Prof Tracey Hill
@tracelarkhall.bsky.social
Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
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Well hello new people! Hope you like cats, football and random snippets of early modern London
St Katharine Cree. Very High Church. This is Laud's monument.
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
St Katharine Cree. Very High Church. This is Laud's monument.
Methi malai kofta. Very tasty sauce, mopped up with an equally tasty butter nan.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Methi malai kofta. Very tasty sauce, mopped up with an equally tasty butter nan.
Very pleased to report that the Bell near Aldgate is *not* closed down 😊
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Very pleased to report that the Bell near Aldgate is *not* closed down 😊
Travelodge wifi. Completely shit. And not even free.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Travelodge wifi. Completely shit. And not even free.
Sayle's 1920s transcriptions of this very tricky pageant memorandum book, 1556-1568
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Sayle's 1920s transcriptions of this very tricky pageant memorandum book, 1556-1568
Wondering what Peele, Middleton, Munday, Dekker, Webster, Heywood et al would have thought of this innovation...
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Wondering what Peele, Middleton, Munday, Dekker, Webster, Heywood et al would have thought of this innovation...
Reposted by Prof Tracey Hill
The second in our series of threads on the wonderful articles comprising our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today', is on Sam Waterman and Charlotte Grant's 'Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City' (available open access).
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Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City*
This article provides an account of teaching London’s cultural history on a semester-long, first-year undergraduate study-abroad course at Northeastern University London (NUL) using a multi-authore...
www.tandfonline.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The second in our series of threads on the wonderful articles comprising our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today', is on Sam Waterman and Charlotte Grant's 'Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City' (available open access).
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November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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It's June 1615 and Webster has *finally* got round to claiming his freedom of the Merchant Taylors by patrimony. James Williams and William Griffin witnessed that he was indeed the son of John Webster senior
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It's June 1615 and Webster has *finally* got round to claiming his freedom of the Merchant Taylors by patrimony. James Williams and William Griffin witnessed that he was indeed the son of John Webster senior
Esoteric example of the Custom of London in practice: William Beale and George Bassett are Merchant Taylors but their actual occupation is 'trading and dealing for Orenges, Lemons, and Onyons'. Never assume an early modern Londoner actually practices the trade they're a member of!
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Esoteric example of the Custom of London in practice: William Beale and George Bassett are Merchant Taylors but their actual occupation is 'trading and dealing for Orenges, Lemons, and Onyons'. Never assume an early modern Londoner actually practices the trade they're a member of!
Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
BULLSHIT OFFSIDE MY ARSE
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
BULLSHIT OFFSIDE MY ARSE
Fuck you Haaland!
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Fuck you Haaland!
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is a great piece
This is a really fascinating discussion of changing linguistic conventions and how women are expected to write differently.
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Enough already!!! Punctuation, silly women and soundbite science
One of last week’s media talking points was a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP), which attracted attention mainly because of its claim that women use exclamati…
debuk.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is a great piece
This is Isla. Isla is a lovely girlie. 10/10 waggy tail 💗
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is Isla. Isla is a lovely girlie. 10/10 waggy tail 💗
St Peter, Shaftesbury: traces of medieval paint
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
St Peter, Shaftesbury: traces of medieval paint
Under surveillance
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Under surveillance
Middleton’s final production! Listen in!
🚨Latest pod drop - it's The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity by Thomas Middleton, recorded live last year at Middleton's Endgame, our A Game at Chess event. ♟️
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
Lord Mayor's Show 1626 (Middleton's Endgame 5)
Let's go over to the live broadcast of the Lord Mayor's Show...
audioboom.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Middleton’s final production! Listen in!
@drdeelittle.bsky.social Darryl! Hi!
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
@drdeelittle.bsky.social Darryl! Hi!
Fucking close down Schools of Management
"Kelly Shue of Yale School of Management, one of the paper’s authors, says they are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing."
Or, stay with me, IT COULD NOT.
Or, stay with me, IT COULD NOT.
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Fucking close down Schools of Management
Watching the Dalglish film and remembering how good were that Liverpool side 🤩
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Watching the Dalglish film and remembering how good were that Liverpool side 🤩
TIL that Andy Carroll - yes, THAT Andy Carroll - is now playing for Dagenham & Redbridge in the National League
a soccer player with the number 7 on his jersey kicks the ball
ALT: a soccer player with the number 7 on his jersey kicks the ball
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
TIL that Andy Carroll - yes, THAT Andy Carroll - is now playing for Dagenham & Redbridge in the National League
Reposted by Prof Tracey Hill
Join us online this Monday evening as Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social – President of the Marlowe Society of America, and former President of the Australian & New Zealand Shakespeare Association – uncovers the connections between ale houses and playhouses in early modern London.
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 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Join us online this Monday evening as Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social – President of the Marlowe Society of America, and former President of the Australian & New Zealand Shakespeare Association – uncovers the connections between ale houses and playhouses in early modern London.