Revels Office
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The Revels Office is a friendly and supportive virtual academic network for PGR and ECR scholars of all things early modern! Head to our website for more info on what we do: https://revelsoffice.com
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📢Call For Session Leaders📢
If you're an early modernist with an idea for a session you'd like to run, we'd love to hear from you!
The Revels Office is a supportive and enthusiastic group, so we're the perfect testing ground for new ideas 🌟
Get in touch with us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
If you're an early modernist with an idea for a session you'd like to run, we'd love to hear from you!
The Revels Office is a supportive and enthusiastic group, so we're the perfect testing ground for new ideas 🌟
Get in touch with us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
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💘Latest early access release, and it's a chat about Tancred and Gismunda (and its variants!) with Isobel Strevens and @robertcrighton.bsky.social It's a play we've been weirdly obsessed about for a while, so join us for a dive into a house with some issues. #drama www.patreon.com/posts/discus...
Discussing: Tancred and Gismunda (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
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January 28, 2026 at 10:47 AM
💘Latest early access release, and it's a chat about Tancred and Gismunda (and its variants!) with Isobel Strevens and @robertcrighton.bsky.social It's a play we've been weirdly obsessed about for a while, so join us for a dive into a house with some issues. #drama www.patreon.com/posts/discus...
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Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog
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February 6, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
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The #CfP for our Summer Conference 2026 on the theme 'The Church and Race' is open now. You can find more information on the theme, how to apply, and bursaries here:
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/ #historians
Deadline: 15 April 2026
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/ #historians
Deadline: 15 April 2026
February 4, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The #CfP for our Summer Conference 2026 on the theme 'The Church and Race' is open now. You can find more information on the theme, how to apply, and bursaries here:
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/ #historians
Deadline: 15 April 2026
ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/ #historians
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Issue 43.4 features work from Revels Office member Laurie Higgins! 👏👏👏
NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.3 is now published via Project Muse! This open access issue features articles on Margaret's presentation in Much Ado; an analysis of bushido in Kurosawa's Ran; and a pedagogy-oriented exploration of a Globe app for actor-training.
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56353
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56353
February 4, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Issue 43.4 features work from Revels Office member Laurie Higgins! 👏👏👏
📢Call For Session Leaders📢
If you're an early modernist with an idea for a session you'd like to run, we'd love to hear from you!
The Revels Office is a supportive and enthusiastic group, so we're the perfect testing ground for new ideas 🌟
Get in touch with us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
If you're an early modernist with an idea for a session you'd like to run, we'd love to hear from you!
The Revels Office is a supportive and enthusiastic group, so we're the perfect testing ground for new ideas 🌟
Get in touch with us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
January 30, 2026 at 5:43 PM
📢Call For Session Leaders📢
If you're an early modernist with an idea for a session you'd like to run, we'd love to hear from you!
The Revels Office is a supportive and enthusiastic group, so we're the perfect testing ground for new ideas 🌟
Get in touch with us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
If you're an early modernist with an idea for a session you'd like to run, we'd love to hear from you!
The Revels Office is a supportive and enthusiastic group, so we're the perfect testing ground for new ideas 🌟
Get in touch with us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
Just a reminder that our January 'Bring A Problem' session will take place at 4pm tonight! Hope to see you there :)
Our January meeting will take place on Monday 26th and will be a 'Bring A Problem' session!
Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶
Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶
January 26, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Just a reminder that our January 'Bring A Problem' session will take place at 4pm tonight! Hope to see you there :)
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🌈📚 Announcing our winter and spring reading group dates and readings! 📚🌈
📚 sign-up to the reading group: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
🥬 enter Vin's raffle: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📚 sign-up to the reading group: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
🥬 enter Vin's raffle: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
🌈📚 Announcing our winter and spring reading group dates and readings! 📚🌈
📚 sign-up to the reading group: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
🥬 enter Vin's raffle: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📚 sign-up to the reading group: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
🥬 enter Vin's raffle: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our January meeting will take place on Monday 26th and will be a 'Bring A Problem' session!
Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶
Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶
January 16, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Our January meeting will take place on Monday 26th and will be a 'Bring A Problem' session!
Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶
Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶
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Grants!
We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.
Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.
Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.
Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.
Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
Grants
Previous grant recipients If you would like to help us support early career scholars in bibliography, please email our Treasurer (treasurer@oxbibsoc.org.uk) to discuss how you can help. Any donatio…
oxbibsoc.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Grants!
We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.
Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.
Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.
Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.
Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/
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🎺 We have some more big news: our 20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE THEME! We are proud to present Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World, coming on 13 and 14 July, 2026!🎺
Keep an eye out for more information on how to get involved in the coming days....👀
Keep an eye out for more information on how to get involved in the coming days....👀
January 5, 2026 at 7:08 PM
🎺 We have some more big news: our 20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE THEME! We are proud to present Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World, coming on 13 and 14 July, 2026!🎺
Keep an eye out for more information on how to get involved in the coming days....👀
Keep an eye out for more information on how to get involved in the coming days....👀
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We are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!
🎄☃️Merry Christmas from the Revels Office!☃️🎄
We hope you’re having a lovely day whatever you’re up to🌟🤍
We hope you’re having a lovely day whatever you’re up to🌟🤍
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🎄☃️Merry Christmas from the Revels Office!☃️🎄
We hope you’re having a lovely day whatever you’re up to🌟🤍
We hope you’re having a lovely day whatever you’re up to🌟🤍
Reminder that we have our December meeting at ❗4pm❗ today! Meeting link has been sent out by email - looking forward to seeing you there 🎄☃️🎁
December 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Reminder that we have our December meeting at ❗4pm❗ today! Meeting link has been sent out by email - looking forward to seeing you there 🎄☃️🎁
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Who's entering our Biennial Book Prize 2026, to celebrate the best monographs in Renaissance studies published in 2024 and 2025? Send your scintillating scholarship to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, @racheljwillie.bsky.social, by 31st January 2026.
www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
December 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Who's entering our Biennial Book Prize 2026, to celebrate the best monographs in Renaissance studies published in 2024 and 2025? Send your scintillating scholarship to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, @racheljwillie.bsky.social, by 31st January 2026.
www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
Our 🎊festive🎊 meeting of the Revels Office will take place on the 22nd December and will be a 'Bring A Thing' session!
This is an opportunity to share any object/text/picture/anecdote that you've come across in your research and think is cool 🖤
Are you an early modern PGR or ECR? Get in touch!
This is an opportunity to share any object/text/picture/anecdote that you've come across in your research and think is cool 🖤
Are you an early modern PGR or ECR? Get in touch!
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Our 🎊festive🎊 meeting of the Revels Office will take place on the 22nd December and will be a 'Bring A Thing' session!
This is an opportunity to share any object/text/picture/anecdote that you've come across in your research and think is cool 🖤
Are you an early modern PGR or ECR? Get in touch!
This is an opportunity to share any object/text/picture/anecdote that you've come across in your research and think is cool 🖤
Are you an early modern PGR or ECR? Get in touch!
It was so lovely to see so many people at our November meeting yesterday! Thanks for coming, everyone 🌟
If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍
If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It was so lovely to see so many people at our November meeting yesterday! Thanks for coming, everyone 🌟
If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍
If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com 🤍
Yesterday we had our November meeting, which was a brilliant talk on the article editing process led by our very own Miriam Haas!
Mirjaam’s session was so informative, filled with insight into the process and plenty of examples from her own experience, which we’re so grateful for.
Thanks Mirjaam!
Mirjaam’s session was so informative, filled with insight into the process and plenty of examples from her own experience, which we’re so grateful for.
Thanks Mirjaam!
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Yesterday we had our November meeting, which was a brilliant talk on the article editing process led by our very own Miriam Haas!
Mirjaam’s session was so informative, filled with insight into the process and plenty of examples from her own experience, which we’re so grateful for.
Thanks Mirjaam!
Mirjaam’s session was so informative, filled with insight into the process and plenty of examples from her own experience, which we’re so grateful for.
Thanks Mirjaam!
Hope everyone is doing ok despite the cold!🥶
Our meeting this week (in fact, tomorrow! Mon 24th) will be a workshop on publications and the editing process with the wonderful Miriam Haas!
