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Term Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9.15am to 7pm
Sat: 11am-5pm
Working under @theul.bsky.social.
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Term Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9.15am to 7pm
Sat: 11am-5pm
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👑Ahead of our new production of Henry V, we brought Alfred Enoch, Kenneth Branagh, Alex Hassall, and Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey together to reflect on Shakespeare's epic history play.
Watch the full video here 👉 youtu.be/UmdJiEBwmFg
Watch the full video here 👉 youtu.be/UmdJiEBwmFg
Kenneth Branagh, Alfred Enoch, Alex Hassell and Tamara Harvey in conversation | Henry V Roundtable
YouTube video by Royal Shakespeare Company
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February 12, 2026 at 11:34 AM
👑Ahead of our new production of Henry V, we brought Alfred Enoch, Kenneth Branagh, Alex Hassall, and Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey together to reflect on Shakespeare's epic history play.
Watch the full video here 👉 youtu.be/UmdJiEBwmFg
Watch the full video here 👉 youtu.be/UmdJiEBwmFg
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Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe...
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
February 11, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe...
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
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One for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (SHAPE) researchers interested in open science, and hot off the press (as well as, naturally, open access).
Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report)
Conceptual frameworks of 'Open Science' and their implementation by funders, journals, institutions and other organisations have been criticised on the grounds that they are tailored primarily to quan...
works.hcommons.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
One for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (SHAPE) researchers interested in open science, and hot off the press (as well as, naturally, open access).
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*Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England*
An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️
Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...
An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️
Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...
February 11, 2026 at 9:17 AM
*Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England*
An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️
Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...
An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️
Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...
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This World Day of The Sick we take time to remember those in our lives who are unwell.
Vital Signs, edited by Martin Dyar, is a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness and healing.
Purchase via: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
Vital Signs, edited by Martin Dyar, is a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness and healing.
Purchase via: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
February 11, 2026 at 12:59 PM
This World Day of The Sick we take time to remember those in our lives who are unwell.
Vital Signs, edited by Martin Dyar, is a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness and healing.
Purchase via: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
Vital Signs, edited by Martin Dyar, is a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness and healing.
Purchase via: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
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Many people interested in Ros' research! You might like to know that Professor Oates is giving a keynote lecture at this year's Reformation Studies Colloquium in April.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
February 11, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Many people interested in Ros' research! You might like to know that Professor Oates is giving a keynote lecture at this year's Reformation Studies Colloquium in April.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
For the Material/Visual culture enthusiasts?
We’re very happy to be partnering with Ferren Gipson’s Object podcast for its new season, Imagined Futures, exploring the visual culture of retrofuturism—including Scientific Romance, Space Age Design, Afrofuturism, and Cyberpunk. Trailer here: pod.link/1854775243/e...
February 10, 2026 at 9:25 AM
For the Material/Visual culture enthusiasts?
Puck: fairy fall-out! #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
What the people need this Monday morning is Stanley Tucci as Puck, sitting on a giant tortoise, in the 1999 Michael Hoffman film of Dream.
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
What the people need this Monday morning is Stanley Tucci as Puck, sitting on a giant tortoise, in the 1999 Michael Hoffman film of Dream.
February 9, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Dominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga's filmmaking
[caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has...
[caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has...
Dominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga's filmmaking
[caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a new article on Tsitsi Dangarembga in Interventions, the international journal of...
www.english.cam.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Dominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga's filmmaking
[caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has...
[caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has...
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"What [Shakespeare Curriculum] does - if you're a young person, put yourself in the mindset of an actor, or a director, or the set designer."
RSC Trustee Geoff discusses the impact of rehearsal room techniques on young people's learning
More on Shakespeare Curriculum👉 www.shakespearecurriculum.com
RSC Trustee Geoff discusses the impact of rehearsal room techniques on young people's learning
More on Shakespeare Curriculum👉 www.shakespearecurriculum.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"What [Shakespeare Curriculum] does - if you're a young person, put yourself in the mindset of an actor, or a director, or the set designer."
