Darryl Jones
@profdarryljones.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
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Darryl Jones
@profdarryljones.bsky.social
· Sep 21
We have a cover!
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!
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Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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In this compact volume, @profcarolyne.bsky.social explores how dragons have captured the human imagination across time and space.
Discover The Little Book of Dragons: bit.ly/47SWqjc
#ArtHistory #LiteraryStudies
Discover The Little Book of Dragons: bit.ly/47SWqjc
#ArtHistory #LiteraryStudies
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In this compact volume, @profcarolyne.bsky.social explores how dragons have captured the human imagination across time and space.
Discover The Little Book of Dragons: bit.ly/47SWqjc
#ArtHistory #LiteraryStudies
Discover The Little Book of Dragons: bit.ly/47SWqjc
#ArtHistory #LiteraryStudies
‘Horrid little fellow, like some sort of maggot - looks like a drug-taker’: A. C. Benson, on meeting Winston Churchill.
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
‘Horrid little fellow, like some sort of maggot - looks like a drug-taker’: A. C. Benson, on meeting Winston Churchill.
Everyone should have this book.
28 October was the date in 1893 when M R James first read 2 ghost stories to The Chit-Chat Club in Cambridge. I have copies of a book for sale that commemorates this occasion and the supernatural output of other club members.
Interested in "Ghosts of the Chit-Chat" (HB or PB)? Then drop me a line.
Interested in "Ghosts of the Chit-Chat" (HB or PB)? Then drop me a line.
October 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Everyone should have this book.
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Keir Starmer won’t be surprised Lucy Powell is his new deputy leader – but he should be very worried | Morgan Jones
Keir Starmer won’t be surprised Lucy Powell is his new deputy leader – but he should be very worried | Morgan Jones
Labour members – and Caerphilly voters – have made their feelings clear. When will the PM realise that his strategy just isn’t working, asks Morgan Jones of Renewal
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Keir Starmer won’t be surprised Lucy Powell is his new deputy leader – but he should be very worried | Morgan Jones
Ah, go on then:
“Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.”
Ahem, who burgled the Louvre? Correct answers only.
“Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.”
Ahem, who burgled the Louvre? Correct answers only.
October 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Ah, go on then:
“Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.”
Ahem, who burgled the Louvre? Correct answers only.
“Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.”
Ahem, who burgled the Louvre? Correct answers only.
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Our own Nick Freeman has contributed a chapter, ‘The Ghost Story 1870-1900’, to The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP). There’s spooky fun for all the family with Dickens, Kipling, Stoker, and various other practitioners of the ghostly tale ...
The Victorian Ghost Story
The Victorian Ghost Story
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our own Nick Freeman has contributed a chapter, ‘The Ghost Story 1870-1900’, to The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP). There’s spooky fun for all the family with Dickens, Kipling, Stoker, and various other practitioners of the ghostly tale ...
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Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:
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October 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
Look what finally arrived! Hooray!!
September 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Look what finally arrived! Hooray!!
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I think this analysis is correct but more importantly it uses a Night of the Demon analogy for a leadership challenge. It's in the trees! It's coming!
I wrote about the noticeable Vibe Shift around Keir Starmer's viability as PM:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Where are Starmer’s friends?
Labour MPs have abandoned the Prime Minister
www.newstatesman.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I think this analysis is correct but more importantly it uses a Night of the Demon analogy for a leadership challenge. It's in the trees! It's coming!
I imagine Keir Starmer must feel a little like Karswell at the end of the film, only instead of a demon approaching to draw things to a close, it’s probably a by-election in the greater Manchester area, a fizzing cloud of Andy Burnham on the horizon.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Where are Starmer’s friends?
Labour MPs have abandoned the Prime Minister
www.newstatesman.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I imagine Keir Starmer must feel a little like Karswell at the end of the film, only instead of a demon approaching to draw things to a close, it’s probably a by-election in the greater Manchester area, a fizzing cloud of Andy Burnham on the horizon.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
We have a cover!
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!
September 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
We have a cover!
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!
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Oxford has fallen. Repeat: Oxford has fallen… 🤖 #HigherEducation #academia
NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.
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September 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Oxford has fallen. Repeat: Oxford has fallen… 🤖 #HigherEducation #academia
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Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat
Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat
The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony
Irish author Sally Rooney could not travel to collect a literary prize this week over concerns that she may be arrested if she enters the UK, given her support of banned group Palestine Action.
Rooney won the Sky Arts award for literature for her fourth novel, Intermezzo. At a ceremony on Tuesday, audiences were told that Rooney “couldn’t be here”, before her editor, Faber publisher Alex Bowler, collected the award on her behalf. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat
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Fabulous launch last night for Kevin Smith’s #InjuryTime - now at number 1 @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social - thanks to everyone for coming @tlrhub.bsky.social @profdarryljones.bsky.social @etaintannam.bsky.social @klillington.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Fabulous launch last night for Kevin Smith’s #InjuryTime - now at number 1 @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social - thanks to everyone for coming @tlrhub.bsky.social @profdarryljones.bsky.social @etaintannam.bsky.social @klillington.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social
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I am absolutely delighted to be taking part in this panel discussion with @murphgothic.bsky.social, @ordonnel.bsky.social, @profdarryljones.bsky.social, and @drdara.bsky.social. I'll be talking about Gertrude Barrows Bennett. It's part of @tlrhub.bsky.social's research festival. Free & open to all!
September 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I am absolutely delighted to be taking part in this panel discussion with @murphgothic.bsky.social, @ordonnel.bsky.social, @profdarryljones.bsky.social, and @drdara.bsky.social. I'll be talking about Gertrude Barrows Bennett. It's part of @tlrhub.bsky.social's research festival. Free & open to all!
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Heads up, English Literature types. The newly formed School of English at MMU is looking to appoint a new Head of School, ideally someone who already holds a professorial Chair. Further details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Heads up, English Literature types. The newly formed School of English at MMU is looking to appoint a new Head of School, ideally someone who already holds a professorial Chair. Further details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
And yet Nigel Farage is still dictating UK government policy and the BBC News agenda.
Suppose they gave a race war and nobody came
Lol
August 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
And yet Nigel Farage is still dictating UK government policy and the BBC News agenda.
Listening to PM on Radio 4. Why is the BBC yet again allowing Nigel Farage to set the terms of the media debate?
August 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Listening to PM on Radio 4. Why is the BBC yet again allowing Nigel Farage to set the terms of the media debate?
Splendid day’s papers at the #WarningToTheCurious conference!
August 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Splendid day’s papers at the #WarningToTheCurious conference!
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Delighted to have this arrive today in the mail today: The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Ghost Story, edited by Andy Smith, including an essay from me about "Ghostly Machines and Mechanical Ghosts." Full TOC and ordering info: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-vic...
August 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Delighted to have this arrive today in the mail today: The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Ghost Story, edited by Andy Smith, including an essay from me about "Ghostly Machines and Mechanical Ghosts." Full TOC and ordering info: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-vic...
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@romgothsam.bsky.social 's #WarningToTheCurious conference gets underway. Two whole days of papers related to the work of M R James! We start with Octavia Cade talking about the well as an inverted lighthouse. We finish tomorrow evening with @nunkie.bsky.social presenting a James story.😍
August 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
@romgothsam.bsky.social 's #WarningToTheCurious conference gets underway. Two whole days of papers related to the work of M R James! We start with Octavia Cade talking about the well as an inverted lighthouse. We finish tomorrow evening with @nunkie.bsky.social presenting a James story.😍