ThomasNasheProject

Delighted that our podcast series, 'The Precarious World of Thomas Nashe', is coming out this week. Episodes 1 and 2 are published today. Available wherever you get your podcasts, but you can also check us out here: precariousworld.podbean.com

A Nashe project spin-off: @KateDeRycker will be talking about the 'Digital Thomas Nashe' exhibition for the @EnglishAssoc on 1st December. You can sign up here: englishassociation.ac.uk/co-producing-r…. And you can have a look at the project here: speccollstories.ncl.ac.uk/digital-thomas…

Please do circulate amongst your networks. If you want to informally pitch an idea ahead of sending the abstract, please contact @KateDeRycker or @cathy_shrank.

"Twice or thrice in a month, the bottom of my purse is turned downward [...] and my conduit of ink will no longer flow for want of reparation" (Nashe, 1596). A reminder of the 15th July deadline for our CfP on precarity in literature/ literary lives: academic.oup.com/english/pages/…

@cathy_shrank This report on a recent webinar organised in collaboration with @EnglishAssoc might also be of interest.

Link to British Academy report, Qualified for the Future: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/s…

"As the British Academy’s Qualified for the Future report notes, in 2020 eight of the ten fastest growing sectors in the UK economy employed more graduates from the arts, humanities and also social sciences than from any other disciplines." hepi.ac.uk/2023/06/21/the…

Thanks to @EnglishAssoc for co-organising the session, and to all our speakers.

In response to very significant recent publications about the future of the humanities in the UK, here's our latest blog, about a webinar we organised earlier this year on English and employability. Enjoy! @a.cornish/my-useful-english-degree-our-webinar-cf5b778c7123" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@a.cornish/my-…

Really looking forward to speaking at this free, in-person early modern printing event on 25 Apr (in a double bill w the amazing ⁦@jtneuhauser⁩). Sign up here and please RT + share widely! #earlymodern eventbrite.com/e/616443126987

Speaking about the 'Penniless?' project today with fellow project partners @cathy_shrank & Archie Cornish, and with @JenniferRichar7 chairing. We focused on historical and modern precarity using @nashe_thomas as our guide. Join us online today at 5.25 BST.

An essay about our podcast series, 'The Precarious World of Thomas Nashe', with some thoughts on pod-usefulness for academics, and the Nashean properties of the mini-documentary. Enjoy! @a.cornish/podcasts-and-pamphlets-the-precarious-world-of-thomas-nashe-acf5d7132db6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@a.cornish/pod…

Check out these amazing drawings, responses to Nashe's pageant of sins. Some words on the drawings coming soon!

Thanks to the EA and all our speakers for a really inspiring afternoon. English Studies essential, full of possibility and in (defiantly) good health.

Here the eye-wateringly talented artist Jessica Heywood provides a "reel" tour of her pop-up exhibition @sheffielduni responding to Thomas Nashe's Pierce Penniless (part of @nashe_thomas' Penniless? project) instagram.com/reel/CoX2jSCoT… ->

Some info below on an upcoming seminar with @SRSRenSoc recapping our various nefarious activities over the last nine months!

Episode 6, ft @KateDeRycker with @earlymodatLancs & @RenaissanceRach, takes us over the Other Side to talk about ghosts, the supernatural, & very, very dark nights podbean.com/ea/pb-6gex3-13…

Here's a teaser:

Episode 5 of our podcast series, 'The Precarious World of Thomas Nashe', is out today. It's about plague - how it caused a lockdown in 1592, how it became a news story, and how it affected Nashe's style. With @avoiding_bears and Andrew Hadfield. podbean.com/ep/pb-ikrvd-13…

Aaaaaand here's Episode 4, on Nashe's experimental forms and style: podbean.com/ep/pb-r45hh-13…

Our podcasts are coming out at a rate of absolute knots. Here's Episode 3, on the Nashean places and spaces of Elizabethan London. podbean.com/ep/pb-9w94g-13…

How come @nashe_thomas sounds like he does? Episode 4 of The Precarious World of Thomas Nashe now out: podbean.com/ew/pb-r45hh-13…. Featuring @cathy_shrank with @SM_Fallon and Joe Black.

Want to know more about where @nashe_thomas hung out and the precarious rental market of 16th-c London? Episode 3 of The Precarious World of Thomas Nashe now available, podbean.com/ew/pb-9w94g-13…. Features @archie_cornish with @callanjd and Vanessa Harding.