Peter McCullough
@mcculloughp.bsky.social
Mostly post about things I like, make, or grow. 🌱🪡🏳️🌈 + climate, environment, arts, early modern culture. Prof. of English, U. Of Oxford.
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Since thy original lapse, true
liberty
Is lost, which always with
right reason dwells
Twinned, and from her hath no
dividual being:
Reason in man obscured, or not
obeyed,
Immediately inordinate
desires,
And upstart passions, catch
the government
XII, 83-88
liberty
Is lost, which always with
right reason dwells
Twinned, and from her hath no
dividual being:
Reason in man obscured, or not
obeyed,
Immediately inordinate
desires,
And upstart passions, catch
the government
XII, 83-88
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I’m here for that frontal.
Don't forget our Children's Come and Sing Carols at St Mary's! Sat 6th December, 9:30am-12pm, free. If your child loves singing, this is Christmas event for them: fun songs and a short performance at the end for the family.
www.cathedral.net/whats-on/christmas
@dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social
www.cathedral.net/whats-on/christmas
@dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’m here for that frontal.
Fun fact: Alleyn, earlier famed for title roles in Dr Faustus and Tamburlaine, became John Donne's son-in-law (m., as his second wife, Donne's eldest, Constance, 3 Dec. 1623, at Camberwell). #earlymodern
25 Nov 1626: d. Edward Alleyn actor, theatre founder of #Dulwich College & Alleyn’s school (EdwardX)
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Fun fact: Alleyn, earlier famed for title roles in Dr Faustus and Tamburlaine, became John Donne's son-in-law (m., as his second wife, Donne's eldest, Constance, 3 Dec. 1623, at Camberwell). #earlymodern
For the original setting of Dryden's Ode to St Cecilia, premiered #otd 1687 at Stationers Hall in London. Great background listening for Handel's more well-known setting of 1739.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
For the original setting of Dryden's Ode to St Cecilia, premiered #otd 1687 at Stationers Hall in London. Great background listening for Handel's more well-known setting of 1739.
Reposted by Peter McCullough
For truth is strong, her rightfull cause to plead,
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
For truth is strong, her rightfull cause to plead,
Approaching the starting line . . .
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Approaching the starting line . . .
So good to see @nationaltrust.org.uk not pulling its punches.
Nature isn’t a “blocker” – it makes our lives better.
Our coast, countryside, heritage and wildlife underpin our food, water and health and put millions of pounds into the economy. The Government must not weaken the laws that protect them.
Our coast, countryside, heritage and wildlife underpin our food, water and health and put millions of pounds into the economy. The Government must not weaken the laws that protect them.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
So good to see @nationaltrust.org.uk not pulling its punches.
Such an honour to have had Samantha Ege @lincoln.ox.ac.uk as an ECR some years ago, as her research and performance careers gathered such strength. A remarkable force.
If you're in the UK, tune in to @BBC Radio 3's #InTune programme today to hear pianist Samantha Ege talk about her forthcoming release of Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto. @leahbroad.bsky.social
Pre-order the CD now👉https://bit.ly/4oQIvSa
Pre-save the album👉https://orcd.co/brx5gxg
Pre-order the CD now👉https://bit.ly/4oQIvSa
Pre-save the album👉https://orcd.co/brx5gxg
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Such an honour to have had Samantha Ege @lincoln.ox.ac.uk as an ECR some years ago, as her research and performance careers gathered such strength. A remarkable force.
So good to turn the corner and see this @lincoln.ox.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
So good to turn the corner and see this @lincoln.ox.ac.uk
I do hope they’ll get a high-quality facsimile to put back; seeing this in situ and use as intended was remarkable (30+ years ago—just there, over the altar, for anyone to see).
👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m
Artwork that hung for centuries at St John’s Almshouse in Sherborne will be sold to raise funds for social housing
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I do hope they’ll get a high-quality facsimile to put back; seeing this in situ and use as intended was remarkable (30+ years ago—just there, over the altar, for anyone to see).
Too late to get out of it now.
www.universitychurch.ox.ac.uk/content/univ...