RSC Trustee Geoff discusses the impact of rehearsal room techniques on young people's learning
More on Shakespeare Curriculum👉 www.shakespearecurriculum.com
RSC Trustee Geoff discusses the impact of rehearsal room techniques on young people's learning
More on Shakespeare Curriculum👉 www.shakespearecurriculum.com
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Join our lunchtime Research Practice Seminars ✏️
Thursdays from 12 - 2pm in the CRASSH meeting room
Lead by a member of CRASSH, they allow us to explore some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice
All welcome!
https://bit.ly/3LYjCFL
Thursdays from 12 - 2pm in the CRASSH meeting room
Lead by a member of CRASSH, they allow us to explore some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice
All welcome!
https://bit.ly/3LYjCFL
January 26, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Join our lunchtime Research Practice Seminars ✏️
Thursdays from 12 - 2pm in the CRASSH meeting room
Lead by a member of CRASSH, they allow us to explore some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice
All welcome!
https://bit.ly/3LYjCFL
Thursdays from 12 - 2pm in the CRASSH meeting room
Lead by a member of CRASSH, they allow us to explore some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice
All welcome!
https://bit.ly/3LYjCFL
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Congratulations to Karen Solie on winning the TS Eliot Prize for her most recent collection Wellwater, published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social
Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.
Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.
January 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Congratulations to Karen Solie on winning the TS Eliot Prize for her most recent collection Wellwater, published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social
Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.
Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.
Did you know that the EFL subscribes to the LRB and you can read the most recent copies in the library?
Find it (along with other literary acronyms) on the new books stand every week!
Find it (along with other literary acronyms) on the new books stand every week!
‘Writing shakily about England’s putative glory did not encourage Auden. His mad evocation of England hurt him into exile.’
Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín · Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941
Who was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T.S. Eliot American? Or was it the other way around?...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Did you know that the EFL subscribes to the LRB and you can read the most recent copies in the library?
Find it (along with other literary acronyms) on the new books stand every week!
Find it (along with other literary acronyms) on the new books stand every week!
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From our Close Readings subscription podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford begin a new series with the treatment of desire in a poem that contains one of the most explicit depictions of sex in English poetry – Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander’.
Listen to an extract:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Listen to an extract:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Narrative Poems: 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 19/01/2026 · Subscribers Only · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:10 PM
From our Close Readings subscription podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford begin a new series with the treatment of desire in a poem that contains one of the most explicit depictions of sex in English poetry – Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander’.
Listen to an extract:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Listen to an extract:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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Mini-article out now Open Access in Notes & Queries – take a look for my theory of what Wulfstan II means by ‘injustice in the north’ (spoiler: Vikings and weird legal stuff in the Danelaw) doi.org/10.1093/note... #Medievalsky #Medievalists
Wulfstan II’s Complaints of ‘Unlagu in the North’
One of the most prolific late Old English writers, Archbishop Wulfstan II of York ‘Lupus’ (d. 1023), is particularly known for drafting law-codes for King
doi.org
January 15, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Mini-article out now Open Access in Notes & Queries – take a look for my theory of what Wulfstan II means by ‘injustice in the north’ (spoiler: Vikings and weird legal stuff in the Danelaw) doi.org/10.1093/note... #Medievalsky #Medievalists
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Coming soon!
"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd
ANNNNND it will be open access!
"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd
ANNNNND it will be open access!
January 14, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Coming soon!
"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd
ANNNNND it will be open access!
"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd
ANNNNND it will be open access!
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an award winning poet, translator and professor @tcddublin.bsky.social, who served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019.
Find her works in @theul.bsky.social libraries across Cambridge via idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk.
What is her advice for young poets?
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Find her works in @theul.bsky.social libraries across Cambridge via idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk.
What is her advice for young poets?
