Eyeball in a landscape in hat and jacket, human-headed melons, fleeing prisons... these are C. P. Cranch’s very literal illustrations of Emerson’s Nature (ca. 1837–39) — publicdomainreview.org/collection/cranch-new-ph...
Just a few more days to apply to this year’s Take Your Research Public course - an introduction to public writing, social media, podcasting and more for academics new to this work. Guests include @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and @estelleprnq.bsky.social. Free, online, over four Tuesdays in June.
Photo of 'the cages' in Marsh's Library
Image of blue tits and kingfisher in gouache on vellum, c.1730
Page from a 16th century herbal showing hand-coloured poppies
Applications for the inaugural 'Museum Plinth Project' close this Friday 17th April. The residency offers artists a 6-month residency to engage with the collections of Marsh's Library or the National Museum. visualartists.ie/advert/open-...
Seamus Heaney and Michael Harnett joined the picket line.
Ink drawing on cream background of a cat head peeping around a wall with the typed text 'Curious French Cat' below
Curious French Cat, 1956 by
Sylvia Plath, US poet #Womensart
Graphic with blue background with 18 longlisted jackets for the three awards, and logos in white font. More info at www.jhalakprize.com
The news is out! When I started this mad, bad, dangerous prize a decade ago, I never thought it would grow to three awards. But here we are: still shouting about future classics and current #mustreads
#jhalakprizeat10
"Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.“
Eudora Welty
#botd in 1906 #EudoraWelty
📷 E.W. selfportrait
When Thomas Ellwood repeatedly flouted his father’s command in 1659 to stay away from the Quakers, his behaviour provoked bitter family quarrels and a beating, until his father eventually found a surprising solution: he confiscated all his son’s hats. Thomas became in effect a prisoner in the house, accepting that it would be unthinkable to go outside without a hat. However strange to us today, this made perfect sense to contemporaries, and such episodes remind us that the multifaceted conventions surrounding dress played an important role in early modern culture. When, where, and how hats were worn, and the gestures in which they featured, conveyed signals about identity and status, could sustain, display, or defy social hierarchies and relationships, and asserted political or religious loyalties.
📣Out now on #firstview
Bernard Capp @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'The Cultural, Social, and Ideological Role of the Hat in Early Modern England'
#Hat #Identity #Social #Clothing #Religion #Family #History 17thc 🎩👒🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Interested in learning more about The Strangers' Case?
Read about it on the Folger Shakespeare Library!
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Did you like the Ian McKellen monologue video from 'The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore' about immigration? Read more about the #manuscript containing it held by @britishlibrary.bsky.social! Whet your appetite for #Shakespeare term with speculation around a certain writer's handwriting...✒️📜🎭
@tcdlibrary.bsky.social, you haven't aged a day!
We're in the studio with nationally renowned Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales, whose #paintings are featured alongside medieval #manuscripts that visualize Biblical narratives of the creation of Earth in Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages.
A pen and ink drawing of a minstrel holding two cymbals against a brown foliage design
A pen and ink drawing of a minstrel holding a musical instrument against a brown foliage design
William Morris was born on this day in 1834.
Morris was one of the principal figures of the British Arts and Crafts movement. These beautiful images were first designed by him in 1865.
Today's favourite find from @cam.ac.uk research is @queens.cam.ac.uk Dr Krisztina Ilko looking at how depictions of #medieval #chess subvert racial stereotypes in the middle ages.
Click for the illustrations, read for the interpretation.
#Manuscripts
#Medievalsky
#Skystorians
#EverydayImCodexing
‘Epistolary relationships suited Eliot in some ways, giving him more control over the way he presented himself. This was, after all, the man who would propose to his second wife by letter, even though she was at that point his secretary whom he saw nearly every day.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...
Prof. Michael Hurley @TrinCollCam speaking on John Henry Newman in Oxford on 29 March
Professor Hurley will give a paper on “Newman’s Sources of the Self” at a panel “drawing new maps of hope” to navigate the current challenges of our...
‘Flannery O’Connor said that her interest in such unedifying types was an antidote to “the hazy compassion demanded of the writer now”. If anything, she was inclined to exaggerate the unsavoury. ’
Edmund Gordon on O’Connor’s stories.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
On the origins & making of the film adaptation of my book Underland, including director Rob Petit on needing to become “a buttered otter”
to film where he did!
In UK cinemas from 27 March
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
Photo features five books written in Irish language, translated from Irish language, or written about the Irish language arranged around a mug holding a tricolor flag of the Republic of Ireland. The books are 'An Hobad' which is an Irish translation of 'The Hobbit', 'The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge', 'Celtic Voices English Places', an Irish language translation of the novel 'Dracula', and 'Irisleabhar Priosuin' by Eoghan Ó Neachtain.
☘️ Wishing everyone who celebrates a Happy Paddy's Day from the Irish language section of the EFL, specifically ☘️
Really looking to (linguistically) party? Why not check out Rodway's article 'What Language did St Patrick Swear In?' from Ériu (2009): www.jstor.org/stable/20787...
#LáFhéilePhádraig
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The Internet puts much information at your disposal - but how do you know what's accurate and reliable? 💻🤔
This pathway from Being digital will take you through how you can evaluate people, networks and information you find online 👉 https://ow.ly/XuRw50YnWsc
#BeingDigital
Book of John Leech's cartoons for Punch, the Victorian satirical magazine: publicdomainreview.org/collection/pictures-of-l...
💯
For all of our undergrads writing their dissertations.
#mood
A case of swallowtail butterflies on display in a wooden museum case.
📢Applications are open for a new fully funded PhD studentship:
🦋‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’.
⏳Application deadline: 3 May 2026
🔎More info: https://loom.ly/MO5pMMM
Congratulations to Professor Orietta Da Rold who has won a prestigious @cam.ac.uk Pilkington Prize for outstanding teaching
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A VERY Happy Birthday to Frankenstein's Monster!🎂🥳🎉
Sorry about your dad. 😔
#Literature
#LibrarySky
#MonsterMash
