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Dr Susie Beckham @susiebeckham.bsky.social · 3h

Want to learn more about the fantastic artist Anna Alma-Tadema? Check out my piece for ArtUK!

artuk.org/discover/sto...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 8h

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 6h

Wait what?
www.whatsonstage.com/news/the-los...

The Lost Boys musical announces Broadway plans and lead casting

The cult classic heads for the stage – could it be the next Outsiders or Death Becomes Her?

www.whatsonstage.com

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 13h

Very excited to be hosting @drreznicek.bsky.social in a couple of weeks - join us for a discussion of extreme Romantic bodies 🖤💪🦵👀 - our seminars are free, online, open to all!

EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 13h

We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.

Free! Online! All welcome!

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 18h

Starts tonight. Let’s go! See you at Diane Seuss, Luke Kennard and Mona Arshi at 8.30pm? (Also live-streamed if you’d like to watch with wine and takeout) #winchesterpoetry www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

What's on - Winchester Poetry Festival events in 2025

Details of our forthcoming events and collaborations. Winchester Poetry Festival runs 2-12th October

www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 1d

'London, a view of Somerset House seen through an arch of Waterloo Bridge' (c.1865) by Henry Pether

(Private collection)

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 1d

Want to applaud the best of humanity (rather than doomscrolling about the worst)? Show your support for hospice care week:
www.hospiceuk.org/our-campaign...

Hospice Care Week

From 6 - 12 October 2025, help us celebrate hospice care across the UK along with our 200+ hospice members. This year's theme is: hospice care is more than you think.

www.hospiceuk.org

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 1d

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 1d

I found your article because I was actually looking for new stuff on Michael Field & was delighted to discover by accident that I'm in your company! Looking forward to reading...😍

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nobel prize in literature 2025 is announced – live

Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm As the 2025 Nobel prize in literature approaches, betting markets are pointing to a tight race. Chinese avant garde writer Can Xue and Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai are currently joint favourites, both with 10/1 odds. Can Xue, age 72, remains a perennial contender – she was also heavily tipped last year – and her experimental, boundary-pushing style has kept her in the spotlight. Krasznahorkai, aged 71, is likewise gaining traction, with his dystopian, melancholic novels enjoying recent translation awards. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

How to ymprove higher ed
And win all the pryzes:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d

The 10.7ha univallate Iron Age glory of Segsbury Camp (aka Letcombe Castle) Oxfordshire

Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍

www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...

Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

The grass covered ramparts of a hillfort bisected by a modern road from the air looking to the cloudless sky of the horizon

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 3d

'Thames Nocturne: Battersea Reach from Cheyne Walk' by Walter Greaves (1846-1930)

(Private collection)

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 3d

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 4d

ICYMI: Around 5,000 children have already been registered for Dolly Parton’s free book-gifting programme, just two months since the initiative first launched in Wandsworth 👇 #BookSky

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Wandsworth recruits 5,000 children in two months

ebx.sh

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 4d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 4d

On the BARS blog: information on applying for the @ksaacomm.bsky.social Carl H. Pforzheimer Research Grants, worth $3000. Deadline 1st November. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6151

Funding Opportunity: Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants – BARS Blog

www.bars.ac.uk

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 4d

The Grade 1 listed North Wing of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London reopens after £9.5 million restoration with 2 William Hogarth masterpiece murals available for the public to see for the first time. 👇
BBC News - Hospital's Hogarth opens to public for first time
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hogarth masterpieces restored at Barts Hospital open to public

The restoration of the north wing has 'recaptured its beauty and dignity', the project teams says.

www.bbc.com

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