Decoding Anne Lister Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Decoding Anne Lister

Open access copy of Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to 'Gentleman Jack', co-edited by the wonderful Chris Roulston and me

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BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Queer Gothic Sarah Waters traces the queer roots of early gothic literature and architecture

pinning a couple of other things because why not?

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Register to vote Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.

THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN MAY IS TONIGHT

go get em folks

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The Office for Students was only ever the "I want to be wildly offensive and not face any consequences for my bigotry" office (cf: Toby Young being handpicked to lead it) but, dear god, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, you don't have better things to do?

Multiple universities on the verge of collapse.

Catz astronaut supports successful Artemis II mission As Artemis II astronauts are welcomed home, St Catharine’s is proud to celebrate the many ways in which Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Dr Jenni Gibbons (Fellow 2016–24; Honorary Fellow 2024) supported the completion of the first crewed mission in over 50 years to fly around the Moon.

We're over the Moon that Dr Jenni Gibbons (Fellow 2016–24; Hon Fellow 2024) played pivotal roles in the #ArtemisII mission: backup astronaut, immediate family escort & the first astronaut from an international partner country to be certified as Artemis capsule communicator:

Bereavement support “shockingly inadequate”: WAY member’s plea to Chancellor Reeves WAY member Caroline’s household income dropped by 75% overnight when her husband died of cancer last year, leaving her to raise two teenage children on her own.

www.widowedandyoung.org.uk/news/bereave... A lot of people assume that I am still in receipt of state benefits following Kieran's death, but in fact nowadays widowed parents receive financial support for only 18 months. This has huge financial implications! Kieran earned 60% of our household income.

Genuinely, who do we know who'd make a great Vice-Principal for the Humanities & Social Sciences at QMUL? Ideally someone who's got enough clout already they can shape things themselves.

Frankly, we're a cool place to launch yourself as national champion for the humanities and social sciences...

In a rational world - and possibly even in this one- this statement would exclude Palantir from any public procurement process

It’s always “this meeting could’ve been an email” and never “this email could’ve been a fine cask of delectable amontillado wine”

Still space on my lovely spec fic writing retreat in France in October! It's going to be super cosy:
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Thackeray's image of Becky Sharp throwing the "Dixonary" from a coach window.

Happy birthday to Johnson's Dixonary, being spitefully flung out of coach windows for 271 years.

No as a Noticeboard Some reflections on taking No! on a mini-tour in the US

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William Shakespeare has been laying low for over 400 years, but at long last, @lucycmunro.bsky.social has sniffed him out

god grant me the audacity of a Catholic convert sincerely telling the Pope he’s wrong about theology

UK trans people and friends - last few spaces left for our free workshop in Birmingham on Friday evening - please share! Thank you all - these workspaces are a bright spark in a dark world

Philip Owens' Picture of Nobody, published first by Jonathan Cape in 1936 & second, with foreword by myself, by McNally Editions today - an intricate modernist black comedy in which protag Will Shakespere struggles to write as another modern war approaches.

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Wrong and Unfair 👎

*How to Publish*

1. Join a union & partner w/ peers & colleagues—including staff at your local UP!!—to win back governance of your uni so that you can effectively lobby for AI restrictions (we need writers & readers!) & library, press, & dept/fac funding

2. Don’t bank on an academic career. See 1.

Hey yesterday I emailed an archivist with, and I quote, “do you know what ‘bundle dated 1190-1200,46’ might be?” And they emailed me back within an hour with the full text of a deed and a translation

so yeah, ask a librarian (and archivists)

historians: “archive fever”

other humanists *rolling eyes*: “historian flu”

Book cover: SETTLER FICTION FROM THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, 1820-1890

The first book in the Race in Nineteenth Century Literatures and Cultures series (Oxford University Press) is out in June!

Porscha Fermanis’ Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890

Get your library to order copies!

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In Pursuit of Genius In Troubling Times: On Philip Owens’s Picture of Nobody Philip Owens is buried in a war cemetery near Athens, Greece. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as having died on the tenth of June, 1945, aged forty-four, a sergeant in the Britis…

My introduction to the @mcnallyeditions.com reissue of Picture of Nobody -- Philip Owens's clever, chaotic re-envisioning of Shakespeare in interwar London -- is now online via @literaryhub.bsky.social. The book is out tomorrow, 14th April.

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Adorable bunch of otters pictured in river at popular Glasgow park A CUTE group of otters have been pictured in a river at a popular Glasgow park.

Glasgow otters are my latest interest.

✨✨✨✨✨ They did it! Congratulations to Jay Miller and everyone involved in this gorgeous show at @theyardtheatre.bsky.social

Sign the petition: Say NO to upping the retirement age Want to retire into your 70s? A Government review of the state pension age could see all of us forced to work longer. Yet again targeting ordinary people to plug funding gaps, instead of the mega-rich...

38d.gs/ysou
#pensionage #retirementage

Fishbones, Sea-Glass and Crinoids in a Lindisfarne Grave This Easter, my daughter and I went up to Northumbria, to near Lindisfarne.

This might be nice reading for a weekend afternoon just after Easter. It's about Lindisfarne, and mortality, and ordinary remains.

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Typescript article title of “The stubborn will to mean: sympathy, relationality, and the origins of collecting indigenous bones in the eighteenth century” by Robbie Richardson

Proofs arrived for my upcoming article in ELH!

Hugh Jackman in the 1998 production of Oklahoma. He stands on stage wearing a vest, shirt, and chaps, with hands behind his head, in a scene from the musical "Oklahoma!". The background features a rustic set, including a windmill and wooden fence. Another person sits to the left, dressed in period attire, near a wooden barrel.

Laurie Kynaston and Ben Daniels in the National Theatre's 2026 production of Man & Boy. Laurie is standing and Ben kneels on a table, both in 1930s-style costumes. Behind them is a large board with the cast list. The atmosphere is tense with audience in the background.

Don't say we never treat you 👀

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma, with #HughJackman, and Terence Rattigan's tale of paternity and corruption, Man and Boy, land on #NationalTheatreAtHome this May.

More info here 👇
https://www.ntathome.com/browse

📸 Simon Farrell, Manuel Harlan

Less than £90 to go! Do I know any wealthy Americans logging in around now? Dantella is a friend of friends - a trans woman from Jordan just granted settled status in the UK, raising rounds to build a safe home away from the discrimination and violence she's been placed into. Thank you so much.

Today in Washington DC! With the ever inspiring Soraya Chemaly! ! politics-prose.com/sara-ahmed-0...