"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...

‘Flannery O’Connor said that her interest in such unedifying types was an antidote to “the hazy compassion demanded of the writer now”. If anything, she was inclined to exaggerate the unsavoury. ’ Edmund Gordon on O’Connor’s stories. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

On the origins & making of the film adaptation of my book Underland, including director Rob Petit on needing to become “a buttered otter” to film where he did! In UK cinemas from 27 March www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

☘️ Wishing everyone who celebrates a Happy Paddy's Day from the Irish language section of the EFL, specifically ☘️ Really looking to (linguistically) party? Why not check out Rodway's article 'What Language did St Patrick Swear In?' from Ériu (2009): www.jstor.org/stable/20787... #LáFhéilePhádraig

The Internet puts much information at your disposal - but how do you know what's accurate and reliable? 💻🤔 This pathway from Being digital will take you through how you can evaluate people, networks and information you find online 👉 https://ow.ly/XuRw50YnWsc #BeingDigital

Book of John Leech's cartoons for Punch, the Victorian satirical magazine: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pictures-of-life-and-character-from-the-collection-of-mr-punch-1887

For all of our undergrads writing their dissertations. #mood

Congratulations, Matt! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/b...

📢Applications are open for a new fully funded PhD studentship: 🦋‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. ⏳Application deadline: 3 May 2026 🔎More info: https://loom.ly/MO5pMMM

Congratulations to Professor Orietta Da Rold who has won a prestigious @cam.ac.uk Pilkington Prize for outstanding teaching [caption id="attachment_10328" align="alignright" width="180"] Image credit: photograph of Professor Orietta Da...

Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫 Have you got an idea that may: - Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures? - Forge new collaborations ? - Bring academic research to wider publics? - Explore research and artistic practice? Apply by 17 May 2026 https://bit.ly/3CaV97M

A VERY Happy Birthday to Frankenstein's Monster!🎂🥳🎉 Sorry about your dad. 😔 #Literature #LibrarySky #MonsterMash

Almost the 400th anniversary of the Cambridge bookfish!

Today on #IWD we honour Amy Levy, Jewish poet, novelist, essayist, and Cambridge Alumna. 🔎Levy's Archive at the UL: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc#IWD With thanks to @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.

'Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) thought that a woman’s place was in the resistance.' #InternationalWomensDay #DifficultWomensDay pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/n...

Celebrate #WorldBookDay with a look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the “modern” book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914

‘It is not Christopher Marlowe’s life story that we still need, but his plays and poems: we might well want to avert our eyes from the bathetically dismal life of the man who wrote them.’ Michael Dobson on Stephen Greenblatt’s new study of the playwright. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We're delighted to share a new article by CDH PhD student Emmanuel Iduma, published in the journal Arts ⬇️ Digitality and the African Photographic Archive: Towards a Practice of Futurity Read online: www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/15...

A poem of our moment as it first appeared over 20 years ago in the pages of The Stinging Fly

Ramadan Mubarak from the EFL! Find a quick list of resources to help support you this Ramadan, if you are observing: sway.cloud.microsoft/osRiWJ9Lvc1M...

VERY EXCITING news about new film based on 'Underland' by Prof @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social from @cam-english-fac.bsky.social !!! 🎬🎞️🍿

Jade Cuttle explores Vaughan Williams’ fenland legacy on BBC Radio 3 Jade Cuttle, a PhD student at the Faculty, recently appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature. In the programme, she retraced the fenland journeys of composer Ralph...