Dr Katie Cooper

Trump proposes eliminating the NEA and NEH as arts grants are canceled President Donald Trump’s proposed budget follows his attempts to reshape the nation’s arts landscape and his years-long efforts to defund arts institutions.

President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This is so true and so dangerous. Trump btw just defunded the NEA. Not the worst thing he’s done but imagine if these jokers get in and just blow up ACE? Something to think about.

British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding

Opening Lines - London Belongs to Me - BBC Sounds Ian Sansom takes a look at Norman Collins’s novel London Belongs to Me.

If anyone fancies hearing it, I’m on Opening Lines talking about Norman Collin’s novel London Belongs to Me, World War Two and Balzac www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@laurenlaverne.bsky.social @6music.bsky.social taking me back to student days in Brighton in the early 00s this morning! Shoutout to the Pav Tav and all who sailed in her ❤️

That is excellent! I love The Corner That Held Them!

That sounds like fun!! Have you recovered?!

How’s it going???

I can’t believe it’s Day 14 of the Write Habit @writerscentre! I’ve been really enjoying trying to develop and expand my writing practice this month. It’s really helping me to reach outside my comfort zone of academic writing and to try to be more imaginative and intuitive #theWriteHabit

How’s it going?!xx

Agreed!👍🏻

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The thing I do feel sad about since leaving HE is the sense of waste in that it cost tens of thousands to train me and whereas the skills I gained are endlessly useful the knowledge is somewhat wasted (much as I try to lecture colleagues and friends in 20th century women’s writing or feminist theory

You should read this. Incredible work @robhawkes.bsky.social

Dr Eleanor Jackson, curator of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 's Medieval Women exhibition, talking about Margery Kempe - episode 1 of Kickass Women of History is available now, wherever you get your podcasts!

#history #womenshistory #margerykempe #medieval #medievalwomen #podcast

Happy birthday to novelist, campaigner and committed Europhile @stormjameson.bsky.social! Born on this day back in beautiful Whitby in 1891. I wrote a book on her and hope to be announcing some exciting Jameson-related news with the amazing @manderleypress.bsky.social later this year!❤️

And that’s a super one to start with!

BBC Sounds - Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Shipping Forecast - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Shipping Forecast on BBC Sounds.

All over this and of course delighted that Albarn is reading one! And have you listened to this?? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

Thanks John! I just realised I’d only put the link there! Wanted to preserve it for Storm!

A prolific novelist inspired by the coasts and moors of Whitby As well as having one of the twentieth century’s better noms de plume, Storm Jameson enjoyed a long and industrious writing career, stretching from the

Just popping this here from the other place: www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/autobi...

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

Dan! How the hell are you?! Send me a message?xx

Hello skies. Is that what we are now? I’m Katie, a recovering academic and Geordie in East Anglia. Trying still to write that refugees book but also doing arts engagement work, seal-watching and dabbling in (the dark?) arts. Formerly UEA. Formerly modernist. Practising feminist.💚

Hello!! Doesn’t this place feel like lighter, sunnier climes?!

Phew. Hello lads. Nice to be out of the pressure-cooker, eh?