Author:
Callan Davies
Former Research Fellow
University of Southampton
Dr Callan Davies is a literary, theatre, and cultural historian at the University of Southampton.
Meet our teamIn the last week of September 2023, the Box Office Bears team worked with the fabulous 1623 Theatre Company to explore a multitude of bears in early modern plays. We ran through the texts in the morning, workshopped them in the afternoon and then performed them for the public in the evening. This post offers some reflections on the process.
On Monday, the Box Office Bears team visited Wildwood Trust in Kent. Wildwood has three rescued captive bears, who are living new lives in a large, wooded enclosure at the Trust.
What can the bone of an adult bear tell us about the life it led and the world around it?
On Valentine’s Day in 2023, the Box Office Bears project took over the impressive Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, not with roses and romantic dining, but with music, drama… and bears!
A bearward of questionable repute assembles her band of battling bears of varying sizes in the playfight wrestling school, London…
In this blog post, Harvey Shepherd attempts to think through some of the problems of studying visual culture as a means of reconstructing baiting practices in Europe, using examples from his research on France in the eighteenth century.