Hamlet kills Claudius! (finally) ☠️🍷 www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Two RSC Hamlets giving Claudius what's coming to him: Toby Stephens & Clive Wood, dir. Michael Boyd des. Tom Piper 2004; David Tennant & Patrick Stewart in 2008-9, dir. Greg Doran, the second image from the filmed version.

“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.” -- Wole Soyinka, The Man Died

Shortlist unveiled for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

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Who LIKES #18thC #BookHistory, they cannot lie? 👀📖 (though pamphlet-lovers might deny...) FREE online book launch of the latest from @universitypress.cambridge.org 'People of Print' series. (➕) Early Career Workshop to practice pitching your own excellent book! A bargain at twice the price.

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

Take a step back in time to discover the histories of alchemy, death, language, and fantastical beasts in this term’s new exhibition titled “St Hugh’s Library of Curiosities”, on display until Hilary 2026. Image from “The History of Great Britaine”, RBS KK5 (SPE)

Something for the early modernists!

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

👋Oh hello #OpenAcess. What a delight for #MedievalSky, Cambridge English students, and other medieval mystic enthusiasts.✒️🕯️📖 (Or the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval & Renaissance Women Digitisation Project - currently moving websites!) #EarlyModern #MedievalWomen #EverydayImCodexing

What happens when AI fails to see hate? Join us at Trinity College, Cambridge on 6 November to find out. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-f...

Tonight, Tuesday 21 October, 7pm: our online launch event with Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill & Kit Wright. Watch live or later via YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/DhDrtmZ...

CEMS members are invited to attend ‘Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World’, a two-day conference taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October 2025. Full programme attached. Register attendance (for one or both days) via: [email protected] @lsangha.bsky.social

'Prime' by Theresa Muñoz The Scotsman's #PoemoftheWeek

Looking forward to launching SEE YOU THROUGH in Cambridge with Geoff Gilbert at 7pm, Thurs 23rd October. We’ll be reading with Iain Britton, who’ll be launching his pamphlet UNCERTAIN DENSITIES. The event is free and open to all. Further details here👇 poetics.english.cam.ac.uk/2025/10/16/i...

The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency". bbc.com/news/article...

The writer Alan Garner was born #OnThisDay in 1934. He studied classics at Magdalen in the 1950s. Here we have two of his works which are part of our Magdalen Authors Collection, Red Shift and The Owl Service. Both books have been signed by the author. Many happy returns to Mr Garner 🎉🎂🎈

Another notable week where Cambridge Faculty of English staff Fiona Green and David Trotter have cover articles in this fortnight's @lrb.co.uk!

Ecstatic and honoured to be heading to Cambridge University Student Union next week to talk about the queer side of myths legends! See you there on the 24th October? (Oxbridge reject who?!) www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Chaucer, The Knight's Tale (the Ellesmere manuscript) #medieval #poetry #Literature #English

What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror... romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

‘Austen said of Emma that she had chosen “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”. Woolf, too, takes the considerable risk of adopting the point of view of a protagonist whose sense of entitlement makes her hard to warm to.’ David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tours of the EFL are running all this week, but if you are feeling a bit shy you can enjoy this mini-tour put together by @theul.bsky.social! Book through⬆️link in bio⬆️, or just stop by for a friendly chat about how we support your English studies. (psssst....there are sweets at the staff desk🍬)

Lauren Berlant reading group 📚 Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4nFi9C0

New term, new academic year. How are you all settling in? 🍂 To make life easier, we’ve created a guide for new and returning University of Cambridge students, including online resources, top tips, skills training, tours, collections, and what’s new this term. Read it now: https://loom.ly/EmsWxrs

A little history of publishing tidbit for our early english text enthusiasts. In the EFL you can find subjects such as manuscripts, bibliography, palaeography, history of publishing, and digital humanities all in the Y section. (Y, you ask? We do not need to ask Y you would want to go there.😁📖📚)

👋Oh, hello #OpenAccess @universitypress.cambridge.org text challenging #EarlyModern historical gender assumptions through primary source materials.📖 We've been waiting for you. ❤️

We were very sorry to hear of the recent death of the celebrated director Ian Judge, who directed many shows at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, at the Barbican and on tour. He will be sadly missed. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

📚📖🐲🫖We know what it means when dragons start mysteriously appearing around the EFL again.... IT'S THE START OF TERM! Welcome back to the English Faculty Library from all the staff (and our hoard of origami monsters). 📚📖🐲🫖 #HereBeDragons #CambridgeLife #LibrarySky #ShakespeareRoom

We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard! We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session! [Please PM us for a plain text termcard]

🚨 Your reminder that there's only 1 WEEK left to get your #IMC2026 bursary application submitted.⏰ You can begin or resume your application, as well as find out more information on the process, at the following link: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ #IMC2026 #MedievalSky #Medieval #Skystorians

🥪 Our Research Practice Seminars are back! Join us in exploring some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice Thursdays from 12-2pm, a sandwich lunch is provided https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research-practice-seminars/

Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜ The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces. They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading. #bookhistory 💙📚📜

📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26 Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @camhistory.bsky.social Apply by 1 October 2025 buff.ly/tQABBo4

We're flying the flag of The Bahamas for the 6th year in a row to celebrate the start of Black History Month, commemorating our first Black student A.F. Adderley (1912, Law) & over a century of Black history at Catz ever since. See what's planned at caths.cam.ac.uk/bhm-...

Hamlet reports his cleverness - and ruthlessness www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... This week's pics are all of @nationaltheatre.org.uk Hamlets. Here, a publicity image from 1989: Ian Charleson (1949-1990), whose performance weeks before his death from AIDS is still recalled with awe & deep love

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC. Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...

#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN Deadline: October 13, 2025 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... #PhilJobs

‘Although she is now routinely mentioned in histories of modernist Paris in the 1920s, only Hemingway seemed to read her with any understanding – Eliot and Joyce and Woolf had no idea what to make of her.’ Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A Shorter Ulysses, Anthony Burgess’s companion piece to his Shorter Finnegans Wake, is out on 16 October 2025. In this week’s newsletter, we introduce the book and reveal the origins of the manuscript. Pre-order link within. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/introducin...

🎭🌻✒️Open Access AND could be used for thoughtful reflection on the body for our undergraduate Tragedy paper? Yes, we will be reading this, please and thank you. 🎭🌻✒️

📣 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/