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Caroline Gonda (she/her)
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queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
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Caroline Gonda (she/her) @liederfollower.bsky.social · Jun 28
My blog for the British Museum on Anne Damer is now live - very happy to see this out in the world. #AnneDamer #PrideMonth #LGBTQIA #c18th
Anne Seymour Damer: public life, private love
Gossip about Anne Damer's sexuality nearly wrecked her relationships and reputation, but in this queer love story, love outlasts scandal.
www.britishmuseum.org
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kovesi.bsky.social
Ronald Blythe Fellowship 2026
The John Clare Society runs an annual bursary scheme, providing £1,000 for PhD researchers in the field of John Clare studies. Closing date: 30 October.
@bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social
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Apply for John Clare Society Bursary by 30 October 2026
Apply for the Ronald Blythe Fellowship bursary for John Clare studies! Deadline: 30 October 2026. Fund your research projects
johnclaresociety.org
October 3, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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londonmikmaq.bsky.social
Registration for in-person and virtual attendance is here:
October 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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oldenoughtosay.com
this is how we know its gonna be good
oxfordclarion.bsky.social Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 23h
Two Oxford English dons have advised on Middle English dialogue for forthcoming horror film Werwulf, set in the 13th century. Dr Eleanor Baker and Professor Daniel Wakelin acted as consultants for director Robert Eggers. Werwulf will be released on New Year's Day.

www.ign.com/articles/rob...
“Does This Take Place in Hell?” Director Robert Eggers Teases Eerie Details About His 13th-Century Medieval Horror Film Werwulf
Director Robert Eggers reveals eerie new details about Werwulf, his upcoming medieval horror film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe and Lily-Rose Depp.
www.ign.com
October 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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vixleyton.bsky.social
Sheffield! This is Sunday. My award losing Edinburgh fringe 4* comedy lecture about pettiness with @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social + Hannah Braggins at the civilised time of 4pm. Say QUACKS - well, write it in the discount box but also, why not say it out loud - and tix may even be free?🎫
October 2, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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cnlester.bsky.social
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a popular/trade biography of Hildegard? I really want something cozy to curl up with, but that won't break my brain with inaccuracies (as a feminist musicologist).

Trying to ground myself in the good things too, and Hildegard is always a good thing.
October 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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cnlester.bsky.social
'those with the most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money.' - I don't know a single severely disabled person - all of whom have reams of medical evidence of impairment and illness - who hasn't had their conditions deliberately downplayed by benefit assessors
francesryan.bsky.social Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1d
Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21.

This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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marshslibrary.bsky.social
A doodle (possibly drawn from life?) in a 17th-century book of Virgil's poetry
October 2, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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triciamatthew.bsky.social
We hope you’ll ask your libraries to purchase all of these.
October 1, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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profchander.bsky.social
our series keeps growing!

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casie legette, the empire’s schoolbooks devin garofalo, worlds unmanned porscha fermanis, settler fiction from the southern hemisphere
October 1, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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starcrossed2018.bsky.social
And so it begins: breathing space? 1 Henry IV #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Here's Richard Coyle as King Henry IV in Player Kings, the 2024 composite version of 1+2 Henry by Rob Icke.
A photograph of a play in performance. A king stands with a big crown, a red velvet and ermine robe, and an orb and sceptre in his hands; he's just been crowned. There are four people in very formal black suits standing around him, bowing; one of them has a purple cushion, which the crown has just been carried on. Other people are watching from the back of the stage, dimly lit. The mood is solemn.
October 1, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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cambridgegender.bsky.social
We are thrilled that Prof Bonnie Honig is joining us this term as Middlebrook/Djerassi Visiting Professor! Her public lecture is 5:30, 28 Oct at St John's Div School on "Hippolytus, in Reverse: Metamorphosis Now, with Deleuze, Canetti, and Arendt". More info: www.gender.cam.ac.uk/news/diane-m...
September 30, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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jacklynch000.bsky.social
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
September 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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cecs-york.bsky.social
📢 Our first seminar of the academic year is nearly here!
Declan Kavanagh, University of Kent, will be presenting a paper on: "‘The Fear You Had for Your Eyes’: The Terror of Sight Loss in Gulliver’s Travels (1726)"
🗓️ Tuesday 6 Oct, 5pm
📍 H/G09, Heslington Hall
🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Tiny Gulliver rows a toy boat in a large wooden cistern while an oversized king, a queen and fanned ladies, and stern pikemen watch from a raised platform, a satirical scene emphasizing the comic size contrast and royal bemusement. The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver. [graphic] / (Plate 2d), Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, Lewis Walpole Library
September 30, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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starcrossed2018.bsky.social
#ProdigalPrince my new #SlowShakespeare blog, reading 1 Henry IV every day, around 10 lines at a time, starts TOMORROW, 1 October! Here's one of my favourite Hals (and actors): Geoffrey Streatfeild @the-rsc.bsky.social 2007-8, with David Warner as Falstaff.
A photograph of a play in performance. An older man with luxuriant white hair and beard is looking past the camera, holding up both his hands. He's wearing a crumpled white shirt and a reddish-brown leather jerkin, undone and unkempt, over an ample belly, with a jaunty red scarf. Sitting behind him, feet up on a bed, is a younger man with slicked down blond hair, wearing cream trousers tucked into black boots, a messy white shirt and cream jerkin. And quite a lot of eyeliner.
September 30, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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oldenoughtosay.com
it's a lovely michaelmas day and you are a horrible goose
ciaraioch.bsky.social Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.
A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks". #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas
September 29, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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nushpowell.bsky.social
Please share!! The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies position. PhD in literature, rhetoric, media studies, linguistics, or related discipline required at the time of appointment.
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September 29, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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ellamchawk.bsky.social
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives.

I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
September 29, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
I'm going to tell you a story and then, at the end, I'm going to ask you if anyone happens to have the niche knowledge I need to help...

The story begins, as so many of my stories do, in an ancient church in the middle of a city. But it's not now. And it's not hundreds of years ago. It's the 1960's
September 28, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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willpooley.bsky.social
people in/near bristol and into/violently against tarot/AI:

we are hosting a series of events this year on “risk”, tarot and AI as part of my university research fellowship

get in touch if you’d like to be involved
La Maison Dieu tarot card above text TAROT / RISK / AI a series of events hosted at the University of Bristol November 4 2026: discussion event open to anyone interested in Tarot / Al contact: william.pooley@ bristol.ac.uk
September 28, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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londonmikmaq.bsky.social
I just gave a lecture on the French and Haitian Revolutions and got to use this amazing 1948 painting by the Haitian artist Dieudonné Cedor depicting the 1791 Vodou gathering in the forest of Bois Caïman, the pivotal ceremony that ignited the revolution.
A priest dressed in bright scarlet robes stands at the center with arms outstretched upward, directing the ritual invocation.
September 28, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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londonmikmaq.bsky.social
Loved seeing this c.1654 painting by Jacobus Vrel known as “The Little Nurse”; Vrel has often been confused with Vermeer, and I thought of John Berger’s words when I saw this very human scene: “What was it that he wanted to say in the stillness of his rooms which the light fills like water a tank?”
A painting of a woman sitting in a wooden chair near a fireplace in a sunlit, sparsely furnished room with plates displayed on a high shelf.
September 27, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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stcatharines.bsky.social
Three Catz students are supporting the Cambridge Greek Play in key roles on & off stage. We interviewed them as they started rehearsing Euripides’ Ion before a run of performances at Arts Theatre Cambridge 14–17 October. Read more: caths.cam.ac.uk/gree.... Get tickets: www.artstheatre.co.u...
Sophie Ennis, Helen Brookes and Izzy Megilley Publicity image for Ion at the Cambridge Arts Theatre on 14-17 October 2026
September 27, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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dralexiswolf.bsky.social
Little poll, replies appreciated from UK academics who have teaching responsibilities.

If you were to go on an academic writing retreat in winter/spring, when would be convenient? Reading week overlaps with half term, so not the best time for most? A long weekend? Could you escape during term?
September 26, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Thanks to Jen our fab computer officer @cam-english-fac.bsky.social all my #SlowShakespeare blogs are back here www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... as 'projects' #StarCrossed #StormTossed #DaggerDrawn #KingedUnkinged #2Dudes1Dog #BurningBarge #InkyCloak #MoonMad. #ProdigalPrince begins 1 October!
Joseph Fiennes as Shakespeare wearing a rather grubby shirt with an unnecessarily plunging neckline. He is looking quizzically/sultrily past the inky quill which he is holding in his ink-stained fingers.
September 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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londonmikmaq.bsky.social
A poster for my October lecture in Toronto!
Poster for “Joseph Brant’s Unwritten History” lecture, featuring a painting of Joseph Brant in regalia, event info, and speaker Dr. Robbie Richardson, University of Glasgow.
September 23, 2026 at 3:37 PM