Dr Shirley Bell

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Front cover of ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ by Shirley Bell.

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

Thank you!

Front cover of ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ by Shirley Bell.

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

Thank you!

Thank you!

Me sitting at a desk pointing to a computer screen saying “submit your manuscript”.

I submitted the manuscript for my book “Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage” this week! 🎉🎶📕

Easter

Policing by consent: an early modern perspective This post derives from some of the work I’ve been doing on my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship over the last year and a half. For more on these themes, I’ve an article coming out in H…

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police.

blog here:

drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...

Looking forward to presenting my paper on expressions of grief in Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd tomorrow!

A group of people standing in the courtyard of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Me standing in front of a screen with my PowerPoint presentation on it.

A group of four men singing in a chapel.

A group of people sitting at a table for a formal dinner.

I had an amazing time at the Moving Music Conference in Cambridge last week!

People punting on the River Cam

King’s College Chapel in the distance

I’m in Cambridge for the Moving Music conference which starts today at Emmanuel College. I will be speaking about the saraband in Ben Jonson’s Staple of News this afternoon.

Picture of me sitting at a desk in the library in front of a computer.

Productive library day! 📚 Finished writing another chapter of my book and made a start to my paper for the Moving Music conference which I will be presenting at in Cambridge later this month.

Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court Visit the post for more.

Join us on Thursday 29 May as Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) talks on “To give some colour as if they meant the peace”: a practice-based approach to ‘legality’ in early modern England. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com

En route to Sheffield for tomorrow's workshop. Made a spur of the moment pit stop in Rothwell, the site of the alleged 16th-century assault that I'll be chatting about.

a massive shout out to my wonderful PAR actors who gamely came out onto a university thoroughfare to try enacting proclamations of peace on Monday! #history #PAR #practiceasresearch #skystorians

Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️

Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...

Look at these *amazing* facsimiles @saracharles.bsky.social has made for #eatingtearingthrowing on Friday! Join us in person or online, tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv

just six days out from #eatingtearingthrowing some early modern legal documents! join us in person or online for a wonderful day of practice as research and legal history. tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv

Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️

Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...

Beyond excited for this event, which highlights all the ways you could Have a Strop about being served a warrant in early modern England. Stamping on, throwing, ripping, crumpling, and eating documents all feature. Come join us if you're in the city!

Little snippet from rehearsals 🎭

Looking forward to taking part in this workshop as one of the actors! 🎭 I’m thoroughly enjoying being involved with this fantastic project. I’m working with some great people and learning so much! Thank you @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social for giving me this brilliant opportunity 🤩 #earlymodern

fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my
@leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers) University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

Greensleeves: Text and Textiles in Early Modern English Culture - Society of Antiquaries of London This interdisciplinary conference takes the iconic sixteenth century ballad Greensleeves as a focal point through which to explore the interconnections of texts, textiles and material culture in early...

Really looking forward to this #conference in July @antiquaries.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...
#earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky
@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social

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An amazing achievement! ✨