📣 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship Join our vibrant academic community as a salaried Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow to carry out your independent research in 2026-27 Learn more about the application process and apply by 24 Oct 2025 https://bit.ly/3oudw1R

was recently reunited with my long-lost twin brother, also called Ian - and although he's too humble to post about it I'm so enormously proud to see his (my!) name on the title page of this spiffy new Oxford World's Classics edition of The Comedy of Errors.

How do different ways of reading affect our experience of literature? In collaboration with the BBC, Open University lecturer @shaftowheed.bsky.social has developed a short quiz to show how different formats affect our reading experience. You can find the quiz here: www.instagram.com/ouconnect/re...

Good morning. Rónán on his debut being adapted for TV & narrated by Julia Roberts. _Leonard and Hungry Paul_ by @ronanhession.bsky.social 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting bullseye in New York.' Many thanks @thetimes.com @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @hatchards.bsky.social

It's not just any Friday... Today marks the start of 10 days of FREE events for EVERYONE. Explore the full programme now: https://bit.ly/3UUqxki #OpenCambridge #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #HOD #HeritageOpenDays

🎧 On ABCNews Late Night Live, Cambridge University & CRASSH researcher Dr Richard Latham Lechowick joins David Marr to explore how memory shapes conflict, identity, and political power Weds 10 Sept at 1pm UK time https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive #CollectiveMemory #Geopolitics

📣 Registration is open for 'The future of research in Bible Society collections' @biblesoccollfuture.bsky.social on 26&27 Sept Become part of a network of scholars and experts in Religious Studies, material culture, and Medieval to Modern collections https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47443/

Open Access fiction and review publication? With an accessible archive and specific poetry section as well? Yes, please and thank you!

Available in the EFL at E 84 SPA WIL (Or it would be if it hadn't been borrowed about 23 minutes after it was catalogued!📖👀)

Tickets still available! 'A star-studded line-up including David Morrisey, Lesley Sharp and Susan Wokoma, will entertain you at Allie Esiri’s 365 Poems for Life, a special poetry event for The Royal Court Theatre as part of the Chelsea Arts Festival' royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/all...

📣 Open for applications CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship The fellowship invites an an outstanding early career postdoctoral scholar whose research focuses on Italy to spend a period of time at Cambridge in Spring 2026 Apply by 16 Sept 2025 buff.ly/avKFQEe @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social

📢 Groundbreaking new biography of Æthelstan – England’s forgotten first king – marks 1,100 years since his coronation in 925AD. Author and Cambridge historian @davidwoodman45.bsky.social explains why he isn’t better known and why he's campaigning for greater recognition for the overlooked king.

ESSAY 'Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal' Pip Thornton asks if AI technologies will "disarm poetry and creative writing as tools of refusal." www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/page...

📜🕯️✒️Are you an eager #medievalist looking for your next conference? #IMC2026 seems to have a subject topic for everybody! Check out the #IMC2026 Padlet page linked below for your research area to present in glamorous Leeds next July. Closing dates soon! #MedievalSky #SkyStorians #EveryDayImCodexing

It’s our 100th newsletter! And the third in our series on the illustrated Anthony Burgess. This time, we look inside the books and examine the illustrators who brought Burgess’s stories to life. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-illust...

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026 www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

YOUNG MAKARS! The newest group of Scotland's Young Makars has just been announced. 🔥 Jack Jeffrey 🔥 Anousha Stroud-Graham 🔥 Lily Bell 🔥 Brooke Collins They'll be mentored by Victoria McNulty, Tom Murray, Janette Ayachi and Aoife Lyall. Story: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/next-generat...

2026 NEW WRITERS AWARDS Applications for the 2026 New Writers Awards are currently open. The deadline for all applications is Wed 24 Sept 2025. The awards are free to apply to, all travel expenses are covered and awardees are chosen by a panel of judges. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

Join us on Tues 30 Sept, 7pm for our next online launch reading with Clare Pollard, Jessica Traynor & Mslexia Pamphlet Competition winner Emilie Jelinek! www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic... @poetclare.bsky.social @jesstraynor.bsky.social @emiliejelinek.bsky.social @mslexia.bsky.social

🟠 #RLUKICIL | Re-entangling the visual archive | 23 Sep Join us to hear reflections on @theul.bsky.social project with Zambian visual artists exploring new ways to engage with archival material inc. problematic colonial-era & collaborating outside library’s ‘traditional’ user base bit.ly/RLUKICIL

US artist Elizabeth Catlett's 1946 print honours Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784), who was sold into slavery at the age of seven and later became the first published African-American female poet #womensart

Now available in the EFL at E 34 SHA Dha ❤️💀🕯️🌴 Click on the tag on iDiscover to find more works from Arden's Global Shakespeare Inverted series: tinyurl.com/3js8xyzc

To sum up @cilip.bsky.social in a quote: 'The right to intellectual freedom is a foundation of a strong and representative democracy, and of a society in which everyone can contribute to, participate in and benefit from the intellectual, creative and cultural life of their community' – CILIP, 2024

Paying attention to stage directions is one of the most important ways for the stage manager to make sure no one *leaves*.......🥁

