Dr Alison Daniell

Sending virtual tea and biscuits x

I’m sorry to hear this Jan. I hope you are better very soon x

But only if you like hard maths

THIS EVENING!

I was teaching in the maths building today (not maths) . Any guesses as to what they are keeping behind that locked door?

I think they can digest their staples just to vex us

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

Fabulous! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Fabulous case. Have any other paramedics experienced anything similar?

Panel calls for BARS 2026 are up on the blog!

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon & the Poetics of Retrospection (convened by Emily Rohrbach)
- Repetitions & Innovations in Late German Romanticism (Joanna Neilly)
- Creative-Critical Writing & Romantic Studies (Adam Neikirk)
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199

PhD Bursary: The Byron Society

The Byron Society invites applications from new and existing full-time PhD students for a bursary of up to £5,000 per year.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6195

I have given in and had a private jab. No one should have to pay to be protected but I figured that at least if I don’t catch it I’m unlikely to spread it and that in itself is a social good 🤷‍♀️

Love it!

@jonathantummons.bsky.social - you like a custard cream, I believe?

Urgh. We used to have it for lunch at primary school on a Monday with salad (raw chopped cabbage, chopped egg, beetroot, carrot) and a home-made salad cream featuring margarine. I’m so glad six year old me did not know how nice French school lunches were. (PS the meals on other days were good)

The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

Photograph of myself, smiling cheesily as I stand in front of the wall of books which is the centrepiece of my ladybird artists exhibition

My travelling ‘Ladybird artists’ exhibition is still going strong!

Next year, Cambridge and Mansfield
2027 (tbc) Southampton and Motherwell
2028 Lichfield

Ticket: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing c...

This new book by @cartoonkate.bsky.social is a breath-takingly beautiful thing: I'd go so far as to say a work of genius.

It's my privilege to be interviewing her about it at the East Gate Bookshop, Totnes on 23rd October. Please join us if you can:
www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/tick...

Social media post by Josh Crowley (sp?): If I build a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

Dept of History, University of Liverpool - Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships

Interested candidates should identify a potential mentor in the dept & submit an Expression of Interest by 3 Nov. Come & work with me &/or my colleagues! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #skystorians 🗃️

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Exciting book news incoming!

The judicial oath:

I [name], do swear by Almighty God that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign King Charles the Third in the office of [judicial role], and will do right to all manner of people after the law and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill will.

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Although by the end of the tale we are told that Champ wanted to get to the doggy play park, it would be good to know what his reaction was (if any) to Rio appearing out of the hedge. 🐩

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Got any? #totp

The PCR positivity map is out, and it's evident that everywhere is seeing a significant surge.

UKHSA positivity has risen to 11.83%.

Adjusted for non-reporting areas, we make that 13.77%.

jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...

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Might be a bit literary-scholarly but I absolutely loved ‘The Wife of Bath: A Biography’ by Marion Turner. Accessible, informative and critically astute as well as entertaining. One of the best things I’ve read in the past few years - loads of cultural/historical context that might be of interest

Advanced. Forthright. Signifficant.

Happy Michaelmas! 🍂🍁🪽

Celebrating Jane Austen: A Talk and Readings Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen and launch of a new book

So excited for the launch of Encounters with Jane Austen on 2 October. Join Cheryl Robson (and me!) for a wonderful evening with April de Angelis, Katie Lumsden, Mary Hamer, Jen Francis, Caitlin Grills,Karenjit Sandhu and Kim Bailey. Tickets can be booked here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...