William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.
The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!
My journal article 'The Haunted Closet: Romantic Drama and the Absent Body' is now online! This is material from my thesis, and honestly I'm very proud of it. Available here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Shannon airport has long been put at the disposal of the US military by Irish authorities.
Now it is facilitating ICE deportations which may amount to human trafficking or even crimes against humanity.
For a country that speaks loudly in support of the rights of Palestinians, this is shameful.
El Greco for delicious small plate lunch (that will leave you feeling properly full)!
Is anyone putting together a theatre panel for NASSR/NAVSA and looking for another speaker? 👀 (I'll write it as theater here too for whatever search optimisation that can provide)
Me!
2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3
Delighted by Bertie's delight!
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Thank you @srwride.bsky.social, and thank you for your amazing editing! 😊
A print called ‘A Private Theatrical of Jane Shore’ with a seated woman performing with book for variously involved seated guests, a cat and dog fighting in the middle of them
Our second seminar is:
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
18th C theatre people, is there any text of Cape St Vincent (the adaptation of Glorious First of June) other than what's in the printed songbook? I have a point that I can back up with the songbook alone, but I just want to check I'm not overlooking the play somewhere!
A group of students sat at a table examining documents and books from the Library's collection.
Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC.
Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...
Rusted hinges squeal and a cloud of dust chokes the intrepid academic as she opens up the document file for the chapter she abandoned months ago...
Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period —its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?
#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.
YOU GUYS. DAVID BOWIE WAS WRITING AN 18thc MUSICAL CALLED THE SPECTATOR WHEN HE DIED.
Between this and Hilary Mantel’s unfinished rewriting of Pride & Prejudice… I cannot.
David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...
Professors Jarrar and Mohammed discuss the relationship between Romantic literature and Palestinian literature, as well as what it looks like to teach such literature during a genocide.
I'd love to put together a theatre panel for this! Let me know if you'd also be interested?
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Congratulations Caroline! 💖
Okay. You all ready for a feel-good thread?
Because one literally fell out of the sky for us last week and it's only fair we share this heartwarming tale with you.
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
People in #Gaza, including UNRWA colleagues, are fainting due to severe hunger. They are being starved.
Meanwhile, just a few kilometers away from Gaza supermarkets and shops are loaded with food and other goods.
Lift the siege.
Allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
You know, I'm a "knowledge worker", and one of the big reasons for me doing the job I do is that I want to *tear down* the boundaries and share knowledge with people who don't have it. LLMs *reinforce* those boundaries, which is why I loathe them.
3/4 For those interested in the details of what Eltis actually said about the cost of antislavery patrols and how it has been misused the details are here: alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-wes...
How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples?
Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories.
www.historyworkshop....
Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW.
(Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)
'a leading Shakespeare expert [Matthew Steggle, Bristol] has analysed a fragment of a 17th-century letter that appears to cast dramatic new light on their relationship, overturning the idea that the couple never lived together in London.' 1/2
We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8