Publication Day for “The Anthropocene and Literature”! Massive thanks to Tore Rye Anderson for this magnificent volume. So exciting to be in this company! Get your copy for 20% off today! (link in comments) www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

🤿 What can we learn from an underwater world seen through divers' eyes? On 16 July, join @kingsenglish.bsky.social and the Environmental Humanities Network for the launch of Underwater Lives: Humans, Species, Ocean – a new book by Professor Clare Brant 🐡 🔗 Register ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

Love these historical comparisons in @philipjcowley.bsky.social’s FT column on the Burnham transition giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Newtown National Nature Reserve, Isle of Wight, first thing this morning.

later in our lives we will find it hard to believe and extraordinary and wonderful that on 29th May 2026 it was possible to listen to a brand new album by Paul McCartney

Fixed-term lectureships in 19th-century and early modern literature in the KCL English department next year - come and work with us! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/147465-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/146806-...

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

in rome, the size, duration, and lavishly ridiculous violence of gladiatorial games increased in proportion to the magnitude of social unrest

John Doran asked Iggy Pop, Jim Sclavunos, Jason Pierce, Mike Patton, Paul Weller and many other musicians to tell us about their favourite albums by Miles Davis My Favourite Miles Davis Album (#MilesDavis Centenary) buff.ly/uY5wIqr

"Dylan was a revolutionary. Bob freed your mind the way Elvis freed your body. ...To this day, wherever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan." Bruce Springsteen on Bob Dylan.

It's Bob Dylan's birthday, so here's your occasional reminder that this iconic slice of footage was shot in the alleyway known as Savoy Steps, just behind the Savoy Hotel in the Strand.

Granta shrugs about AI scandal about prize-winning short story: “Perhaps we will never know” if it was AI-plagiarized or not. Absolutely bananas.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Prof. Alexander Schlutz reflects on teaching birdsong with P.B. Shelley & Keats, incorporating songs of both skylarks and nightingales in discussions of Romantic poetry. Find ideas for incorporating birdsong into your courses on the Birdsong Teaching page. www.k-saa.org/2025-birdson...

Important intervention by the @royalhistsoc.org, @ihr.bsky.social, History UK, and the Historical Association. I hope politicians will take note.

Just crazy that the *actual* king of England is explaining the limits on the executive branch under Anglo-American constitutional law — to the U.S. Congress.

Shakespeare Bought One Property in London. Now We Know Exactly Where. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/w...

PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships- King's College London - Department of War Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD022/p...

Orban owns the media. He controls the information environment. He rigged the electoral system to make defeat next-to impossible. The govt of the most powerful country on earth tried to bribe Hungarian voters in his favour. It didn't work.

A great moment to be in Budapest…

#OTD 7 April 1836: death of #WilliamGodwin, author of Political Justice, Caleb Williams, & many other works speaking truth to power; head of one of Britain's leading literary families; writer of 1500 astonishing letters – Vol. IV: 1816-1828 due out from OUP this year. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

AI executives and researchers “readily admit that they have not yet released a model that writes well,” Jasmine Sun writes. She speaks with AI experts about why LLMs are built in a way that is antagonistic to great writing:

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96

Really pleased that my third-year course, Inventing Celebrity, has received a BSECS teaching prize. It's a joy to teach. Just marking the mid-semester assignments now, and dare I say it, even that's a pleasure!

The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is looking to hire an 18th century specialist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

We've published a free e-book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner's seminal essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' including his own reflections on the contributions liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

#otd, 205 years ago, John Keats, just 25 years old, died in lodgings on the Piazza di Spagna, Rome, now Keats-Shelley House

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

Intrigued by a suggestion afterwards that Keats (if he’d lived) could have become a great novelist www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Nearly 10,000 *online* and *open access* collections of radical, labour and anti-colonial historical documents are now listed. But always looking for more! If you know of any collections not listed, please get in touch. #history #archives hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network (@e-cen.bsky.social) will be hosting their inaugural seminar online and in-person at Heslington Hall, Uni of York on 26th Feb at 5pm! Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds) will present on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Articulate Sounds by James Grande (@jamesgrande.bsky.social) is now available Open Access at bit.ly/4qQ8vhz. This British Academy Monograph reveals the deeply ambivalent relationship between music, religious dissent, and literary Romanticism.

"For my fellow soldiers and me, [anti-war protest] songs didn’t weaken our sense of duty; if anything, they sharpened it. We were being asked to do what many Americans didn’t want to do....[T]he music made clear that service and conscience were not opposites." www.thebulwark.com/p/bruce-spri...

📚 Why does Jane Austen still matter? At an event hosted by @kingsartshums.bsky.social, novelist Tessa Hadley joined actor-writers Anni Domingo & Romola Garai to explore why Austen was a revolutionary writer for her time & why she remains relevant to readers today. 🔗➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/storyte...

Extracts from Harry Clarke's stained glass "The Eve of St Agnes" - commissioned in 1923 by Harold Jacob for his father’s house in Ailesbury Road, Dublin. Clarke took his inspiration from John Keats’s poem of the same name. Hugh Lane Gallery Harry Clarke 17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) #SpéirGhorm

Congratulations to @claireconnolly.bsky.social on the publication of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" @universitypress.cambridge.org ❗We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm ⬇️⬇️⬇️ as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Out today! Thanks to everyone who has inspired and supported me over the 12 years I’ve been researching and writing this book. Published open access by @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social so the ebook can be downloaded for free www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

New year, new issue of the Keats-Shelley Review! Articles on Mary Shelley and The Liberal, Percy Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener, Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, update from Rome and poems and essays from Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics prizes www.tandfonline.com/toc/yksr20/c...

Happy New Year friends old and new on here! Already seems nicer and saner than the other place.