Simon Jackson, George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Publishing on 1 December Described by one contemporary as the ‘sweet singer of The Temple’, George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert’s own participation in seventeenth-century musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This […]

Dr Eleanor Myerson is co-hosting and moderating ‘Michael Rakowitz: (G)hosting’ with the Centre for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College on 4 November.  This is an online event. Link to further information and to register:  https://chra.bard.edu/event/michael-rakowitz/ Please note that the time listed is New York time. Dr Eleanor Myerson is the Parker Library […]

ALL MY SONS BY ARTHUR MILLER @ ROBINSON AUDITORIUM, 17th-20th NOVEMBER, 19:30 Every man has a star… the star of one’s honesty. A tree has blown down in the night. It’s Larry Keller tree; the tree that his mother planted in his memory after he disappeared three years ago. It’s 1946: the War is over, but […]

The collection of lectures, transcribed from the audio archives of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, edited by Emma Gomis and Anne Waldman, is published by Nightboat Books. The official release date for the publication is 8 November. The book can be preordered here: https://nightboat.org/book/new-weathers/ The editors will be doing a virtual launch with City Lights […]

Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) was a special guest on a recent episode of On the Road with Penguin Classics podcast. He joined the charming host Henry Elliot for a walk around Cambridge and a meander through E.M. Forster’s classic novel Maurice. Dr Hester’s new book Nothing Ever Just Disappears, a history of LGBTQ culture through […]

What was life like for early modern boy actors, and what was it like to write for them? Join the Intellectual Forum and Jesus College Fellow Dr Harry R. McCarthy to hear about his new book, Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre. Date and time: Wednesday 23 November, 5pm-7.30pm […]

At the ceremony, Magdalene College’s new library was named the UK’s best new building, winning the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture. As College Librarian, and a Director of Magdalene College’s Design and Build company, Dr Waithe showed round the awards judges and wrote the client statement for the RIBA Stirling Prize winning New Library. […]