Matthew Bradley's Avatar

Matthew Bradley

@bradders953.bsky.social

Thinks about literature, and occasionally even writes about it. Also dogs and Doctor Who.

160 Followers  |  249 Following  |  7 Posts  |  Joined: 03.10.2023  |  1.5157

Latest posts by bradders953.bsky.social on Bluesky


Very excited to be chatting to @johnhiggs.bsky.social about all things Who this Saturday!

13.10.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

'Well that's funny, because among my friends I'm known as the man least likely to open a cinema'

22.07.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like much of what this government does, this reads as bullish but is entirely motivated by cowardice. They can see the sector cracking, they have not the first clue what to do, so they're preparing a narrative to absolve themselves from responsibility. Was British steel financially mismanaged?

11.05.2025 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Mayor Brown making Blight the head of DOPE- the Department of Pure Evil

Mayor Brown making Blight the head of DOPE- the Department of Pure Evil

Blight saying β€œCome on, let’s make Beanotown much worse”

Blight saying β€œCome on, let’s make Beanotown much worse”

Blight saying he’ll sack all the police officers

Blight saying he’ll sack all the police officers

Blight saying he can do whatever he wants

Blight saying he can do whatever he wants

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

23.04.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3121    πŸ” 924    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 82

The UK car industry contributes Β£22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.

Universities contribute Β£265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.

Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

09.04.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1113    πŸ” 452    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 25
Images of the poems handwritten in pencil are credited to Virginia Woolf Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. By permission of the Society of Authors as literary representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf.

Images of the poems handwritten in pencil are credited to Virginia Woolf Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. By permission of the Society of Authors as literary representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf.

Images of the poems handwritten in pencil are credited to Virginia Woolf Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. By permission of the Society of Authors as literary representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf.

Images of the poems handwritten in pencil are credited to Virginia Woolf Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. By permission of the Society of Authors as literary representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf.

Dr Sophie Oliver from @livunienglish.bsky.social has discovered two previously unknown poems by Virginia Woolf.πŸ“š

The poems, β€œAngelica” and β€œHiccoughs,” were composed for Woolf's niece and nephew.

Read them and find out more πŸ‘‰ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/01/16/p...

@livunihss.bsky.social

17.01.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Post image Post image Post image

Final workshop of the first phase of our β€œDeliberate Ink” project. It’s been a privilege to work with such amazing women to produce these political messages. Still populating the website but you can find out a bit more at deliberateink.org

09.12.2024 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

The English & Creative Writing Department Teesside have organised a great line up for their annual Research Seminar Series! @bradders953.bsky.social and will be talking about Vernon Lee in April. The seminars are open to everybody, so if you want to join, let us know!

11.11.2024 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Hopefully the beginning of something...

15.08.2024 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Super excited to have the proofs for this. It has been the absolute best working with @bradders953.bsky.social. Should be out mid-September, open access.

06.08.2024 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Likewise a joy! And this mention has now persuaded me to get the hell off Twitter permanently. So all the good things!

06.08.2024 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image 26.11.2023 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Great afternoon at the First Folio exhibition at #OurShakespeareNorth. Harsh that John Leason's claim to fame is making some mistakes on the typesetting, which involves selecting 100s of letters half as big as a Scrabble piece and arranging them back to front along dozens of lines in exact order!

28.10.2023 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@bradders953 is following 19 prominent accounts