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My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.

I’m adapting my debut novel My Name is Leon for the stage. It will be on in 2027 - can’t wait but alot to do before then. Chuffed.

➡️ How the system forgot about white working-class girls Superb, in-depth piece of journalism by @charlottesantry.bsky.social detailing the systemic lack of attention on a group not getting the help or focus it desperately needs. A critical read for all in schools. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

'Anthony Finkelstein (pictured), president of City St George’s, University of London, told Research Professional News that he is concerned about “tipping points” as universities are “finding themselves compelled to pull money away from research”.' Spot on. 1/3

Thanks to all who read at and attended yesterday's online launch - what a fantastic event! Our final launch (for now!) is in Edinburgh on 15 October at Golden Hare Books with Scotland's Makar Pàdraig MacAoidh | Peter Mackay and a range of lovely poets! Get your tickets ⤵️ shorturl.at/Xg3XC

@willtosh.bsky.social #Shakespeare #GlobeTheatre To add : the EA is pleased to be working with The Mathematical Association, @mathsinspiration.bsky.social & the superb work of @robeastaway.bsky.social 👏🏽on a project connecting English & maths - thinking in trans-disciplinary,cross-curricular ways 🙌🏼

One blog-post is notes I made for an on-line discussion of Wordsworth. It should interest all students and maybe teachers. Goes well beyond what "everybody knows". @nexuseduk.bsky.social #Wordsworth #DoveCottage @englishassociation.bsky.social georgehharris.blogspot.com/2020/09/word...

‘Although she is now routinely mentioned in histories of modernist Paris in the 1920s, only Hemingway seemed to read her with any understanding – Eliot and Joyce and Woolf had no idea what to make of her.’ Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed.

Online seminar on ‘Qualitative Analysis and Large Language Models (LLMs)’, 22.10.25, 12:30 UK time. Excellent speakers covering the issues for us quali researchers. Free but pls register ⤵️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qualitativ...

New on the blog, we've got a round-up of stories about Shakespeare in the news this month—a September issue of our own—drawn from the world of art, literature, and sandwiches. 🥪 www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

We are a project partner of 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝟒𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, an EU-funded research project on ecological justice. You can now follow it on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/spea... #EnvHum #EnvJust #EnvLaw

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Hive mind! About book coach certification courses. If you were wanting to work with someone as a book coach, would you expect specific training or would you think that with much publication history, decades of teaching & mentoring, BA, MA, PhD & working in industry, that’ll do? Here’s why I ask!

Still time to register for this fantastic free event! 📅4 October 🕑10.30-16.30 🏢Senate House Chaucer our Contemporary: Teaching, Reading and Rewriting Medieval Literature Today @englishassociation.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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#Shakespeare for children

On #Portability matters #Humanities #SocialSciences #Scholars - for students *at every stage* of career ⬇️

Learning about human rights through #poetry ❤️🌻 @amnestyuk.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️

#Poetry and #Science united ⬇️⬇️🌟

Have a listen to this excellent programme @cathamclarke.bsky.social on #history through #poetry ( & vice versa…) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@michaelpedersen.bsky.social & Peter Mackay in conversation with Gemma Cairney about their work, their love of language, & the inspiration they draw from Scotland’s landscapes, contemporary culture & ways of living 28 Sept, Braemar. Tickets £10 www.tickettailor.com/events/thefi...

Great news in era of disappearing/disappeared archives: 'Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust combine support for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester.' @leverhulme.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Amazing opportunity for a specialist librarian at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. The Crawford Collection really is outstanding #histSTM 📜🔭 fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

After three new ministers were appointed in the reshuffle, the DfE has confirmed what each will be responsible for

Bravo to Bernadine Evaristo for setting up the RSL Pioneer Prize for older women writers, and for naming the working-class-born playright, poet, novelist, nonfiction writer, and activist Maureen Duffy as its first recipient. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Girl reading by candlelight while leaning on a table Guido Reni, undated (b. 4 Nov 1575 - d. 18 Aug 1642 Bologna) Albertina, Vienna

It a bumper Classics issue of the @thetls.bsky.social this week. Long reviews by AE Stallings on Mendelsohn's Odyssey tinyurl.com/k7uzw9cy and by Peter Thonemann on 403 BCE

In the eighteenth century the rise of literacy precipitated the greatest transfer of knowledge into the hands of ordinary men and women in history and helped to destroy the old feudal order in Europe. As literacy recedes a neo-feudal future looms. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Creative UK - the national membership body for the UK’s cultural and creative industries - is looking for a new CEO. Up to £130k lead-wearecreative.uk

A brillliant, fascinating article by @iancushing.bsky.social about the word gap concept - but also about the whole ecology of our current education system, uncovered by tracing the experiences of one teacher and what these reveal about the system as a whole.

Second, it’s worth reading this excerpt from Frederick Douglass:

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ASLE-UKI Online Seminar Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment 29 January 2026, 3:00-7:00pm GMT Convenors: Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University) and Tess Somervell (University of Oxford) Further details: asle.org.uk/events/semin... Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

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There are many highs and lows in linguistic research: from tones going up and down to emotional highs and lows like a wedding and a war In this episode we get enthusiastic about fieldwork in Babanki with Dr. Pius Akumbu

🔔 @oralhistsoc.bsky.social has opened its call for proposals for the 2026 Oral History Festival. Submit by 30th January 2026.

Creative Translation in the classroom - ⬇️👏🏽👏🏽⬇️

#TeamEnglish #EduSky 👀👀⬇️

#DigitalHumanities postdoc opportunity⬇️⬇️

Save 40% on the paperback edition of The Medieval Pig which examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. Ends 29 Sept 2025. 🐷 Buy the book > buff.ly/cJs8ee6 #medievalsky @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

The Word Gap ™️ is something most teachers learn by osmosis. Given that what we think it means is not correct, we need to unlearn it, and dig at the biases that made it so attractive and idea in the first place.

A thoughtful and important submission by Michael Shattock (who as Registrar played a vital role in making Warwick University not only functional but excellent with it) entitled 'Reducing the prospect of university closures in the next three years'. He's sceptical about misleading merger analogies.

The latest JRS special issue explores multilingual & transcultural narratives of health and illness in European literatures (1870s–1960s+). Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess. ➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies @ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social