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Chloe Fairbanks
@fairbanc.bsky.social
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Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.
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C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here.
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, ‘English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorous’) 🐻
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions
Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history
September 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP

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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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October 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!

📅 Abstracts due 24/11.

Full details can be found here:
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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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October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of!

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‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V - Shakespeare Survey 78
Shakespeare Survey 78 - October 2025
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October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Proofs looking goooood
October 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!
August 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
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The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students
The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,000. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students
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August 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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It's on the website now, so I guess it's real?? Absolutely over the moon (and still a little stupefied tbh) to announce that I'll be starting a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University this autumn, working on transcultural encounters in early modern English writing.
leverhulme.ac.uk Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · Aug 8
The Trust is pleased to invest £15.5 million in supporting early career researchers. Projects funded this year include unifying glacier sliding theory to improve global sea level rise projections, and women remaking medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa.

Read more👉 tinyurl.com/year566p
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August 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe 🦊🐺
August 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Another day, another
July 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78)
June 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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My review of Hailey Bachrach's Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. Highly recommend this intelligent and accessible book to Shakespeare scholars and theatre practitioners alike.

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Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays. By Hailey Bachrach
Hailey Bachrach’s fresh and engaging book brings performance studies to bear on more traditional modes of literary analysis to produce a “historically info
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March 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Short but (in my opinion) fun note on plague, kissing, and Aelius Aristides by me in here - enjoyable merely for the question of ancient 'social distancing' if nothing else!
February 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴
A 17th century Dutch painting of pink roses, carnations, cornflowers, and narcissus. The text reads: Call for Papers. Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800. University of Cambridge, 8–9 July 2025. Text reads: This interdisciplinary conference will examine botanical knowledge exchange among early modern individuals at the periphery of professional science. We will focus on women, domestic workers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved and indigenous naturalists who used plant knowledge in their everyday life, yet did not (or could not) derive a living primarily from botany.    Over the course of this conference, and a subsequent publication, we intend to address the following questions: What kinds of people and spaces fostered botanical knowledge outside of traditional institutions of learning? What role did embodied experience play in the acquisition of botanical knowledge? What did the social networks of these practitioners look like, and how did this overlap with or differ from the networks of professional scientists? How was the knowledge of these non-professional practitioners valued (or devalued) by their contemporaries? Reflecting the creative nature of our subject matter, we welcome applications for papers in formats other than traditional presentations. Furthermore, the conference will include a practical workshop with the artist and natural dye expert Nabil Ali. We hope that our creative workshop will feed into participants’ practice and inform their contributions to our proposed publication.   This conference will be held in person from 8–9 July at the University of Cambridge. Lunch and refreshments will be included. We aim to offer grants of £150 to contribute towards the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers coming from outside of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Please let us know in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant.   Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biography to the conference organisers, Lucy Havard (lh655@cam.ac.uk) and Zara Kesterton (zlk21@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 14 March 2025.
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Tfw you start your class on Restoration literature with the Horrible Histories Charles II song and the students start singing and dancing along
a man in a wig is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air
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January 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Great to start the term off with a wonderfully rich and thought-provoking paper by @harrymccarthy.bsky.social at the Oxford Early Modern Literature Seminar last night.
January 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I dream of a day when EEBO's systems don't think I'm a robot
December 13, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
December 10, 2024 at 10:46 AM