Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley

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Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities

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Hats off to anyone in UK academia right now who is turning up for work, marking essays, meeting students, giving lectures, holding seminars, being there for colleagues and also facing the threat of redundancy, voluntary or compulsory. It’s a grim and surreal time #UKhigherEd

Our members out in force today at the UCU Cymru rally against the brutal cuts Cardiff University is threatening to make.

Our General Secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social spoke to @bbcwales.bsky.social about the devastating impact they would have on our members.

We asked Minister for Skills Jacqui Smith your questions.

We are committed to having the hard conversations even if the answers sting.

The honesty, transparency and willingness to share views is an important step towards change. Together we can influence the government to take action.

🚨 Don't miss our interview with Education Minister Jacqui Smith 🚨

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As a former evangelical kid raised on a lean “approved” media diet, I just want to say to every right winger who thinks banning books & forcing “patriotic” curricula will ensure your kids only learn what you want & end up thinking & believing like you

Best of luck with that. And bless your hearts

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

Striking over pay amid the UK’s financial crisis is misguided at best The work of lobbying policymakers to make HE a higher priority is undermined by the endless pantomime of UCU’s internal politics, says Dyfrig Jones

“[L]obbying ministers and civil servants to push higher education up the list of priorities […] is being made much more difficult by the endless pantomime that is the union’s internal politics.” #academicsky
@dyfrigjones.bsky.social ‣ @timeshighered.bsky.social · #unions

Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (Exploring 4) | Beyond Shakespeare Get more from Beyond Shakespeare on Patreon

🔊People tend to forget that Greene's Groatsworth of Wit is a story, and a really interesting one that flows nicely from the cony-catching pamphlets. A tale of deception continues, and there is a well limed bird. But who will get the prize in the end? #Storytelling www.patreon.com/posts/greene...

The higher education funding crisis made the Guardian front page this weekend 👇

“If vice-chancellors do not step back from the brink and work with us to protect jobs, serious industrial unrest cannot be ruled out” @drjogrady.bsky.social

Read here 👉 theguardian.com/education/20...

Christopher Marlowe, Certain of Ovid's Elegies Title page for website

New edition and recordings of Christopher Marlowe's Certain of Ovid's Elegies: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/aca...

Off to this too soon: www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi...

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Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

#ShakespeareSunday

Excited to be seeing this soon! www.rsc.org.uk/edward-ii/

👉Extended deadline for abstracts or papers for 'Marlowe X Theory' - please share and consider submitting!✍️ call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/...

Joining UCU FAQs Some common questions about UCU membership.

The University and College Union (UCU) is not just for staff.

You can join as a student member (for free) or as Postgraduate Student membership (lowest rate). Find out more here.

www.ucu.org.uk/whyjoin?deta...

Dr Chloe Preedy invites submissions on the subject of Ecocritical Marlowe for a special edition of "The Journal of Marlowe Studies", an international, peer-reviewed online journal. Deadline for submissions May 2, 2025 rensoc.org.uk/event/specia... #skystorians #DeptfordRewilding #earlymodern

Front cover of the Royal Historical Society's latest briefing: 'The Value of History in UK Higher Education and Society', also with an image of the main page of key findings from the report.

The Society works with and advocates for the historical profession: academic historians, researchers, and professionals in sectors such as heritage, archives & broadcasting.

Our latest briefing sets out 'The Value of History in UK Higher Education and Society' (October 2024) bit.ly/RHS_Value_of...

As Chair of the membership committee please do feel free to reach out to me informally if you're thinking about joining. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Join the IHR Low Countries Seminar ONLINE Friday 19 January 5:30 PM BST for Nigel Smith (Princeton), “Politics, Philosophy and Dramaturgy: Theater Reform in the Dutch Republic in International Context.” For Zoom link register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/polit...

This looks stunning all over

I'm really excited to be organising a seminar on Mourning, Memorializing & Grieving in Shakespeare’s World for the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) annual conference taking place in March 2025 w Prof Kaara Peterson! @saaupdates.bsky.social

Internship at The Society of Antiquaries

📣New on the IES blog! 📣

IES MA in the History of the Book student, Sam McBain, has written about her internship experience at the Library of the Society of Antiquaries @antiquaries.bsky.social over the summer.

👇Read her blog post here 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/blog/interns...

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Revisiting Revenge Tragedy "Revisiting Revenge Tragedy" published on 19 Dec 2024 by Brill.

This is out soon - just in time for the festive season! Who doesn't think about revenge then? brill.com/edcollbook/t...

Solidarity with @neunion.bsky.social members on strike today ✊

Staff at Sixth Form Colleges making a stand on pay and defending national collective bargaining.

#PayUp24

Psalm 107 - They that in ships YouTube video by Passamezzo

Something for #thanksgiving
They that in ships unto the sea down go, a
#16thC setting of Psalm 107.
From Ainsworth's psalter, 1612 - one of the music books carried on the #Mayflower in 1620

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Alison Kinder: bass #viol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ey...
#earlymusic #earlymodern

Christopher Marlowe, Certain of Ovid's Elegies Title page for website

New edition and recordings of Christopher Marlowe's Certain of Ovid's Elegies here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/aca...

Teach Marlowe? You might like this: Teaching Marlowe journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...