jamesgrande.bsky.social
@jamesgrande.bsky.social
Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
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Out today! Thanks to everyone who has inspired and supported me over the 12 years I’ve been researching and writing this book. Published open access by @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social so the ebook can be downloaded for free www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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And did those feet ...? Breaking news here: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/william-bl...
William Blake, ‘Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion’ (c.1810)
And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's ...? No. No, they didn't.
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October 2, 2026 at 12:21 AM
And did those feet ...? Breaking news here: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/william-bl...
Listening to Zoe Ball talk on her and Jo Whiley's podcast about how it's been 30 years since she first presented Live & Kicking. Around the same time I was in the live audience, dressed as a giant peanut for a game ('Let's Go Nuts'). The Backstreet Boys also appeared, on their first visit to the UK.
September 27, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Listening to Zoe Ball talk on her and Jo Whiley's podcast about how it's been 30 years since she first presented Live & Kicking. Around the same time I was in the live audience, dressed as a giant peanut for a game ('Let's Go Nuts'). The Backstreet Boys also appeared, on their first visit to the UK.
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The Tilford Oak, Surrey - 'By far the finest tree that I ever saw in my life', according to William Cobbett in 1822. Shown in its prime in 1938 and passed away after 800 glorious years in 2026.
September 25, 2026 at 9:53 AM
The Tilford Oak, Surrey - 'By far the finest tree that I ever saw in my life', according to William Cobbett in 1822. Shown in its prime in 1938 and passed away after 800 glorious years in 2026.
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Uttara Natarajan’s Realism and the Romantic Essay is also here, and it has been such a pleasure to work on. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 24, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Uttara Natarajan’s Realism and the Romantic Essay is also here, and it has been such a pleasure to work on. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Lovely to be at the always brilliant Hazlitt Day yesterday - a highlight of the Romanticist calendar! You can become a member of the Hazlitt Socjety for £10/year and receive their excellent journal.
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September 20, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Lovely to be at the always brilliant Hazlitt Day yesterday - a highlight of the Romanticist calendar! You can become a member of the Hazlitt Socjety for £10/year and receive their excellent journal.
sites.google.com/view/thehazl...
sites.google.com/view/thehazl...
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It's time.
Time to write about this style of writing.
Which I've done here.
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Time to write about this style of writing.
Which I've done here.
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What is LinkedIn?
The rise of mindful slop
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September 19, 2026 at 6:53 AM
It's time.
Time to write about this style of writing.
Which I've done here.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Time to write about this style of writing.
Which I've done here.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Keats-Shelley House has a new website! A thing of beauty... keats-shelley.org
September 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Keats-Shelley House has a new website! A thing of beauty... keats-shelley.org
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Final proof (let’s hope) has arrived for indexing (620 pages). Thanks to all those waiting & watching. #AmIndexing #TheLongestJourney
September 14, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Final proof (let’s hope) has arrived for indexing (620 pages). Thanks to all those waiting & watching. #AmIndexing #TheLongestJourney
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Can anyone recommend a new series of books or new author for my Y5 daughter? So far she loves Lottie Brooks, Wings of Fire, Dork Diaries, Horrible Histories, Wimpy Kid series (but probably a bit easy for her now). Any thoughts?
September 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Can anyone recommend a new series of books or new author for my Y5 daughter? So far she loves Lottie Brooks, Wings of Fire, Dork Diaries, Horrible Histories, Wimpy Kid series (but probably a bit easy for her now). Any thoughts?
Bowled over to see Ross Wilson's very kind review of Articulate Sounds in this week's @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
‘Tuning our voices’
You wouldn’t catch Falstaff or Sir Toby Belch singing it, but Iolo Morganwg’s “rational drinking song” nicely illustrates some of the tensions
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September 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Bowled over to see Ross Wilson's very kind review of Articulate Sounds in this week's @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Now a six hour workshop to draft a new Faculty AI policy, after one hour's sleep. This feels the wrong way round...
September 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Now a six hour workshop to draft a new Faculty AI policy, after one hour's sleep. This feels the wrong way round...
Favourite summer holiday reading so far - Eric Puchner, Dream State (2025). Marriage plot, family saga and climate fiction combined, set in the lakes and mountains of Montana. A baggy, big-hearted American novel.
August 29, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Favourite summer holiday reading so far - Eric Puchner, Dream State (2025). Marriage plot, family saga and climate fiction combined, set in the lakes and mountains of Montana. A baggy, big-hearted American novel.
