.social @saaupdates.bsky.social
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