Frank Finlay

"Money is round and can roll away, but education is
forever." Heinrich Heine

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

🎨 Creativity isn’t a luxury - it’s a lifeline.
The final #ChildrenFirst report calls for arts and culture to be embedded in every school, for every child.
Because talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn’t.
Read the evidence and join the movement.
#ChildOfTheNorth #Health #Inequality #Creativity

Documents of the Nuremberg Trials can now be accessed online via:

nuremberg.law.harvard.edu

savenottinghamlanguages The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…

Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university

www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

Do you want to have a look at the talks available this week? For more info visit our website leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk @lcsleeds.bsky.social

I think you can get the measure of the deadness of someone's soul from the fact they kick up a stink about [checks notes] autistic kids wearing ear defenders

Sign the Petition Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!

Please consider signing against this nonsensical absurdity! c.org/vGgNqmXhNx

Can‘t recommend this book by highly enough - and for friends in the Calder Valley and beyond there’s a great opportunity to listen to @johnharris1969.bsky.social coming up.

Before, during and after: an absolutely sensational concert last evening by Junyan Chen for Skipton Music

Glückwunsch!

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Made the most of some late afternoon light before the clocks go back tonight.

Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities Charles Forsdick concludes the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses how this project on historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contributes to rethinking the medical …

Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities

thepolyphony.org/2025/10/24/m...

A pity, still you could always start a campaign to call it the Ozymandias Wing

Such an interesting and enjoyable time interviewing and presenting an eclectic mix of authors and their fascinating books @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social. And a magnificent effort by the team @thewordupnorth.bsky.social to produce the festival back-to-back with #ContainsStrongLanguage

Delighted for Eric Lu, 2018 winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, on his latest great success.

I blame those zebra crossings!

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy Are you an experienced academic in Philosophy with the ambition to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Woul...

@leedsprhs.bsky.social
Our vacancy for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Social Philosophy has now been advertised: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please spread the word! The closing date for applications is 5 Nov 2025.

Decidedly on the chillier side “up North”

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

“Every Little Helps” (Tesco, 2025)

The queue for the post-event book signing is generally a reliable indicator of how well an author has been received, and it was through the door for @johnharris1969.bsky.social yesterday @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social

A great PhD opportunity here:

@ilkleylitfest.bsky.social

Thanks, John, for being such an insightful, engaging and generous guest speaker @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social . A great pleasure to meet you! Hope your long trip home is going smoothly.

Thrilled to be interviewing the multiple-award winning @johnharris1969.bsky.social this afternoon for @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social about his fascinating, deeply moving and richly informative new book.

Fortunately this was the mantra of my A-Level economics teacher!

I attended the opening of #TurnerPrize2025 but returned to get a a less crowded view of the exhibition, beautifully curated by @Yorkshire Contemporary Contemporary and Bradford Museums @Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Congratulations to the four artists #NnenaKalu #MohammedSami #ReneMatic and #ZadieXa

You’ll probably be inundated with comments, so I’ll get mine in early: Bowie, Newcastle City Hall 1978 for a fiver in row 4 — £27.50 in today’s prices according to the Bank of England!