The BSLS and the JLS are pleased to announce the opening of the 2026 PGR/ECR Essay Prize Competition! Entries should be between 4,000-5,000 words in length, and are due by 5 June. More details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/04/call...
I will mention your name to her!
A short, squat white lighthouse on rocks, surrounded by water. A road bridge crosses over from outside the frame of the photo and passes behind the lighthouse.
In what (I hope!) will be the first in a series of events taking To the Lighthouse *back* to Skye, Bethan Roberts and I will be leading a workshop in Portree on Tues 5th May, reflecting on how Woolf's novel resonates with sustainability, housing, and tourism today atlasarts.org.uk/programme/to...
We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work on a self-defined research project in environmental history that places electronic or digital technologies at the center of its historical inquiry.
More details in the announcement linked to below.
#envhist
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Vivek Shanbhag’s Sakina's Kiss, translated by Srinath Perur, has been shortlisted for this year’s James Tait Black Prizes.
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We are thrilled that BIG KISS, BYE-BYE by Claire-Louise Bennett has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction:
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*Announcement Time!*
Delighted to share the shortlist for the James Tait Black Prizes in fiction and biography!
I co-judged fiction this year and we had over 300 entries. The shortlisted five are exceptional. #JamesTaitBlackPrize
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NEW: Nigel Farage has sold videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot - @direthoughts.com & @michaelgoodier.bsky.social report
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SPAIN. THE QUESTION. WRITERS and POETS of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND and WALES. It is clear to many of us throughout the whole world that now, as certainly never before, we are determined, or compelled, to take sides. The equivocal attitude, the Ivory Tower, the paradoxical, the ironic detachment, will no longer do. We have seen murder and destruction by Fascism in Italy, in Germany --- the organisation there of social injustice and cultural death --. and how revived, imperial Rome, abetted by international treachery, has conquered her place in the Abyssinian sun. The dark millions in the colonies are unavenged. Today, the struggle is in Spain. To-morrow it may be in other countries-- our own. But there are some who, despite the martyrdom of Durango and Guernica, the enduring agony of Madrid, of Bilbao, and Germany's shelling of Almeria, are still in doubt, or who aver that it is possible that Fascism may be what it proclaims it is: “the saviour of civilisation”. This is the question we are asking you: Are you for, or against, the legal Government and the People of Republican Spain? Are you for, or against, Franco and Fascism? For it is impossible any longer to take no side. Writers and Poets, we wish to print your answers. We wish the world to know what you, writers and poets, who are amongst the most sensitive instruments of a nation, feel.
In June 1937 Nancy Cunard, on behalf of various left-wing thinkers, asked 'writers and poets' to state where they stood on the Spanish Civil War. Although the focus was on Spain, the question was framed in terms of anti-fascist internationalism and commitment: 'ironic detachment will no longer do'.
Our annual Susan Manning Lecture is an exciting one this year. Cedric Tolliver will be speaking on African-American spy novels. Book here: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-lite... @uoe-llc.bsky.social
& of course in my excitemenet I misspell the title of the novel. 😑
I have been re-reading The Lonely Londoner for the first time in a decade ahead of teaching it and struck by how smog seeps into the bodies, labour, even the food of Selvon's characters and today discover this article from Saba Pakdel just published by @mmodernity.bsky.social!
Call for Editors!
The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor.
Apply before 18:00, 13th March.
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I posted some thoughts on Virginia Woolf and Henry David Thoreau on my new blog: www.peteradkins.net/blog-1/virgi...
Sending solidarity!
These were the highlights from lots of rope, shredded plastic, lollipop sticks (so many), bottle tops, bottles, poo bags, food wrappers, polystyrene and insulation.
Corroded PCB board with several rusted components
Yellow Smarties lid top with the letter C embossed.
Underside of yellow Smarties lid showing the name of the sweet.
Orange rubber castration ring.
Beach clean finds. A corroded PCB likely from a phone with barnacles forming, a pre-2005 Smarties lid and a lamb castration ring that reminded me of my childhood on a farm.
Calves aren’t cargo. However, Brittany Ferries is still cruelly exporting unweaned calves from Ireland to France - despite acknowledging that this breaches EU law.
#BanLiveExports
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SGSAH is recruiting an EDI Associate Director (0.2FTE, Secondment) for a 2‑year term starting May 2026. Open to colleagues across SGSAH’s 17 member institutions.
🗓 Apply by 9th March 2026
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They are getting desperate, which is hopefully... a good sign?
Last two days to fill this out. I've just done it. It took me about 20 minutes.
As Amnesty International put it, "the most significant assessment made of responses to Government consultations is often about little more than how many people agreed or disagreed with what is proposed."
🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
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DREAM job: two-years of full-time research on Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and its various histories www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQI985/r...
Applications are now open for this year's Summer University at Aarhus University, where my popular course "Animal Matters: Transforming Perspectives Through Human-Animal Studies" is part of the programme.
Check it out and SHARE!
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W. F. Harvey was born in Leeds and, from memory, I'm sure some of his stories are set in the moors.
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
📢Call for Papers: Yuck?: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Nonhuman Life 🐀 @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Further details: tinyurl.com/ynwua3em
