Sorry @onslies.bsky.social; your #SRSlyGood reading has been usurped!
Wonderful, exciting news – my Reynard the Fox is now an audiobook! Completely unabridged and read by the perfect narrator, Joseph Edward Degnan. It's available now at all the usual places, see below for links and a clip!
Sometimes the Maleperduys kitchens were cold and bare,
with only potage and pea soup and coarse dark bread and lean
scraps of bacon and dull, cheap dishes like peas-on-a-stick...
The new #audiobook of #folktale Reynard the Fox, by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 🦊
➡️ lnk.to/Reynard
with only potage and pea soup and coarse dark bread and lean
scraps of bacon and dull, cheap dishes like peas-on-a-stick...
The new #audiobook of #folktale Reynard the Fox, by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 🦊
➡️ lnk.to/Reynard
December 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Sorry @onslies.bsky.social; your #SRSlyGood reading has been usurped!
I may, just may, have written a #SRSlygood abstract about an impossible object biography. #nuntastic, too, of course.
September 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I may, just may, have written a #SRSlygood abstract about an impossible object biography. #nuntastic, too, of course.
Evenin' Campers! We're hosting a #SRSlyGood book launch on 10 Sept 2025, 17.00BST/12.00EDT/18.00CEST. Join former SRS Postdoctoral Fellow, @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social in conversation ŵ @ewoodacre.bsky.social to celebrate "The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots" shorturl.at/Z6zfN
September 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Feeling very lucky as always to work with these #SRSlyGood people 🐦🔥
We welcome to Council the magnificent @norajw.bsky.social &, as we wave a teary farewell to our amazing outgoing [in ALL senses of the word] Chair, Jane Grogan, we look forward to Hannah Murphy’s brilliant reign as Chair, ŵ @racheljwillie.bsky.social as her Vice Chair #SRSlyGood
July 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Feeling very lucky as always to work with these #SRSlyGood people 🐦🔥
SRS Annual Lecture 2024, "Piety, Passion & Poetry in 17thC Wales", 21 June 2024, 14.00, Abergavenny. Featuring an incredible lineup of speakers: Lloyd Bowen, Simon Jackson, Hannah Thomas, Helen Wilcox & Rowan Williams, & music by Tim Pratt. All welcome! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/piety-...
March 10, 2024 at 8:14 PM
We welcome to Council the magnificent @norajw.bsky.social &, as we wave a teary farewell to our amazing outgoing [in ALL senses of the word] Chair, Jane Grogan, we look forward to Hannah Murphy’s brilliant reign as Chair, ŵ @racheljwillie.bsky.social as her Vice Chair #SRSlyGood
July 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We welcome to Council the magnificent @norajw.bsky.social &, as we wave a teary farewell to our amazing outgoing [in ALL senses of the word] Chair, Jane Grogan, we look forward to Hannah Murphy’s brilliant reign as Chair, ŵ @racheljwillie.bsky.social as her Vice Chair #SRSlyGood
The latest issue of our #SRSlyGood "Renaissance Studies" is OUT! It's an extra special issue on 'Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print', guest edited by the distinguished duo, Mari-Liisa Varila and Sara Norja.
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March 28, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The latest issue of our #SRSlyGood "Renaissance Studies" is OUT! It's an extra special issue on 'Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print', guest edited by the distinguished duo, Mari-Liisa Varila and Sara Norja.
rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-...
rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-...
Congratulations to @nicolemaceira.bsky.social and @serinquinn.bsky.social, SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2025-2026! We look forward to working with you in the coming year 💫 🎉 🙌🎉 💫
www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-postdoct... #SRSlyGood #Skystorians
www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-postdoct... #SRSlyGood #Skystorians
July 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Congratulations to @nicolemaceira.bsky.social and @serinquinn.bsky.social, SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2025-2026! We look forward to working with you in the coming year 💫 🎉 🙌🎉 💫
www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-postdoct... #SRSlyGood #Skystorians
www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-postdoct... #SRSlyGood #Skystorians
🤩 #RenSoc25 is going to be #SRSlyGood!!!
