Asking for a student: what is the figure on the right holding in the title-page woodcut to the Haec Vir pamphlet? my first thought was a badminton racket and shuttlecock, but a bit of cursory research into the history of badminton suggests this is unlikely! A handful of feathers and... a spoon?

suddenly wondering if Sabrina Ghayour is making an Andrew Marvell reference

Series of personal and professional knock-backs lately, gonna go walk the Salt path*

*wales coast path, I’m not facing the M4 in this mood

Lovely Cymbeline at the Willow Globe this evening, worth the lengthy round trip to mid Wales

Very honoured and excited to learn that 'Shakespeare and the Royal Actor' is shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize for 2024!

My copies of “Shakespeare’s Afterlife in the Royal Collection” have reached sunny south Wales!

23 essays by 23 amazing scholars, plus colour pictures, for an unusually reasonable £30 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This collection is out today! Featuring 23 essays about weird and/or wonderful objects in (or formerly in!) the Royal Collection. Mine is on this bizarre Victorian photomontage

I love this. Greetings to the big boys from my small boys

This collection is now available for pre-order at the relatively affordable price of £30! Featuring chapters by 22 brilliant scholars and curators (and one by me) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

thank you for posting this! I found my granddad at 21 months

Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

Time to get out the festive Thomas Middleton which is my favourite ever gift from a student

Just received the proofs for this exciting collection - we worked with a wonderful group of contributors for this and I can't wait to see it out in the world

Hard to know how to start again out of the ruins of Twitter, but it’s lovely to see so many familiar names here. Hello (again), and here is a picture of my cats