Fantastic news! All credit to @filmisfabulous.bsky.social and their dedicated work. These things don't just magically turn up.

Very excited to be chatting to @johnhiggs.bsky.social about all things Who this Saturday!

'Well that's funny, because among my friends I'm known as the man least likely to open a cinema'

Like much of what this government does, this reads as bullish but is entirely motivated by cowardice. They can see the sector cracking, they have not the first clue what to do, so they're preparing a narrative to absolve themselves from responsibility. Was British steel financially mismanaged?

Mayor Brown making Blight the head of DOPE- the Department of Pure Evil

Blight saying “Come on, let’s make Beanotown much worse”

Blight saying he’ll sack all the police officers

Blight saying he can do whatever he wants

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.

Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.

Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

Images of the poems handwritten in pencil are credited to Virginia Woolf Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. By permission of the Society of Authors as literary representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf.

Images of the poems handwritten in pencil are credited to Virginia Woolf Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. By permission of the Society of Authors as literary representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf.

Dr Sophie Oliver from @livunienglish.bsky.social has discovered two previously unknown poems by Virginia Woolf.📚

The poems, “Angelica” and “Hiccoughs,” were composed for Woolf's niece and nephew.

Read them and find out more 👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/01/16/p...

@livunihss.bsky.social

Final workshop of the first phase of our “Deliberate Ink” project. It’s been a privilege to work with such amazing women to produce these political messages. Still populating the website but you can find out a bit more at deliberateink.org

The English & Creative Writing Department Teesside have organised a great line up for their annual Research Seminar Series! @bradders953.bsky.social and will be talking about Vernon Lee in April. The seminars are open to everybody, so if you want to join, let us know!

Hopefully the beginning of something...

Super excited to have the proofs for this. It has been the absolute best working with @bradders953.bsky.social. Should be out mid-September, open access.

Likewise a joy! And this mention has now persuaded me to get the hell off Twitter permanently. So all the good things!

Great afternoon at the First Folio exhibition at #OurShakespeareNorth. Harsh that John Leason's claim to fame is making some mistakes on the typesetting, which involves selecting 100s of letters half as big as a Scrabble piece and arranging them back to front along dozens of lines in exact order!