‘A lot of people know I did two degrees: one in engineering, one in law. But while I can’t remember how to do parallel integration, I can remember how to fix a broken computer—which I learned on my apprenticeship.’ So Badenoch’s capacity to remember some things & not others determines her HE policy?

University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Literature: memorients.com/news/univers...

Delighted to have this splendid volume arrive in the post today. Am humbled to be in such learned company. Hats off to @mbelle4912.bsky.social, Riccardo and Francesco on doing such a sterling job of bringing this all together.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our CfP – we're delighted by your abstracts and can't wait to put the program together! Registration link coming soon ... keep yer eyes peeled 🥰🥰

You’ve seen the Call for Papers for our second annual conference (if not, check it out below) but now it’s time for conference teasers! Each image relates to one of the activities we’ve got planned for attendees… can you guess what they are before we release the schedule? Let us know your thoughts!

Congratulations on all receiving A-level English Language, Lang & Lit, Literature results! 💫 And to all their teachers ! We commend the fantastic opportunities that study of these subjects offer 🥳. Find out what English studies brings ! englishassociation.ac.uk/case-studies/

The English Association congratulates every student who has received results for an A-level in English. 👏🏽 English remains a v. popular A-level choice, the 5th most popular A-level- *not always well-known as entries split across the 3 qualifications – English Lit, English Lang, English Lang & Lit.*⬇️

Could you be the next editor of our journal, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory? @oupacademic.bsky.social #criticaltheory #culturaltheory #literarytheory Take a look and apply: englishassociation.ac.uk/opportunity-...

BIG NEWS! We are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference. Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and online. The Call for Papers is available via the MEMRN website and our social media. We look forward to seeing you!

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories. Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

Over 1000 signatories in 36 hours! Let's make it 2000 by the weekend 👇 Please sign 👇 Please circulate 👇

So random “free speech campaigners” now get to determine our syllabi? This explains the recent FOI request re trigger warnings. It would be nice to say unis should reject such nonsense but the threat of fines cf. Sussex means Uni Execs are scared. Primarily this is a stick to beat Arts&Hums. Again.

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

Awesome new tenure-track position posted at Middlebury: early modern Mediterranean art history plus digital art history/digital humanities/data #dh #dah #earlymodern apply.interfolio.com/170982

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar @ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

The new Writing Framework from the DfE marks a significant moment in the conversation around writing pedagogy in England. Its publication invites considered reflection—not only on its specific content, but on the broader values & assumptions that underpin it. englishassociation.ac.uk/the-eas-resp...

We are signatories to this important letter organised by @voice21oracy.bsky.social “calling on him to establish oracy as a core part of Labour’s revised national curriculum & make it the 4th ‘R’ in education, alongside reading,writing & arithmetic. “ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Look 👀👀 Take this brilliant opportunity to showcase your work ! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Delighted to share the news of our winner for the *special* 2025 Fellows Award: Kathy Halliday #FE English teacher from Barnsley College. Outstanding inspirational work that we are pleased to celebrate! 🙌👏🥳🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟⬇️

✨️Job Alert✨️ Research Associate, 21st Century Oxford Authors Edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Fixed-term, University of Sheffield, closing date 18 August. Please share with ECRs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

My article on Nancy Pearn’s editorial contribution to D. H. Lawrence’s late journalistic essays is out in @englishjournaloup.bsky.social - big thanks for peer reviewers’ insightful feedback and editors’ kind support throughout! (1/2 doi.org/10.1093/engl...

1/2 A superlative, benevolent & generous scholar, whom we lost this year, in his last email to me, said “Supporting rising talent, I have come to understand, whether through direct teaching or indirect support and mentoring, is ultimately more important than anything I’ve published. …

If you are a PGR or postdoc looking to showcase your work, & receive expert feedback en route, then do get in touch as @englishassociation.bsky.social and our publishers @oxfordunipress.bsky.social are committed to supporting ECRs. One way we can do so is by offering a platform for your voices.

Our latest issue is a celebration of the brilliant work being carried out by Early Career Researchers across our discipline(s), containing scintillating studies from Old English to postmodernity. Link here: academic.oup.com/english/issu...

Thoughts and prayers to everyone and their deadlines whose children break up from school today.