We've been a bit quiet on here recently but we're back to tell that the #OpenCambridge programme is now live! With over 70 FREE events this September, what will you do: https://bit.ly/3mqB7ze #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Culture

Curious Cures completed - really excellent work by a brilliant team @theul.bsky.social led by Dr James Freeman: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

🌻😎📖Even librarians need a little break sometimes. 😴🌴🌊 The EFL will be having a long August Bank Holiday, with closure Friday 22 August to Monday 25 August, inclusive. We will reopen at 9.30am on Tuesday 26 August with our usual out of term hours. 🌻Happy Bank Holiday!🌻

If you're in Dublin between now and late October, don't miss the Words on the Wave exhibition at the National Museum on Kildare St. Some of our most important medieval Irish manuscripts are on loan from the Abbey of St Gallen & are back in Ireland for the first time in c. 1200 years. #MedievalSky

Today’s piece for #TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday examines Tolkien’s Silmarillion “beasts”, dinosaurs, and representations of the prehistoric past in Middle-earth. With thanks to @tattersdill.bsky.social for our recent conversation! 🦕 dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/tolkien-tu... @tolkiensociety.org

Calling all bibliophiles! This year's Munby Fellow talks are now available to watch on YouTube. @harryspillane.bsky.social, A Maker of Chocolates and Bibles: https://loom.ly/daSHipg Dr Joshua Fitzgerald, Hidden in Plain White: https://loom.ly/nx8B91Q

Illustrations by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson, created for a 1959 release of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' #womensart

October is coming up and we would very much love to find an online speaker who works in premodern #death or the #supernatural. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

The Peter Porter Poetry Prize – worth a total of AU$10,000 – is now open for entries. All living poets writing in English are eligible. www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-progr...

It's Monday and we're feeling a bit Dante-ish 🤷‍♀️ "There is no greater sorrow than to recall our times of joy in wretchedness." A cheerful quote from Dante's Inferno, paired with this fine medieval image from Le Roman de la Rose (Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.6). #MedievalMemes

to be clear, there's much to gain from reading sophisticated books and essays, from looking at or listening to challenging art, and much to lose by ignoring all this. But the task of criticism isn't to match best-with-best, it is to interpret and judge and guide in this the fallen world we've got.

We are delighted to announce the longlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp... @carcanet.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social

We have a number of positions available for Research Fellows to join the thriving academic community at King's. Take a look at our recruitment pages to learn more! 👉https://ow.ly/Fc0m50WBbso #AcademicJobs #ResearchFellow #Research #Academia #JobsInAcademia

✏️ Call for papers Interdisciplinary perspectives on empire, colonialism, and anticolonialism This call for papers is aimed at presenters from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences at any stage of their career Submit by 30 August 2025 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47272...

New #OpenAccess article on 'Colonial World-Making' from @magdalenecollege.bsky.social JRF & @camhistory.bsky.social Leverhulme, @gianamar97.bsky.social ! No need to search for it, read it for free on OUP site 🔎📑

There's understandable myth-making around the emperor's first visit to the construction of The Roman Wall. In addition to civil unrest in outposts of the Empire, there were issues with standardising currency, language and even timekeeping. But not in Newcastle. Hadrian made the clocks run on Tyne.

We love helping researchers find new and niche items across the #CambridgeLibraries collections! The EFL has over 1300 pamphlets across a range of English and @department-asnc.bsky.social subjects, and we buy more all the time.📚 Let us know about any #smallpress pamphlets that we ought to own! 👀

Join @crasshlive.bsky.social this Thursday for Reading Week: Critical Archival Relationships with the internet, where you can unpack our relationship to personal data and social media. A timely conversation echoing themes from Grace Huckins’ Prize winning essay. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46538/

Come and learn more about the amazing Bible Society library and archive @theul.bsky.social

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Ophelia mad, with flowers? www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... 4 @the-rsc.bsky.social Ophelias: Pippa Nixon (2013, dir. David Farr); Debbie Korley (dir. Tarell Alvin McCraney, 2010); Derbhle Crotty (dir. Matthew Warchus, 1997), scattering pills from a plastic bag, not flowers; Dorothy Tutin 1958.

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

🧩 Exhibition event God is… ? The puzzle Join Kirsten for a gentle afternoon of puzzling and conversation about possible answers to questions about God. God is… ? 9 August 2025 from 2-5pm Alison Richard Building Cambridge CB3 9DP buff.ly/mkgxLTJ

A few thoughts about our changing relationship with bogs - from disdain and even shame to the realisation that they are a crucially important landscape for the future of Irish nature. - from the @tocharstories.bsky.social event at the @nlireland.bsky.social. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Claudius to Laertes: dear boy I'm on your side www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Claudius (Derek Jacobi) slowly, steadily gaining the upper hand over Laertes (Michael Maloney, foreground, his blade still poised) & Gertrude (Julie Christie) in the middle, in Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film of Hamlet.

Assistant Librarian, George, came across this interesting bookplate in an old copy of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tail, which states that it is part of a collection to commemorate a decade of women being allowed to study at Magdalen.