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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 1d

Pity my mother, with offspring such as me…

Signed copy of “In Venezuela”, addressed “To Mummy Willie - Happy Travels” signed by Michael Palin.

Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 6d

Good luck. I think a school friend’s parents are still in recovery from the sleepover of 1993. And her dad went over and stayed at his mate’s house, leaving his wife to handle the situation solo.

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 7d

👉 #IsCheeseRational?

[if you know, you know…]

Dr Charlotte Parsonson-Young @charlie-l-y.bsky.social · 7d

This may be my favourite postscript of all time. The author and his son-in-law were being investigated for plotting against Oliver Cromwell in 1656.

'I desire my daughter to send me a Cheese, for this my restraint hath forced me to eate them she sent before sooner then was intended'.

#stresscheese

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 7d

There are also instances of women preaching and in positions of power in various sects throughout the Middle Ages and women also had a priestly role in the Early Church.

Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 7d

As the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed, it’s worth remembering that dissenting women were preaching to mixed sex congregations in London as early as 1645. My book Voices of Thunder has a whole section on 17th-century “she-preachers”

#earlymodern

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 9d

It’s astonishing that we’re hearing this from a former Human Rights Lawyer. Talk about poacher turned game keeper.

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 11d

My favourite are toucan for the expert punnage and Pegasus for their scarcity. Indeed, Pegasus is so rare that I would suspect them to be mythical if it were not for sightings in Wimbledon village. Maybe the Wombles are to blame.

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 11d

Zebra = white stripes on the road. Cars must give way to allow any pedestrians at the side of the road to cross.

Pegasus = crossing with the button about 2 metres up the pole, to allow those on horseback to press the button without dismounting & a green horse trotting instead of a green man walking

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 11d

Pelican = your common all garden green man walking crossing

Puffin (Pedestrian User-Friendly INtelligent Crossing) = the pelican upgrade, where the green man is above button & sensors adjust the length of time to cross to suit your gait

Toucan = bikes & pedestrians. Two Can cross at the same time

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 11d

Remembering the time we tried to explain pelican, puffin, toucan, zebra and pegasus crossings to @matthewharrison.bsky.social, though I suspect he still doesn’t believe us…

a group of ducks are walking down a sidewalk in front of a bank

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 11d

a man in a suit and tie is making a face

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a face

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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social · 21d

Lily Dunn's 'Into Being' is a milestone text in the art of life writing. I'm looking forward to chairing a discussion with her at @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social next month. It will be a great evening about how we raise raw personal material and make it powerfully universal.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 21d

Join us next month as @lilydunn.bsky.social hits the road next month to launch her new book, 'Into being', sharing the secrets of writing memoir.

Coming to a bookshop, festival or university near you, visit our Events page for more info and tickets: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events #booksky

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 14d

👀 @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

RILCH at LJMU @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social · 14d

Fabulous turnout to hear our very own Kate Walchester discuss travel writing with Michael Palin as part of the Smithdown Litfest. Your correspondent might have not picked the best spot for paparazzi images of our two celebrities, but is very much enjoying hearing tales of travel 🫣🥴

Interior of Ullet Road Unitarian Church, off Smithdown Road, Liverpool, with the backs of people crammed into pews to listen to Michael Palin reminisce with Kate Walchester about his travels and promote his new book on Venezuela.

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 15d

Can’t believe this book is TEN????

Murray Gove @earlymodernmurray.bsky.social · 15d

Very excited to dig into this little beauty by @racheljwillie.bsky.social

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 15d

WE ARE OFF!

If you're still on commute or school run, you should be able to pick this up later as it's recorded. But always lovely to be able to actually ask questions of our brilliant post-docs.
#SkyStorians #EarlyModern

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 30

POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE!

Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard.

25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

postdoctoral showcase
Jean David Eynard, ‘Hearing Colours, Seeing Noises: Sensory Disability & Synaesthesia in Seventeenth-Century England’

Claire Turner, ‘Cancer, Identity, & the Senses in Early Modern England, c.1583-1699’

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 22d

👀 but didn’t we lose?

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 22d

I’d give up trying to resuscitate… 😕

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 22d

And what would happen if you needed to get a second job?

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 23d

Are you Donne with it yet?

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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 24d

Important work by @britishacademy.bsky.social, keeping track of emerging cold spots, and contracting opportunities for young people who want to make a difference in the world through the study of SHAPE subjects.

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Sep 10

Humanities, arts and social sciences degrees are disappearing in many UK regions.

With more young people than ever studying close to home, course cuts are narrowing their choices at university.

@timeshighered.bsky.social covers our 'Cold Spots' report today. Read more at https://bit.ly/46e3wOy

Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK

Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 26d

In a desperate attempt to leave childhood, in 1999, the class of 1992 tunnelled under the school’s perimeter & through the Castle Dell, before scaling the castle wall & swimming across the River Wye. This proved a noble (yet vain) attempt by the fugitives to shake off Artex & Bastian’s hot pursuit.

a boy is riding on the back of a white dog with the words " it 's a never ending story " on the bottom

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 26d

Why did they call it “The Never Ending Story” when it has an ending? How come we’re not still trapped, sitting cross-legged in the school hall, wilting under the pressure of having begun watching it on VHS as our class Christmas party treat in 1989? #FalseAdvertising

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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 29d

Very pleased to see our Bee-ing Human film on the @leverhulme.ac.uk website. I will be sharing more from our science-humanities project on bee sentience soon as we finalise our bee book this autumn media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/charle...

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 29d

I’ve been busy all day and am just surfacing. Have I missed anything important?

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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · Sep 1

🐝🐝🐝 New to the @leverhulme.ac.uk 'Bee-ing Human' book: do watch and share our 7 mins film about Charles Butler's queen bee piping song, recorded in @theul.bsky.social and @peterhousecam.bsky.social with @sjjackson32.bsky.social Magnus Williamson, Richard Wistreich and choir.

Bee-ing human — Music

bee-inghuman.newcastle.ac.uk

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Squire of the Fleas

To Concuss a Mockingbird

Jude the Mainstream

Close to the Madding Couple

Hitchhikers Guide to the Clam

The Visible Man

A Clockwork Satsuma

Cowardly Old Globe

Confessions of a Justly-Fried Singer

Gulliver’s Staycation

Prudery Fair

The Stripped Screw

The Quick Nap

🫣🥴😏

Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Preliminary Sketches of the Artist as a Toddler

Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book.

The growing pains of Miss Jean Brodie

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