Lizzy Williamson

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Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.

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STORIES & SONGS: WILLS AS WINDOWS ONTO PAST LIVES

Join Chris Hoban and I at #Exeter Phoenix for a unique performance of history & original music inspired by #Tudor, #Stuart & Georgian wills! 🗃️

FREE! Claim your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1738865536...

New research project will explore the influence Shakespeare had upon how we remember the dead The influence and inspiration that William Shakespeare has had upon the practice of writing epitaphs is to be the focus of a new research project. English Literature experts at the University of Exete...

...and one on Shakespearean epitaphs (with @philipschwyzer.bsky.social). Exciting times! news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

...Happily I'll still be working with DH colleagues in 2 new research projects - one on AI & bias in new media and archives (with Gabriella Giannachi) gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref... ...

I'll really miss being in the fantastic DH team @dhlabexeter.bsky.social - it has been a wonderful home to me since 2017 and I am excited to see them continue to succeed...

As of today, I am moving from Senior Research Fellow in DH to Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities! I'm still based at Exeter, in the excellent English & Creative Writing dept, and I'm really looking forward to this new chapter!

The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

East London university strikes deal for major life sciences investment Queen Mary plans to develop £750mn biomedical campus after buying site from government

*really not funny at all.

Those loans these managers are taking on bind universities to a high cash reserve (hundreds of millions) for years, leading to more cutting in running cost just to meet the covenant.

This is why we need a governance review alongside a financial structure reform. #UKHE

Hello Bluesky, in September I'll be out of contract and would be grateful to hear of any potential teaching (early modern lit) or research (with archives, rare books, humanities data) work. I'm based in SW England. Thank you!

Another stimulating day at #RenSoc25: rich keynote by Subha Mukherji; I especially liked panel on bibliographic data science (unsurprisingly!) Good discussion of potential and pitfalls of data-led approaches to incomplete em sources by @fredschurink.bsky.social, @annalujz.bsky.social, Pete Morris

About | Global Library The Global Library Project (1500–1700) reconstructs the journeys made by Anglo-Scots visitors to libraries across North America, Europe, and the Middle East during the early-modern period. By reconstr...

My personal fav panel from yesterday was John-Mark Philo's project on Global Libraries, check it out if you like books, travel, knowledge exchange, and putting the past in dialogue with the present (in this case forced migrants' lack of/access to libraries) #RenSoc25 www.globallibrary.net/about

Rounding off yesterday's #RenSoc25 panels with a hybrid lecture/concert with David Bednall was gorgeous, what conference wouldn't benefit from a little choral inspiration?

Totally fabulous paper just given by Lucy Havens on gender bias/archives/ML, recording will be available with RLUK for those who missed it

Hello. We're the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter and you can find out more about the work we do here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/dig...

We support teaching and research including the digital preservation, analysis and display of cultural heritage materials, text and objects.

UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

As accurately predicted here for a long time, the number of UK universities actively making redundancies has now risen to 80. This wil rise to 90, then 100, during the next calendar year. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Me too! 👋 Thanks for curating these!

Call for papers: UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual event, Glasgow, 17-18 June 2025 (CFP deadline 15 Jan 2025) easychair.org/cfp/ukie2025. The theme is ‘Collaboration beyond boundaries’ #DigitalHumanities

Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a material text neve...

25% discount on new paperback! Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture digs into information gathering in C16th politics, with focus on the materiality and provenance of manuscript sources as they exist across digital archives and their analogue antecedents www.routledge.com/Elizabethan-...

Ah, perhaps the recent influx will help matters - I haven't even opened twitter/X for so long, it's nice to see some friendly accounts 😀

Is it true? Is it like the good old days here? I have missed social media that didn't feel hellish or banal 🙏

It's happening: my ERC Consolidator project 🪶#FEATHERS🪶is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture & manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts 20 Dec): student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...