Jackie Watson
@jackiewatson05.bsky.social
Early modern literature: letters, Inns of Court, drama. Somervillian. European.
‘Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters’ out with EUP June 2024.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters.html
‘Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters’ out with EUP June 2024.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters.html
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@jackiewatson05.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Not quite sure why I’ve had a surge of followers on here today, but thank you. ☺️ May be time to remind people that Epistolary Courtiership is now available (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistol...)
Use the code NEW30 for 30% discount. @EdinburghUP
Use the code NEW30 for 30% discount. @EdinburghUP
The most amazing building! And next door to where I work. My first peek today - can’t wait for the theatre and concert hall to open in the New Year. I’ll miss the old English Faculty - but this is a whole new direction for the Humanities to collaborate. Academically and creatively. #SchwarzmanCentre
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The most amazing building! And next door to where I work. My first peek today - can’t wait for the theatre and concert hall to open in the New Year. I’ll miss the old English Faculty - but this is a whole new direction for the Humanities to collaborate. Academically and creatively. #SchwarzmanCentre
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🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026.
👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference
📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025
📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals!
#CfP #bookhistory #skystorians
👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference
📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025
📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals!
#CfP #bookhistory #skystorians
July 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026.
👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference
📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025
📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals!
#CfP #bookhistory #skystorians
👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference
📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025
📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals!
#CfP #bookhistory #skystorians
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And here's the link to the OA version (not that I'd want to dissuade anyone from purchasing a physical copy): www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...
www.uwp.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
And here's the link to the OA version (not that I'd want to dissuade anyone from purchasing a physical copy): www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...
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Andreea and Christian will be presenting at EMC CPD Face-to Face: Language Change, Digital Communication & Social Media – an EMC Teacher Conference-with-CPD (30.9.25)
Get signed up here and come and join us!
Book by 8am on 26th Sept
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Get signed up here and come and join us!
Book by 8am on 26th Sept
buff.ly/xQmMHMg
September 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Andreea and Christian will be presenting at EMC CPD Face-to Face: Language Change, Digital Communication & Social Media – an EMC Teacher Conference-with-CPD (30.9.25)
Get signed up here and come and join us!
Book by 8am on 26th Sept
buff.ly/xQmMHMg
Get signed up here and come and join us!
Book by 8am on 26th Sept
buff.ly/xQmMHMg
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Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.
link.springer.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.
link.springer.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.
link.springer.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Join us online on 1 September at 6pm to explore #Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors' with Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and Ian Burrows @irburrows.bsky.social. This webinar is free and open to all.
Prepare to learn more about one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays! #TheComedyofErrors
Prepare to learn more about one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays! #TheComedyofErrors
English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: The Comedy of Errors
In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of The Comedy of Errors from Oxford World's Classics.
shakespeare-webinar-comedy-of-errors.eventbrite.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Join us online on 1 September at 6pm to explore #Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors' with Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and Ian Burrows @irburrows.bsky.social. This webinar is free and open to all.
Prepare to learn more about one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays! #TheComedyofErrors
Prepare to learn more about one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays! #TheComedyofErrors
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A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, describing the sights & sounds of #BartholomewFair, which was held #otd at #Smithfield from the 12th to the 19th Centuries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_2...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #historyoflondon #onthisday #onthidayinhistory #ballad
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_2...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #historyoflondon #onthisday #onthidayinhistory #ballad
Passamezzo: A Description of Bartholomew Fair
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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August 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, describing the sights & sounds of #BartholomewFair, which was held #otd at #Smithfield from the 12th to the 19th Centuries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_2...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #historyoflondon #onthisday #onthidayinhistory #ballad
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_2...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #historyoflondon #onthisday #onthidayinhistory #ballad
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Still time to apply!
📣Applications still open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15 September 2025
More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15 September 2025
More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship
Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.
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August 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Still time to apply!
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2 more days of our crowdfunder to go, and today's MiniMotet-based-on-a-well-known-tune is one for all the #Monteverdi fans. To paraphrase, sure he was great, but nuns did it all in wimples and chronically sleep-deprived. #nuntastic #earlymodern #GirlsGotPolyphony 1/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf-r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf-r...
Crowdfunder Week 8, MiniMotet 3: Sancta Dei genitrix Sancta Maria
YouTube video by MusicaSecreta
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August 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
2 more days of our crowdfunder to go, and today's MiniMotet-based-on-a-well-known-tune is one for all the #Monteverdi fans. To paraphrase, sure he was great, but nuns did it all in wimples and chronically sleep-deprived. #nuntastic #earlymodern #GirlsGotPolyphony 1/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf-r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf-r...
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Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741
Newsletter | ANZAMEMS Inc | Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Incorporated)
www.anzamems.org
July 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741
A glorious day off! 🥰 A spot of gardening, then a local stroll…
May 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A glorious day off! 🥰 A spot of gardening, then a local stroll…
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Lovely to be back in Oxford talking about “A Trick of the Mind” !
Thanks to @somervillecollege.bsky.social for hosting me, and for the lively and (predictably) thoughtful questions - about drugs, psychics, child development, neurodiversity, mystics, madness and more!
tinyurl.com/ATrickOfTheM...
Thanks to @somervillecollege.bsky.social for hosting me, and for the lively and (predictably) thoughtful questions - about drugs, psychics, child development, neurodiversity, mystics, madness and more!
tinyurl.com/ATrickOfTheM...
