Ticket sales have nudged up a fraction, which is great. I’d really love for next week to go ahead, so do snap up a ticket if you’re dithering. I do a pretty decent signature, too, if you like that sort of thing… www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waterstone...

So I think in the 17th century the tree is there to serve the poet's sexual gratification while the Romantic poet claims to be there to serve the tree; perhaps the tree is fucking him. Ecocriticism!

I went looking because I had it 50/50 that she did an English degree (she didn’t, history & modern languages), but then there was this. I guess the arts aren’t for other people’s kids. It gets my goat.

Love living in the a country with one of the world's leading music industries where the politicians are too cowardly to embrace the realities of our economy. Very normal, nothing gender about this at all.

“Phillipson's mother signed her up for Saturday morning drama lessons at the local community centre, which led to her being an extra on the children's TV programme Byker Grove. She also learnt to play the violin.” [Wikipedia]

Getting close: "Changing Gender: The History and Future of a Concept" literally rolling off the press...

18 days to go! Trans people and friends - please can you help us find the volunteers we need to carry the @transunityquilt.bsky.social?

A gold ring purchased in England in 1775-6 by Mohawk leader Joseph Brant; there he had his Mohawk name Thayendanegea engraved on it so that, according to some sources, he could be identified if he died in battle.

The wretched, savage and heartless bonfire of UK Higher Education continues. All this talent and experience and knowledge thrown away yet incoming students expected not to notice or care.

Detail are in the signup form, but just for clarity here: 1. We have a limited travel fund for those coming from outside of London who wouldn't otherwise be able to attend 2. The quilt is designed for both walkers and wheelchair users. Let us know any access needs you'd need support with.

Everyone - can you help us carry all 96m of the @transunityquilt.bsky.social through central London as an enormous statement of trans strength and solidarity? Can you help us find people who will? Saturday July 25th with London Trans+ Pride - sign up at the link below from @goodlawproject.org

Join clarinettist Julian Bliss and pianist James Bailleau this evening as they explore two clarinet sonatas by Brahms, the melancholy moods of Schumann's Fantasiestücke and more ✨ 🕰️ 7.30pm 🎶 Brahms, Olah and R Schumann 🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202607061930

This thread is a delight

Reminder that the ebook of A FUNNY THING is now open access! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies!! www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

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London people - would anyone like my ticket for this very nice concert this evening (free to good home)? I'm sorry to have to miss it.

Baritone Sir Simon Keenlyside and pianist Malcolm Martineau return to Wigmore Hall this evening for a programme of Mahler, Strauss, Butterworth, Fauré and much more 🌟 🕰️ 7.30pm 🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202607051930

It's still not wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, but it is payment in respect of people accessing one's books/chapters/articles, etc, so, academics, sign up with the Authors Licensing and Copyright Society www.alcs.co.uk

I talked to the fabulous Rosie Sheehy about some of her terrific performances and about appearing in Simon Stone’s Oresteia at the Bridge Theatre giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The Oresteia’s Rosie Sheehy: ‘I’m dealing with low-level panic all the time’

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Today is the 200th anniversary of Fanny Hensel composing Waldlied (H175). It is one of my favorites of her lieder.

If you've got time next Tuesday 7 July), 11 am BST, feel free to attend this online lecture. Here is the link. meeting.tencent.com/dm/cRAF9nhLz...

You all, it was a *huge* success. My students had a beautiful encounter with historical books that don’t ever leave Special Collections. Here is an English professor, two librarians, and a prison educator with a trunkful of rare 17-18thc books! More books in prison! Library access for everyone!

💡 Meet the full cast of a small and quiet light! This fall, experience this powerful new play about Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, whose courage, resilience and sacrifice in the fight against fascism continue to inspire. 🔗 https://orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/a-small-and-quiet-light/

Get in line in that processional Step into that small confessional There the guy who's got religion'll Tell you if your sin's original.

