Andrew Frayn
@afrayn.bsky.social
Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); non-canonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
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So I am running the London Lea Valley 50km in March and trying to raise some money for Step Forward - a youth centre in Tower Hamlets, Kiddo attends their LGBTQIA+ group and it's been such a brilliant and supportive space for them, which feels so important when trans youth are under constant attack.
Ellie's fundraiser for Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
Help Ellie Mackin Roberts raise money to support Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
www.justgiving.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
So I am running the London Lea Valley 50km in March and trying to raise some money for Step Forward - a youth centre in Tower Hamlets, Kiddo attends their LGBTQIA+ group and it's been such a brilliant and supportive space for them, which feels so important when trans youth are under constant attack.
Good, of course, though the SFC isn't, as far as I know, doing anything for other Scottish universities who also are making redundancies but haven't needed to be bailed out.
'The University of Dundee has been told it cannot make any compulsory redundancies until it has a three-year recovery strategy in place as part of conditions placed on its bailout from the Scottish government.' 1/3
Bailout conditions restrict compulsory redundancies at Dundee
University told to come up with a plan for financial recovery before it enforces more job losses
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Good, of course, though the SFC isn't, as far as I know, doing anything for other Scottish universities who also are making redundancies but haven't needed to be bailed out.
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Are you working on literature and culture in the First World War? have you considered submitting to First World War Studies? meet our Associate Editor @afrayn.bsky.social who is keen to receive more submissions in these fields!
👥 Associate Editors introductions: Andrew Frayn
Continuing our introductions of the FWWS associate editors, this week we’re pleased to highlight Dr. Andrew Frayn, Associate Editor of First World War Studies and a scholar working at the intersection of literature and history.
Continuing our introductions of the FWWS associate editors, this week we’re pleased to highlight Dr. Andrew Frayn, Associate Editor of First World War Studies and a scholar working at the intersection of literature and history.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Are you working on literature and culture in the First World War? have you considered submitting to First World War Studies? meet our Associate Editor @afrayn.bsky.social who is keen to receive more submissions in these fields!
Sure Labour's commitment to funding universities so that people can go to them is coming soon, and that when my MP @melanieward.bsky.social replied to my third email about the HE crisis with what could be not unfairly paraphrased as a shrug, it was just a misunderstanding.
Always the way, isn't it? Graduate from top uni says other people shouldn't aspire to go to university.
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK bigwig who went to top university says fewer others should do the same
Reform UK's former chairman calls for "fewer people going to university" after benefiting from a degree from one of the country's most prestigious ones himself
www.mirror.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Sure Labour's commitment to funding universities so that people can go to them is coming soon, and that when my MP @melanieward.bsky.social replied to my third email about the HE crisis with what could be not unfairly paraphrased as a shrug, it was just a misunderstanding.
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Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
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⚠️ Time is running out! ⚠️
🗓️ The deadline for applications for The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is 1 December.
📣 No topics are off limits, ANY First World War research considered!
#FWWHist #PhDchat
🗓️ The deadline for applications for The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is 1 December.
📣 No topics are off limits, ANY First World War research considered!
#FWWHist #PhDchat
We at The WFA have launched our PhD Grant Scheme for 2025.
The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War.
Where will our grant take you?
See website for full details 👇🏻
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...
#Fwwhist #phdchat
The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War.
Where will our grant take you?
See website for full details 👇🏻
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...
#Fwwhist #phdchat
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
In case you were wondering about the state of political discourse in the UK, I just saw on Facebook (via the algorithm) someone who had posted "Here's my letter to my MP. Please don't add political comments."
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In case you were wondering about the state of political discourse in the UK, I just saw on Facebook (via the algorithm) someone who had posted "Here's my letter to my MP. Please don't add political comments."
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student working conditions are student learning conditions
'The Student Working Lives report, published by HEPI with the University of Lancashire and three partner institutions, provides something that previous polling (including our own Belong survey work with Cibyl) couldn’t – linked institutional data on actual academic performance and attendance.' 1/3
Long hours and poor working conditions hit students' outcomes hard
Conference, [students] time at college or university should be spent learning or training. Not working every hour God sends.
wonkhe.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
student working conditions are student learning conditions
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"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds
Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
What if there was no bailout for failed investments and we put the money into some other analogue system for communicating intelligence
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
The AI boom has been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
What if there was no bailout for failed investments and we put the money into some other analogue system for communicating intelligence
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not saying I have some bad feelings about today, but I've already driven instead of walking to the station, nearly missed the train anyway, and then nearly failed to get off at the correct sop. Happy Tuesday!
