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I just did some reading about this and it was not a very edifying use of my time

Oh no what happened here?! 😬 As a book prize judge, I would agree that many feted authors cannot write, but I wouldn't be so bold as to claim a single cause, and if I did, it would certainly not be this one

big fan of a sandwich with fresh onion bhaji, crispy and still a bit warm, with plenty of pickle

Wow... & yes, ultimately it's not about the actual number, but the desired one. Presumably this is relevant to the financial troubles at Hallam of the past few years.

They should also list the fees these students pay when they note seemingly small numbers enrolled. A more useful % would be these students' fees as % of total student fee income, since 73 students @ c. £30k p/a is well over 2 million, not an inconsiderable sum.

30 staff sacked at Grand Theft Auto developer in alleged ‘union-busting’ move A union has claimed more than 30 UK staff of Rockstar Games – the developers of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) – have been sacked in a 'union-busting'…

Last week Rockstar Games, makers of the world's most profitable game franchise, GTA, sacked more than 30 staff for union activity: www.thenational.scot/news/2558855...

Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

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Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious

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Think this was the best film I watched all year - harrowing, though!

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

“This is an extremely serious and troubling case that raises wider concerns about the academic freedom of staff and students at universities across the UK.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Are you looking for a postdoc on the environmental politics of conservation in Europe? Amazing opportunity to join the fantastic ERC Green Frontier team and work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social

Could you drop Voce books a line, in Birmingham? Lovely little bookshop in Digbeth that does regular events. If you ended up doing something there, I could pass details to my old colleagues.

Elaine's in new town, a delightful place to visit as much for her tales about radical feminism in the 1970s as her clothing selection!

(hoping this doesn't make me look like I've joined Reform's historical reenactment wing) I've been enjoying my corduroy women's land army breeches, with side buttons at the top and laces at the calf, made in 1947

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my band Shinlifter have their EP launch on Saturday and with impeccable timing our Instagram has been hacked so we’ve lost our main channel for promoting it. if anyone wanted to help share this brilliant poster by my pal Grace there, here or elsewhere we’d be very grateful!

Sorry to weirdly reply to this very late, but one of the Pearl films fits this thesis, in case you've not seen them!

praying that Edinburgh isn't on this list (p.s. have a lovely trip!)

Only one with inch measurements, which can sometimes be impractical when trying to work out furniture dimensions listed in cm. I also have at least three sewing tapes, mostly used for fidgeting with

Thanks! Can't believe I've become one of those people asking 'what about Scotland?' when I see new Westminster HE policy decisions 😭 I guess I could just seriously learn about devolution, but my one wild and precious life, etc

Thanks. I understand it's devolved, just wasn't sure if it would affect our fee income from English students (as in, will we now be offering cheaper degrees - seemingly yes), or if devolved nations tended to follow suit. I guess the latter probably just remains to be seen.

Interesting report which resonates with things my students told me when I worked at Birmingham. Proper student journalism is important for holding institutions to account and needs supporting!

Anyone have info on how this will affect Scottish unis? Will fees for English students go up here, too, even though we don't have TEF? Obviously in some sense it's all moot, when the government message remains 'we're not going to help you, and we won't let you help yourselves, either'

This is very good, and a genuinely useful explanation of aspects of book manufacturing that regularly annoy me, but which I hadn't linked together as having a common cause.

& that package is a delight to see!

Very much so! I've started to understand this more since I took on the James Tait Black lead judge role, and now get many parcels from publishers every day, all quite different. This conversation makes me think I should be making some records about the packaging as well as the submissions!

Thanks to both of you! Lucy is amazing; as well as the box book, I still think about a paper she gave in Cork about washing lines. Very happy we have the chance to do some proper work together. The other Co-I, Antonia, is a contemporary archaeologist, so it's a fun combination of disciplines.

I just mentioned this in another reply and thought it might also be relevant to your project, Claire! My collaborator Lucy wrote a book about books and boxes. Nice review here. 'It’s also hard to tell where book ends and box begins.' www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Boxes and Books in Early Modern England Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Boxes and Books in Early Modern England

Thank you! We were all very excited when your essay appeared. The beginnings of our work were in my collaborator Lucy Razzall's book about early modern boxes, which you might enjoy! www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Yes, great essay!

My colleague Mathias Thaler has been doing a project about failure gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...