Sad to hear that Peter Beal, specialist on early modern manuscripts, has died.

I met Peter in the mid-2000s when the Institute of English studies was preparing for the CELM project bid.

Peter Beal obituary: palaeographer who catalogued Churchill’s papers

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/peter-beal-dv99zgdxp

#obituary #manuscriptstudies #manuscripts #earlymodernliterature

It's #WorldEmojiDay! 🎉🎉🎉
We celebrate it with 3 new books of our collection, sprinkled with beautiful #emoji! 🎈
First is this essay collection, edited by Eva von Contzen & James Simpson, on lists in 🇬🇧 & 🇩🇪 #MedievalLiterature & #EarlyModernLiterature

#MedievalCulture

Happy Easter! The Easter bunny has brought us 2 new books for our collection, both on #EarlyModernLiterature!

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Find out more below!

#Easter #EnglishLiterature #ElizabethanEngland #EnglishRenaissance

Introduction post:

I’m Dr Corrina Readioff, an eighteenth-centuryist & honorary fellow at the University of Liverpool & as well as #18thCentury #literature I am interested in #BookHistory #romanticism #bibliography and #EarlyModernLiterature.

My first book, Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850: Seducing the Reader, is under contract with Edinburgh University Press and will be published next year.

I'm also an artist, jewellery maker, knitter, cross stitcher (& designer) writer & reader.

I love the #OED. That's it, that's the toot.

#wordnerd #etymology #writing #Research #literature #earlymodern #earlymodernliterature #earlymoderndrama #shakespeare

The #month of #November.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany, 1608

#earlymodern #earlymodernseasons #earlymodernliterature #recordingartist #17thcentury #seventeenthcentury #nicholasbreton #seasons #laboursofthemonths #seasonal #months
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BD9ONrqO_M&ab_channel=Passamezzo