Matthew Steggle

@matthewsteggle.bsky.social

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Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.

A deadline set to midnight, 1st January, 3000 AD.

A shelf of books including Lee Jackson’s Dirty Old London

Front page of today’s Sunday Times, with a panel for an article inside, “how accurate is Hamnet?”

Old St Paul's, the cathedral which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London.

Fred T. Follett, ed., The Archer’s Register for 1889-1890 (London: Horace Cox, 1890), 78.

Source: https://archive.org/details/BP_TRHM_0004; see also https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Nina_Sforza/sh0OAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22richard+zouch+troughton%22&pg=PP5&printsec=frontcover; also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Katherine_Clemmons

Inscription on front endpaper

Cover of Arber's edition of Ascham's Toxophilus (1868)

Pic from https://spinoffmagazine.com/about-drop-spindle-spinning/

A bit of grubby manuscript with what might be letters on