May 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Lovely to be back in Oxford talking about “A Trick of the Mind” !
Thanks to @somervillecollege.bsky.social for hosting me, and for the lively and (predictably) thoughtful questions - about drugs, psychics, child development, neurodiversity, mystics, madness and more!
tinyurl.com/ATrickOfTheM...
Thanks to @somervillecollege.bsky.social for hosting me, and for the lively and (predictably) thoughtful questions - about drugs, psychics, child development, neurodiversity, mystics, madness and more!
tinyurl.com/ATrickOfTheM...
If you’re in Oxford on 8 June, join us in person as we welcome @annabeerauthor.bsky.social - and otherwise join us online. This will be fun! www.some.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
Sundays at Somerville: Anna Beer and The Death of an Englishman - Somerville College Oxford
We are very pleased to welcome Dr Anna Beer to Somerville. A Fellow, and formerly Director of the Creative Writing MSt at Kellogg College in Oxford, Anna has recently brought out her first book of det...
www.some.ox.ac.uk
May 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you’re in Oxford on 8 June, join us in person as we welcome @annabeerauthor.bsky.social - and otherwise join us online. This will be fun! www.some.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
Sundays at Somerville: Anna Beer and The Death of an Englishman - Somerville College Oxford
We are very pleased to welcome Dr Anna Beer to Somerville. A Fellow, and formerly Director of the Creative Writing MSt at Kellogg College in Oxford, Anna has recently brought out her first book of det...
www.some.ox.ac.uk
May 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you’re in Oxford on 8 June, join us in person as we welcome @annabeerauthor.bsky.social - and otherwise join us online. This will be fun! www.some.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us on Thursday 29 May as Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) talks on “To give some colour as if they meant the peace”: a practice-based approach to ‘legality’ in early modern England. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com
Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
Visit the post for more.
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May 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Join us on Thursday 29 May as Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) talks on “To give some colour as if they meant the peace”: a practice-based approach to ‘legality’ in early modern England. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com
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Emily and I have much more to say about this and are concocting other related projects. In the meantime, our #MiddleTempleToManoa exhibition catalogue @middletemple.bsky.social can be downloaded for free here:
www.tideproject.uk/wp-content/u...
www.tideproject.uk/wp-content/u...
www.tideproject.uk
May 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Emily and I have much more to say about this and are concocting other related projects. In the meantime, our #MiddleTempleToManoa exhibition catalogue @middletemple.bsky.social can be downloaded for free here:
www.tideproject.uk/wp-content/u...
www.tideproject.uk/wp-content/u...
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It's in print! My & @emilylsteve.bsky.social's chapter on how the Middle Temple's chambers, libraries, hall, and chapel became spaces of global exchange. Part of a wonderful new volume on Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court, ed. @jackiewatson05.bsky.social & @emmakrhatigan.bsky.social.
May 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It's in print! My & @emilylsteve.bsky.social's chapter on how the Middle Temple's chambers, libraries, hall, and chapel became spaces of global exchange. Part of a wonderful new volume on Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court, ed. @jackiewatson05.bsky.social & @emmakrhatigan.bsky.social.
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New from @englishassociation.bsky.social! English opens doors: fliers with info on skills and careers for English students, teachers, parents now available to download. englishassociation.ac.uk/english-open...
English Opens Doors: resources for teachers and students | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
May 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
New from @englishassociation.bsky.social! English opens doors: fliers with info on skills and careers for English students, teachers, parents now available to download. englishassociation.ac.uk/english-open...
All welcome! This hybrid event is free to join online.
Next month on 11th May acclaimed Social Historian Jane Robinson, our Senior Assoicate, will join us for a Sundays at Somerville discussion of her most recent book Trailblazer, about the pioneering and criminally overlooked Victorian social reformer Barbara Bodichon.
Sundays at Somerville: Jane Robinson and Trailblazer - Somerville College Oxford
We are delighted to welcome Jane Robinson (English, 1978) to talk about her most recent book, Trailblazer, a life of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, the first feminist to change our world. Professional…
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April 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
All welcome! This hybrid event is free to join online.
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This is the first of four models we are releasing in the lead up to our 150th celebration. If you'd like to receive future mailings but haven't updated your address recently, please email development.office@some.ox.ac.uk. You can also donate to the Somerville fund here: buff.ly/PnSCOq0
Make a Donation - Somerville College
Gift Aid is a government programme that allows charities to claim back tax on donations.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This is the first of four models we are releasing in the lead up to our 150th celebration. If you'd like to receive future mailings but haven't updated your address recently, please email development.office@some.ox.ac.uk. You can also donate to the Somerville fund here: buff.ly/PnSCOq0
Barbara’s funeral yesterday was a very moving event. Superb music led by Will Dawes and beautiful readings, alongside a eulogy commemorating one of the most incisive minds in literary criticism. She will be missed.
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr Barbara Everett on Friday 4th April, 2025, aged 92. A former Senior Research Fellow at Somerville, Dr Everett was an eminent literary critic and the writer of academic books and articles on subjects from Shakespeare to Auden and Barbara Pym.
April 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Barbara’s funeral yesterday was a very moving event. Superb music led by Will Dawes and beautiful readings, alongside a eulogy commemorating one of the most incisive minds in literary criticism. She will be missed.