So happy to be presenting my paper ‘Social Networks and Women’s Enmities in Early Modern France, 1680-1720’ at next year’s @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference in Bristol! #SRS25
November 8, 2024 at 1:44 PM
🤩 #RenSoc25 is going to be #SRSlyGood!!!
👀👀👀 ok THIS is the way to celebrate the arrival of hashtags to the blue skies with #SRSlyGood! #earlymodern #skystorians
In non-conference years & in an attempt post-lockdown to mix the format up a little, the SRS annual lecture will take the form of a discussion between exceptionally erudite, charismatic & generally smartypants people. Want to hear what we have in store for 21 June 2024 in Abergavenny?
March 10, 2024 at 8:04 PM
👀👀👀 ok THIS is the way to celebrate the arrival of hashtags to the blue skies with #SRSlyGood! #earlymodern #skystorians
Congratulations to Urvashi Chakravarty, whose "Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England" has been shortlisted for the SRS Book Prize 2024 pennpress.org/9780812253658/…#SRSlyGoodod
August 12, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Congratulations to Urvashi Chakravarty, whose "Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England" has been shortlisted for the SRS Book Prize 2024 pennpress.org/9780812253658/…#SRSlyGoodod
Thank you, Bristol, for a terrific #RenSoc25 & for being amazing hosts! It was fabulous to hear such erudite papers & talk with a brilliant bunch of people. Looking forward to seeing y’all at #RenSoc27, where @warburginstitute.bsky.social will be our hosts in our DIAMOND anniversary year! #SRSlyGood
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July 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thank you, Bristol, for a terrific #RenSoc25 & for being amazing hosts! It was fabulous to hear such erudite papers & talk with a brilliant bunch of people. Looking forward to seeing y’all at #RenSoc27, where @warburginstitute.bsky.social will be our hosts in our DIAMOND anniversary year! #SRSlyGood
Had first @srsrensoc.bsky.social Council Meeting of the year and feeling very blessed to be working with such a fantastic bunch of weirdos! #SRSlyGood 🥰 🥰 🥰
October 4, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Had first @srsrensoc.bsky.social Council Meeting of the year and feeling very blessed to be working with such a fantastic bunch of weirdos! #SRSlyGood 🥰 🥰 🥰
I was reviews editor for this fabulous journal under the most excellent, erudite & #SRSlyGood @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @kevinkilleen.bsky.social & enjoyed every minute of it. Do consider applying — if you’re half as good as the previous editors, you’ll be formidable! 🙌 🐦🔥 🔥
*VERY EXCITING VACANCY*
Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley.
Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is
Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...
Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley.
Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is
Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...
November 15, 2024 at 11:50 AM
I was reviews editor for this fabulous journal under the most excellent, erudite & #SRSlyGood @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @kevinkilleen.bsky.social & enjoyed every minute of it. Do consider applying — if you’re half as good as the previous editors, you’ll be formidable! 🙌 🐦🔥 🔥
👀 congratulations to our one and only #SRSlyGood public engagement officer, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social!!!
🙌 🥳 🍻 💫
Prestigious award for Dr John Gallagher | Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures | University of Leeds
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Prestigious award for Dr John Gallagher | Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures | University of Leeds
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Prestigious award for Dr John Gallagher
Dr Gallagher is a historian of Early Modern Britain and Europe, with particular interests in language, migration and education.
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
October 20, 2023 at 3:45 PM
👀 congratulations to our one and only #SRSlyGood public engagement officer, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social!!!
🙌 🥳 🍻 💫
Prestigious award for Dr John Gallagher | Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures | University of Leeds
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🙌 🥳 🍻 💫
Prestigious award for Dr John Gallagher | Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures | University of Leeds
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
We have five exciting seminars you can enrol on during our conference in July. Let's have a look at each in turn. A little 🧵
(sign up form here: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...)