Workshop: Translating Cultures: Migration, Mobility and Translation in Europe, c1600-1850, 3/4 September 2025, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. With @rhammersley99.bsky.social @ebuchetmann.bsky.social @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social et al. The programme is now online @ www.hab.de/event/transl...

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

One of the manifold benefits of living, working & studying literature in Norwich & Norfolk are the superb independent bookshops. I have just picked up NINE volumes of the journal of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society for just £3(!). Thank you City Bookshop! www.citybookshopnorwich.co.uk

Final Reminder that today is the last day to register for next week’s @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes event! @ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social #Twitterstorians

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

The ability to attract and retain global talent and international students is fundamental to the UK’s research and innovation excellence. We have today published our response to the Government’s Immigration White Paper. Read it here: buff.ly/0TEPdtz

A Monday repost for the next Bookscapes event on 16 July. Deadline for registration is this Friday. Please do share hither and yon.

PhD SCHOLARSHIP! TCD is looking for an outstanding scholar keen to research materials broadly related to a project on the dramatic representation of Romani people, Ottomans, and “Moors” in Renaissance Italian comedies Deadline 4 August all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/ucd-sc... #EarlyModern

An interesting project in Denmark is looking for a PhD & a post-doc in rhetoric: "Talking Empire: Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)”. PhD link in the reply. Postdoc here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Lecturer in the History of the Middle East (Education)- SOAS University of London - School of History, Religions and Philosophies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT892/l...

Any PGR students who fancy coming to Norwich on July 16th to explore the medieval and early modern collections we have here at the Cathedral Library and the Norfolk Heritage Centre please do sign up for the latest @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop! Deadline for registration is 11 July.

A really good opportunity here to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia: the Birch Family Scholarship is available to a home fees applicant who has applied for a place on the Poetry MA and identifies as a writer of colour. Deadline 1 August. Please RT! www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Creative Writing MAs are not for everyone (especially not if you don’t like being in an academic environment) but my year at UEA really did change my life and this is a wonderful opportunity.

First paper in panel 6.7: Foundation Myths across Borders in Early Modern Europe Collapse at #RenSoc25 is Jonathan Sawday’s on the Renaissance Search for Homeric Troy, with reference to Thomas Browne’s Of Troas. Loving that I get to stretch my (very dormant) classicist muscles.

Publication day! Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature is out 🥳 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social have been fantastic to work with and all the contributors are incredible - brilliant chapters, a dream to work with, supportive throughout. Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Posting again for Monday morning. Lecturer (fixed term) in Medieval & Early Modern Literature sought here in the School of Lit, Drama & Creative Writing at UEA. Email me (address in ad) with any queries. Please share widely. #skystorians #medievalsky #earlymodern

It’s not often one is the dedicatee of a poem by a celebrated local poet so I am deeply honoured to be named in Ron Nevett’s latest collection. Indeed, the reclusive, elusive poet will be in conversation with @jntod.bsky.social at the Slice + Dice Cafe in St Benedict’s, Norwich tomorrow at 7.15pm!

Job! Fixed-term, 1 year lecturer in Med/Ren Lit at UEA (covering the fellowship of @satyrane.bsky.social) ... it's a lovely, friendly School ... vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...

If you would like to come & be me for a year (in terms of employment) then we are advertising for a Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Email me with any queries (address in ad). I assure you there are v few places as Med/Emod as Norwich. Pls share! vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...

Meet our impressive, newly appointed, ambassador : distinguished 💫Professor Isobel Armstrong. Armstrong commands respect across the discipline, remains extremely active, as teacher, reviewer, fellow of the British Academy, & crucially, as a supporter of the EA. We are so grateful for her support.

We have reached Peak LinkedIn.

#ThinkingForwards We’re undertaking a national conversation about the future of English Thurs 26 June 4.45 -5.30 Join us! #WorkingTogether in #FurtherEducation Angie Lenton & Bianca Fanciullacci discuss how they collaborate/facilitate collaboration in FE settings www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-to...

🚨 CFP 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹 Conference "Forced Mobilities and the Making of Knowledge about the World in 16th-Century Naples, Rome, and Venice" 📍 Paris-Aubervilliers | 🗓️ March 3–6, 2025 🔗 CFP (deadline: July 1): ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mobilites-co... #CFP #EarlyModern #Venice #Naples #Rome #skystorians #academicsky #16thC