Took the kids to see some art at Museo Picasso Málaga. They were very sceptical but eventually won over.
August 27, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Took the kids to see some art at Museo Picasso Málaga. They were very sceptical but eventually won over.
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My Dolly Parton story is that she contributed a foreword to a book I edited, and that book make the NY Times best seller list - yet more evidence her book magic was every bit as great as her music magic.
Wayfaring Strangers
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in t...
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August 25, 2026 at 11:16 PM
My Dolly Parton story is that she contributed a foreword to a book I edited, and that book make the NY Times best seller list - yet more evidence her book magic was every bit as great as her music magic.
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Isobel Armstrong on saving English. Brilliant as ever. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/savi...
Saving English
The government’s drive for ‘vocational’ education is accelerating the death of the humanities, at a time when the study of literature is more vital than ever.
tribunemag.co.uk
August 25, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Isobel Armstrong on saving English. Brilliant as ever. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/savi...
A characteristically thoughtful and erudite review of the Miles Davis prom by Richard Williams at thebluemoment.com
August 23, 2026 at 8:48 AM
A characteristically thoughtful and erudite review of the Miles Davis prom by Richard Williams at thebluemoment.com
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excellent casual writing prompts here
August 18, 2026 at 12:20 AM
excellent casual writing prompts here
A glorious defence of the essay from Felicity James.
This is a WILD essay by the brilliant Felicity James on writing and reading essays in the age of AI
The Wild Essay, Or, the Essayist responds to the University Policy on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Learning, Teaching and Assessment
This is a guide to the essay in the age of AI, when we need it more than ever. How should we encourage our students to read when co-pilot is on hand to read for them? Beset on all sides by summary ...
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August 17, 2026 at 11:07 AM
A glorious defence of the essay from Felicity James.
Wonderful to be back at @bars.bsky.social with friends old and new. Congratulations to the organisers on a brilliant conference. Mary Favret’s keynote ’Legible / Illegible‘ a particular highlight for me #BARS2026
July 30, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Wonderful to be back at @bars.bsky.social with friends old and new. Congratulations to the organisers on a brilliant conference. Mary Favret’s keynote ’Legible / Illegible‘ a particular highlight for me #BARS2026
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Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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July 24, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
Norwich vs AFC Wimbledon at Plough Lane the perfect post-World Cup tonic. No air conditioned stadium, no hydration breaks, no Infantino or Trump. Paid £12 for my ticket.
July 22, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Norwich vs AFC Wimbledon at Plough Lane the perfect post-World Cup tonic. No air conditioned stadium, no hydration breaks, no Infantino or Trump. Paid £12 for my ticket.
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Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.
EThOS platform restored!
'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come
https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored
'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come
https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored
EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
www.bl.uk
July 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.
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Publication Day for “The Anthropocene and Literature”! Massive thanks to Tore Rye Anderson for this magnificent volume. So exciting to be in this company! Get your copy for 20% off today! (link in comments) www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
July 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Publication Day for “The Anthropocene and Literature”! Massive thanks to Tore Rye Anderson for this magnificent volume. So exciting to be in this company! Get your copy for 20% off today! (link in comments) www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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🤿 What can we learn from an underwater world seen through divers' eyes?
On 16 July, join @kingsenglish.bsky.social and the Environmental Humanities Network for the launch of Underwater Lives: Humans, Species, Ocean – a new book by Professor Clare Brant 🐡
🔗 Register ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
On 16 July, join @kingsenglish.bsky.social and the Environmental Humanities Network for the launch of Underwater Lives: Humans, Species, Ocean – a new book by Professor Clare Brant 🐡
🔗 Register ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
Book Launch: Underwater Lives | King's College London
You are warmly invited to the launch of Clare Brant's new book, Underwater Lives: Humans, Species, Ocean.
www.kcl.ac.uk
July 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
🤿 What can we learn from an underwater world seen through divers' eyes?
On 16 July, join @kingsenglish.bsky.social and the Environmental Humanities Network for the launch of Underwater Lives: Humans, Species, Ocean – a new book by Professor Clare Brant 🐡
🔗 Register ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
On 16 July, join @kingsenglish.bsky.social and the Environmental Humanities Network for the launch of Underwater Lives: Humans, Species, Ocean – a new book by Professor Clare Brant 🐡
🔗 Register ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
Love these historical comparisons in @philipjcowley.bsky.social’s FT column on the Burnham transition
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June 28, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Love these historical comparisons in @philipjcowley.bsky.social’s FT column on the Burnham transition
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