#RenSoc25
January 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Cranking up the volume a bit so this announcement will reverberate across the blue skies 🔈📣 Do you have a #SRSlyGood monograph published between 1 January 2022 & 31 Dec 2023? Why not enter it for our book prize? #EarlyModern www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
October 31, 2023 at 1:17 AM
Cranking up the volume a bit so this announcement will reverberate across the blue skies 🔈📣 Do you have a #SRSlyGood monograph published between 1 January 2022 & 31 Dec 2023? Why not enter it for our book prize? #EarlyModern www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
👀 Mornin' campers! Would you like to know who the new editor and associate editor of "Renaissance Studies" are going to be? #Teaser #SRSlyGood
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May 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
👀 Mornin' campers! Would you like to know who the new editor and associate editor of "Renaissance Studies" are going to be? #Teaser #SRSlyGood
👀 it’s the magnificent, terrific, erudite, wise, perspicacious, fabulous, bright, scintillating, ingenious, all round good egg @rentravailer.bsky.social delivering the #SRSlyGood SRS Keynote Lecture on “Ruins and Resilience: Ruderal Poetics and Matters of Belonging” at #RenSA25!
March 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
👀 it’s the magnificent, terrific, erudite, wise, perspicacious, fabulous, bright, scintillating, ingenious, all round good egg @rentravailer.bsky.social delivering the #SRSlyGood SRS Keynote Lecture on “Ruins and Resilience: Ruderal Poetics and Matters of Belonging” at #RenSA25!
Registration closes today!!! Who’s coming to Bristol for our #SRSlyGood biennial conference, 2-5 July? #RenSoc25
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-11...
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-11...
SRS 11th Biennial Conference – Society for Renaissance Studies
www.rensoc.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Registration closes today!!! Who’s coming to Bristol for our #SRSlyGood biennial conference, 2-5 July? #RenSoc25
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-11...
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-11...
In this #SRSlyGood SRS Book Series interview, we talk to @spparkle.bsky.social and reflect on her "Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music" (2021). We discuss music’s affective power and the importance of understanding history through physical experience. www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-ser...
SRS Book Series Interviews: Katie Bank – Society for Renaissance Studies
www.rensoc.org.uk
December 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In this #SRSlyGood SRS Book Series interview, we talk to @spparkle.bsky.social and reflect on her "Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music" (2021). We discuss music’s affective power and the importance of understanding history through physical experience. www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-ser...
The SRS has been proudly curbing enthusiasm since 1967!
If you would like to EXPRESS interest in participating in a #SRSlyGood seminar, here are the full descriptions: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...
If you would like to EXPRESS interest in participating in a #SRSlyGood seminar, here are the full descriptions: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...
December 21, 2024 at 12:05 PM
The SRS has been proudly curbing enthusiasm since 1967!
If you would like to EXPRESS interest in participating in a #SRSlyGood seminar, here are the full descriptions: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...
If you would like to EXPRESS interest in participating in a #SRSlyGood seminar, here are the full descriptions: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...
Whatever Happened to Rhetoric? Join John Spurr for the Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Welsh Lecture, 13 March 2024 17.30, Cardiff. www.rensoc.org.uk/event/whatev...
Whatever Happened to Rhetoric? – Society for Renaissance Studies
www.rensoc.org.uk
March 11, 2024 at 5:53 PM
👀 OUR SEMINAR SIGN-UP IS LIVE!!! We've six scintillating seminars happening at #RenSoc25! To find out more & to sign up before 22 January 2025, see: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...
#SRSlyGood Seminars require pre-circulating a paper & participating in perspicacious conversation at the conference!
#SRSlyGood Seminars require pre-circulating a paper & participating in perspicacious conversation at the conference!
December 14, 2024 at 11:22 AM
👀 OUR SEMINAR SIGN-UP IS LIVE!!! We've six scintillating seminars happening at #RenSoc25! To find out more & to sign up before 22 January 2025, see: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...
#SRSlyGood Seminars require pre-circulating a paper & participating in perspicacious conversation at the conference!
#SRSlyGood Seminars require pre-circulating a paper & participating in perspicacious conversation at the conference!
DEADLINE TONIGHT (30th April)!!!! The application portal will remain open until the pumpkin hour, so send us your #SRSlyGood postdoctoral fellowship proposals.
The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April
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rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...
Apply: Postdoctoral Fellowship | Society for Renaissance Studies
Promoting the study of the Renaissance since 1967
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April 30, 2026 at 4:27 PM
DEADLINE TONIGHT (30th April)!!!! The application portal will remain open until the pumpkin hour, so send us your #SRSlyGood postdoctoral fellowship proposals.