If you have so far resisted my pimping of these trans m/m Moriarty and Moran Be Gay Do Loads of Crime stories, consider this a sign and give in while it's cheap to do so.

How to do trans medieval studies without gender identity. In this year's volume of Arthurian Literature. doi.org/10.2307/jj.3...

Feeling really, really demoralised about the future of arts and humanities in UK universities, especially since our government doesn't care. It hurts worse when it's a purportedly left-wing government (ha) than when the Tories were gutting us.

NEW: Please reserve your spot for Training Training. This is a mandatory online seminar to learn how to participate in online training. Learn how to: *scream inside while nodding *laugh according to hierarchy *appreciate the serene emptiness of the cold vacuum of space

The article partly discusses the Townshend monument in westminster abbey, which depicts two Indigenous men modelled on a young Odawa boy kidnapped and brought to London as a gift for a British general.

An MP gets it! I am so relieved to see an MP Getting It! Not isolated, nor solely education (however devastating that is!), but research infrastructure that's being set on fire for the entire country.

Reminder: the EHRC Code of Practice is due to complete parliamentary scrutiny on 9th July. It has not finished already, as some suggest, because of how the 40 days is calculated.

Just another day of logging on to Bluesky where everyone is livetweeting a schismatic sect setting up in Switzerland like it's the 1540s.

Getting super into Catholic schisms for a week. like one of those obscure sports at the Winter Olympics, or the technical round of Bake Off.

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Sharon D Clarke to play Othello in new Royal Shakespeare Company season Check out the full line up (including new play directed by Rufus Norris) via @thestage.co.uk www.thestage.co.uk/news/sharon-... #rsc #newseason #othello

If I’m thinking in broad terms about codes, evasion, opacity, difficulty, friction etc, who should I be engaging with? Reading recommendations/provocations from literary, cultural, media studies, history, art history, philosophy, etc v welcome but whatever you’ve got! don‘t be shy to self-promote! 📚

I’m very pleased that the trade press is giving space to the Exeter horror. Next challenge is for them to look a little further down the league tables - Northumbria perhaps, or my own place. We have feelings too.

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

If we have to have these things (and I’m far from convinced we do), then here’s an easy bit of early fiscal devo for you, Andy: give councils the power to levy uncapped license fees on robot operators who want to use their highway infrastructure for commercial gain.

if your 'defence' of women involves invasive and scientifically unfounded testing to determine who qualifies, you're not defending women, you're defending the patriarchy

I wrote a snarky blogpost about this some years ago, about an actual historian within my own field (naming no names) who did this sort of thing lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2014/02/cred... (the general view of those who knew the topic re the book was what was good was not new, and what new, not good...)

*159 while posting this thread! Getting more MPs to sign the motion still really matters. This is a large amount of the momentum and backlash in parliament that is pushing for change. If you engaged with your MP, what you did really matters here. It’s going to be a long fight ahead.

Please help me get the word out! My workshop posts last year apparently got buried = no views. I put so much research and preparation - my mind, heart and soul - into teaching, so would love to see these classes fill up! #FashionHistory #CostumeMakers #HistoricalCostume

Also: I’m not sure people realise how much work it is to be precarious academic as one is expected to do all the things our more securely employed colleagues do - in fact, often more - because we have to show excellence in every aspect of academic life in order to be noticed by hiring committees.

Faculty will be ”given a score between zero and three by the university” - unbelievable stupidity and cruelty, solidarity with comrades at Exeter

The booklet is part of the "Drawing Self-Emancipation," a art competition and exhibition for young people residing in Barbados. You can learn more about the competition here: heritedge.org/events/drawi... Please share widely with your networks. 2/

We have created a booklet with advertisements of self-emancipating enslaved people in Barbados in the 18th and 19th centuries. It aims to make these ads more accessible and contains images of c. 20 ads, their transcriptions, and a short introduction contextualizing them. tinyurl.com/26zkuxf7 1/