📢 'Ms Feigel’s subject is “the secret history of mothers”. She uses seven subjects to show how women helped forge new laws and shape attitudes concerning the right to parent after marital dissolution.' @economist.com reviews Custody by Professor Lara Feigel from @kingsenglish.bsky.social ⤵️

🏆 Two of our academics were recognised at the @kingsartshums.bsky.social Awards on 25 March. Dr John Connor won the Outstanding Educator prize and Professor Javed Majeed won the Outstanding Teaching (PGT) prize 🎉 🔗 Discover all the winners 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...

💡 Why is it hard to tackle conspiracy theories? Researching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories (REDACT), led by Professor @cb-hq.bsky.social of @kingsenglish.bsky.social, looks at how conspiracy theories spread across Europe via social media. 🔗 Learn more in the video below ⤵️

14th in the world 🎉 English at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social has been ranked as 14th globally in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-a...

✍️ Benjamin Wood, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, shares his favourite books with @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

🎶 How is opera and hip-hop inspired by Classics? Dr Emily Pillinger explores this in her new book 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-boo...

🥳 Congratulations to Dr Emrys Jones, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, at @kingsenglish.bsky.social on this recognition!

🎹 Professor Kevin K. Gaines traced support for civil rights movements, disability advocacy and environmental awareness in Stevie Wonder's music, particularly in the album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, at the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture. 🔗 Read more ⬇️ buff.ly/leRntx8

Delighted to share our fascinating blog post on #rhubarb as a medicine within #Chinese and #European pharmaceutical traditions by @kingsenglish.bsky.social doctoral researcher Lin Yan Wong herbalhistory.org/home/a-tale-... #histherb #earlymodern #medhums

👏 Congratulations to Dr Declan Ryan, Lecturer in Creative Writing in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, on his appointment as poetry editor at @jonathancape.bsky.social. We asked Dr Ryan to share some of his favourite works and his poetry recommendations for the year ahead ⤵️

🔍️ In July 1518, hundreds of Strasbourg residents were swept up in an endless dance, struck by a strange illness driving them to fidget to the point of exhaustion – or even death. Professor Kélina Gotman explores this mystery in a new @artefr.bsky.social documentary 👇

✍️ Discover our innovative Early Modern Literature MA, delivered in partnership with @britishlibrary.bsky.social – now open for September 2026 intake ⬇️

📖 On 18 March, Professor Abigail Williams explores how we might use the material traces of past non-elite readers to better understand the relationship between literacy and selfhood in early modern England. 🔗 Register ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/in-th... @kingsenglish.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social

💬 'There’s not much hope for justice in the wider world in this novel, any more than there is in ours now.' Professor Lara Feigel, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, reviews Our Better Natures by Sophie Ward for @theguardian.com. 🔗 Read more ⬇️

🩺 The Centre for the Humanities and Health welcomes Professor Marlene Goldman from @utoronto.ca to talk about her latest book, Medicine as Theatre: Theatre as Medicine, which argues for a performative future for healthcare. 📆 18 March ⏰ 16:00-18:30 📍 Strand campus 🔗 Register ⤵️

🚨 Don't miss out on your place at this event – register for tickets using the link below 👇

Our new exhibition Lost Landscapes of Print is now open 24/7 at the Curiosity Cabinet (171 Strand). Drop by for some local print/publishing history and a self-guided walking tour. Presented by @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social

Such a fantastic event for students! If you missed it, catch up below 👇

📚 @rsliterature.bsky.social and @kingsenglish.bsky.social welcomed Mojisola Adebayo, Suresh Ariaratnam, Nic Bottomley, @rose-condo-poet.bsky.social and Sara Kärpänen to share their journeys to successful careers in literature on 11 February. 🔗 Watch the event here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=seh1...

📢 NEW: Lost Landscapes of Print launches today in the Curiosity Cabinet to tell the story of London’s popular print culture in the nineteenth century around the Strand, curated by Dr Brian Murray from @kingsenglish.bsky.social and @bearyardpress.bsky.social. 🔗 Discover more 👇 buff.ly/ZJcJ9pf

📀 Professor Kevin K. Gaines explores how Stevie Wonder's album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants was inspired by political movements, global musical styles and engagement with nature at the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture. 📆 4 March ⏰ 18:00 🔗 Register for tickets ⬇️

👑 Professor Lucy Munro from @kingsenglish.bsky.social features on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time examining how Shakespeare asked questions of power, legitimacy and succession through his play Henry IV, despite the dangers of discussing these topics in the period. 🔗 Listen here ⤵️

🤝 Four new projects uniting researchers and activists will address some of society's key challenges – including marginalisation, exclusion and how to enact solidarity – under the Activist-in-Residence scheme in the Global Cultures Institute. 🔗 Find out more ⤵️

🔊 'In the interwar period, campaigners created a story about noise and nerves to galvanise the public into keeping it down.' 🤫 Professor Anna Snaith from @kingsenglish.bsky.social explores how modernist writers like Woolf and Orwell reacted to noise for @uk.theconversation.com 👇

👨‍👧‍👧 Professor Lara Feigel (@kingsenglish.bsky.social) discusses child custody cases of the past and today, and the relationship between motherhood and feminism with Dr Hannah Dawson (@kingshistory.bsky.social). 📆 29 January ⏰ 19:00-21:00 📍 Second Home, Spitalfields secondhome.io/event/custod...

🎉 Congratulations to Benjamin Wood from @kingsenglish.bsky.social, winner of the Nero Book Award for fiction for his novel Seascraper 🏆 'Having been shortlisted alongside three authors I greatly admire, it’s an honour I’m especially grateful to receive,' said Wood. 🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-a...

✒️ Join the Writers Reading Book Club and @kingsenglish.bsky.social on 19 March for a discussion on the art of writing science fiction and fantasy, with Rebecca Zahabi, Bimpe Alliu, Sabdh Kellett, and Jude Reid (@squintywitch.bsky.social). 🔗 Book your place now ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/specu...

📚 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...

⚖️ 'Maternal care comes at a price when the law is involved. And all too often custody can be more a question of restraint than care.' Professor Lara Feigel (@kingsenglish.bsky.social) examines how women are treated in custody cases and what it means for the children involved for @theguardian.com 👇

💬 'Researching custody has been both thrilling as a journey of intellectual discovery and unsettling in what it’s revealed about what progress has and has not brought to family life and our ideas of motherhood and care.' Read more about Professor Feigel's research ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/custody...

⚖️ Professor Lara Feigel from @kingsenglish.bsky.social discusses her new book, Custody: The Secret History of Mothers, tracing the history of custody, the expectations placed upon mothers by the courts, and what should change to improve the system. 🎧 Listen from 46:48 ⤵️

🇺🇸 'The thing about weaponising conspiracy theories is that you can't really control conspiracism. Trump's team can try to harness conspiracy theories as if it is just like propaganda – but it's not.' 🎧 Listen to Professor Clare Birchall from @kingsenglish.bsky.social at 24:40 ⬇️

📻 An episode of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time featuring Professor Hannah Crawforth (@kingsenglish.bsky.social) discussing Shakespeare's sonnets has been chosen by historian Simon Schama as one of his favourite episodes of the programme. 🔗 Listen here ⤵️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🎭 Join Shakespeare Centre London on 12 December for the launch of Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond, a new book revealing the deeper complexities of gendered performance on stage today and within the records of theatre history. 🔗 Register ⬇️

👂 In today's world, we're often surrounded by unwanted noise. Professor Anna Snaith from @kingsenglish.bsky.social shows that this preoccupation isn't new – modernist writers were just as fixated on the impact of noise in interwar Britain, sparked by the high decibel levels of WWI 👇