Sure to be interesting and valuable to everyone, no matter how far into their PhD journey. See you there!
Our meeting this week (in fact, tomorrow! Mon 24th) will be a workshop on publications and the editing process with the wonderful Miriam Haas!
Sure to be interesting and valuable to everyone, no matter how far into their PhD journey. See you there!
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hope everyone is doing ok despite the cold!🥶
Our meeting this week (in fact, tomorrow! Mon 24th) will be a workshop on publications and the editing process with the wonderful Miriam Haas!
Sure to be interesting and valuable to everyone, no matter how far into their PhD journey. See you there!
Our meeting this week (in fact, tomorrow! Mon 24th) will be a workshop on publications and the editing process with the wonderful Miriam Haas!
Sure to be interesting and valuable to everyone, no matter how far into their PhD journey. See you there!
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Here's some of the insights shared at our 'What I Wish I Knew': PhD Advice session on Monday🧑💻
Let's start a conversation – if you've got any advice/tips/wisdom, drop them in the comments below! 💞
Let's start a conversation – if you've got any advice/tips/wisdom, drop them in the comments below! 💞
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here's some of the insights shared at our 'What I Wish I Knew': PhD Advice session on Monday🧑💻
Let's start a conversation – if you've got any advice/tips/wisdom, drop them in the comments below! 💞
Let's start a conversation – if you've got any advice/tips/wisdom, drop them in the comments below! 💞
Revels OG Rachel Hare has co-curated the fantastic exhibition SWOON! taking place on the 8th November at Bristol Museum's M Shed, exploring the history of fainting 😵
For more info on the interactive exhibit, visit Rachel's Instagram page: @rachelhare285 🤍
For more info on the interactive exhibit, visit Rachel's Instagram page: @rachelhare285 🤍
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Revels OG Rachel Hare has co-curated the fantastic exhibition SWOON! taking place on the 8th November at Bristol Museum's M Shed, exploring the history of fainting 😵
For more info on the interactive exhibit, visit Rachel's Instagram page: @rachelhare285 🤍
For more info on the interactive exhibit, visit Rachel's Instagram page: @rachelhare285 🤍
Such a great session! 16 members in attendance – so lovely to see so many new faces🫶
Huge thanks to Juliana, Bet, Liesl, Patrick, Yuqi and Maria for offering your wisdom to our new starters! It's so valuable to have such a supportive space.
Want to get involved? Email us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
Huge thanks to Juliana, Bet, Liesl, Patrick, Yuqi and Maria for offering your wisdom to our new starters! It's so valuable to have such a supportive space.
Want to get involved? Email us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Such a great session! 16 members in attendance – so lovely to see so many new faces🫶
Huge thanks to Juliana, Bet, Liesl, Patrick, Yuqi and Maria for offering your wisdom to our new starters! It's so valuable to have such a supportive space.
Want to get involved? Email us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
Huge thanks to Juliana, Bet, Liesl, Patrick, Yuqi and Maria for offering your wisdom to our new starters! It's so valuable to have such a supportive space.
Want to get involved? Email us at revelsoffice@gmail.com!
🚨Our October Meeting is happening at 4pm TONIGHT!!! 🚨 So looking forward to seeing everyone for our 'What I Wish I'd Known': PhD Advice session 🎓🖤
October 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚨Our October Meeting is happening at 4pm TONIGHT!!! 🚨 So looking forward to seeing everyone for our 'What I Wish I'd Known': PhD Advice session 🎓🖤
The MEMRN’s Winter Conference 2025 is still available for online attendance! 14-16th Nov - guaranteed to be great 🤍
Our full conference schedule is now available to view on our website! Check it out here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter...
And if you'd like to register to join us virtually, registrations for virtual attendance are now open via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...
And if you'd like to register to join us virtually, registrations for virtual attendance are now open via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...
MEMRN Winter Conference 2025
MEMRN Winter Conference 2025 The MEMRN Committee are delighted to announce the return of the Winter Conference after the huge success of last year’s inaugural in-person event in Norwich. The …
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October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The MEMRN’s Winter Conference 2025 is still available for online attendance! 14-16th Nov - guaranteed to be great 🤍