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Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Quentin Skinner Lectureship - CRASSH A Visiting Fellowship at CRASSH

📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26

Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @camhistory.bsky.social

Apply by 1 October 2025
buff.ly/tQABBo4

The flag of The Bahamas flying above St Catharine's College

Publicity for 'Searching for My Slave Roots' event on 9 October

We're flying the flag of The Bahamas for the 6th year in a row to celebrate the start of Black History Month, commemorating our first Black student A.F. Adderley (1912, Law) & over a century of Black history at Catz ever since. See what's planned at caths.cam.ac.uk/bhm-...

A black and white photograph, head and shoulders, of a young man resting his head on his left hand, lit from his left, with the right side of his face in shadows. His hair is tousled.

Hamlet reports his cleverness - and ruthlessness
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
This week's pics are all of @nationaltheatre.org.uk Hamlets. Here, a publicity image from 1989: Ian Charleson (1949-1990), whose performance weeks before his death from AIDS is still recalled with awe & deep love

A group of students sat at a table examining documents and books from the Library's collection.

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC.

Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...

#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN

Deadline: October 13, 2025
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...
#PhilJobs

Adam Thirlwell · Devotion to the Cut: Gertrude Stein makes it plain We’re so used to voice as confession, as a form of radical honesty, that it can be hard to appreciate Gertrude Stein...

‘Although she is now routinely mentioned in histories of modernist Paris in the 1920s, only Hemingway seemed to read her with any understanding – Eliot and Joyce and Woolf had no idea what to make of her.’

Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A Shorter Ulysses, Anthony Burgess’s companion piece to his Shorter Finnegans Wake, is out on 16 October 2025. In this week’s newsletter, we introduce the book and reveal the origins of the manuscript. Pre-order link within.

Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/introducin...

🎭🌻✒️Open Access AND could be used for thoughtful reflection on the body for our undergraduate Tragedy paper?

Yes, we will be reading this, please and thank you. 🎭🌻✒️

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship - CRASSH For projects with an innovative approach

📣 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship

Join our vibrant academic community as a salaried Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow to carry out your independent research in 2026-27

Learn more about the application process and apply by 24 Oct 2025
https://bit.ly/3oudw1R

was recently reunited with my long-lost twin brother, also called Ian - and although he's too humble to post about it I'm so enormously proud to see his (my!) name on the title page of this spiffy new Oxford World's Classics edition of The Comedy of Errors.

OU Connect on Instagram: "📚 How do you read? 🧐 How much detail can you remember after reading in different formats? 🌍 For International Literacy Day, BBC Morning Live welcomes The OU’s Dr Shafquat Tow... 10 likes, 0 comments - ouconnect on September 8, 2025: "📚 How do you read? 🧐 How much detail can you remember after reading in different formats? 🌍 For International Literacy Day, BBC Morning Live wel...

How do different ways of reading affect our experience of literature? In collaboration with the BBC, Open University lecturer @shaftowheed.bsky.social has developed a short quiz to show how different formats affect our reading experience. You can find the quiz here:
www.instagram.com/ouconnect/re...

Good morning.

Rónán on his debut being adapted for TV & narrated by Julia Roberts.

_Leonard and Hungry Paul_ by @ronanhession.bsky.social

'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting bullseye in New York.'

Many thanks @thetimes.com

@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@hatchards.bsky.social

It's not just any Friday...

Today marks the start of 10 days of FREE events for EVERYONE. Explore the full programme now: https://bit.ly/3UUqxki

#OpenCambridge #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #HOD #HeritageOpenDays

Late Night Live with David Marr - ABC listen Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.

🎧 On ABCNews Late Night Live, Cambridge University & CRASSH researcher Dr Richard Latham Lechowick joins David Marr to explore how memory shapes conflict, identity, and political power

Weds 10 Sept at 1pm UK time
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive

#CollectiveMemory #Geopolitics

The future of research in Bible Society collections - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

📣 Registration is open for 'The future of research in Bible Society collections' @biblesoccollfuture.bsky.social on 26&27 Sept

Become part of a network of scholars and experts in Religious Studies, material culture, and Medieval to Modern collections
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47443/

Open Access fiction and review publication? With an accessible archive and specific poetry section as well?

Yes, please and thank you!

Available in the EFL at E 84 SPA WIL

(Or it would be if it hadn't been borrowed about 23 minutes after it was catalogued!📖👀)

Tickets still available!

'A star-studded line-up including David Morrisey, Lesley Sharp and Susan Wokoma, will entertain you at Allie Esiri’s 365 Poems for Life, a special poetry event for The Royal Court Theatre as part of the Chelsea Arts Festival'

royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/all...

CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship - CRASSH The Fellowship is offered to an outstanding early career scholar whose research focuses on Italy.

📣 Open for applications
CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship

The fellowship invites an an outstanding early career postdoctoral scholar whose research focuses on Italy to spend a period of time at Cambridge in Spring 2026

Apply by 16 Sept 2025 buff.ly/avKFQEe
@cirn-cambridge.bsky.social

📢 Groundbreaking new biography of Æthelstan – England’s forgotten first king – marks 1,100 years since his coronation in 925AD.

Author and Cambridge historian @davidwoodman45.bsky.social explains why he isn’t better known and why he's campaigning for greater recognition for the overlooked king.

Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal This essay by artist and researcher Pip Thornton documents and debates some of the outputs of ‘Writing The Wrongs of AI’ (WWAI), a project which explored creative ways to demonstrate the power that hu...

ESSAY

'Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal'

Pip Thornton asks if AI technologies will "disarm poetry and creative writing as tools of refusal."

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/page...

📜🕯️✒️Are you an eager #medievalist looking for your next conference? #IMC2026 seems to have a subject topic for everybody! Check out the #IMC2026 Padlet page linked below for your research area to present in glamorous Leeds next July.

Closing dates soon!

#MedievalSky
#SkyStorians
#EveryDayImCodexing

It’s our 100th newsletter! And the third in our series on the illustrated Anthony Burgess. This time, we look inside the books and examine the illustrators who brought Burgess’s stories to life.

Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-illust...

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

Next Generation Young Makars 2025 Welcome to this year's cohort of young makars. They are Jack Jeffrey, Anousha Stroud-Graham, Lily Bell, and Brooke Collins.

YOUNG MAKARS!

The newest group of Scotland's Young Makars has just been announced.

🔥 Jack Jeffrey
🔥 Anousha Stroud-Graham
🔥 Lily Bell
🔥 Brooke Collins

They'll be mentored by Victoria McNulty, Tom Murray, Janette Ayachi and Aoife Lyall.

Story:

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/next-generat...

Apply for the New Writers Awards Applications for the New Writers Awards are now open!

2026 NEW WRITERS AWARDS

Applications for the 2026 New Writers Awards are currently open. The deadline for all applications is Wed 24 Sept 2025.

The awards are free to apply to, all travel expenses are covered and awardees are chosen by a panel of judges.

www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

Join us on Tues 30 Sept, 7pm for our next online launch reading with Clare Pollard, Jessica Traynor & Mslexia Pamphlet Competition winner Emilie Jelinek!

www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

@poetclare.bsky.social
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
@emiliejelinek.bsky.social
@mslexia.bsky.social

ICIL information card with event title and date and headshot photos of Sally Kent, Eleanor Parmenter, and Jenni Skinner.

🟠 #RLUKICIL | Re-entangling the visual archive | 23 Sep

Join us to hear reflections on @theul.bsky.social project with Zambian visual artists exploring new ways to engage with archival material inc. problematic colonial-era & collaborating outside library’s ‘traditional’ user base

bit.ly/RLUKICIL