Prague narrow street in the Old Town. 📷 Zorki 4 🎞️ Fomapan 400 #shittycamerachallenge #blackandwhite #photography #filmphotography #zorki #commiecamera #fomapan #Prague #CzechRepublic

Monument of Geoffrey Chaucer as pilgrim, High Street, Canterbury (Kent) | April 2023 #Chaucer #CanterburyTales #literaryheritage #culturalmemory #monument #photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #Nikon #alliseemag Support my work: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

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

'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.

A great blog post by Emily Bender and Nanna Inie of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 on resisting the anthropomorphisation AI (or PBHI to be more precise). https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/ #AI #GenAI #noAI #PBHI

The Simmons Memorial, Dane John Gardens, Canterbury | April 2023 #photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #documentingspace #Canterbury #Kent #incredible_bnw #NIkon More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Excellent thread on the -16 social media ban on the bogus argument that it will get children reading.

Only saw the tree for the first time a few weeks ago: it didn't look particularly healthy. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Check out the whole thread!

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Underpass, Canterbury | April 2023 #photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #classicmono #documentingspace #Canterbury #Kent #streetart #graffiti More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Year of photos 48 of 365 Convent sunset Bruges, Belgium # photography #hipstamatic #blackandwhitephotgraphy #bruges #belgium

We are delighted to announce Almuth Grésillon as our first Honorary Member. This distinction recognises her outstanding contribution to the field of genetic criticism and textual scholarship, as well as her long-standing scholarly leadership within the discipline.

The city of Oostende is not just celebrating Bloomsday, it's celebrating the centenary of the Joyces vacationing in the seaside resort. And it's doing it in style. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20... #JamesJoyce #Oostende #seaside #literaryheritage

Waiting for the train Anvers-Charleroi #classicmono #photography #blackandwhite #Belgium #architecture

Westgate Towers, Canterbury (Kent) | April 2023 #photography #documentaryphotography #heritagephotography #documentingspace #Canterbury #Kent #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

The Goods Shed, Canterbury West station | April 2023 #photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #documentingplace #Canterbury #Kent #exploreobserveandshare #moodyphotography #SoutheasternRailway Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Just to note, Cardiff Uni management has paid over £1m to this dangerously bad consultancy in only the last 11 months. At redundancy rates over 2025/26, that’s about 13 full time academics (who are just “costs”)

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

Congratulations to our own Joan Fitzpatrick, now Joan Fitzpatrick, FRHistS! Joan has been elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship:

STEMMA will be hosting its inaugural Manuscripts Week this year starting 20 July. Watch our socials for details, including opportunities to get involved.

What are the different types of literary agent, and where are they based? How does the gravitational pull of London influence the field? Are publishers collecting Irish writers "like Pokemons"? Find out below

On this week's Macrodose, @meadwaj.bsky.social looks at how tech firms are cutting back AI spending, how progressives are taking on the UK political culture of bond market fear, and how a recent change in China’s welfare system will have global consequences open.spotify.com/episode/6rhN...

A fascinating article by Thomas Bate in the latest Modernist Review on the 'vituperative' Wyndham Lewis' who found himself the subject of libel suits. This is based on books annotated by the respective lawyers in the case. modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/l... #modernism #marginalia

Window looking onto courtyard, Canterbury Cathedral | April 2023 #photography #documentaryphotography #heritagephotography #documentingplace #Canterbury #Kent #Nikon #exploreobserveandshare #Cathedral #moodyphotography Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Cathedral Library, Canterbury (Kent), April 2023 #photography #documentaryphotography #heritagephotography #Canterbury #Kent #Cathedral #library #exploreobserveandshare More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Come and study English and History with us on our new joint honours degree at @lborouniversity.bsky.social. Or better yet: tell all the 17-year olds you know. www.lboro.ac.uk/study/underg... #Loughborough #HE #undergraduate #BA #English #History

It's curious that since my post related to the Granta/Commonwealth Prize affair yesterday, I am newly followed (auto-followed?) by a bunch of AI grifters.

Interesting take on the Granta / Commonwealth Prize GenAI controversy. https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-read-postcolonial-writing #AI GenAI #writing #literature #postcolonial

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Statue of Geoffrey Chaucer as a Canterbury Tale Pilgrim, High Street, Canterbury, April 2023 #photography #documentaryphotography #documentingplace #Canterbury #Kent #Chaucer #CanterburyTales #literature #literaryheritage Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Still Life with Bowl of Fruit

Still Life with Sweet Chilli Sauce, Thatchers Cider and Pineapple

Canterbury Cathedral (April 2023) #photography #documentaryphotography #documentingplace #Canterbury #Kent #Cathedral #history #exploreobserveandshare #NIkon #NoAI More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Before they were famous. Some Ladybird book covers from the period 1914 -1939. (At this point the were big books, with few illustrations)

Seed Bins. Heartland Seed Company, Moccasin, Montana. I used a Canon 5DSR and Canon 24-105 lens to make this photograph. #blackandwhite #industrial #seed #montana #heartland

From last night's excellent talk by @jtwelsch.bsky.social at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on his new book. Part memoir, part literary history, The Poetry of Suicide explores how we can talk about suicide outside clinical discourse and stats. (Photo courtesy Chrissie Van Mierlo) #booktalk #poetry

Dane John Gardens, Canterbury (Kent), April 2023 #photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #Canterbury #Kent #park #exploreobserveandshare #Nikon #Lightroom #NoAI More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Department of English and Related Literature University of York Salary: £28,549.66 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...

St Dunstan Street, Canterbury, April 2023 #photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #streetphotography #Canterbury #Kent #pictureoftheday #Nikon More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

What just happened to me. I read 'GenAI' as Generation AI. It felt very real and disturbing.

Underpass, Trowell Moor, Nottinghamshire, February 2026 #photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #landscapephotography #banalphotography #otherscape #Nottinghamshire #beestoncreatives More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi...#photography#documentaryphotography#documentingspace#landscapephotography#banalphotography#otherscape#Nottinghamshire#beestoncreatives for sale:

Wanting to get a rough idea of whether people have read either of literary modernism's so-called "unreadable" books. #poll #Modernism #Joyce #Stein #literature Please boost! 1️⃣ James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939) 2️⃣ Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (1925) 3️⃣ Both 📊 Show results

Wanting to get a rough idea of whether people have read either of literary modernism's so-called "unreadable" books. #poll #Modernism #Joyce #Stein #literature Please boost! 1️⃣ James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939) 2️⃣ Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (1925) 3️⃣ Both 📊 Show results

Old railway waggons, Trowell Moor, Nottinghamshire #photography #documentaryphotography #newtopographics #Trowell #Nikon

A Short Analysis of Philip Larkin’s ‘Sad Steps’ – Interesting Literature share.google/zwXeVQz1OYol...

New Boots Bridge along the Beeston Canal, Nottingham, October 2025 #photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #landscapephotography #Nottinghamshire #beestoncreatives More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Giving a talk at Dartmouth today about close reading as a practice for cultivating accountability (the ability to give an account of oneself and others), sensibility (sensitivity of one's sensorium), and gentleness (eliciting potentiality in others). Up with human flourishing through liberal arts!

Beeston, Weir Fields, Nottingham, October 2025 #photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #landscapephotography #banalphotography #newtopographics #otherscape #beestoncreatives More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

Beeston, Weir Fields, Nottingham, October 2025 #photography #documentaryphotography #documentingspace #landscapephotography #banalphotography #otherscape #Nottinghamshire #beestoncreatives More of me: www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi... Prints for sale: www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...