Dr Shirley Bell
@drshirleybell.bsky.social
Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (forthcoming 2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
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the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police.
blog here:
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blog here:
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Policing by consent: an early modern perspective
This post derives from some of the work I’ve been doing on my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship over the last year and a half. For more on these themes, I’ve an article coming out in H…
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July 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police.
blog here:
drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...
blog here:
drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...
Looking forward to presenting my paper on expressions of grief in Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd tomorrow!
June 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Looking forward to presenting my paper on expressions of grief in Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd tomorrow!
I had an amazing time at the Moving Music Conference in Cambridge last week!
June 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I had an amazing time at the Moving Music Conference in Cambridge last week!
I’m in Cambridge for the Moving Music conference which starts today at Emmanuel College. I will be speaking about the saraband in Ben Jonson’s Staple of News this afternoon.
June 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I’m in Cambridge for the Moving Music conference which starts today at Emmanuel College. I will be speaking about the saraband in Ben Jonson’s Staple of News this afternoon.
Productive library day! 📚 Finished writing another chapter of my book and made a start to my paper for the Moving Music conference which I will be presenting at in Cambridge later this month.
June 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Productive library day! 📚 Finished writing another chapter of my book and made a start to my paper for the Moving Music conference which I will be presenting at in Cambridge later this month.
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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
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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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En route to Sheffield for tomorrow's workshop. Made a spur of the moment pit stop in Rothwell, the site of the alleged 16th-century assault that I'll be chatting about.
May 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
En route to Sheffield for tomorrow's workshop. Made a spur of the moment pit stop in Rothwell, the site of the alleged 16th-century assault that I'll be chatting about.
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a massive shout out to my wonderful PAR actors who gamely came out onto a university thoroughfare to try enacting proclamations of peace on Monday! #history #PAR #practiceasresearch #skystorians
May 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
a massive shout out to my wonderful PAR actors who gamely came out onto a university thoroughfare to try enacting proclamations of peace on Monday! #history #PAR #practiceasresearch #skystorians
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Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️
Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...
Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...
May 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️
Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...
Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...
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Look at these *amazing* facsimiles @saracharles.bsky.social has made for #eatingtearingthrowing on Friday! Join us in person or online, tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv
May 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Look at these *amazing* facsimiles @saracharles.bsky.social has made for #eatingtearingthrowing on Friday! Join us in person or online, tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv
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just six days out from #eatingtearingthrowing some early modern legal documents! join us in person or online for a wonderful day of practice as research and legal history. tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv
May 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
just six days out from #eatingtearingthrowing some early modern legal documents! join us in person or online for a wonderful day of practice as research and legal history. tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv
Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️
Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...
Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...
May 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️
Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...
Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...
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Beyond excited for this event, which highlights all the ways you could Have a Strop about being served a warrant in early modern England. Stamping on, throwing, ripping, crumpling, and eating documents all feature. Come join us if you're in the city!
join me, @thegozfather.bsky.social, @lflannigan17.bsky.social, @saracharles.bsky.social, @freemanjones.bsky.social, Clare Egan and Derek Dunne on 23rd May to explore what serving, tearing and eating legal documents in early modern England actually looked like! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv #skystorians
May 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Beyond excited for this event, which highlights all the ways you could Have a Strop about being served a warrant in early modern England. Stamping on, throwing, ripping, crumpling, and eating documents all feature. Come join us if you're in the city!
Little snippet from rehearsals 🎭
what happens when someone just decided to pocket the warrant for their arrest? come along to our workshop on 23rd May to find out! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv
May 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Little snippet from rehearsals 🎭
Looking forward to taking part in this workshop as one of the actors! 🎭 I’m thoroughly enjoying being involved with this fantastic project. I’m working with some great people and learning so much! Thank you @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social for giving me this brilliant opportunity 🤩 #earlymodern
join me, @thegozfather.bsky.social, @lflannigan17.bsky.social, @saracharles.bsky.social, @freemanjones.bsky.social, Clare Egan and Derek Dunne on 23rd May to explore what serving, tearing and eating legal documents in early modern England actually looked like! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv #skystorians
May 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Looking forward to taking part in this workshop as one of the actors! 🎭 I’m thoroughly enjoying being involved with this fantastic project. I’m working with some great people and learning so much! Thank you @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social for giving me this brilliant opportunity 🤩 #earlymodern
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fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my
@leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!
@leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!
April 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my
@leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!
@leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!
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Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...
Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)
University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.
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April 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...
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Really looking forward to this #conference in July @antiquaries.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...
#earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky
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Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...
#earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky
@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and Textiles in Early Modern English Culture - Society of Antiquaries of London
This interdisciplinary conference takes the iconic sixteenth century ballad Greensleeves as a focal point through which to explore the interconnections of texts, textiles and material culture in early...
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April 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Really looking forward to this #conference in July @antiquaries.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...
#earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky
@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...
#earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky
@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social
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Great to see this article in issue. Did Elizabethans really that the soul was a musical harmony? How and why was idea used in English post-Reformation musical debates? (Open acccess) #earlymodern #musicology
New issue of Renaissance Studies Vol. 39, No. 2 (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658... @rankinmccabe.bsky.social @ka-butler.bsky.social
Renaissance Studies: Vol 39, No 2
Click on the title to browse this issue
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March 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Great to see this article in issue. Did Elizabethans really that the soul was a musical harmony? How and why was idea used in English post-Reformation musical debates? (Open acccess) #earlymodern #musicology
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Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️
Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs.
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Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs.
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March 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️
Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs.
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Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs.
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Attending the Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social #earlymodern
March 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Attending the Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social #earlymodern
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"Helios is a stunning celebration of the sun’s life-giving power and its significance across cultures and faiths"
#LiverpoolCathedral has announced a special programme of events for #Helios - including Easter Sunday sunrise service
www.englishcathedrals.co.uk/latest-news/...
#LiverpoolCathedral has announced a special programme of events for #Helios - including Easter Sunday sunrise service
www.englishcathedrals.co.uk/latest-news/...
March 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"Helios is a stunning celebration of the sun’s life-giving power and its significance across cultures and faiths"
#LiverpoolCathedral has announced a special programme of events for #Helios - including Easter Sunday sunrise service
www.englishcathedrals.co.uk/latest-news/...
#LiverpoolCathedral has announced a special programme of events for #Helios - including Easter Sunday sunrise service
www.englishcathedrals.co.uk/latest-news/...
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Medieval and Early Modern Week in Lincoln Programme, 2025
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MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WEEK 2025: Expanding our Horizons
If you are planning to attend one of the performances, please register here.
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March 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Medieval and Early Modern Week in Lincoln Programme, 2025
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A #17thCentury #song for #ShroveTuesday:
The prologue to William Hawkins' play "Apollo's Shroving", which was first performed by schoolchildren in Hadleigh in Suffolk in 1627, as they looked forward to the #Shrovetide holiday.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6C...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky
The prologue to William Hawkins' play "Apollo's Shroving", which was first performed by schoolchildren in Hadleigh in Suffolk in 1627, as they looked forward to the #Shrovetide holiday.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6C...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky
Martin Peerson: Prologue from Apollo's Shroving - a song for Shrove Tuesday
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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March 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
A #17thCentury #song for #ShroveTuesday:
The prologue to William Hawkins' play "Apollo's Shroving", which was first performed by schoolchildren in Hadleigh in Suffolk in 1627, as they looked forward to the #Shrovetide holiday.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6C...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky
The prologue to William Hawkins' play "Apollo's Shroving", which was first performed by schoolchildren in Hadleigh in Suffolk in 1627, as they looked forward to the #Shrovetide holiday.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6C...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky