🥾 Sign up for the walking tours here 👇 28 May: buff.ly/m7fscKm 4 June: buff.ly/UvzPRGe

📰 Discover the history of print and publishing on the Strand with 'Lost Landscapes of Print', now on display in the Curiosity Cabinet ✨️ Dr Brian Murray and @bearyardpress.bsky.social are leading FREE walking tours of the area on 28 May and 4 June – get a sneak peek in the video below ⬇️

🇨🇲 On 29 May, Eric Ngalle Charles, Cameroonian poet and @kingsenglish.bsky.social PhD student, shares his story of an ancestral charm that could ward off danger in Britain at this event on the secrets of migrant songs and objects on at @hayfestival.bsky.social ⬇️

📖 Explore work that responds to the theme of crossroads critically, creatively, or in a way that sits at the intersection of the two, at the @kingsenglish.bsky.social PGR conference on 2 June, featuring a keynote by @briangdillon.bsky.social 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/cross...

📖 Rachel Long (Creative Writing PhD in @kingsenglish.bsky.social) reads from and discusses her latest poetry collection, Sparrow on the Rooftop, with poet and editor Sarah Howe. 📆 10 June ⏰ 19:00 📍 London Review Bookshop @lrb.co.uk 🔗 Sign up for tickets 👇

🪶 'He was always pushing the language into strange new corners and finding new ways to surprise you and do things that you didn't think were possible.' Dr Luke Roberts from @kingsenglish.bsky.social pays tribute to British post-war poet J.H. Prynne on BBC Front Row. 🎧️ Listen from 24:35 ⤵️

🐦‍⬛ 'What does it say about people that they revere pelicans (viewing them as a Christian symbol of selflessness) but despise cormorants?' Professor Gordon McMullan's research on why the cormorant is so hated is reviewed in @economist.com ⤵️ buff.ly/JXmh5KO @kingsenglish.bsky.social

🏆️ Congratulations to Zuzu Burton, student in @kingsenglish.bsky.social on winning the Undergraduate Essay Prize from @officialbaas.bsky.social. Zuzu explored the tension between spirituality and the realities of violence embedded in the land in Homecoming by Marilynne Robinson ⬇️

🎉 Meet the winners of the 2026 Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize hosted by @kingsenglish.bsky.social... This year's winners and runners-up are Bella Steiner, Shaz Baker, Billy Smith and Grace Brimacombe-Rand. Their work will feature in Wild Court. 🔗 Discover the inspiration behind their writing 👇

🪶 'The prejudice remains, and it is destructive both to the natural world and to human society.' Understanding the cormorant can teach us about human prejudice, says Professor Gordon McMullan from @kingsenglish.bsky.social in a new book published by @universitypress.cambridge.org ⬇️

🕯️ 'For centuries, that was the only way we read books — together.' As reading retreats and book clubs become increasingly popular, Professor Abigail Williams discusses the resurgence of sociable reading in @bloomberg.com 👇 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

🔍 Shakespeare's 'missing' London property has been mapped for the first time by Professor Lucy Munro (@lucycmunro.bsky.social) from @kingsenglish.bsky.social. Professor Munro found a floor plan revealing the house's exact location and size in Blackfriars, London. Learn more about her discovery ⬇️ 🧵

“To be, or not to be… located?” 📍 A King’s academic has solved a 400-year-old mystery, pinpointing the exact site of William Shakespeare’s London home. (1/4)

✒️ Interested in the ethics of survivor testimony and witness literature? Dr Zoe Norridge from @kingsenglish.bsky.social & @kingsdllc.bsky.social contributes to this panel discussion, hosted by @warstudieskcl.bsky.social and @kingssocialscience.bsky.social ⤵️

🤔 What do we know about gender and sexuality in medieval times? Shape the future of queer medieval studies at this workshop hosted by Queer@King's and the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies on 5 June 🏳️‍🌈 🏰 @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social 🔗 Register ⬇️

Professor Kélina Gotman, Professor of Performance and the Humanities in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, explores some of the strands that have underpinned ‘performance’ discourse over the past 150 years at this Inaugural Professorial Lecture on 18 May. 🔗 Register ⬇️

💌 Discover how letters were sealed in the age before the envelope with @letterlocking.bsky.social & @kingsenglish.bsky.social. This video shows how to use the guides in the book to create your own sealed correspondence with techniques used by everyone from workers to royalty 👑 ⤵️ buff.ly/cIHkPoq

🪶 Professor Lucy Munro and Dr Hannah Crawforth from @kingsenglish.bsky.social will share their discoveries about Shakespeare’s links to Blackfriars and how London shaped his plays at the Fleet Street Quarter Festival of Words. 📆 14 May ⏰ 18:00-19:00 📍 Dr Johnson's House Tickets ⬇️

📢 '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 ⤵️