Penny Fielding
@penfielding.bsky.social
Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.
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Penny Fielding
@penfielding.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Hello blueskiers--another emigree here from the foaming hellhole that Twitter became. Hoping to find a happier forum for random chats about books, music, theatre and to share cocktail recipes.
This is my ideal image of philosophy--Shaftesbury and his brother in their lounge wear.
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is my ideal image of philosophy--Shaftesbury and his brother in their lounge wear.
I love a Chartist
Delighted to welcome this into the world. Paperback for £9.99 or kindle for £8.99.
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Hope you’ll treat yourself to an early Christmas present 📚🎄
Please repost this if you can.
#Chartism #C19th #History
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I love a Chartist
Spent the weekend reading this. When you give it the time that readers had in 1820s, it becomes compulsive. A thriller with a twisty plot, multiple well-drawn characters, and a narrative that keeps everything in place.
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Spent the weekend reading this. When you give it the time that readers had in 1820s, it becomes compulsive. A thriller with a twisty plot, multiple well-drawn characters, and a narrative that keeps everything in place.
Wonderful afternoon of Purcell and his friends from the Dunedin Consort. His sense of music being the most important thing there is is restorative.
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Wonderful afternoon of Purcell and his friends from the Dunedin Consort. His sense of music being the most important thing there is is restorative.
Some things stay the same in Berlin #Fernsehturm
October 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Some things stay the same in Berlin #Fernsehturm
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A reminder that pg researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies in the UK are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award (valued up to £500)
The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this
#Romanticism
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this
#Romanticism
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
Stephen Copley Research Awards – British Association for Romantic Studies
www.bars.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A reminder that pg researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies in the UK are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award (valued up to £500)
The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this
#Romanticism
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this
#Romanticism
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
It’s so good to hear the wonderful work that people are doing in Scottish literature. A convivial and stimulating afternoon.
A wonderful afternoon spent yesterday for our annual SWINC Autumn Round-Up. Thanks to each of our fantastic speakers @drcleoocy.bsky.social, Dr Hilary Clydesdale, Dr Désha Osborne, and @mckeever.bsky.social for 4 wonderful papers - and to all those who came along for stimulating discussions!
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
It’s so good to hear the wonderful work that people are doing in Scottish literature. A convivial and stimulating afternoon.
Frozen treats … if you’re a polar bear.
October 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Frozen treats … if you’re a polar bear.
Notre Dame has spruced up pretty well
October 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Notre Dame has spruced up pretty well
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Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
September 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
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The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality.
We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.
We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.
September 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality.
We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.
We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.
Congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social and Kevin James for this wonderful volume and for inviting me to write about spies.
September 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social and Kevin James for this wonderful volume and for inviting me to write about spies.
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The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time
a woman in a suit holds her hand to her face
ALT: a woman in a suit holds her hand to her face
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September 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time
At Port of Leith Distillery with the bro.
August 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
At Port of Leith Distillery with the bro.
The Andy Goldsworthy exhibition at the National Gallery is terrific if your in Edinburgh before November
August 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Andy Goldsworthy exhibition at the National Gallery is terrific if your in Edinburgh before November
Back from Orfeo ed Eurydice at the Festival. A superb updating of 18th c music and dance. And despite all the war on such things, it sold out a 3,000 seat theatre.
August 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Back from Orfeo ed Eurydice at the Festival. A superb updating of 18th c music and dance. And despite all the war on such things, it sold out a 3,000 seat theatre.
Apparently in the 1930s academics could pay for their summer holidays by writing reviews and articles, or at least a book on English lyric poetry.
August 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Apparently in the 1930s academics could pay for their summer holidays by writing reviews and articles, or at least a book on English lyric poetry.
Acquired a copy of Upton Sinclair’s spy novel World’s End and it had this inscription. “Head high and don’t give up hope for a better world”. But who was Karl and what was he doing in Glasgow in 1943?
August 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Acquired a copy of Upton Sinclair’s spy novel World’s End and it had this inscription. “Head high and don’t give up hope for a better world”. But who was Karl and what was he doing in Glasgow in 1943?
Long lunch after a Queens Hall concert. @jennyrichards.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Long lunch after a Queens Hall concert. @jennyrichards.bsky.social
Whiskey sours anyone?
August 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Whiskey sours anyone?
Had a preview of the library's acquisition of this fabulous collection of Walter Scott character portraits. The artist much preferred illustrating feisty heroines, and although he does feel he has to include the most famous hero, Ivanhoe is a complete fop.
July 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Had a preview of the library's acquisition of this fabulous collection of Walter Scott character portraits. The artist much preferred illustrating feisty heroines, and although he does feel he has to include the most famous hero, Ivanhoe is a complete fop.
Look at these pommes boulangère that I made.
July 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Look at these pommes boulangère that I made.
This thread nails everything that has gone wrong with universities.
Lots of bad solutions proposed for UK universities in the press:
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
July 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This thread nails everything that has gone wrong with universities.