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We are delighted that the first Southword Poetry Podcast of 2026 is out now with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and is available to listen to on our website - southword.buzzsprout.com/share
#podcast
#podcast
Southword Poetry Podcast
The Southword Poetry Podcast is produced by the Munster Literature Centre. Each episode, a guest poet talks in depth about their latest work and shares a few of their poems. We also hear a poem from a...
southword.buzzsprout.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an award winning poet, translator and professor @tcddublin.bsky.social, who served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019.
Find her works in @theul.bsky.social libraries across Cambridge via idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk.
What is her advice for young poets?
🧵⬇️
Find her works in @theul.bsky.social libraries across Cambridge via idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk.
What is her advice for young poets?
🧵⬇️
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Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! Sharing again for morning Bluesky!
January 15, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! Sharing again for morning Bluesky!
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📝 The Research Skills Training Programme from University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives is open for bookings!
👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students.
🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4
👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students.
🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4
January 14, 2026 at 10:45 AM
📝 The Research Skills Training Programme from University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives is open for bookings!
👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students.
🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4
👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students.
🔎Learn more and book: https://loom.ly/RjU6dj4
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Of especial interest for UK researchers, research institutes/organisations and/or partnerships with higher education expertise and the ability to measure social & cultural infrastructure.
Deadline 17:00 GMT 4 February; duration 10 months; value c. £60k. 1/2
Deadline 17:00 GMT 4 February; duration 10 months; value c. £60k. 1/2
Call for proposals - Measurement of social and cultural infrastructure in the higher education sector
The British Academy is commissioning a major new research element as part of its work theme on social and cultural infrastructure. The research will investigate how social and cultural infrastructure ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Of especial interest for UK researchers, research institutes/organisations and/or partnerships with higher education expertise and the ability to measure social & cultural infrastructure.
Deadline 17:00 GMT 4 February; duration 10 months; value c. £60k. 1/2
Deadline 17:00 GMT 4 February; duration 10 months; value c. £60k. 1/2
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A miniature battle for 'Freedom' at the edge of the paper landscape... A poetic doodle from Alfred Lord Tennyson's Notebook 'X' (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social O.15.17).
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-O-00...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-O-00...
January 14, 2026 at 10:29 AM
A miniature battle for 'Freedom' at the edge of the paper landscape... A poetic doodle from Alfred Lord Tennyson's Notebook 'X' (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social O.15.17).
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-O-00...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-O-00...
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Today (12th January) marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Dame Agatha Christie; mystery writer, playwright, plotting genius, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple AND THE BESTSELLING NOVELIST OF ALL TIME.
If you've never read her, the time is now. #ReadChristie2026
If you've never read her, the time is now. #ReadChristie2026
January 12, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Today (12th January) marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Dame Agatha Christie; mystery writer, playwright, plotting genius, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple AND THE BESTSELLING NOVELIST OF ALL TIME.
If you've never read her, the time is now. #ReadChristie2026
If you've never read her, the time is now. #ReadChristie2026
Edward George's 'Black Atlas' exhibit is open at the Warburg Institute (London) until 31 January!
‘Nothing in modern history has been subject to such violent and intentional forgetting as the history of empire, and with it the history of race and racialisation.’
Francis Gooding on Edward George’s ‘Black Atlas’, at the Warburg Institute:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Francis Gooding on Edward George’s ‘Black Atlas’, at the Warburg Institute:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Francis Gooding | At the Warburg
Edward George’s exhibition Black Atlas, at the Warburg Institute until the end of January 2026, operates in the...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Edward George's 'Black Atlas' exhibit is open at the Warburg Institute (London) until 31 January!
⏯️GOOD NEWS! New linguistics mnemonic just dropped. 🎤✒️👂🕶️
January 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
⏯️GOOD NEWS! New linguistics mnemonic just dropped. 🎤✒️👂🕶️
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A poem by John Kelly as it first appeared in Poetry Ireland Review.
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM
A poem by John Kelly as it first appeared in Poetry Ireland Review.