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I live and work on unceded Brayakaulung country. Disabled scholar researching Shakespeare and Richard III. Graduate researcher in history at the Centre for Contemporary Histories Deakin University. 'Maintain your rage and enthusiasm.'
Please donate to Animals Lebanon who are rescuing animals from affected and high risk areas
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Please donate to Sulala Animal Rescue in Gaza (the donation links often change of restrictions on Palestinians being able to receive money)
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Nami had severe anxiety when we adopted her 10 years ago because her owner died and she was dumped outside for six months. It's better, but it's not gone. Little Susu was born feral (we assume) and is terrified of everyone but us. I can't even imagine how bad it is for #cats and #dogs in war zones.
KING RICHARD:
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
The lights burn blue; it is now dead midnight.
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard, that is, I [am] I.
#ShakespeareSunday #RichardIII 5.3.178-82
Iran shares photos of children killed in US-Israeli school attack aged 7 to 12
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke:
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
Publication of my short #PenguinMonarchs book on Henry VII on #WorldBookDay is wonderful. Enjoy the early #Tudor conspiracies, tragedies & @jodyhewgill.bsky.social‘s amazing cover painting. Thanks to the team @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
‘The west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago’
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
A lovely audience today for a bespoke tour of my book tie-in exhibition, ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ at The Armitt Museum in Ambleside. The exhibition runs until December and I will be running another curator tour for members of the public on Friday 3 April www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la... 🍄📚🍃
This looks wonderful!
My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA.
I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation!
#18thc #17thc #earlymodern
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@aljazeera.com “Spanish politician Manuela Bergerot criticised what she called the hypocrisy of supporting US and Israeli attacks on Iran while invoking feminist rhetoric, highlighting the killing of dozens of girls after a school was targeted in Minab.”
I had two tutors in a first year Lit class that mocked and scorned Disney for the entire trimester, trying to humiliate students out of loving Disney.
You can’t take the Disney out of me. Still wishing upon a star.
This is a waste of tax payers money.
RSC is staging yet another prequel 'George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones: The Mad King'. I could be excited but I have been annoyed at George since about 2015.
thecritic.co.uk/is-the-georg...
Losing patience with Mother - a tetraptych (2022) #cats
@aljazeera.com
The findings reveal that the school had been clearly separate from an adjacent military site for at least 10 years.
He’s not a poor Yorick, but at least (I think) it’s amusing to keep saying ‘Alas, Horatio!’ because now is a time of alases.
To clarify, according to the latest from the President: the US did not attack Iran because it anticipated Iran would attack it because Israel was going to attack Iran. The US attacked Iran because it forced Israel to attack Iran because Iran was going to attack Israel after the US attacked Iran.
Just finished Lord of the Flies- this no longer feels allegorical
Louise Adler sets the record straight on Adelaide Writers' Week
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...
PRINCE
An if I live until I be a man,
I’ll win our ancient right in France again
Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.
RICHARD (aside)
Short summers lightly have a forward spring.
#ShakespeareSunday #RichardIII 3.1.90-94
William Frederick Matthews, a cook who served in the second world war, was buried in the cemetery in 1941, having died after being hit by a vehicle driven by American soldiers. His grave, according to cemetery maps and satellite imagery, is among those destroyed.
From @sugarandsloth.bsky.social
