Barry Island, posted in 1917 to Mrs Harris in St Austell: "Love to all. XXXXX" #PostedInThePast

Amazing PhD Fellow opportunities at The University of Stavanger within Cultural Heritage Tourism. Intangible Popular Culture Tourism (DC5) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

‘The Pitt’, Fandom Squabbles, and "Watching a TV Show Wrong"

If you're interested in applying for an MSCA postdoc with us here at the Center for Digital Narrative, read this and submit a statement of interest before May 1st! We'll get back to you within a week or so after that :) www4.uib.no/en/research/...

My sister got me the greatest birthday present ever!

A virtual reality experience is bringing a nostalgic coming-of-age story from north Wales to life through immersive storytelling

Now on the bbc. Thanks to the @neunion.bsky.social for taking this issue seriously and pledging to oppose censorship and the far right. Vital at all times, and limiting access to books feels especially cruel in the National Year of Reading @literacy-trust.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy Sunday. And not just the 'literary world' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK authors the paperwork for this is actually pretty straightforward and well worth taking 30 minutes to do it and bash it back.

Good morning! Do you fancy doing a short online course about British Children's Literature in the 20th Century or one about Blogging and Writing For Online Audiences? Well, you are in luck my friends, because they are precisely what I teach and I'd love you to join the next intakes. Links below -

A photographer friend of mine is starting a visual and literary project around dementia, memory and time - if anyone would like to join in, it's here: www.becomingunmapped.com

Romantasy is not 'fairy porn'. It is powerful writing for women, by women, says Katie Fraser in her recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

Fascinating thread. An Italian friend of mine was commissioned to compose soundscapes for libraries (very low-key music/traffic noise/background chatter) because a survey showed that young users found the silence in them off-putting.

Once again reminding all academics in the UK that they really, really, really, really should sign up to @alcs.co.uk Lifetime membership is £36 and they take it out of the money they collect for you so it really is "free money". I'm getting a little over £100 *every year*. Do it!

You can now vote for "Lines of Flight" in the Opening Up category of the New Media Writing Prize! (There are other cool entries too, of course, but I'm thoroughly biased here). newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2... #art #design #dataviz #dh

Not in the same league, but I once discovered a visiting card from Adam Smith in one of Joshua Reynold’s notebooks. The librarian at the RA sighed and told me to put it back where I had found it.

I wrote about BookTok - and why publishers need an escape strategy: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...

Tomorrow!👀 Join us for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences. We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social

Let's kill "comics are a gateway to reading" dead please?

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Did you publish an edited collection, catalogue or monograph on book history in 2025? Please submit the citation info to the form below! We're preparing the next SHARP bibliography! #BookHistory @sharpnews.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Media Cymru and Ffilm Cymru Wales Climate Stories have announced that three Research and Development projects will be receiving further investment from their Climate Stories Fund

If publishing wants to reverse reading decline, it must understand how adults return to books, says Dr Caroline Cauchi in her recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

We’re hiring a Social Media Manager at the British Library. Join our Digital Engagement team and help connect audiences with the stories, collections and ideas of the UK’s national library. 📍 St Pancras Apply by 15 March 2026 More details here: link.bl.uk/rkj

The Publishers Association has urged the government in a new AI report to rule out a copyright exception for AI to allow publishing to help the UK become an 'AI content superpower' 👇 #BookSky

Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst

Adaptation is everywhere! This spring MTC is running a new series called ADAPTATION ANXIETY, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. To kick off our managing editor Martha Henzy takes on the unsexy absolution of the gothic monster.

New teaser for Netflix Pride & Prejudice is more like Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation: a copy of a copy of a copy

Walking together can be a powerful way to feel a sense of belonging in our environment.

This is a very, very good feature by E. Alex Jung on fanfiction, fujoshis and the Heated Rivalry phenomenon: www.vulture.com/article/heat...