🧋 Why is bubble tea culturally significant? Professor Anaya Jahanara Kabir FBA from @kingsenglish.bsky.social reveals what "chewy, bouncy and elastic" foods tell us about the region's long history of trade and migration, and the blurring of cultures in Southeast Asia and beyond ⬇️

🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟 Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities. More details and how to apply 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu... @komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social

🗣️ Conspiracies in Europe are fuelled by a feedback loop between the media, politicians, protest groups and social media algorithms, according to new research by REDACT. No longer on the fringes of society, bringing attention to conspiracy theories is helping them to go viral ⬇️

👏 Nicola Shulman and Brian Vickers from @thetls.bsky.social have chosen 'Letterlocking: The hidden history of the letter' by Dr Daniel Starza Smith and Jana Dambrogio as their book of the year for 2025. @kingsenglish.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social 🔗 Read more 🔽

🎸 'The London theatre scene is awash with jukebox musicals with ropey plots built around forcing famous songs into some weak narrative. Stereophonic channels the nostalgia in a different direction.' Dr Michael Collins from @kingsenglish.bsky.social reviews the play Stereophonic 👇

🎉 Congratulations to David Szalay on winning @thebookerprizes.com 2025 with his novel Flesh. Watch what Leena, a student in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, has to say about the book and its portrayal of the 'glittering yet hollow world of London's elite' 👇

📘 'It dramatises how nation, class, gender, race and history shape its large cast of characters, each explored in detailed vignettes.' Professor @ruvaniranasinha.bsky.social from @kingsenglish.bsky.social reviews The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai ⬇️

🎷 Dr Anthony Joseph from @kingsenglish.bsky.social celebrates Black musical heritage at the EFG London Jazz Festival, with an electrifying Afrofuturist journey inspired by The African Origins of UFOs. 📆 17 November ⏰ Doors @ 19:00 🔗 Buy tickets ⤵️ efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/events/antho...

📢 On 21 January, join novelist Tessa Hadley & actor-writers Anni Domingo & Romola Garai in conversation with Professor Lara Feigel from @kingsenglish.bsky.social as they ask why Austen remains so popular and what she has to say to us after 250 years. 🔗 Register here ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/auste...

🙋‍♀️ Early modern women were vital for literary criticism, reveals Dr Elizabeth Scott-Baumann from @kingsenglish.bsky.social. Her new book explores the gendered nature of poetry, including the history behind descriptions such as ‘original’, ‘smooth’ or ‘irregular’ 📝 🔗 Read more 👇

🎉 Celebrate 250 years of Jane Austen with our special event series, where King's academics from @kingsdh.bsky.social, @kingsenglish.bsky.social and @kingsmusic.bsky.social will apply their expertise to the writer's life and works 📚 💻 🎹 📆 22 Oct - 21 Jan 🔗 Read more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/event-s...

🪶 For @nybooks.com, Clare Bucknell reviews Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England, the new book by Dr Elizabeth Scott-Baumann from @kingsenglish.bsky.social that places women writers at the centre of poetic theory and practice in 16th- & 17th-century literature ⤵️

✍️ Professor Mukti Lakhi Mangharam (Rutgers) explores ‘indigeneity’ as a counter-discourse of decolonisation and theorisation of universal belonging, drawing on examples from Native American & Palestinian writing and activism at this @kingsenglish.bsky.social event. 🔗 Sign-up now 👇

🎭 Dr Murat Öğütcü presents 'Jonson’s Masque of Blackness: Materializing Environmental Injustice' and Dr Andrea Stevens explores 'Racial Masquerade and the ‘Retconning’ of The Spanish Match in Walter Montagu’s The Sheperd’s Paradise' at the London Shakespeare Seminar on 21 October ⬇️

🎧 In a new book by Dr Ella Parry-Davies from @kingsenglish.bsky.social, soundwalks recorded by domestic migrant workers usurp narratives that describe them as 'voiceless & victimised', instead giving them agency over how they tell their stories. Listen to part of Phoebe's story in the video below ⤵️