The NHS makes me feel so grateful, the staff so wonderful, the whole idea of it is just so kind & tender.
@kovesi
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.
The NHS makes me feel so grateful, the staff so wonderful, the whole idea of it is just so kind & tender.
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
Ooh and you can hear Corri's setting, here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_JM...
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
Happy #IWD2026! 🎉
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...
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)
Huge congratulations! Here's Haydn Corri's take on Clare, sung by Vestris of course, especially for you Brianna!
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!
lads, i am beginning to suspect fifa were a bit hasty with that peace prize
A soft toy hot cross bun character to hang on the Easter tree. It's what Jesus would have wanted.
A soft toy hot cross bun character to hang on the Easter tree. It's what Jesus would have wanted.
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.
Where's the launch?!
Huge congratulations Taylor!
Thank you!
Ooh. How do we find out about this method, Eugenia? Sounds fab.
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...
#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...
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
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
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...
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...
Congratulations!
Thank you for this nugget, Popbitch.
popbitch.com
2,000 social media influencers were paid by Warners to post nice things about the Wuthering Heights movie.
#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...
"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 🤷♂️