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Not saying I have some bad feelings about today, but I've already driven instead of walking to the station, nearly missed the train anyway, and then nearly failed to get off at the correct sop. Happy Tuesday!
This is a really vile Labour government.
Shabana Mahmood asked by Labour MP John McDonnell to "give me the assurance that no child will be placed in detention as a result of this policy"
Mahmood does not give him that assurance
Mahmood does not give him that assurance
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is a really vile Labour government.
Solidarity with colleagues across the city, not least as it seems pretty likely we'll be doing the same.
Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Solidarity with colleagues across the city, not least as it seems pretty likely we'll be doing the same.
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It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3
Early Career Researcher Network: key information for ECRs
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3
On a bus with a load of schoolchildren, one of whom is, disorientatingly if you were alive in the early 1990s, listening to some sort of video that has What's Up by 4 Non Blondes as the soundtrack.
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
On a bus with a load of schoolchildren, one of whom is, disorientatingly if you were alive in the early 1990s, listening to some sort of video that has What's Up by 4 Non Blondes as the soundtrack.
Wilson Pickett, to the media, promoting a Soul Clan concert in summer 1981: "I think you all realize we all have our own personalities and our way of expressing ourselves. Me? I'm mad as shit."
(Tony Fletcher, In the Midnight Hour, p. 217)
(Tony Fletcher, In the Midnight Hour, p. 217)
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Wilson Pickett, to the media, promoting a Soul Clan concert in summer 1981: "I think you all realize we all have our own personalities and our way of expressing ourselves. Me? I'm mad as shit."
(Tony Fletcher, In the Midnight Hour, p. 217)
(Tony Fletcher, In the Midnight Hour, p. 217)
Last shout for this event tomorrow - hope to see you there!
We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025
You can book to attend in person or online:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
You can book to attend in person or online:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Last shout for this event tomorrow - hope to see you there!
I've written about Richard Aldington and the First World War, on and off, since my MA thesis (2002). I don't think it's too much to say that the war affected his physical and mental health, and his relationships, for the rest of his life.
Richard Aldington's Epilogue to Death of a Hero.
Always worth revisiting on Remembrance Sunday.
Always worth revisiting on Remembrance Sunday.
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I've written about Richard Aldington and the First World War, on and off, since my MA thesis (2002). I don't think it's too much to say that the war affected his physical and mental health, and his relationships, for the rest of his life.
I'm sure I'm preaching to the Bluesky choir, but on Remembrance Sunday it's worth remembering that the important thing is the remembrance, not the ritual.
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I'm sure I'm preaching to the Bluesky choir, but on Remembrance Sunday it's worth remembering that the important thing is the remembrance, not the ritual.
Merry Christmas from Burntisland High Street.
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Merry Christmas from Burntisland High Street.
There's 60 booked for this in person, and more than that again online - we'd still like to see even more of you by either means!
We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025
You can book to attend in person or online:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
You can book to attend in person or online:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
There's 60 booked for this in person, and more than that again online - we'd still like to see even more of you by either means!
After a very long day yesterday, me today in my 9am seminar (not paper)
Many scholars have connected this text with other things. But the connection I am going to make in this paper will shock you
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
After a very long day yesterday, me today in my 9am seminar (not paper)
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Just finished my first full rehearsal for this and I am buzzing! There are still some tickets left for both online and in-person attendance, just use the link below.
And if you're joining us in Edinburgh, let me know and we can organise a FWW meet-up ahead of the lecture? I'd love to meet more ECRs!
And if you're joining us in Edinburgh, let me know and we can organise a FWW meet-up ahead of the lecture? I'd love to meet more ECRs!
We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025
You can book to attend in person or online:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
You can book to attend in person or online:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just finished my first full rehearsal for this and I am buzzing! There are still some tickets left for both online and in-person attendance, just use the link below.
And if you're joining us in Edinburgh, let me know and we can organise a FWW meet-up ahead of the lecture? I'd love to meet more ECRs!
And if you're joining us in Edinburgh, let me know and we can organise a FWW meet-up ahead of the lecture? I'd love to meet more ECRs!
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'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
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I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...