Dr Shirley Bell
Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (forthcoming 2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
- I submitted the manuscript for my book “Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage” this week! 🎉🎶📕
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- Looking forward to presenting my paper on expressions of grief in Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd tomorrow!
- I had an amazing time at the Moving Music Conference in Cambridge last week!
- 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.
- 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.
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- 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...
- 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
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- 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
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- Reposted by Dr Shirley BellLet's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/
- Attending the Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social #earlymodern
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- Printing out chapter drafts is so helpful in keeping the motivation going to keep writing. Nearly halfway through the book now!
- Looking forward to reading and reviewing this for the Year’s Work in English Studies ✨
- Hello Blueksy! I expect this first post will be my most exciting post 🤣 My article about a new manuscript copy of Sonnet 116 I have identified has been published online open access academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @oupacademic.bsky.social
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- Our choristers are excited to sing at their first choral evensong this Sunday 🕯️🎶
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- The @churchofengland.org Sunday Service was live from Rotherham Minster today. It was a pleasure to sing for this! 🎶✨ The service is available to watch here: www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-w...
- Looking forward to seeing this! ☀️
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- Golden hour in Stratford ☀️
- Pre-Christmas research trip to the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon 📚
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- Reposted by Dr Shirley BellPlease share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Dr Shirley BellPlease share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
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- Rotherham Minster looking atmospheric in purple for advent carol service 🕯️✨
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- Whenever I visit a new city, the first thing I go to see is the cathedral, but when I visited Paris, it was only a few weeks after the fire. I hope to be able to go back at some point because this looks amazing!
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- Reposted by Dr Shirley BellWe're creating a Bluesky 'starter pack' for choirs, leaders and singers involved in online choirs / virtual choirs. Let's connect our harmonious digital community! If you would like to be added, just reply and let us know! 🙂🎶 go.bsky.app/S1LTut8at://did:plc:ud752fxuf56hiib756zgf3w5/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbf5gdtwev25
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- Tickets are now available for Rotherham Minster choir’s Carols by Candlelight services www.buytickets.at/rotherhammin... 📆 Wednesday 18th December at 7pm; and 📆 Sunday 22nd December at 7pm Really excited to be singing at these! My favourite services of the whole year! 🎶🕯️✨
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- Reposted by Dr Shirley BellGiving the starter pack for people interested in early modern women another little boost. Lots of great scholars here! go.bsky.app/Cqqbsptat://did:plc:g6f5q26fd55svf5klls5wcuc/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lajtgaz4on2w
