Dr Jennie Orr

Small moments of pleasure, sheathed in your wallet. The 'Otter Tenner' is exquisite. I smile every time I pay. Kate Bush would sing songs about them. Why can't we have more playfulness? Badgers make one smile in a way politicians obviously don't. Stick it on a banknote.

That kinda day, bro

Call me next time and we can scream together on loudspeaker

Why do people with mental or physical health vulnerabilities need call essential firm after firm & govt departments too to declare it, needing repeat the same painful, possibly embarrassing explanations. Today @MMHPI is calling for a 'tell us once' system www.moneyandmentalhealth.org/press-releas...

Also some interesting political, historical and print culture stuff from the cultural wing of the United Irishmen, and the Belfast Northern Star, with whom Thomson was connected.

Includes: Robert Burns, Alexander Kemp (correspondent of Charles Dickens), Luke Mullan, James Orr, Dorothea Lamont, Aeneas Lamont, William Hamilton Drummond

Four Courts Press | The correspondence of Samuel Thomson (1766–1816) During the Romantic period in the north of Ireland, a circle of bards were corresponding with one another, encouraging each other to pen verse, often united by political…

So if you or your institution would like to invest in the correspondence of a labouring-class Irish Romantic period coterie (some Scots and Northern English poets in here too), here it is: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2012/c...

Just had a mild existential panic when I saw that the publisher of my debut book is advertising '5 copies or fewer' left.

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Absolutely gripped by John L. Williams’ ”Heatwave”, a cultural history of 1976. So far it’s inspiring, humorous, challenging and disturbing all at once. Overall, a potent antidote to the weird nostalgia that seems to prevail, mostly on the right, for the “good old days” of post-war Britain.

Also it is exactly what a seminar is supposed to do: multiple people of varying levels of experience sharing what they took from the text.

These are the kinds of encounters that are possible when we don't see "productivity" as being chained to an office desk and chair or when we aren't hellbent on channelling everything into "impact". The world of work suddenly makes people crave those concentrated experiences of talking about life.

I had a few untimetabled hours this morning so went to campus teahouse to prep a seminar. 3 members of staff gathered around when they saw I was reading T.S. Eliot and wanted to talk about the text *and* gave me a bit of outside perspective on how to persuade the students about how good it is.

Book cover: charcoal sketch of Heaney's face by Colin Davidson

Finished Late Heaney by @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social a careful and perceptive reading of post-Nobel Heaney. Even allowing for the bias of my pre-existing affection and respect for Nicholas, this was hugely impressive.

This is not simply an analysis or a dissection ... (contd.)

Charles Willson Peale, Yarrow Mamout YouTube video by Smarthistory

Muslims don't belong in American society, says Andy Ogles.

And yet Yarrow Mamout was here, literally before the creation of the United States, and had his portrait painted by Charles Willson Peale.

Have been unable to release a knot from my stomach for most of today ... there are just aren't enough Tibetan singing bowls in the world

Argh, David, my sympathies.

My foray into William Blake as an adult suddenly takes on psychodynamic dimensions

Not an uncommon one, I imagine, but the teacher yelling at the end of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall. while we’re on this we should do freaky album covers so that I can finally process the red eyed monkey on Santana’s Amigos that used to scare me as a child

Noticing this urban #Wader or #Shorebird refuge at #Cullercoats Oystercatchers, Redshank and Turnstone #Birds #Nature UK

Spent 4 years coming and going through GLC. This is so sad.

❤️

Yes, gorgeous iridescence about it. The eyes hadn't sunk yet so we tried placing it in the water to see if it would revive but sadly not.

First time seeing a squid IRL (not in an aquarium) but sadly this one washed up dead on the beach

Reminds me of the clinical practitioner who said to me, “I thought you just all got promoted for being there long enough”…

Delighted to see this out from a great scholar and an even better human @drreznicek.bsky.social

Queer British History – 1714 to 1785 YouTube video by HistoricalAssocUK

Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury

[PDS Award] Preventing Species Loss for Human Health and Wellbeing: from Nineteenth Century Conservation to De-extinction and Rewilding. at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - [PDS Award] Preventing Species Loss for Human Health and Wellbeing: from Nineteenth Century Conservation to De-extinction and Rewilding. at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAP...

Please see below for a fantastic funded PhD in 19c literature with Clara Dawson at the University of Manchester - deadline 18 March 2026:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... [findaphd.com]

EMCO Internship Programme A digital edition of the complete letters of Elizabeth Montagu 1718-1800 - ISSN 2753-9091

Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte...

@bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social

Oh man, my dad will hate this too 😅