The wall's stones, now with working link #MoonMad 🙄🙄 www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...

Join our exhibition guides for a virtual tour of 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again' 📅 Wednesday, 15 July at 1pm: https://ow.ly/SzEY50ZiBXs Enjoy a fascinating journey exploring the highlights of Heaney's archive, from his rural origins through to his remarkable career as a poet.

English Language & Literature MHRA Research Associate King's College London. Salary: £45,031 #Donne #Renaissance #HigherEd www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB149/m...

Just a slight edit for thought, "Between King's College and sunstruck UL Tower...." ☀️🕶️🥵📖

Happy Summer Solstice! ☀️ Here is an excellent personification of the great golden orb in the sky, complete with impressive side-eye 👀 Hand-coloured wood cut from Theoricarum novarum textus Georgii Purbachii cum... expositione Domini Francisci Capuani, 1515 (Norton.b.14).

WANTED: Lecturer in English Literature. Oriel College, Oxford Salary Grade 7: £38,674-£40,855 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRV846/d...

A key part of preparing this term's exhibition was reaching out to alumni for their reminiscences. We heard from Delyth Jewell (2005), Bijan Sheibani (1997), Sarah Moss (1994), and James Morris (1996). Swipe to read what they had to say about their time studying English at St Hugh's.

To celebrate #PrideMonth 2026 🌈 we are looking into past examples of expressions of LGBTQ+ love. Nicholas Kontovas, Bodleian Curator for Central Asia, puts the spotlight on the poetic works of Sultan Husayn Bayqara, who ruled the Timurid Empire at the turn of the 15th century. https://bit.ly/3Sfs7Pz

Before you leave Cambridge for the end of term, please remember to return your library books! For 24/7 returns, use the drop box outside the UL. If you need to return books after you've graduated, and can't return in person, you can use our freepost returns service: https://loom.ly/wf0LwIs

Looking for some summer reads? 😎📖 Our DCU MA in Children’s & Young Adult Literature students have you covered! @dculibrary.bsky.social share.google/q9ITgK9gWnQt...

In unexpected good news: !!JOB!! Come and work on our new multidisciplinary programme at UCL as a 'Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society'. Permanent full-time position in London. Deadline 28 June. Specialism open. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #dh #sts

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Celebrating the art and life of graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, the EFL has made an online display 'Persepolis and The Graphic Novel': sway.cloud.microsoft/CASB8ZbEZ5Ei...

WANTED ! Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes School of Education & Social Sciences University of the West of Scotland Location: Paisley. Salary: £51,753 to £56,535 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT548/l...

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* WANTED * Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature Department of Media, Culture & Creative Industries City St George’s, University of London Location: London. Salary: £43,482 to £50,253 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT057/l...

✍️ Would you like focused time to write? Would you benefit from joining a writing community? If so, take part in one of our CRASSH writing weeks! 🗓️ 6 - 10 July 2026 Apply at https://bit.ly/3Qc8AOO, no proposals or references are required

As the world goes to hell in a handbasket, let's return to "This Moment" by Eavan Boland:

⏰️ The Late Call for Papers closes TODAY at 17:00 BST (GMT+1) ⏰️ Submit your #IMC2026 late call abstract: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/lat... But don't worry, if you can't present at #IMC2026 you've always got #IMC2027! View the Call for Papers here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2027/ #MedievalSky

"Murphy’s chapter, “Fixing Shakespeare, Breaking America,” investigates how Shakespeare has become a flashpoint in contemporary American cultural conflict. " news.las.iastate.edu/2026/05/11/c...

Lovely article in the Irish Examiner about Dean Browne, this year’s Farmgate Poetry Award winner and the Cork International Poetry Festival which starts tomorrow. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... #CIPF2026 #Poetry #CorkCityLibraries #farmgatecafe

Josephine Baker (1906-1975), entertainer, French Resistance agent in WW2, civil rights activist and the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film 'Siren of the Tropics' #womensart

"Open peer review in AHSS is often explored in terms of open participation and open interaction, in contrast to the dominant emphasis on open identities and reports within STEM disciplines..." Practice #18 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Open Peer Review

Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Department of English and Related Literature University of York Salary: £28,549.66 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...

