Prof Laurie Johnson
@lostplayhouse.bsky.social
Professor of English and Cultural Studies @ University of Southern Queensland. Shakespeare scholar. Finder of lost playhouses. FSA FRHistS. He/him.
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I choose option number 10, this magnificent, cranky bird that reminds me of the Duolingo owl, a very superb owl indeed, from George Withers, A Collection of Emblemes ancient and moderne (1635):
A baby penguin? Caught on an iceberg? This is serious!
FWIW, the first Laws of Cricket (1774) only refer to "the striker" and the "player at his wicket," while "bowler," "fielder" etc. are used. As early as 1830, I've got this from a Field Book to the rules of sports by William Hamilton.
To all the misogynists claiming "batsman" is the traditional term in cricket and that "batter" is a "woke" copout, I give you Exhibit A for "batter" being much older = in The Cricketer's Guide Being a Complete Manual of the Game of Cricket (1896), "Batter" is used throughout.
Do I have your permission to repost as well, Holly?
This has made me giggle for an abnormally long time!
An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:
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🎨This year, the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social smuseum in Amsterdam has opened a new exhibition on Ovid's Metamorphoses, featuring an array of paintings inspired by the ancient Roman poet.
Comment your favourite artistic reimagining of Ovid's Metamorphoses below! 👇
#classicsforall #rijksmuseum
Comment your favourite artistic reimagining of Ovid's Metamorphoses below! 👇
#classicsforall #rijksmuseum
Although Life was cruelly ended after just two seasons, I loved the ending in which Damian Lewis's character Charlie Crews reveals to the crime boss how he survived for so long in prison. The impact and the satisfaction level of that moment was amazing.
Or to square it up, perhaps, by having announcers tell a story about how receivers practice catching from their QB every time there is a successful reception.
Hi. Do you look like I might have loaned you my copy of Rudolph Fiehler's Strange History of John Oldcastle (bought in a second hand bookshop in New Orleans in 2016, just like the one pictured below)? If you fit that description, I could really use it back. Thanks.
After the year we’ve all had, if it’s okay with you, I think I’d just as well jingle only two-thirds of the way.
Apparently the Barmy Army cheered the players leaving for rain -- they do realise, don't they, that a draw means the Ashes definitely stay with Australia? The only way for England to win the Ashes is to be on the field to bat for an unlikely, but still possible, win.
The Indian crowds rioting in Kolkata because of Lionel Messi is bizarre but craziest of all is that Sunrise (in Australia) thought the best way to cover the story was to cross to their US Correspondent (in New York).
I'm with either "sorely" or "surely" and agree on "see"
I miss this! I was only in Soton for five weeks, but I grew very fond of views like this, and the big ships, and the old sites obvs. Ahh, good memories.
Attention #EarlyModern and #Shakespeare friends: join me on this Giving Tuesday in donating to an Open Access fund for Meghan C. Andrews’s book. Cancer took Meghan from us in 2023, but her legacy can live on. Share widely!
Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville
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A wonderful scholar was taken from us too soon. Please help to ensure Meghan C. Andrews's book can be made more widely available via Open Access.
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Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville
Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph
www.gofundme.com
Attention #EarlyModern and #Shakespeare friends: join me on this Giving Tuesday in donating to an Open Access fund for Meghan C. Andrews’s book. Cancer took Meghan from us in 2023, but her legacy can live on. Share widely!
In all the back and forward from press and crowds after the first Ashes test, I haven't seen anybody yet say a word of praise to Stokes and (I think it was) Brook, who shook Head's hand after he was dismissed. Fair play, gents, and a good sporting gesture.
Excitement at 6:30 am, as the last of a morning storm rolled past, I was in my study when lightning hit us = electricity surged through the house, a huge bang, lights flickered , and my study light blew. Animals spooked and family woke, but the only casualty was my light bulb.
Marjorie Taylor Greene in a pensive moment ahead of her big press conference.
Shannon K. Supple
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Nah, Texas judge is careful to make sure American kids think it's okay to murder, on the day when the murderer in the White House welcomes another murderer and tells the journalists to be nice to him.
I’ll take “people whose names are in the Epstein files” for 2,000 thanks, Ken.
Not a cellphone in sight. Just two murderers living in the moment.
Well, looks like Rep. Clay Higgins just outed himself as being in the Epstein files! #427-1
That's the trouble with that pesky Muse. When she strikes at 4 am, there's no answer to it other than to get out of bed, get ready for work, and head into the office ... and write. So here we are at 4:30, me and my old friend the keyboard. Write.
Calling all Australian poets! Three weeks left to submit entries for the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize! www.unisq.edu.au/news/2025/07...
The art of the line: Submissions open for 2025 Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize
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Roll up, roll up! We'd love to have more entries just to make our job of judging this year's Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize all the more difficult! "It's the best part of my job" and all that. Entries close 21 November, this Friday!
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Must be the season -- another beautiful object arrived today, this one with my chapter on authorship and cognitive studies. Huge thanks to @loughnrv.bsky.social and @drwillsharpe.bsky.social for nudging this mammoth volume into reality!
He literally just admitted that lowering the tariff will lower the cost of coffee! His whole platform for tariffs is built on the lie that the exporter wears the tariff on an overseas import.