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Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal. Seems important to add, son of a political refugee.

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The NHS makes me feel so grateful, the staff so wonderful, the whole idea of it is just so kind & tender.

11.03.2026 22:57 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Free publishing training session ok journals publishing tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 12th)!
Details and sign-up link below…
#PublishingTraining #ECR #AcademicJournals
@oipassoc.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @ics.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social

11.03.2026 22:17 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
John Clare: The Meeting. Poetry and Song.
John Clare: The Meeting. Poetry and Song. YouTube video by Simon Kövesi

Ooh and you can hear Corri's setting, here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_JM...

10.03.2026 11:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How a small change to the English curriculum could cut teacher workload Tweaking the requirement for GCSE students to read a 19th-century novel could add diversity while maintaining rigour and reducing teacher workload, argues Robert Eaglestone

Changing the requirement for GCSE students to read a 19th-century novel could help to add diversity to the curriculum in English, argues @bobeaglestone.bsky.social

09.03.2026 06:05 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2

Happy #IWD2026! 🎉

08.03.2026 12:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - Book Launch | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

Naval surgeons, theatre cleaners, and Ozzy Osbourne - some of the talks we'll be giving at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sat 21st March for our next launch event. Book via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

06.03.2026 15:11 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

05.03.2026 08:46 👍 3959 🔁 2149 💬 103 📌 193
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Huge congratulations! Here's Haydn Corri's take on Clare, sung by Vestris of course, especially for you Brianna!

04.03.2026 22:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Members of the Robert Burns Centre at Buckingham Palace with then University of Glasgow Principal Professor Anton Muscatelli.

Members of the Robert Burns Centre at Buckingham Palace with then University of Glasgow Principal Professor Anton Muscatelli.

About 2 years ago I took this picture of most of the Robert Burns Centre crew @glasgowburns.bsky.social with @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social at Buckingham Palace, there to receive their Queen's Anniversary Prize.
Was a very proud day for all @glasgow.ac.uk!

04.03.2026 16:36 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

lads, i am beginning to suspect fifa were a bit hasty with that peace prize

02.03.2026 15:46 👍 37 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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A soft toy hot cross bun character to hang on the Easter tree. It's what Jesus would have wanted.

01.03.2026 13:16 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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A soft toy hot cross bun character to hang on the Easter tree. It's what Jesus would have wanted.

01.03.2026 13:16 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Greatest moment in TV is when the lead character Michael of BBC's Small Prophets gets a box-sized Shreddie, all the singles joined into one massive one. In episode 1 he pops his Shreddie doublers on the side of his bowl to eat at the end of his breakfast cereal. A life of small, cherished victories.

28.02.2026 20:50 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where's the launch?!

28.02.2026 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Huge congratulations Taylor!

28.02.2026 13:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you!

25.02.2026 23:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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25.02.2026 23:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ooh. How do we find out about this method, Eugenia? Sounds fab.

25.02.2026 23:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Then and Now: Romantic-Era Poets in the Encyclopedia Britannica, eleventh edition, 1910-1911

The 1911 ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA entry on John Clare, alongside my contemporary response, which ends with the word "tarmac" for some reason:
eb11.uvic.ca/clare_john.h...

25.02.2026 22:40 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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#EnglishCreates: Futures

Today, Prof Gail Marshall (University of Reading) reflects on a treasured first edition of Middlemarch:

'Books connect us to each other... but they also grow with us, and connect us to different versions of ourselves'

Full post: universityenglish.ac.uk/reading-matt...

25.02.2026 07:21 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 4
University of Glasgow Professor Alison Phipps wearing a red robe in front of an ornate window.

University of Glasgow Professor Alison Phipps wearing a red robe in front of an ornate window.

A major report led by @alisonphipps.bsky.social calls for a renewed national commitment to supporting multilingualism as a core pillar of integration, education, and community wellbeing.

It was launched at the @royalsoced.bsky.social New Scots Language Taster day.

Read more: gla.ac/4tPdjFJ

23.02.2026 10:06 👍 31 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
To Novalis


The holy stranger rests in dark earth.
God received the dirge from his soft modest mouth
as he sank back, in his bloom-time.
One blue flower
sustains his song, in pain’s nocturnal house.

To Novalis The holy stranger rests in dark earth. God received the dirge from his soft modest mouth as he sank back, in his bloom-time. One blue flower sustains his song, in pain’s nocturnal house.

Georg Trakl, tr. Stephen Tapscott. just perfect

23.02.2026 04:17 👍 50 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
Trillionaire Song
Trillionaire Song YouTube video by James Tasker

Current earworm is a snippet of an as-yet-unfinished (I think?) "Trillionaire" song by Jessica Mazin. Best swearing in a song I've heard for a while. What a voice she has.
youtube.com/shorts/TqYzQ...

21.02.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Trillionaire Song
Trillionaire Song YouTube video by James Tasker

Current earworm is a snippet of an as-yet-unfinished (I think?) "Trillionaire" song by Jessica Mazin. Best swearing in a song I've heard for a while. What a voice she has.
youtube.com/shorts/TqYzQ...

21.02.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations!

21.02.2026 00:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2,000 social media influencers were paid by Warners to post nice things about the Wuthering Heights movie.

20.02.2026 00:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#EnglishCreates: Futures

We kick off our series on Critical Reading with Prof Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway): 'in the increasingly scientised discourse which has so effectively helped to teach decoding, the fundamental holism of reading can get lost.'
universityenglish.ac.uk/reading-is-a...

19.02.2026 08:40 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"

Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️

17.02.2026 22:59 👍 1303 🔁 463 💬 150 📌 109