David Finkelstein

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Delighted to be joining this panel supporting Scottish charity work and governance

So pleased to have caught up with this rediscovered Robert Burns portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn in time for Burns night

Well, this will be interesting! Very much look forward to contributing to this literary salon at the National Gallery of London next month to accompany a compelling exhibition on Joseph Wright of Derby. Time to brush up on my Enlightenment book history.

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Lovely annual exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland guaranteed to lift January spirits

Today's view

Busy beach today

Life at Its Most Free | Sydney Review of Books What happens when a project that could make one’s career doesn’t eventuate? In the wake of the biography of Ruth Park she never wrote, Tegan Bennett Daylight considers what it means to write for a liv...

An insightful piece on writing a biography, or in this case failing to do so, and what a biographical style might say about the would be biographer and their own writing. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/life-...

Hello Barcelona!

Excited about launch of a new book series I'm co-editing for EUP, entitled Edinburgh Critical Studies on the Colonial and Anti-Colonial Press. Several contributions in the pipeline already, and we're on the lookout for potential additions. Get in touch! edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...

What a lovely gem of a book.

This week's Hebridean flotsam and jetsam

Hello Malta!

New look Edinburgh Filmhouse screen 1 ready to go!

Tonight's sunset view

Canadian methinks...

Great quote in latest @lrb.co.uk correspondence page. "adjectives applied by George Orwell to aspects of British life between 1919 and 1939, which include ‘faecal’, ‘verminous’, ‘lousy’, ‘dim-witted’, ‘meagre’, ‘godless’, ‘sneaking’ and ‘Canadian’."

This week's reading. Let's see what all the fuss was about.

Hello Oxford! Today's task, rummaging through old newspapers in the Bodleian Library.

Hello Berwick-upon-Tweed

Same as last month though. Time moving slowly in my case!

My news this week
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Looking forward to reading this cracker of a novel.

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

Thrilled to share that I've received a Curran Fellowship, securing funding for my upcoming research project on "British Socialist Labour Press Responses to Foreign Migrant Labour, 1890-1910." Excited for the opportunity to delve into this crucial historical topic. (rs4vp.org/awards/curra...)

A great read. Complex, keenly observed and startling in its conclusions.

Being told my monograph draft submitted for review was 'audaciously transnational' in its wide historical coverage. Shall have it engraved on my tombstone.

This week revisiting this novel published almost 25 years ago. Still a great read!

A busy couple of days in store for me in Florence. Grateful for the invitation to be here.

Passport control line in Schiphol Airport this morning for UK passengers flying to European destinations, stretching several hundred feet. Meanwhile EU citizens sailing through. That's the famous Brexit dividend in action I see.

Interesting and compelling study of an energetic set of journalists who reported on and shaped our understanding of the world in the mid-20th century

Nicely researched historical novel set in Elizabethan London theatre world. Good pacing, from co-founder of 1990s supergroup Suede, Mat Osman