'The waste, the ham-fistedness, the stupidity, the inevitability, the hurt'.
I had to leave front-line academia because I ran out of toes to slice off to squeeze into the ever-shrinking glass slipper. My wife has just about escaped redundancy (for now); many of her colleagues haven't been so lucky.
OK #MedievalSky and #Skystorians: early career job klaxon! A post on my new project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain', 30 months (with poss. of extension). Details at jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @royalhistsoc.org @memorients.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Drury Lane Theatre opened #onthisday in 1663 and the current building was built 1812. A Grade 1 listed building in Covent Garden hosting plays ever since.
Interior view is from Rudolph Ackerman's 'Microcosm of London' 1808-11 (AN 20.1.5).
Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....
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