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Professor of Humanities, QMUL | Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford | General Editor of the OUP Letters of William Godwin | Writer on the edge | Northumbrian I Trainspotter | website: pamelaclemit.wordpress.com
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· Nov 25
RED-LETTER DAY: this afternoon I delivered the completed manuscript of The Letters of William Godwin, Volume IV: 1816-1828, to my editor at OUP. Contains 404 letters. Pictured (1) the last steps of a ten-year intellectual journey (2) engraving of Godwin by WH Lizars, after William Nicholson, 1816.
1. Thanks for the kind words, likes and reposts. I’m turning this into a short thread about Volume 4 of the OUP edition of Godwin’s letters.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
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November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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Trailing bellflower growing as a pavement plant in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trailing bellflower growing as a pavement plant in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
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Drown out the noise. 🎧 Escape to somewhere quiet.
Episode 215 - Calm within Kilminorth Woods (40 mins)
> bit.ly/LenKilm
Episode 215 - Calm within Kilminorth Woods (40 mins)
> bit.ly/LenKilm
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Drown out the noise. 🎧 Escape to somewhere quiet.
Episode 215 - Calm within Kilminorth Woods (40 mins)
> bit.ly/LenKilm
Episode 215 - Calm within Kilminorth Woods (40 mins)
> bit.ly/LenKilm
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I tried to do something that was (for me) quite a challenge: describe precisely how the word "that", in the right place, can make "all the difference" to a poem someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/that-vase
That Vase
Thinking about what "that" can do in a poem
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November 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I tried to do something that was (for me) quite a challenge: describe precisely how the word "that", in the right place, can make "all the difference" to a poem someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/that-vase
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The gentlest, firmest, weapon for us to use in the culture wars, from Goethe:
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The gentlest, firmest, weapon for us to use in the culture wars, from Goethe:
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
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Grateful thanks for kind reposts and replies. Disambiguation: William Godwin is now up on the OUP website, but ... 1/2
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
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November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Grateful thanks for kind reposts and replies. Disambiguation: William Godwin is now up on the OUP website, but ... 1/2
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The River Tees at High Force this morning after last nights heavy rain. There is some floodwater coming over the middle of High Force, but it had dropped considerably by the time I got there.
#highforcewaterfall #highforce #rivertees #teesdale #weather #countydurham
#highforcewaterfall #highforce #rivertees #teesdale #weather #countydurham
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The River Tees at High Force this morning after last nights heavy rain. There is some floodwater coming over the middle of High Force, but it had dropped considerably by the time I got there.
#highforcewaterfall #highforce #rivertees #teesdale #weather #countydurham
#highforcewaterfall #highforce #rivertees #teesdale #weather #countydurham
Grateful thanks for kind reposts and replies. Disambiguation: William Godwin is now up on the OUP website, but ... 1/2
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Grateful thanks for kind reposts and replies. Disambiguation: William Godwin is now up on the OUP website, but ... 1/2
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William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Wishing you all - well many of you - a blessed writing day.
November 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Wishing you all - well many of you - a blessed writing day.
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I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
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UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
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Autumnal hues – a day away from the writing desk to the mountainside woods and shrines of Nikkō
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Autumnal hues – a day away from the writing desk to the mountainside woods and shrines of Nikkō
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An excellent read; Keith Gildart’s review essay in The English Historical Review focusing on a collection of recent historical works on aspects of the 1984/5 British Miners Strike and remembering that 40years on. Incl.
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Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5
The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc
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November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
An excellent read; Keith Gildart’s review essay in The English Historical Review focusing on a collection of recent historical works on aspects of the 1984/5 British Miners Strike and remembering that 40years on. Incl.
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social
FYI @ewangibbs.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social
FYI @ewangibbs.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
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French artist Raymond Wintz specialised in marine and coastal views in Brittany. Here, almost 100 years ago, he looks through an open doorway to the harbour beyond (The Blue Door, 1927)
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
French artist Raymond Wintz specialised in marine and coastal views in Brittany. Here, almost 100 years ago, he looks through an open doorway to the harbour beyond (The Blue Door, 1927)
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Clematis flowering by a door at Miss Minnie Pate’s Cambridge University Type-Writing Office, 33 Trinity Street, Cambridge.
‘Yard, until 1923’ (detail), from Minnie Pate’s Scrapbook. MS Add. 7637 @theul.bsky.social
‘Yard, until 1923’ (detail), from Minnie Pate’s Scrapbook. MS Add. 7637 @theul.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Clematis flowering by a door at Miss Minnie Pate’s Cambridge University Type-Writing Office, 33 Trinity Street, Cambridge.
‘Yard, until 1923’ (detail), from Minnie Pate’s Scrapbook. MS Add. 7637 @theul.bsky.social
‘Yard, until 1923’ (detail), from Minnie Pate’s Scrapbook. MS Add. 7637 @theul.bsky.social
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Harebells still flowering in King’s Forest, near Bury St Edmunds. #WildflowerHour
October 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Harebells still flowering in King’s Forest, near Bury St Edmunds. #WildflowerHour
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First proofs have arrived (618 pages, excluding plates). Miles to go before I sleep ...
Anarchy in the UK: OUP hoists its standard for radical polymath #WilliamGodwin, author of Political Justice, 1793, & Caleb Williams, 1794; & (in timespan of this volume) Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, Of Population, History of the Commonwealth of England; & many more works. At press.
October 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
First proofs have arrived (618 pages, excluding plates). Miles to go before I sleep ...
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John Nash painted 'The Viaduct,' (1916) just before he enlisted in the Artist's Rifles, it can be seen as a memorial to a way of life that was about to be lost forever. The picture is based on a watercolour Nash painted in Dorset and might depict the Cannington Viaduct.
October 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
John Nash painted 'The Viaduct,' (1916) just before he enlisted in the Artist's Rifles, it can be seen as a memorial to a way of life that was about to be lost forever. The picture is based on a watercolour Nash painted in Dorset and might depict the Cannington Viaduct.
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Stunning day at Abbotsford, the house and estate of Sir Walter Scott in the Scottish Borders.
October 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Stunning day at Abbotsford, the house and estate of Sir Walter Scott in the Scottish Borders.
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Did the postboy fall or was he pushed? Travelling from Berwick to Alnwick in the era of the Marcher Laws was a perilous undertaking. To get to Alnwick the postboy would have had to ford the river Aln, the heavily fortified border between the East March and the Middle March. 1/2
From Berwick, Robert Gascoigne, a royal messenger, writes to Walsingham complaining of incompetence in the postal system the north-east; apparently letters took 17 hours to get from 30 miles from Berwick to Alnwick. The excuse was that the postman's boy fell in the water. 4/
October 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Did the postboy fall or was he pushed? Travelling from Berwick to Alnwick in the era of the Marcher Laws was a perilous undertaking. To get to Alnwick the postboy would have had to ford the river Aln, the heavily fortified border between the East March and the Middle March. 1/2