Our ‘Radicals of Russell Square’ map on sale at Waterstones in Gower Street
28.05.2025 14:15 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‘The times we’re living in are dominated by rapid technological change, and much of this change is focused on how we communicate.’
@philipseargeant.bsky.social discusses how 21st-century developments in technology are changing the ways we communicate www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
13.05.2025 08:14 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks. Can you give me an example?
12.05.2025 09:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Listened to this yesterday - absolutely fascinating - as are all of @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social podcasts. V interesting explanations of weird street names and distinctions between roads and streets.
12.05.2025 06:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Word of Mouth - Street Names - BBC Sounds
Michael Rosen talks to Philip Seargeant about where our street names come from.
Here's the link to last week's Word of Mouth, in which I discuss the language of street names with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
10.05.2025 15:35 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Street Names
Michael Rosen talks to Philip Seargeant about where our street names come from.
Street Names
Word of Mouth
BBC Radio 4
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social talks to @philipseargeant.bsky.social from the Open University about where our street names come from, like Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate in York, and Michael's old address, Love Lane.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
10.05.2025 06:58 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
How are 21st-century developments in technology changing the very nature of language and the ways that we communicate with each other?
Philip Seargeant, author of The Future of Language, provides a brief history of the future of human communication.
How are 21st-century developments in technology changing the very nature of language and the ways that we communicate with each other?
@philipseargeant.bsky.social, author of The Future of Language, provides a brief history of the future of human communication bit.ly/4merPmK
09.05.2025 09:36 — 👍 5 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
To accompany the @openuniversity.bsky.social's collaboration with Radio 4's Word of Mouth with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, here's a short quiz about the bewildering world of idioms
connect.open.ac.uk/education-de...
06.05.2025 12:13 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Cover image of The Future of Language, with endorsements reading: 'I've never read a book on language with such a breadth of vision' - David Crystal; 'A scholarly, must-read book' - New Statesman'
New in paperback this week: Bloomsbury.com/9781350538474
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04.04.2025 10:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Podcasts | MK Lit Fest
Podcasts available from Milton Keynes Literary Festival.
Podcast of Episode 4 of our #FreeSpeech and #Literature series - #Translation and #Censorship - is now available to listen. Translators Sawad Hussain and Monica Cure discussed taboos, cultural difference, banned words + more with Daria Chernysheva.
mklitfest.org/podcasts
@monicacure.bsky.social
03.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
The #podcast of Episode 3 of our #Freespeech and #literature series - Historical #CancelCulture - is now available. Charlotte Gordon talks to Jupiter Jones about #marywoolstonecraft, cancelled in the C18th. www.mklitfest.org/podcasts
#romanticoutlaws #openuniversity
@jupiterjonz.bsky.social
28.03.2025 12:24 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Free Speech and Literature: Part 1 - Literature and Offence
MK Lit Fest · Episode
I haven't seen Giant yet (am going in May) but this discussion with playwright Mark Rosenblatt is excellent, talking about (among other things) how and if Roald Dahl's antisemitism colours his own reading of the books.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Bub...
27.03.2025 11:03 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
There’s One Part of the Signal Leak That I Can’t Get Out of My Head
This week, we found out our leaders are just more fools in a group chat.
“Maybe I’m thinking too much about the emoji. This is just the way people communicate these days, I understand. ... But the emoji are part and parcel of a set of exchanges that reveal a group of people play-acting at importance." - @slate.com slate.com/life/2025/03...
27.03.2025 03:05 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Free Speech and Literature: Part 3 - Historical Cancel Culture
MK Lit Fest · Episode
Here's the podcast of the most recent event in our series on literature and free speech, run in collaboration with the @mklitfest.bsky.social
Author Charlotte Gordon discusses the 'cancelling' of Mary Wollstonecraft with @jupiterjonz.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/4d4v...
26.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Free Speech and Literature: Part 3 - Historical Cancel Culture
MK Lit Fest · Episode
Here's the podcast of the most recent event in our series on literature and free speech, run in collaboration with the @mklitfest.bsky.social
Author Charlotte Gordon discusses the 'cancelling' of Mary Wollstonecraft with @jupiterjonz.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/4d4v...
26.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Free Speech and Literature: Part 2 - Freedom of Expression in the Age of the Algorithm
MK Lit Fest · Episode
Listen to our latest podcast as @juliahbell.bsky.social and @philipseargeant.bsky.social discuss #ai and #writing in the age of the #algorithm open.spotify.com/episode/68r4...
Part of our on-going Free Speech + Literature series.
#freespeech #creativewiring #artificialintelligence
20.03.2025 09:17 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
The next of our sessions on literature and free speech is next Monday (24 March) with the author Charlotte Gordon talking about Mary Wollstonecraft and the fall and rise of her reputation
Free to attend (though donations for the running of the lit fest welcome)
www.mklitfest.org/historical-c...
19.03.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Free Speech and Literature: Part 2 - Freedom of Expression in the Age of the Algorithm
MK Lit Fest · Episode
Here's the podcast of my talk for @mklitfest.bsky.social with @juliahbell.bsky.social the other night on freedom of expression in the age of the algorithm
open.spotify.com/episode/68r4...
19.03.2025 17:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The next of our sessions on literature and free speech is next Monday (24 March) with the author Charlotte Gordon talking about Mary Wollstonecraft and the fall and rise of her reputation
Free to attend (though donations for the running of the lit fest welcome)
www.mklitfest.org/historical-c...
19.03.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Finally yours to own in paperback! Pre-order at bloomsbury.com/9781350538474
18.03.2025 10:32 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Out in paperback in a couple of weeks
@bloomsburyling.bsky.social
15.03.2025 11:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Out in paperback in a couple of weeks
@bloomsburyling.bsky.social
15.03.2025 11:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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