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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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Hey Bluesky!👋 We're the Revels Office, an academic network for PGRs and ECRS researching all things early modern📚

Our community is a friendly space to share ideas and resources, ask questions, support each other, and meet fellow early modernists.

Check out our website for more! revelsoffice.com
Revels Office
⋅ a virtual network for early modern PhD students and ECRs ⋅
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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
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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
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 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! 💞
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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 🤍
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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!
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 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 🎓🖤
October 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The MEMRN’s Winter Conference 2025 is still available for online attendance! 14-16th Nov - guaranteed to be great 🤍
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...
Renowned BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time receives prestigious British Academy President’s Medal for 2025
The British Academy has awarded its prestigious President’s Medal to the long-running and beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time. Recognising its outstanding contribution to humanities and social s...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
It's nearly time for our October meeting!

This month, we're running a 'What I Wish I Knew' advice session for our new PhD students to ask any questions they've got after their first few weeks 🙋

Are you an early modern PhD student/ECR? Drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com for more info🖤
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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🎭 Dr Murat Öğütcü presents 'Jonson’s Masque of Blackness: Materializing Environmental Injustice' and Dr Andrea Stevens explores 'Racial Masquerade and the ‘Retconning’ of The Spanish Match in Walter Montagu’s The Sheperd’s Paradise' at the London Shakespeare Seminar on 21 October ⬇️
London Shakespeare Seminar with Dr Murat Öğütcü and Dr Andrea Stevens | King's College London
Join the Shakespeare Centre London for our first London Shakespeare Seminar of the year. Hosted online, this event will be Chaired by Dr Hanh Bui and will feature two exciting new papers by Dr Murat…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Tickets for The Witch of Edmonton are moving fairly fast - season tickets for the whole season are still available as well. Catch one, catch them all - a week of pre-modern drama at The White Bear in Kennington from 21st October.
Book now, or we summon the Dog!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
October 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Here's a roundup of our first monthly meeting from last week🤩

If you're a PGR/ECR and these events sounds like your kind of thing, check out our website (revelsoffice.com) and drop us an email at revelsoffice@gmail.com for more info! We'd love to see you 🫶
October 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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♟️The second half of our live performance of A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton has dropped! It's part of a much longer series of recordings from our live event Middleton's Endgame from August last year - and there's still more to come! #ThomasMiddleton #AudioDrama audioboom.com/posts/878525...
A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton LIVE! (Middleton's Endgame 3)
The second half of Thomas Middleton's scandalous play, performed live for the 400th anniversary.
audioboom.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
CFP for a two-day symposium on Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature. Submission deadline is the 24th Nov, so there's still lots of time!

Click the link for more info👇

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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October 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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This #InternationalPodcastDay tune into ‘Confessions of an Early Career Researcher’ – a new guide to the world of academia post-PhD.

The first three episodes of the podcast are available now. Subscribe for our next episodes, live on 15 October: https://bit.ly/4pNaTp1
September 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hey Bluesky!👋 We're the Revels Office, an academic network for PGRs and ECRS researching all things early modern📚

Our community is a friendly space to share ideas and resources, ask questions, support each other, and meet fellow early modernists.

Check out our website for more! revelsoffice.com
Revels Office
⋅ a virtual network for early modern PhD students and ECRs ⋅
revelsoffice.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM