A depressingly long list of universities who are implementing cuts and redundancies, as well as the petitions and actions against them (via @onslies.bsky.social) qmucu.org/qmul-transfo.... This is a national emergency that should be responded to with national policy.

Me and him.

It’s alive!

‘To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’ Happy Bloomsday!

Lecturer in English Literature University of Oxford - Oxford Lifelong Learning Location: Oxford. £39,424 to £47,779 per annum www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU210/d...

TENURE-TRACK DRAMA POST AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR746/a... Come and work with us! Please share far and wide.

Assistant Professor in Drama, Theatre and Performance Trinity College Dublin 5 year Tenure track universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

The Irish Times literally seems to think I am Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Fein!

One of the most fun things that has happened to me: @edcaesar.bsky.social, one of my favourite writers, wrote for the @newyorker.com about my long-running quest to find a hidden meaning in Jonathan Swift’s epitaph. Thanks to Ed’s narrative skills, it’s a great read! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Rare copy of oldest poem in English language discovered by TCD researchers

@kickstarter.com now live! Annotated Facsimile #MRJames manuscript bit.ly/OhWhistle Contributors include: @accordingtojond.bsky.social @helengrantsays.bsky.social @manoghosts.bsky.social @theprofrog.bsky.social @nunkie.bsky.social @profdarryljones.bsky.social @jfmachin.bsky.social

Launching our MRJames manuscript project this Thursday on Kickstarter! Bit.ly/OhWhistle to pre-register.

Kemi Badenoch! Roger Scruton! MattGPT! Bari Weiss! Rod Dreher! Jair Bolsanaro! Howard from the Halifax adverts! JD Vance? You hear me JD Vance? Your boy took a hell of a beating! Your boy took a hell of a beating!

Out now from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

END OF SEASON SALE: "Shadows and Gestures - Scripts after M R James" (for solo performance) can be got until the end of April for a mere £10 inc p+p. Only by emailing me at the address here: www.nunkie.co.uk/contact

This looks an amazing (and very generously funded) opportunity for anyone looking to pursue a medieval literary PhD.

Launching soon! Beautiful annotated facsimile manuscript edition of M.R. James's classic ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'. Thinking about it? Sign up for notifications here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Delighted to be a part of this book, and in such amazing company!

Delighted to be involved with this wonderful project!

Cover reveal! Thanks to the fabulous @sarahcoomer.bsky.social, we have a cover for our facsimile manuscript edition of 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.' The Kickstarter pre-launch page is going live in the next few days. Stay tuned! #MRJames #Ghoststories #manuscripts

On 19 March we're launching @morganj0nes.bsky.social's brilliant new history of the People's Vote campaign. From Steve Bray & EU Supergirl to John McDonnell & Alastair Campbell, we'll explore one of the most turbulent & remarkable periods in UK politics.Do come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-second-...

On 19 March the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social is delighted to be launching @morganj0nes.bsky.social's book "No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a 2nd Referendum". Join us to explore an amazing period in modern history, & the lessons for today www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-second-...

Fascinating book. Should be a really good discussion. Sign up before it’s too late!

Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

Coming soon: 'The Haunted Archive - The Annotated Ghost Story Manuscripts of M.R. James'. Beautiful facsimile autograph manuscript editions of MRJ's ghost stories, annotated by leading Jamesian scholars. Volume 1: 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' coming to Kickstarter soon... >>>

Me and me ol' mucker Paul M. Chapman have a new project to publish beautiful facsimile manuscript editions of M.R. James' ghost stories in limited run hardbacks. So if that's your thing, follow @crumpledlinenpress.com and subscribe at www.crumpledlinenpress.com for updates. #MRJames #ghoststories

Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of Literature in English University of Oxford - Balliol College Literature of the long 19th century Permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM832/t...

My daughter’s book is published today! Everyone should buy it!! www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/no-sec...

‘Mr Arthur Machen presents his compliments and begs to inform that he is, and always has been, entirely for General Franco.’ Boo!!

The ghost of the Cambridge classical scholar Jane Harrison haunts the pages of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929). Here's my post on the layers of connections, for over 30 years, these two writers shared.

podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/c... Would you believe, me and Colm Tóibín talking about James Herbert’s The Rats!

A bestselling occult novelist of pronounced right-wing views.

So, here it is! Merry Christmas everybody!

I have finally put my MR James collection, which is quite extensive, on the bookshelf that came from the Rhodes James family who were family friends. It came from the estate of MRJ niece, maybe Dr James, maybe from the family home, and at the very least owned by his brother Sydney. Goodnight

I had so much fun thinking about M. R. James, ghosts, art and objects for Apollo this month 👻👻👻

I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

In this compact volume, @profcarolyne.bsky.social explores how dragons have captured the human imagination across time and space. Discover The Little Book of Dragons: bit.ly/47SWqjc #ArtHistory #LiteraryStudies

‘Horrid little fellow, like some sort of maggot - looks like a drug-taker’: A. C. Benson, on meeting Winston Churchill.

Everyone should have this book.

Keir Starmer won’t be surprised Lucy Powell is his new deputy leader – but he should be very worried | Morgan Jones

Ah, go on then: “Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.” Ahem, who burgled the Louvre? Correct answers only.

Our own Nick Freeman has contributed a chapter, ‘The Ghost Story 1870-1900’, to The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP). There’s spooky fun for all the family with Dickens, Kipling, Stoker, and various other practitioners of the ghostly tale ...

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Look what finally arrived! Hooray!!