📹 Alumni Brian and Diana Sparkes chat about their #LifeAtKing's in the Department of Classics The Greek Play is still a tradition today, you can book tickets for the March performances here 👇https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/greek-play-2026-the-clouds www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi2T...

🎭 The Greek Play 2026 will feature guest speakers: 3 March: Dr Naomi Scott (University of Bristol) 4 March: Professor James Robson (The Open University) 5 March: Professor Peter Meineck (NYU/ICS) Secure your tickets now 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/greek...

👏 Congratulations to Professor Francisco Bethencourt who has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for his project, New Christian Materiality, 1450-1750 (MATERIA), a landmark for King's Department of History. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-chr...

👑 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 ⤵️

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🧠 Today is Time to Talk Day 🧠 Professor Alana Harris' work at @kingshistory.bsky.social seeks to recover the names and stories of those buried anonymously in former asylum cemeteries to be respectfully remembered. Read more 👇 www.lbc.co.uk/article/asyl...

🤝 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 ⤵️

Introducing: Ocypete, played by Zo Năstase. Zo is a second year KCL Classics student who is part a powerful retelling of Aristophanes' Clouds directed by Giulia Balsamo. Performances at Greenwood Theatre 3rd-5th March 2026. Have you got your tickets yet? estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...

🏓 Ever wondered how ping pong found its way onto the big screen? From Forrest Gump to Marty Supreme, table tennis has had a rich cinematic life. In his new article for @theconversation.com, Dr @jeffscheible.bsky.social unpacks how it moved from background prop to centre‑stage storytelling ⬇️

🏆️ Congratulations to former @kingsdllc.bsky.social students Valeria Berghinz and Aldo Ruggiero on winning the Jethro Bithell Prize and Alice Emily Bithell Prize respectively from @sas-news.bsky.social for their studies in German. 🔗 Read more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-s...

📜 Hear Professor @klavezzo.bsky.social reveal an unexpected link between Stuart Hall and J.R.R. Tolkien challenge assumptions about the medieval-modern divide at this Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies event on 10 February. 🔗 Register ⤵️

🔊 '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...

📚 Abdoolkarim Vakil from @kingsdllc.bsky.social and @kingshistory.bsky.social analyses Miguel Real's O Ultimo Europeu – 2284 (The Last European – 2284) and its strands of orientalist and racialised invasion and race-war speculative fiction on 4 February. 🔗 Learn more 👇

✒️ 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...

✒️ Jonny Morton from @tulaneu.bsky.social reassesses the idea of the integumentum & high medieval literary theory more broadly by considering medieval theories of cognition and practices of pedagogy in this talk for the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies on 3 February ⬇️

How do we argue well in a divided world? Our latest How We Argue event, hosted by @kingsartshums.bsky.social, brought together leading voices across the higher education sector to discuss freedom of speech and the role that universities play in facilitating debate. ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/a-free-...

📢 Entries are still open to the @kingsdllc.bsky.social A Level writing competitions in the below areas: Comparative Literature 📚 French 🇫🇷 German🇩🇪 Spanish and Portuguese 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 Find out how to take part ⬇️

🏥 New book uses the global crisis of Covid-19 to interrogate fundamental questions about how we can better handle personal and collective public health decisions 👇

⚖️ '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 👇

The Department of History will host a Memorial Evensong for Professor Peter James Marshall FBA CB next week.

🎹 On 12 February, @oswaldsraven.bsky.social and @kingsdllc.bsky.social host the world premiere of the new musical work "My Name is Oswald" by award-winning composer Hannah Conway and writer Hazel Gould, drawing on stories of the medieval saint and king Oswald of Northumbria ⬇️ buff.ly/0dlN4XP

💬 'People are pushing back against the harms from digital worlds, which they have to be living in and through every day and the financial implications of that'. Dr Rachael Kent @kingsdh.bsky.social spoke to @theguardian.com about winning the £1.5bn class action against Apple. Read more ⬇️

✅ Don't miss your chance to apply for King's new Modern World History MA. Study the history of global, political, economic, and cultural interactions, the history of empires and the transnational histories of Europe (including Britain), Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.

