Let's start with something a little different...

Set in England in 1647, Gail Holmes's novel imaginatively recreates the life of Frances Wolfreston, an early modern book collector.

And if you're really into that kind of thing, this could be right up your street...

Loughborough University is advertising for candidates for a PhD. I have to say, as a Brit living abroad, the main thing that struck me about this one was the huge disparity between the domestic fee and the international fee!

There will be a discussion on Nandini Das's Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (2023) on October 16. I'm a little late getting this newsletter out, but if you miss this one, be sure to bookmark the site for future events; these King's College, London, events are a treat!

In this Historic Royal Palaces blog post, Misha Ewen tells what is known of two Black children who arrived at Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace in 1704.

In this podcast on Female Servants in Early Modern England, Jana Byars hosts Charmian Mansell talking about her recent open-access book surveying the 27,000 witnesses and 9,000 cases involving female servants whose records she has examined in church court testimony.

An article on women who cared for non-kin children in loco parentis. Emily Rhodes draws on a database of 50 petitions to the Lancashire Quarter Session Courts, 1660-1720.

The Bodleian Library has digitised the complete journals of John Locke from manuscripts purchased in 1947 and others acquired in 1960-71.

In this article, Emanuel Stelzer demonstrates Kyd's indebtedness to an Italian source.

A Resurgens production of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus will run from November 20-24 in Atlanta.

A Guardian report on research by the ubiquitous Darren Freebury-Jones suggesting that the largely forgotten Henry Porter may have written the comic scenes in Doctor Faustus.

A Facebook page on early modern philosophy, for all those times you've wished there was someone you could talk to about the things closest to your heart!

Discover how Scotland and Europe influenced one another in this National Library of Scotland Exhibition. Runs till April 1, 2025.

Paul Adrain Fried discusses Seven ways Hamlet might see a mirror of himself in Laertes.

Let me know if you have any comments, queries or requests for inclusion in the next newsletter!