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Michael Powell-Davies
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Postdoc on non-elite writing in 17C England @ Birkbeck, University of London | PhD on Middling Culture and Maritime London, c. 1580-1640 | New writing | Crystal Palace
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Six greenmen and their fireworks, viz:
June 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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'Unseen things seen are most and best approved:
gold, because rare, is dear and well beloved.'

Join us this time next week for a rare reading of Walter Mountfort's The Launching of the Mary (1632).

More details and to register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
April 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
'Unseen things seen are most and best approved:
gold, because rare, is dear and well beloved.'

Join us this time next week for a rare reading of Walter Mountfort's The Launching of the Mary (1632).

More details and to register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
April 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Written at sea in 1632, Walter Mountfort's The Launching of the Mary hasn't seen a London stage for almost 400 years.

Join us at Arts Week 2025 for a script-in-hand reading of this little-known Renaissance play.

More details and registration here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event....
April 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Written at sea in 1632, Walter Mountfort's The Launching of the Mary hasn't seen a London stage for almost 400 years.

Join us at Arts Week 2025 for a script-in-hand reading of this little-known Renaissance play.

More details and registration here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event....
April 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The brief 1609 will of John Lux is pulsing with #EarlyModern life:

Delightfully, Lux willed that his trumpet be sold 'and that money given and bestowed amongest this Shipps companye to drinke and be merrye withall'.

📜📜📜🎺🎺🎺⚓⚓⚓🍺🍺🍺

#Skystorians #MaterialCulture #MaritimeHistory 🗃️

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March 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Another excellent year of #EMROCTranscribes, this year at Birkbeck with a great group who enjoyed Zooming with transcribers @rcphysicians.bsky.social & elsewhere and the thought-provoking talk on the history of #earlymodern abortion from @maryfissell.bsky.social. Thanks as always to EMROC … (1/2)!
March 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Really excited to soon be in Boston for RSA/SAA 2025!

I'll be talking on London, nautical bookshops, and the writing of place, alongside the brilliant @clairerichie.bsky.social and Francesca Bua.

With many thanks to Peter Good for chairing and the London Renaissance Seminar for sponsoring!
March 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Dropping some books off at the charity shop, and enjoying the thought of these being out in the world… 📚
January 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM