You’ve reminded me that that episode made me want to seek out Charlie Bubbles because it stars Billie Whitelaw, who I was lucky enough to meet a couple of years before she died.
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It’s really quite something!
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It sure is! 🤩
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Academic generosity really DOES matter! We need more of it 💞
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I love the title ‘She Speaks’- very much in line with my poetic adaptation of Beowulf, the women tell their side of the story!
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Tottenham Hotspur stadium
Cracking afternoon watching American football at Tottenham Hotspur! 🏈 Sadly the Cleveland Browns lost (my Dad’s team!) 🧡 but we had a super time, AND the cast of Ted Lasso were in attendance!!! 🤩😱🤯
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Aw thanks Matthew!! Great to meet you yesterday!
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This was such a wonderful day! Enormously grateful to @cathamclarke.bsky.social for chairing the discussion & poetry reading with the astonishingly brilliant Caroline Bergvall 🤩 (Such a thrill to share a platform with her!) And I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop session with Catherine too! ✨
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Oh that’s so good to hear, esp from you, Una! Thank you!
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Hurrah!!! I’m very interested!!
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Oh this is intriguing!!
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Oh thanks so much, Ben! 🥰 Hope they enjoy!
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Yes I am! It’s great.
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Thank you so much! And excellent, I love that! (I have some other versions coming up in my poetry collection too!)
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Couldn’t agree more!! 😆
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When I heard the news this morning I made virtually this same comment to my husband! If we women are good enough for the risen Christ himself…
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Hadn’t it just!! 🥴
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123. Beowulf — Backlisted
For this year’s Hallowe’en episode our subject is the Old English poem, Beowulf , composed somewhere in England more than a thousand years ago. The atmospheric tale of supernatural monsters and ...
I would indeed! Heather is one of my colleagues here and it’s a superb book. I’d also recommend the @backlisted.bsky.social episode on the poem which was very much pitched at beginners and explored the range of translations available. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/123...
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Aw, right back atcha! 🫂🥰
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Me too, she was just extraordinary 😢
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🤣
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Just glorious 😂
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@hwaet.info Might I recommend my own ‘indeed’? From my poetry sequence ‘Grendel’s Mother Bites Back’ in Primers Volume Seven (Nine Arches Press, 2024). Thank you! 🙏🏻
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(And I really appreciate your kind words about my practice/process essays- I really enjoy writing those!)
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Thanks Fran! 😘
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Thanks for the shoutout, Lucy!
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Meet a Medievalist Maker: Sara Charles — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
Its the start of autumn and what better way to usher in the season than with a new Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost! We are delighted to introduce @saracharles.bsky.social, author of The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages. Read all about Sara's 'historical remaking' below👇
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London.Irish.Historian.Fun discovering #linguistics at QMUL.Interests too diverse: 17 cent.fundraising, hist/philanthropy, learning French, eccles. hist. In past: 12 century, amicitia, John of Salisbury.Career of major-gift fundraising, alumni relations.
Author, ringbearer, nerd in the Swiss Alps. ADHD/Chronic Illness. She/her 🏳️🌈
RÁN’S DAUGHTERS out MARCH 4, 2025 from Outland Entertainment
I like Vikings, crochet, and cats.
https://linktr.ee/KaitlinFelix
Matthew Roberts is on the PhD Text, Practice as Research (part-time) program at the University of Kent. He will be presenting a lunchtime lecture - Queering the British Holiday - Tue 27th January 2026 Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, London.
Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Slips between medieval York & the Pacific NW without warning. Writer. Owen Archer & Kate Clifford mysteries. Rep'd by @JVNLA Owned by The Maggie. Talks to trees. Reveres crows. Owls as well. Seattle Insight Meditation she/her www.candacerobbbooks.com
Translations of the first word of Beowulf. Created by @jesse.lansner.com. See more at https://hwaet.info.
Writer, animation producer, scicomms consultant. Currently writing about medical malpractice.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
#Geriatrician #hospitalist at Michigan Medicine. Vice Chair, University of Michigan Faculty Senate. #healthpolicy junkie. Immigrant. INTJ. Wanderer. Dabbler in #finance and #music. Cleveland Native, Michigan Wolverine for life #GoBlue. Views my own.
Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Books: Blood Feather 2023; Real Oxford 2021. Ghost Stations, CB Editions , Sept 2025. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
I’m a writer, actress, and first person historical interpreter who loves to share stories — true and imagined!
My research, writing and solo performances are focused on women in the United States and Great Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
CAMEMS aims to support scholarship, while also fostering close relations between @memsunikent.bsky.social, @canterburyccuni.bsky.social, local organisations, and the wider public.
AHRC english lit PhD researcher | glasgow | she/her
research interests: long 19C literature, travel literature, history of empire & imperialism, romanticism, polar exploration
usually found playing Baldur’s Gate 3 somewhere
artist, medievalist, metalhead, birdwatcher
normal about things online
any pronouns | 26 | ohio
https://morifinwe.carrd.co
Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
Art from the MoMA's Paintings and Sculpture collection.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
https://www.moma.org
Accountant. Cricket, all things food and wine, books, birds, running.
Assistant Curator @ Historic Royal Palaces 👑
Coffins, Palaces & Polar Explorers ❄️
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg” 🍒🐧 she/her 🌈 views my own ✨
Historian of suicide, emotion & gender
Lecturer in early modern history, Exeter
https://linktr.ee/earlymodernimogen