On 22 January, Dr Tunay Altay (Humboldt University of Berlin) examines how staging, performing and re-narrating experiences of queer migration can radically reimagine queer migrants’ subjectivities and politics in today’s Germany. Hosted by Queer@King's 🏳️‍🌈 🔗 Register 👇

🏆 Winners and runners up of the 2025–2026 Diversity in Philosophy student video competition have been announced 👇

There will be a Symposium and chapel service in memory of Peter J. Marshall on 27 January Find out more here

🎞️ Professor Priscilla Layne (UNC) analyses how the 2013 film The Good Doctor shines a light on a little-known chapter of Argentina’s history and asks what it says about fascism in Latin America. 📆 21 January ⏰ 16:30 📍 Strand campus ℹ️ Hosted by @kingsdllc.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/4rFnZfT

The Greek Play returns 3–5 March 2026 with three evening performances and a special matinee on 4 March. Book your tickets now 👇

Our colleague David Brydan talked to Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social about the bombing of #Guernica for the History Hit podcast shows.acast.com/c939f8d1-c4b...? #Gernika

🗓️ 22 January- Find out new information about the dentity of Philoxenite’s founder as well as its urban layout and art. Sign up now

⚖️ 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 ⤵️

⛪ 'There are more than 200 churches dedicated to Oswald of Northumbria... the majority are concentrated in the southern part of the German-speaking world.' @oswaldsraven.bsky.social examines why St Oswald is so popular outside of England in @historytoday.com ⤵️ www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Interested in ADAPT-AI? Join an information session 🖥️ The sessions are designed to help prospective candidates navigate the requirements from the award, research themes and to find out more about the institutions and programmes on offer. Visit the link below 🔗

🇺🇸 'The thing about weaponising conspiracy theories is that you can't really control conspiracism. Trump's team can try to harness conspiracy theories as if it is just like propaganda – but it's not.' 🎧 Listen to Professor Clare Birchall from @kingsenglish.bsky.social at 24:40 ⬇️

💡 Professor Lilia Moritz Schwarcz analyses the social and cultural phenomenon of whiteness through its symbolic and iconographic expressions at the 7th International Conference of @rebracweb.bsky.social. 📆 16 January ⏰ 18:00-20:00 📍 King's Strand campus 🔗 Registration required ⬇️ buff.ly/5R94OZv

What is truth? Listen to Professor Mona Siddiqui and Professor Fay Bound Alberti 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🇲🇽 'What's so interesting in that period is that it's not so simple to be a prodigy because you're also a monster.' Dr Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela (@kingsdllc.bsky.social) talks to @naomialderman.bsky.social about thinker, writer and nun Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz ⤵️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Want to do a PhD with us? 🎓 Join our information session all about demystifying the application process on 12 Jan. Details here:

🔠 What's your word of 2025? With 'rage bait' chosen by @oxunipress.bsky.social, we asked experts in languages and literatures from @kingsdllc.bsky.social to choose their word of the year in Italian, French, Portuguese and more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/languag...

📺 One to watch over the winter break 👇 The Department of History's Professor David Edgerton on David Olusoga's new series www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

📻 Did you catch Professor Linda Woodhead, F.D. Maurice Professor in Moral and Social Theology on BBC World at One this month, giving her insights into symbols used by white Christian nationalism 🔊 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🕊️ 2026 Peace Lecture announced: On Pacifism Join the Department of Philosophy for the annual lecture which will be held by Professor Victor Tadros (University of Warwick). Find out more 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/peace...

Great end to the year for our Oswald project with an essay in the 75th anniversary edition of @historytoday.com. #MedievalSky @kingsartshums.bsky.social

👻 Do you love a Christmas ghost story? Professor Daniel Orrells (@kingsclassics.bsky.social) explores the work of M. R. James, inventor of a new type of ghost story that still influences the folk horror genre today. Watch on @history-hit.bsky.social at 29:01 ⤵️ access.historyhit.com/what-s-new/v...

🎧 We’re excited to launch the Beyond 1932 podcast! The Cairo Congress of Arab Music in 1932 brought together musicians and musicologists from across the post-Ottoman world, the first ever congress dedicated to Arab music and modernity. 1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/scores/podca...

🔠 Imi Lo, graduate of the Global Cultures MA, shares how understanding hermeneutical injustice – when there is no shared language to name an experience, causing invisible harm – has changed her work with neurodivergent individuals. 🔗 Read more in New Voices in Global Cultures ⤵️ buff.ly/6U76ljH

💡 If you like Jane #Austen, which other authors might you like from around the world? Professor Siobhán McIlvanney from @kingsdllc.bsky.social makes the case for Annie Ernaux, whose writing offers intimate observations on women's lives and domesticity at a particular historical point ⬇️