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The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story. Set in a haunted castle,
#BookWormSat 🧵
🚨12 April🚨
📖The Book of Sir Thomas More:
🧩Piece by Piece🧩
A deep dive into the play written by Anthony Munday before a pile on of hands started. A full performance of the text, panels on how it came into being, and a session of Tudor Interlude Bingo! #drama
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
I've been banging this drum at my university. No one seems to care. The party line is that AI is wonderful, and it is my job to figure out how to get my students to use this amazing new thing. No concern that we might be keeping them from being self-sufficient thinkers for the rest of their lives.
Anyone seen the new US campus-based limited series "Vladimir" ?
I binge-watched last night
Not sure what I think - yet
Vladimir (TV Series 2026) - IMDb share.google/fo0ta7bYbNmu...
Jürgen Habermas (18 June 1929 – 14 March 2026).
On my way to our third Offer Holder Event of the season 😀
Looking forward to a day of enthusing about EngLit with like-minded folk 😀
Pleased to be speaking at this:
#Soil_Imaginaries
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Time magazine on fossil fuels and winter sports.
If you want to read a deep dive into the newly recovered episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan, the DWM Terry Nation special which includes my script-to-screen article is still available: doctorwhomagazine.com/specials/doc...
🚨Latest pod release: The Interlude of Youth, an archive recording from our staging last year. More from our Entertaining Henry season will be coming out over the next couple of months. Find this and other plays by subscribing to Beyond on your podcatcher of choice audioboom.com/posts/887152...
Happy this by @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social and myself is finally out! More accessible summary of our Race & Class article with David Harvie.
theconversation.com/the-un-is-tu...
Congratulations 🎊
39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.
'That allows the owners of creative industries to make more money – for themselves and for the economy – because they have cheap, highly skilled, highly motivated workers.' 3/3
'Let’s return to that question about the supposed poor returns for creative arts graduates. The answer lies in the fact that they are effectively subsidising the creative industries that they’re working in – they are...selling their labour for less than they might earn in other sectors'. 2/3
'some creative arts graduates don’t appear to earn a significant graduate premium, but the UK’s creative industries are worth £125bn a year or, to put it another way, more than £1 in every £20 in the UK economy – a larger proportion of the nation’s wealth than almost any other country on earth.' 1/3
BOOK for our PUBLIC SCULPTURE Webinar 🧨
Conservation and Maintenance of Public Sculpture: meeting challenges and continued care
📅Thursday Afternoon 16 April 2.30-5.30pm and Friday 17 April 2026 10.30-5.30pm
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Our 'Discovering Women Sculptors' BOOK! 🚦
An anthology of sixteen essays on overlooked Women Sculptors from 17C to Late 20thC inc
'Barbara Hepworth and the Festival of Britain' by Eleanor Clayton
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Stockport, 1983, photo by Shirley Baker.
I've reached the "all I can do is stare at a blank wall in disbelief" part of the week
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I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
NEW on Wonkhe: Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren't a sign of poor courses – they're a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce buff.ly/FFKK9nM
What's up, Wembley?
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Such a powerful maiden speech from our amazing new Green MP Hannah Spencer - take a few moments to listen & celebrate that a bit more humanity has entered Westminster & hope is beginning to feel more normal 👇
It's like receiving comms from an alternative reality
Solidarity
💪🥁📣PLS SHARE! @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social ON STRIKE 16, 17, 25, 26, 27 March AND 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 April. 👉👉👉25 March = NATIONAL RALLY TO PROTECT PAY AND PENSIONS 1PM at Monument in NEWCASTLE with UCU GS Jo Grady and President Elect Dyfrig Jones. All welcome.
I'm not commenting on the fact that today is my workplace's Mental Health Day