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 ☕️
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.
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...
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
Printing out chapter drafts is so helpful in keeping the motivation going to keep writing. Nearly halfway through the book now!
March 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Printing out chapter drafts is so helpful in keeping the motivation going to keep writing. Nearly halfway through the book now!
Our choristers are excited to sing at their first choral evensong this Sunday 🕯️🎶
February 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Our choristers are excited to sing at their first choral evensong this Sunday 🕯️🎶
The @churchofengland.org Sunday Service was live from Rotherham Minster today. It was a pleasure to sing for this! 🎶✨ The service is available to watch here: www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-w...
February 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The @churchofengland.org Sunday Service was live from Rotherham Minster today. It was a pleasure to sing for this! 🎶✨ The service is available to watch here: www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-w...
Golden hour in Stratford ☀️
December 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Golden hour in Stratford ☀️
Pre-Christmas research trip to the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon 📚
December 19, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Pre-Christmas research trip to the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon 📚
Rotherham Minster looking atmospheric in purple for advent carol service 🕯️✨
December 1, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Rotherham Minster looking atmospheric in purple for advent carol service 🕯️✨
First time visiting the beautiful Doncaster Minster ✨
November 23, 2024 at 6:22 PM
First time visiting the beautiful Doncaster Minster ✨
I’m so excited to say that I have signed a contract with Palgrave to publish my book “Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage” 🎉📚🎶
July 30, 2024 at 3:22 PM
I’m so excited to say that I have signed a contract with Palgrave to publish my book “Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage” 🎉📚🎶
I really enjoyed sharing my research online at #Britgrad2024 today! 🥰🎶
June 15, 2024 at 4:25 PM
I really enjoyed sharing my research online at #Britgrad2024 today! 🥰🎶
I finished my #Britgrad2024 paper so here’s a little preview. Excited to speak about the ravishing power of music on Saturday! @britgrad.bsky.social 🎶
June 13, 2024 at 3:56 PM
I finished my #Britgrad2024 paper so here’s a little preview. Excited to speak about the ravishing power of music on Saturday! @britgrad.bsky.social 🎶
I’m at #Britgrad2024 online this week! Enjoying listening to my PhD examiner Simon Smith’s plenary on music and drama in the Inns of Court 🎭🎶 @britgrad.bsky.social
June 13, 2024 at 9:28 AM
I’m at #Britgrad2024 online this week! Enjoying listening to my PhD examiner Simon Smith’s plenary on music and drama in the Inns of Court 🎭🎶 @britgrad.bsky.social
Little throwback to my first Britgrad conference in 2019 to say I’m really pleased that my paper on ravishing music in James Shirley’s play The Lady of Pleasure has been accepted for this year’s conference. It’s so exciting that people want to hear about my book!! 🥰📚🎶
April 4, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Little throwback to my first Britgrad conference in 2019 to say I’m really pleased that my paper on ravishing music in James Shirley’s play The Lady of Pleasure has been accepted for this year’s conference. It’s so exciting that people want to hear about my book!! 🥰📚🎶
Went to see Luke Jerram’s exhibition, Mars: War and Peace, at Peterborough Cathedral today and it was fantastic!! Well worth a visit! 🚀🔴🤩
January 12, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Went to see Luke Jerram’s exhibition, Mars: War and Peace, at Peterborough Cathedral today and it was fantastic!! Well worth a visit! 🚀🔴🤩
Had a lovely time singing at the launch of Museum of the Moon in Rotherham 🌕🎶
November 19, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Had a lovely time singing at the launch of Museum of the Moon in Rotherham 🌕🎶
Clifton Park looking beautiful in the autumn sunshine ☀️🍂
October 29, 2023 at 5:44 PM
Clifton Park looking beautiful in the autumn sunshine ☀️🍂
Here I am enjoying blue skies at Cannon Hall Farm’s pumpkin festival last weekend 🎃☀️🍂
October 19, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Here I am enjoying blue skies at Cannon Hall Farm’s pumpkin festival last weekend 🎃☀️🍂