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Anyone else really struggling with hay fever? I always seem to struggle around this time. Whatever pollen is in the air doesn't agree with me.
9 months ago
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Julie Park
10 months ago
Excited to deliver my paper--based on fresh work for next book Writing’s Maker—"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing"--to
@oxford18thc.bsky.social
next Tuesday. Many thanks to
@ballasterros.bsky.social
and
@davidftaylor.bsky.social
for the invitation
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Can't wait. All welcome!
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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Faculty of English, University of Oxford
10 months ago
We're delighted to welcome Barney Ronay
@barneyronay.bsky.social
, Chief Sports Writer for The Guardian, to the English Faculty on 3 March. He'll be in conversation w/ Prof David Taylor discussing everything from the politics of sport to the changing nature of Britain’s media landscape. All welcome!
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture
10 months ago
This Tuesday we'll be hearing
@gabriellabird.bsky.social
&
@davidftaylor.bsky.social
talk about reviving Centlivre's The Busy Body in a collab between
@orangetreetheatre.bsky.social
@creationtheatre.bsky.social
& Oxford's Cultural Programme. 5.30 @ Seminar Room East, Mansfield College. All welcome!
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Chloe Wilcox
11 months ago
I (and, I think, the whole audience) had such fun at last night’s performance of ‘The Busy Body’ by Susanna Centlivre, put together by
@davidftaylor.bsky.social
,
@creationtheatre.bsky.social
,
@orangetreetheatre.bsky.social
!! It was kinda like a 1709 version of The Importance of Being Earnest :D
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11 months ago
We're excited to reveal our programme for the term, featuring
@davidftaylor.bsky.social
, Gabriella Bird Katharine Boehm,
@juliepark.bsky.social
, and Peter Sabor. As always, all welcome!
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The ruins of Godstow Abbey amid the frost and freezing fog.
11 months ago
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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text
11 months ago
Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears. Here is our call for papers. Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!
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Does anyone else have trouble renewing their BSECS (
@bsecs.bsky.social
) membership with Wiley? This is the 3rd year in a row that my card has been declined and the process to rectify this is time consuming and infuriating.
12 months ago
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Just read Ciaran Carson's Fishing for Amber. It's an astonishing book. A masterpiece. I can't believe it's not better known.
12 months ago
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This sonnet by Gillian Clarke. Beautiful.
12 months ago
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Chris Louttit
12 months ago
Good to see Michael John Goodman's The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery getting some festive attention. Completely open-access & reusable & remixable & with a range of Dickens's illustrators beyond the familiar original ones including Fred Barnard, Charles Green & Harry Furniss 👇.
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Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels
As Christmastime approaches, few novelists come to mind as readily as Charles Dickens. This owes mainly, of course, to A Christmas Carol, and even more so to its many adaptations, most of which draw i...
https://www.openculture.com/2024/12/explore-an-online-archive-of-2100-rare-illustrations-from-charles-dickens-novels.html
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Emma Smith
about 1 year ago
Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation:
english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...
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English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith
https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-faculty-oxford-worlds-classics-shakespeare-webinar-series-professor-emma-smith
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Deidre Lynch
about 1 year ago
This poem by Mary Robinson, published in The Morning Post in 1800, addressed to that newspaper's "Type," really must be the only poem about a typeface (as well as in a typeface) written in the
#19thc
. (But, gosh, I would be happy to hear of others.) Here are the first 2 stanzas.
#BookHistory
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Oxford folk - get yourselves to the North Wall to see Creation Theatre's Christmas show, Hansel & Grettel. It's fabulous. Took our 8yo this evening and we booked to go again as soon as we got home. The final medley is worth the ticket price alone. Tickets:
creationtheatre.co.uk/show/hansel-...
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Hansel & Grettel - Creation Theatre
Family Christmas show at The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford from Creation Theatre, specialists in site specific and digital theatre.
https://creationtheatre.co.uk/show/hansel-and-grettel/
about 1 year ago
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Pringles are biscuits, not crisps (potato chips). For the second time this week, a student has blown my mind.
about 1 year ago
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Did you know that Leigh Hunt kept a *Hair Book*? Yes, a *Hair Book*: an album of locks belonging to literary greats. And the good folk
@ransomcenter.bsky.social
have digitized it. Thanks to my student
@sadpphicstanza.bsky.social
for telling me about this.
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CONTENTdm
https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll14
about 1 year ago
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Bodleian Libraries
about 1 year ago
For those who missed the press around the William Blake discoveries (mentioned in our previous post), catch up here:
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/...
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Engravings discovered on reverse of copper plates thought to be the earliest produced by William Blake
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/engravings-discovery-william-blake
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Richard Ovenden
about 1 year ago
Luminous Port Meadow
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Tim Hitchcock
about 1 year ago
Paul Sandby, c.1759 - Old Chairs to Mend. London Museum.
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Gareth Prior
about 1 year ago
(And on the subject of near-perfect sonnets, this — from
@ravoon.bsky.social
’s Last of the Coalmine Choirboys — is magnificent. “…the sun has gone / to pieces in the song-forsaken sky”)
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Gareth Prior
about 1 year ago
It’s always life-affirming when you enjoy a reading so much you buy the book the next day, then you re-read properly and it’s even better than you remember. I’m loving
@niaandthepoems.bsky.social
’s Backalong, and the title sonnet is so close to ideal form you could almost mistake it for perfect.
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This essay by Fara Dabhoiwala is stupendously good. Both scholarly detective work and storytelling of the highest order.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n22/fara-dabhoiwala/a-man-of-parts-and-learning
about 1 year ago
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profchander
about 1 year ago
you could ask your library to order if you want
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The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-romanticism-and-race/2377489050A06529DF04E793369657AB
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Ed Conway
about 1 year ago
🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14
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Dan Hicks
about 1 year ago
one highlight from San Francisco’s MOMA ast week - Hans Haacke's "Blue Sail" (1965; chiffon, oscillating fan, fishing weights, and thread) ✨
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture
about 1 year ago
We're excited to be talking the digital
#18thcentury
with Nicole Pohl and
@jarona7.bsky.social
of the
@eenlightenment.bsky.social
tomorrow (19th) from 12.30-1.45pm. Do join us in Seminar Room East at Mansfield College. A sandwich lunch will be provided.
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Co-teaching a special option on 'Word & Image' for our finalists with the wonderful
@ljpowell.bsky.social
has been the best teaching experience of my career... ...and the cherry on top is that for our final class today we were joined by T. J. Clark, who is as lovely and generous as he is brilliant.
about 1 year ago
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I'm so excited to be working with Creation Theatre &
@orangetreetheatre.bsky.social
on a script-in-hand staging of Susanna Centlivre's wonderful comedy The Busy Body! Tickets: Oxford (24 Jan)
creationtheatre.co.uk/show/thebusy...
Richmond, London (26 Jan):
orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the...
about 1 year ago
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Deidre Lynch
about 1 year ago
I'm trying to write today about "papyromania"--an obsession w/ the illusionistic representation of paper--& about a 1780 watercolor by Samuel Lewis, a detail of which you see here. Kind
#18thc
& art history Bluesky pals, what is the paper object marked w/ the letter N & the word Isleworth? thanks!
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture
about 1 year ago
Hello! Hope we're not late to the party over here. Here's our list of speakers for this term. Do join us next week for what promises to be a fascinating session from by Electronic Enlightenment team.
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