Trans+ History Week: Five ground-breaking historical trans icons you’ve probably never heard of #TransHistoryWeek

✍️ Poetry writing for beginners! Led by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this introductory workshop is perfect if you’re new to writing poetry. 📅Sat 6 June ⏰10-11:30am 🎟️£10 I 18+ 📍Cambridge University Library https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/introduction-poetry-writing

The Star Wars Day x Medieval Monday mash up that no-one asked for or wanted... May the Fourth be with you. All images available on Digital Bodleian: MS. Douce 178, fol. 049v; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 79r; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 21v; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 79v #MedievalMonday

“At length for hatching ripe he breaks the shell” — illustration from William Blake’s The Gates of Paradise (1787-93), created during a visionary period, an intensification of the eidetic images that he had seen throughout his life. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...

Welcome to Easter Term at the University of Cambridge. Your libraries have everything you need to navigate the busy weeks ahead: 📖 a huge variety of study spaces 📖 skills sessions 📖 one-to-one support 🔎https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/spring-has-sprung-easter-term-your-libraries-your-side

We remember Eavan Boland on this her six year anniversary of her passing. Here is her poem 'Night Feed,' published in the second edition of Poetry Ireland Review, edited by John Jordan. Image used is 'Painting of her Daughter Eavan Boland as a Young Girl' by Frances Kelly.

Wishing good luck and even better writing to all of our undergraduates who are about to turn in their dissertations! (EFL staff WILL be answering referencing questions until the hand in deadline.) Happy start of term!📝💻📚❓

Eyeball in a landscape in hat and jacket, human-headed melons, fleeing prisons... these are C. P. Cranch’s very literal illustrations of Emerson’s Nature (ca. 1837–39) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cranch-new-philosophy

Just a few more days to apply to this year’s Take Your Research Public course - an introduction to public writing, social media, podcasting and more for academics new to this work. Guests include @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and @estelleprnq.bsky.social. Free, online, over four Tuesdays in June.

Applications for the inaugural 'Museum Plinth Project' close this Friday 17th April. The residency offers artists a 6-month residency to engage with the collections of Marsh's Library or the National Museum. visualartists.ie/advert/open-...

Seamus Heaney and Michael Harnett joined the picket line.

Curious French Cat, 1956 by Sylvia Plath, US poet #Womensart

The news is out! When I started this mad, bad, dangerous prize a decade ago, I never thought it would grow to three awards. But here we are: still shouting about future classics and current #mustreads #jhalakprizeat10

"Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.“ Eudora Welty #botd in 1906 #EudoraWelty 📷 E.W. selfportrait

📣Out now on #firstview Bernard Capp @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'The Cultural, Social, and Ideological Role of the Hat in Early Modern England' #Hat #Identity #Social #Clothing #Religion #Family #History 17thc 🎩👒🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Did you like the Ian McKellen monologue video from 'The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore' about immigration? Read more about the #manuscript containing it held by @britishlibrary.bsky.social! Whet your appetite for #Shakespeare term with speculation around a certain writer's handwriting...✒️📜🎭

We're in the studio with nationally renowned Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales, whose #paintings are featured alongside medieval #manuscripts that visualize Biblical narratives of the creation of Earth in Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages.

William Morris was born on this day in 1834. Morris was one of the principal figures of the British Arts and Crafts movement. These beautiful images were first designed by him in 1865.

Today's favourite find from @cam.ac.uk research is @queens.cam.ac.uk Dr Krisztina Ilko looking at how depictions of #medieval #chess subvert racial stereotypes in the middle ages. Click for the illustrations, read for the interpretation. #Manuscripts #Medievalsky #Skystorians #EverydayImCodexing

‘Epistolary relationships suited Eliot in some ways, giving him more control over the way he presented himself. This was, after all, the man who would propose to his second wife by letter, even though she was at that point his secretary whom he saw nearly every day.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

Prof. Michael Hurley @TrinCollCam speaking on John Henry Newman in Oxford on 29 March Professor Hurley will give a paper on “Newman’s Sources of the Self” at a panel “drawing new maps of hope” to navigate the current challenges of our...