@alispencer.bsky.social
Author, former family lawyer and all-round plate spinner currently working in learning development. Independent scholar: 18th century women, law, literature (esp Jane Austen) plus a bit of witchcraft 🐈⬛
They pulled it because impersonated authors and just plain authors protested. The app was not simply ‘explosively controversial’. Its featured and monetised the supposed advice of ‘experts’, posthumous editorial advice rendered without said dead experts’ consent. Who signed off on this?
I’m chuffed to be back on the @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social airwaves tomorrow evening, celebrating the 300th anniversary of Dr Charles Burney (the music one, not the book thief one) AND the 250th anniversary of his General History of Music - a milestone in musicology.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Sadly, this is absolutely necessary and I welcome it for at least 2 reasons: Books are personal, about sharing experience & exploring ideas - if you’ve read my books, you’ve met me. And a human author is *accountable* for what they/we write: we take responsibility & influences/money are traceable.
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Farage: "We want to scrap postal voting except for people who genuinely need it."
"Didn't you vote by post at the last election?" Nigel
Farage: "I did yeah.." 🤦
#UKPolitics
That’s amazing news Brianna! Well done! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
2 weeks for our next #Webinar 📢
Join us to hear from Professor @cathamclarke.bsky.social about her book A History of England in 25 Poems and what we can learn about #Hampshire #LocalHistory
📍 Zoom
🗓️18th March
⏰ 7pm
Register here 👉 hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/a-his...
I just can't get over what a bullshit thievery based scam all this is and there are still actual academics doing tra la la think pieces about how we need to embrace it or be left behind, I mean, look at the state of it. Look at it. It is bad, wrong, offensive, stupid and scuzzy.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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Would anyone like to do a review of Series 4 of Bridgerton for the BARS Blog?
Does the current series tie into any tropes of the Romantic-era novel?
How often do masquerade balls happen in Romantic-period works?
Drop us a message or email us!
Best possible result if you ask me. And the Reform candidate is such a graceless loser to boot.
This. Absolutely. We have forgotten coverture and there are those in positions of power who would take us back there in a heartbeat.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Congratulations! 🎉🎉
Manufacturing Voter-Fraud Panic: The Playbook
This clip breaks down how voter-fraud misinformation is being used to delegitimise elections — and set the stage for aggressive “fixes” that can weaken free and fair voting.
youtube.com/shorts/aKou6...
💯 I worked all the hours, rebuilt an entire module from scratch to be online rather than in-person, and gave my students live seminars, a brand new lecture every week, skills support and office hours. Literally everything they would have had apart from a live lecture.
the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain
LATEST News Agents: there are plenty of MPs who talk about the horrors of sexual abuse and grooming. Natalie Fleet has lived it. This ep is a transifxing conversation about her experience and where Starmer and the Mandelson story should go next.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Done! Want a cameo tho 😆
Goths for breakfast!
An amazing day of talks and writing workshops all to raise money for charity @magicbreakfastuk.bsky.social
Pop in and out as much as you like.
Pick your price based on what you can afford.
Online so open to anyone anywhere!
A very rare (depressingly rare) thing: Support for low income students who want to study at MA level. Please share with anyone who might be able to get this info to aspiring postgrads. www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola...
The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network (@e-cen.bsky.social) will be hosting their inaugural seminar online and in-person at Heslington Hall, Uni of York on 26th Feb at 5pm! Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds) will present on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’.
Words and music for International Women's Day with me, Nardus Williams and Elizabeth Kenny . Wigmore Hall 8 March. Book here: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Still time to sign up for next week's BARS Digital Event!
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Talk:
Deidre Shauna Lynch (English, Harvard)
"Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Thursday, March 26, 7.50pm GMT
In-person: UConn Humanities Institute
More info and register to join online below
uconn-cmr.webex.com/webappng/sit...
***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH***
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
Between 1485 & 1603 Devon and Cornwall experienced 5 major rebellions: how were they remembered regionally, over time and across social divisions? And how are they being commemorated today?
'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West': bit.ly/3YXxbbz: a new TRHS article by Prof Mark Stoyle 1/2
