Callan Davies
@callanjd.bsky.social
early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
Signs it’s the New Forest
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Signs it’s the New Forest
Seeking writing energy from a richly autumnal New Forest today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Seeking writing energy from a richly autumnal New Forest today.
St Giles, Camberwell earlier today
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
St Giles, Camberwell earlier today
Impossible to tire of Southampton’s Tudor House
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Impossible to tire of Southampton’s Tudor House
Ah, Friday afternoon, my last commute from Southampton to London of the week…
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Ah, Friday afternoon, my last commute from Southampton to London of the week…
Ah, Friday afternoon, my last commute from Southampton to London of the week…
October 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Ah, Friday afternoon, my last commute from Southampton to London of the week…
“Woodhouse, alias Woodhouse.” Great work, no notes…
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
“Woodhouse, alias Woodhouse.” Great work, no notes…
Campus looking beautifully autumnal today @unisouthampton.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Campus looking beautifully autumnal today @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Neat mini-exhibition on Shakespeare at @thelondonarchives.bsky.social featuring a Stuart printing of the Agas map, the Blackfriars gatehouse deed, and Keats’s First Folio.
September 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Neat mini-exhibition on Shakespeare at @thelondonarchives.bsky.social featuring a Stuart printing of the Agas map, the Blackfriars gatehouse deed, and Keats’s First Folio.
Beef shin ragu for a Friday
September 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Beef shin ragu for a Friday
New term, new notebook 💅
September 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
New term, new notebook 💅
Trip to our sister city of Winchester for some school outreach today (on the opening scene of Hamlet), looking fine in the September sunshine.
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Trip to our sister city of Winchester for some school outreach today (on the opening scene of Hamlet), looking fine in the September sunshine.
Season’s first batch of homegrown, homemade hot sauce 🌶️
September 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Season’s first batch of homegrown, homemade hot sauce 🌶️
His mistress and friends reputedly enjoyed a skinful right about here, at a tavern that was then at “Duck lane end” of Smithfield. (With frontage to St Bartholomew the Great and its stunning half-timbered gatehouse, uncovered by zeppelin raids in WW1, dating from 1590s.)
September 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
His mistress and friends reputedly enjoyed a skinful right about here, at a tavern that was then at “Duck lane end” of Smithfield. (With frontage to St Bartholomew the Great and its stunning half-timbered gatehouse, uncovered by zeppelin raids in WW1, dating from 1590s.)
And here to their “dwelling house within the Hospitall of Little St Bartholomew’s”
September 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
And here to their “dwelling house within the Hospitall of Little St Bartholomew’s”
Through Hog Lane (now Worship St) turning eventually onto Chiswell St and via Barbican onto Long Lane to arrive at Smithfield shambles:
September 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Through Hog Lane (now Worship St) turning eventually onto Chiswell St and via Barbican onto Long Lane to arrive at Smithfield shambles:
This afternoon, I’m retracing the steps of a Curtain playgoer from the early 1610s, a young domestic servant. On 13th May, he came here to see the Duke of York’s men and then headed back to his mistress’s house in St Bartholomew’s hospital. #CurrainBook
September 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This afternoon, I’m retracing the steps of a Curtain playgoer from the early 1610s, a young domestic servant. On 13th May, he came here to see the Duke of York’s men and then headed back to his mistress’s house in St Bartholomew’s hospital. #CurrainBook
Sloe gin settling in to hibernate, in time to awaken for Christmas tippling!
September 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Sloe gin settling in to hibernate, in time to awaken for Christmas tippling!
September reading arrivals! Lots of Shoreditch action…
September 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
September reading arrivals! Lots of Shoreditch action…
Good progress this morning in the company of the Middleton family #CurtainBook
August 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Good progress this morning in the company of the Middleton family #CurtainBook
Writing this week about early modern women’s battles to manage the Curtain estate, including the hand behind this signature mark. #CurtainBook
August 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Writing this week about early modern women’s battles to manage the Curtain estate, including the hand behind this signature mark. #CurtainBook
Afternoon writing in the Normandy calm #CurtainBook
August 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Afternoon writing in the Normandy calm #CurtainBook
Produits Normandie/writing fuel
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Produits Normandie/writing fuel
(Self-driven) French writing retreat #CurtainBook
August 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
(Self-driven) French writing retreat #CurtainBook