Callan Davies
early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
- Proofs for a chapter in a forthcoming and rather brilliantly eclectic edited collection… More anon I’m sure from the superb editorial team on its wider contents and imminent publication…
- Pho like a traction engine! @accidentalp.bsky.social
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- Campus looking smart in early May @unisouthampton.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Callan DaviesNow emancipated from its paywall. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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- Moment of calm from my office verandah @unisouthampton.bsky.social
- Stress management… Tapas in the sun: Padron peppers; pimenton lamb strips w/ rosemary, lemon, peppers, & vermouth; king prawns in shallots, chilli, garlic, & paprika; crispy spiced potato (w/ tahini dressing—spin on patatas bravas); sardine & avo pico de gallo crostini; tomatoes w/ salsa verde.
- Reposted by Callan DaviesHullo! It's the time of year when I do a bulk order of books to review for Shakespeare Survey's annual article on new publications on Shakespeare and performance, which I submit at the end of November. Do you have a new book, or want to recommend one? Drop it here!
- Reposted by Callan DaviesExciting recruitment news, we're now advertising for the role of Head of Collections (Library, Museum and Archives)! Closing date is 18 May. For all the details on the role and how to join our friendly team, please see the link. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
- Healthy sale on over @routledgelit.bsky.social! What is a Playhouse? You can discover for cheaper than usual: www.routledge.com/What-is-a-Pl... #shakespeare #literature #drama #theatre #skystorians
- Sunny Sunday repast: whole baked tilapia with salsa verde and a beefsteak tomato salad.
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- Reposted by Callan DaviesThis June, we have an exciting conference! It will showcase early career scholars working on the intersections between text, materiality and performance, both in and beyond the commercial theatres in Great Britain and Ireland in the long early modern period (1500-1800). www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/
- Circumnavigated 1575 Paris today, in between urgent bid drafting (an autonomous “writing retreat”). Charming stuff, from a nunnery swallowed by the city to a skeleton sketch of the Notre Dame as its bells rang out. Oh: et boeuf, vins, et soleil imprevu.
- An autofiction novel’s opening line on the NextDoor app?
- Because of … travel reasons, compelled to bring US cuisine to home for OH. Lamb smash cheese burgers in homemade spiced patty (with Polish pickles, lettuce, shallots, mustard dressing) and homemade fries. Plus actual US hot sauce ofc.
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- Break from bid writing and book progress. Sun is shining on Camberwell.
- Reposted by Callan Davies'The most terrifying aspect of the situation we are in is that this is probably the worst time in history to lose faith in higher education. Even as digital culture and social media have created a false sense of mass empowerment...' 1/2
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- Ah, one of the best places to step back in time, now on Bluesky!
- Hello! We're The London Archives, a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. We look after over 100km of manuscripts, books, drawings, engravings, photos and films spanning 1000 years of London's history! Give us a follow. #archives #history #LondonHistory
- Reposted by Callan DaviesHello! We're The London Archives, a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. We look after over 100km of manuscripts, books, drawings, engravings, photos and films spanning 1000 years of London's history! Give us a follow. #archives #history #LondonHistory
- My spin on ayam kapitan (the Malaysian spicy, sour tamarind curry, here with okra), to serve with plaice later.
- Reposted by Callan DaviesSolidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling. The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right. Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.
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- Reposted by Callan DaviesOn the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
- Reposted by Callan DaviesEven accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
- Reposted by Callan DaviesPhD Studentship at Exeter: 'Remembering William Shakespeare'! www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September). Please spread the word!
- Reposted by Callan DaviesPlease share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
- Reposted by Callan DaviesBritish Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding
- Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now? Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
- The Social
- Reposted by Callan DaviesTo this doleful list we must now add Derby and Lincoln, so that's ten universities making redundancies. In a week. Ridiculous and pitiful.
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- Reposted by Callan DaviesUniversity of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...
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- Looking forward to the Architecture of Conversion conference at @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social today and tomorrow. @srsrensoc.bsky.social: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... I’ll be presenting (storytelling?) research from the opening chapter of my book-in-progress on the Curtain playhouse.
- Reposted by Callan Davies📣 Applications are open for the @theUL and @cambridgeuni.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship: The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England 📅: 16 May 2025 Apply here: loom.ly/tXuIqK8 @camglamresearch.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Callan DaviesOK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...
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- Amazing series (online & in person) coming up at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social (c/o @lucyholehouse.bsky.social): Performing (in) the Early Modern City'. 3 brilliant talks with exhibited material—for what more can 16th/17th century London fans ask!? www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Thing... (1/2) …
- Reposted by Callan DaviesMAYBE it would be a good idea for our national library to actually buy hard copies of books to, you know, preserve them and make them accessible to researchers for decades to come
- James Stokes's new Records of Early English Drama collection for the whole county of Suffolk is now LIVE and up on the REED site: ereed.org/collections/... What East Anglian riches await... #theatrehistory
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- That time of year
- Reposted by Callan DaviesKeep in mind: the NEH’s budget is 0.01% of the entire federal budget. This is not about savings - it is about the destruction of the Humanities and the critical thinking abilities that they teach. 🗃️
- Got the same letter for a project I’m part of as international collaborator. Both unsurprising and shocking simultaneously.
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- Oracle Sisters (💯) at the post-fire but always ethereally sublime Koko Camden.
- Can any UK folk with experience advise: am trying to claim some small travel reimbursements from a US uni for travel to States last month. Apparently this would mean I owe tax and need an ITIN, which seems an inpenetrable (and costly) process. Can this be? Any tips?
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- Joyful abundance of #BoxOfficeBears news to share, including 2 new articles and... 🥁🥁🥁 🎉OUR BOOK CONTRACT NOW SIGNED! Fully open-access with @uclpress.bsky.social. We're excited and busying away writing. 🗣️Read all about it, read all about it 🗣️ here: boxofficebears.com/bob-in-print/
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- Ooh lovely—nice alternative to their commercial plays of the previous year…
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- My work on @ukparliament.parliament.uk's art and architecture and its Shakespearean resonances now out (having appeared online before) in the latest issue, in some excellent company:
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- A brilliant reflection on and advocacy for humanities research, teaching, and engagement in these trying but urgent times for SHAPE academia, with a forceful intro from Regenia Gagnier and including @jennyrichards.bsky.social on English and @englishassociation.bsky.social work.
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- Reposted by Callan DaviesThis article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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- I have written to Meta & to my @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MP, as via helpful steers @societyofauthors.bsky.social. LibGen d/base feat.s alarming amount of work including my own; following this month's always-miraculous @alcs.co.uk payout, IP issues here feel even more acute (not to mention ethics).
- We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
- Reposted by Callan Davies🐶 Good Boy Klaxon 🐶 This testator bequeathed 'the iron racks in the kitchen, two great spits, a dog wheel, and all that belongs there'. Thanks to the volunteer who shared this dog wheel turnspit from People's Collection Wales - yes, originally powered by a dog running in it 🐕🛞🐕🛞 #EarlyModern 🗃️
- A great instance of an animal in probate frim @materialwills.bsky.social! You can see more on spit dogs and on early modern dogs-on-paper in our #BoxOfficeBears resource on the dog censuses of New Romney: boxofficebears.com/resource/a-c...
- 🐶 Good Boy Klaxon 🐶 This testator bequeathed 'the iron racks in the kitchen, two great spits, a dog wheel, and all that belongs there'. Thanks to the volunteer who shared this dog wheel turnspit from People's Collection Wales - yes, originally powered by a dog running in it 🐕🛞🐕🛞 #EarlyModern 🗃️
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