Jeremy Noel-Tod
@jntod.bsky.social
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
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After a Night in Camelot and Arden
The life of Patience Strong, England's best-selling modern poet
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I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
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Met more than one young artist visiting London recently who'd been really anxious beforehand, as they'd seen so much on social media about it being a crime-ridden hellhole. They then proceeded to have an unexpectedly lovely time in one of the world's great cities, but it is actually just really sad.
February 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Met more than one young artist visiting London recently who'd been really anxious beforehand, as they'd seen so much on social media about it being a crime-ridden hellhole. They then proceeded to have an unexpectedly lovely time in one of the world's great cities, but it is actually just really sad.
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it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 PM
it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
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low-background steel
April 5, 2024 at 10:39 PM
low-background steel
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Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day?
#lgbtqhistory
#lgbtqhistory
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
When your research topic is mentioned four times in the index
New poster for ‘VLADIMIR’ unveiled.
Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall star in the limited series, coming March 5 on Netflix.
#Vladimir #RachelWeisz
Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall star in the limited series, coming March 5 on Netflix.
#Vladimir #RachelWeisz
February 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM
When your research topic is mentioned four times in the index
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Also - archivists!!! 😂 how is AI going to manage sorting and unfolding letters that are hundreds of years old and crumbling?! Or working with students on assignments!?
Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:
February 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Also - archivists!!! 😂 how is AI going to manage sorting and unfolding letters that are hundreds of years old and crumbling?! Or working with students on assignments!?
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Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
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I‘ve messed around with Claude enough to believe that in at least one specific way, LLMs are going to transform serious journalism & humanities research, similar to what they’re doing for coding: turning bounded but unstructured information (read: archives) into structured machine-analyzable data.
February 10, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I‘ve messed around with Claude enough to believe that in at least one specific way, LLMs are going to transform serious journalism & humanities research, similar to what they’re doing for coding: turning bounded but unstructured information (read: archives) into structured machine-analyzable data.
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I am sick, absolutely sick, of the retreat of civic society, the media and the other political parties in the face of Reform UK - one of the most existential threats the state structures have faced for decades.
Reform is threatening Bangor University over a student society’s decision. The society isn’t Bangor University—but this is a neat preview of how a Reform government would work: public money for supporters only. Trump-style politics, UK edition.
Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇
Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
I am sick, absolutely sick, of the retreat of civic society, the media and the other political parties in the face of Reform UK - one of the most existential threats the state structures have faced for decades.
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New post!
I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.
This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...
I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.
This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
New post!
I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.
This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...
I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.
This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...
Love to mark student work using a digital platform that is running slow and crashing. The streamlined online university is just around the corner now.
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Love to mark student work using a digital platform that is running slow and crashing. The streamlined online university is just around the corner now.
This is ground control to Major Tod
February 9, 2026 at 11:08 AM
This is ground control to Major Tod
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I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
After a Night in Camelot and Arden
The life of Patience Strong, England's best-selling modern poet
substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:51 AM
I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)
here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~
feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)
here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 PM
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)
here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~
feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)
here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~
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Very interesting piece about a poet now forgotten
I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
After a Night in Camelot and Arden
The life of Patience Strong, England's best-selling modern poet
substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Very interesting piece about a poet now forgotten
I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
After a Night in Camelot and Arden
The life of Patience Strong, England's best-selling modern poet
substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:51 AM
I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
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The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
'The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this ...
www.openculture.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
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The government’s consultation on its proposed settlement proposals closes on Thursday. Over 130,000 responses had been received with a week to go & 232,000 people and 107,000 people signed two petitions about this debated in Westminster Hall on Mondsy
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
A Fairer Pathway to Settlement: statement and accompanying consultation on earned settlement (accessible)
www.gov.uk
February 7, 2026 at 9:07 AM
The government’s consultation on its proposed settlement proposals closes on Thursday. Over 130,000 responses had been received with a week to go & 232,000 people and 107,000 people signed two petitions about this debated in Westminster Hall on Mondsy
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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This mural is just around the corner from MES’s preferred Bargain Booze. I’ve just remembered that this was placed on its shutters when he died.
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
This mural is just around the corner from MES’s preferred Bargain Booze. I’ve just remembered that this was placed on its shutters when he died.
This is what peak performance looks like
A friend of mine's wife won a charity raffle for Midge Ure to play in their living room for a couple of hours. It was a gift for my mate, a huge fan.
Midge stayed for eight hours, playing non-stop (I think he actually stayed for tea).
#totp
Midge stayed for eight hours, playing non-stop (I think he actually stayed for tea).
#totp
February 6, 2026 at 10:29 PM
This is what peak performance looks like
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Current political coverage.
February 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Current political coverage.
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“. . . Again is the sacred
word, the profane sequence suddenly graced, by
coming back.”
— J. H. Prynne
(from “Thoughts on the Esterházy Court Uniform”)
word, the profane sequence suddenly graced, by
coming back.”
— J. H. Prynne
(from “Thoughts on the Esterházy Court Uniform”)
February 5, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“. . . Again is the sacred
word, the profane sequence suddenly graced, by
coming back.”
— J. H. Prynne
(from “Thoughts on the Esterházy Court Uniform”)
word, the profane sequence suddenly graced, by
coming back.”
— J. H. Prynne
(from “Thoughts on the Esterházy Court Uniform”)