My texts are—fittingly?—about Apocalypse. 👍
www.universitychurch.ox.ac.uk/content/univ...
My texts are—fittingly?—about Apocalypse. 👍
University Sermons
The practice of delivering University Sermons dates back to the earliest days of the University. Each year eminent men and women from many different traditions are invited by the Vice-Chancellor to de...
www.universitychurch.ox.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Too late to get out of it now.
www.universitychurch.ox.ac.uk/content/univ...
My texts are—fittingly?—about Apocalypse. 👍
www.universitychurch.ox.ac.uk/content/univ...
My texts are—fittingly?—about Apocalypse. 👍
‘Other signatories to the letter include fashion designer Jasper Conran, polemicist AN Wilson and Will Palin, son of a famous comedian’ 😂
Monty Don and Alan Titchmarsh have come out against the proposed 9,000-home new town at Heyford Park in North Oxfordshire. In a letter to the Times, they claim that “the town will be visible from important vantage points in Rousham, the best surviving 18th-century garden in Britain”.
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
‘Other signatories to the letter include fashion designer Jasper Conran, polemicist AN Wilson and Will Palin, son of a famous comedian’ 😂
How many more ways to be utterly dismayed and alienated by this government? (Rhetorical question). Timid, banal, corporate schlock-fest.
Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
How many more ways to be utterly dismayed and alienated by this government? (Rhetorical question). Timid, banal, corporate schlock-fest.
I do love a bit of irony of a morning.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I do love a bit of irony of a morning.
Reposted by Peter McCullough
“I am no longer an artist, interested & curious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever.
Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, & may it burn their lousy souls”
Paul Nash - 1/2:
Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, & may it burn their lousy souls”
Paul Nash - 1/2:
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“I am no longer an artist, interested & curious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever.
Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, & may it burn their lousy souls”
Paul Nash - 1/2:
Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, & may it burn their lousy souls”
Paul Nash - 1/2:
'A generation unkind to their parents, and their children, pure in their own eyes, cruel hearted, whose teeth were as knives to shred the poor of the earth, shred them small. Where a general corruption that way, no good to be hoped for; the country will not last long.' (Lancelot Andrewes, 1617)
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
'A generation unkind to their parents, and their children, pure in their own eyes, cruel hearted, whose teeth were as knives to shred the poor of the earth, shred them small. Where a general corruption that way, no good to be hoped for; the country will not last long.' (Lancelot Andrewes, 1617)
Cripes (full thread).
The wheel with the black & white stripes, the grouping of those little metal spheres, those metal curves at the bottom, no picture of Marie Curie has been so well composed. Maybe Fritz Lang arranged it.
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Cripes (full thread).
Outlook has moved the delete icon from the solemn, easy-access splendour it deserved at the far right of a message into a crowded cluster on the left and it's doing my head in.
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Outlook has moved the delete icon from the solemn, easy-access splendour it deserved at the far right of a message into a crowded cluster on the left and it's doing my head in.
I’m determined that my 1990 grad school FQ sees me through to retirement.
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’m determined that my 1990 grad school FQ sees me through to retirement.
Tho't I'd check where Donne's sermons were in the new humanities library. Gratified that they were all checked out, but shelved under history of religion, separated by a whole floor from all of his other presumably more 'literary' works. FFS. Talk about a judgment on one's life's work. #earlymodern
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Tho't I'd check where Donne's sermons were in the new humanities library. Gratified that they were all checked out, but shelved under history of religion, separated by a whole floor from all of his other presumably more 'literary' works. FFS. Talk about a judgment on one's life's work. #earlymodern
If transitory things, which soon decay,
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
(Donne, ‘The Autumnal’)
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
(Donne, ‘The Autumnal’)
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If transitory things, which soon decay,
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
(Donne, ‘The Autumnal’)
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
(Donne, ‘The Autumnal’)
Reposted by Peter McCullough
Oh so hate clicks are actually what they’re after
November 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Oh so hate clicks are actually what they’re after
Time to close the curtains and turn the lights off in the front rooms. #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Time to close the curtains and turn the lights off in the front rooms. #halloween
