Karen Ecky

I could listen to #JohnMcEnroe all day 😊❤️ @wimbledonltc.bsky.social #BBCSport

Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage

One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope!
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Read all about the best things to see and do next week at the York International Shakespeare Festival 2025 in our latest article at bit.ly/4h1GjTR

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social As an aside, this is the bit of the film when I first saw it in cinema as a child that stayed with me- terrifying! #POTUS is terrifying me now 😔

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social
We all know he needs to be here with the rest of the (space) rubbish/trash #StarWars #May4th #Trump

Sending loads of love and get well soon wishes, Russell ❤️

My lovely Aquarian Mum is 91 today ❤️❤️❤️I’m so lucky to have her and thought she deserved a share with the rest of the world! @therussellgrant.bsky.social

Happy Birthday Russell 🎂🍰❤️ Have always loved Aquarians- my Mum is 91 on 18th and my maternal Grandma’s was on 15th Feb. Hope you have a wonderful day ❤️❤️❤️

#DannyMiller was phenomenal in tonight’s episode. #Emmerdale

Amazing episode- congratulations to all involved #Emmerdale

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💥 A quick-click form to write to your MP and ask them to attend the Youth Mobility Scheme debate today (after PMQs):

action.stayeuropean.org/campaigns/yo...

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Have just had phone call with my Mum’s GP (I look after my Mum) and she was just really wonderful and reassuring. I realise how fortunate we are to have such a good practice #NHS #HopwoodHouseOldham @carers-uk.bsky.social @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social @arthritisuk.bsky.social

Excellent parent skills! Well done 👏👏👏

"the past is always read through the prism of the present and thus the present reads into it whatever suits it" - Martin Johnes 🤌🏾

Just give #MarkCharnock all the awards. He never fails to break my heart @emmerdaleinsider.bsky.social

Great interview with @teresacremin.bsky.social about Reading for Pleasure. If you want to encourage it in your school, this is an excellent place to start thinking about why & how! eg www.tes.com/magazine

Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with Darren Freebury-Jones | Folger Shakespeare Library Darren Freebury-Jones explores the ways in which Shakespeare reshaped the works of contemporaries like John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, and Christopher Marlowe into something distinctly his own.

On a new episode of the @folgerlibrary.bsky.social Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the influences on the “upstart crow” as he created a canon of timeless works, with author @freeburian.bsky.social.

Listen here:
www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
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Strasbourg, Ankara, Madrid: none felt like home, but in books I discovered my people | Elif Shafak As a child I moved from France to Turkey to Spain – then I finally found roots and belonging in stories, writes novelist Elif Shafak

“So where is home? For me, home is storyland. That is where we find a sense of belonging, a sanctuary, a motherland.”
- Elif Shafak in @theguardian.com today - a wonderful article about the meaning of home… theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/child-france-turkey-spain-stories-children-home

John Lyly - YouTube All the plays of John Lyly in one handy playlist. A complete set of First Look read throughs, plus an increasing number of second passes.

🎄On the 8th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
🌳Eight John Lylys!
🔊 Seven John Heywoods!
🌟Six George Peeles!
🐌Five Nicholas Udalls!
🐍Four Samuel Daniels!
🗡️Three Tragic Ladies!
🎁Two Henry Medwalls!
🐻‍❄️And an Old Wife and her Tale!
#12DaysOfChristmas #drama
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Curae anthology book

On New Year’s Day, the #curae prize for writer-#carers opens for a second time. It’s supported by brilliant people across the industry and it’s for YOU. It’s free to enter and all the info you need is on the site thecuraeprize.uk This year you can enter a poem, short fiction or short nonfiction

When you feel like a bag of spanners and your Christmas Tree still isn’t up, you know all is right with the world because #DieHard is just starting on #Channel4 😁

A joy to speak about my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS @manchesterup.bsky.social with Thomas Dabbs for the phenomenal SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE series.

Lend your ears (and eyes) here.

youtube.com/watch?v=NuDI...

Amazing! ❤️

This is such an important corrective to some of the current misconceptions and lack of accurate data about the place of creative arts graduates in the workplace, minimising their importance. Creative Arts and Humanities graduates play a vital role.

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast · Episode

ICYMI here is a conversation with REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY about my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS.

open.spotify.com/episode/79lv...

Helloooo 😁