Are you in York tomorrow night? Or could you be? Come along to @yorkstjohn.bsky.social at 6.30pm, where I'll be talking about and discussing my new book on the Blair governments... It'll be great! More details below. 👇 www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...

This will be a fantastic discussion 👏👏👏

How did maternal care shift during the pandemic — and what does “digital care” mean for lived experience? 'Inside Motherhood' is a research-led Think Human event exploring pandemic-era motherhood through VR, data, and creative practice. 🗓 15 April |🎟 Free Event www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981568719...

Get your tickets now! This looks excellent and will book up fast.

Tickets available now!

As they should! If you want to read / hear Sarah's luminous & unfailingly honest poetry, may I recommend a visit to the Carers Poetry website. www.podbean.com/ep/pb-bjmsb-... carerspoetry.org

Join us! Brilliant public humanities work at Oxford Brookes. Completely free, and open to everyone. This is what a university can (still) do 👇

Terrific Festival at Oxford Brookes Do come along. I am leadiing events on the Quartet of Oxford Women Philosophers- Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch- discussion on the 17thApril, walk on the 18th

🌟 We’re back! My brilliant colleagues at Oxford Brookes. Join us on campus and in the city. 🌟

#EnglishCreates: Futures We kick off our series on Critical Reading with Prof Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway): 'in the increasingly scientised discourse which has so effectively helped to teach decoding, the fundamental holism of reading can get lost.' universityenglish.ac.uk/reading-is-a...

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

The Think Human Festival 2026 programme is live! Join us from 15-18 April for a fantastic line up of free events. There will be craft workshops, guided tours of Oxford, political discussion and much more. Sign up to save your place: www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

I took students of the Iris Murdoch Society for a walk in Oxford and we arrived at St Anne's College, where' a sudden fox peers with his brilliant face, and passes.' A memorable moment and it made me think of giving attention to what is around us

Last call today for the OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DAY of my book on the Blair era, 'New Labour, New Britain?' I think it's a judicious look at the whole topic, but you must be the judge: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

Oooh! So pleased to see Ellie Collins’ book out in our series!! Such wonderful repertory work! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719090868/ CC @shakesinstitute.bsky.social

Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

A (not too grim) blog post about my book for @universitypress.cambridge.org, featuring biscuits and Frodo Baggins! #cambridgeuniversitypress #hobbits #shakespeare

This book is 2 years old today 👇 Currently on discount at Routledge 👇 Reviewed by Karen Raber in the latest issue of "Shakespeare Studies Volume 53" (published this week) 👇 Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...

Edinburgh is a brilliant city, and here is the Scott Monument in January weather. Heartening to see a novelist’s imagination so magnificently celebrated in a civic space. ✨

Congratulations!! 👏👏👏

#Reading Free online event coming up 🙌 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enhancing-...

My book on New Labour and the Blair years is out in just over two weeks... And it's now **ON SALE** for just £12! Come on, you can't say fairer than that when it comes to the bargains. Roll up and/ or repost! It's just twelve quid! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

Keep thinking today of Isabella’s lines in ‘Measure for Measure’: O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Stained glass fragment, 15th century, Netherlands (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

I’m moved and enchanted by this poem by Meghan O’Rourke from the latest @newyorker.com which came through the letterbox earlier and which is trying to stop me getting on with my writing. I shouldn’t have opened it!

Bravo 👏👏👏

Nearly 44 years since English studies started its state of total & constant crisis. Tom Paulin calls it in @lrb.co.uk in 1982: "Many academic teachers of English are at the moment united in the dismayed recognition that their subject is in a state of acute crisis." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

Events! Take a look through our upcoming events,book your places on them! Visit our archive of recordings for supply of inspiring expertise across sectors, Early Years through to Higher Education via Primary, Secondary & Further Education #Teaching #Curriculum etc. ⬇️ englishassociation.ac.uk/events/

33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill 'Look not so fierce on me'

Hi, have I mentioned that my book on New Labour and the Blair years is coming out in UNDER FOUR WEEKS? Any journalists who'd like a proof copy for review, do DM or email and I'll fix it right up... 👍 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

Fellowship Opportunity! Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships Open to artists whose work would benefit from primary research related to the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and it's legacies. Applicants NOT required to hold a formal degree. www.folger.edu/research/the...

Late to the party, late to Bluesky… but sending huge congratulations!! 🧵👏 This is a wonderful and important book.

New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy. (And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)

TODAY! Join us at high noon in Headington 🩸

The Think Human Team is in The Forum with cakes, badges and programmes. Come and say hello!

Think Human Festival week is here! We are looking forward to welcoming you to this timely discussion tomorrow Sign up to save your place 👇

Thanks to BBC Radio Oxford for talking to me this morning about our upcoming Think Human Festival at Oxford Brookes. Join us, 7-10 May, to talk about art, film, politics. Everyone is welcome and it’s free. www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Congratulations, everyone! 😈 📜

Think Human Festival returns to Oxford Brookes, 7-10 May. Thoughtful discussions on campus and across the city, all celebrating our brilliant arts and humanities researchers @oxford_brookes Free! All very welcome. eventbrite.com/cc/think-human…

Oxford people! Join us on campus on 10 May. Universities *can* still be places of thoughtful and humane creativity 👇

The Gibbs building on campus isn’t spectacular. But the woman it’s named after was. She left a wonderful legacy for Oxford, and for Oxford Brookes. Join us to uncover the story. It’s free and everyone is warmly welcome. 👇

Join us on 7 May for our festival of arts and humanities in a humane world 👇 all free, and open to everyone @oxfordbrookes

The reason we have universities is they're a place for people who actually know stuff - unlike the people who appear on your TV screens pretending to know things.

Are you in Oxford on 7 May? Join us for this important event @oxfordbrookes #humanities 👇👇👇 Free, all warmly welcome!

‘Who Did It?’ Join us on Saturday 10 May for a talk on @unofphoto.bsky.social’s research into two 1959 murders. Explore how a family were impacted by generational poverty and potential miscarriages of justice. Sign up below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-did-it... @kcraik1.bsky.social

GCSE and A Level students and teachers working on Shakespeare - please join us on Thursday! Completely free, all very welcome. I’ll be there with actor @jameswallace.bsky.social to answer your questions 📚🎭 - sign up here👇

Teaching Shakespeare at GCSE or A Level? Looking for a free webinar at lunchtime on 20 March? Join me and actor @jameswallace.bsky.social to talk about Shakespeare and emotion. All very welcome! 📚☕️ Sign up here 👇