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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · 8d

Warburtons crumpet thins!

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Alastair Horne @pressfuturist.bsky.social · Jul 25

A bheil ùidh agaibh ann am foillseachadh Gàidhlig, is sibh fileanta anns a’ chànan?

Tha cothrom ann do aon neach sgoilearachd foillseachaidh maoinichte fhaighinn airson a’ chùrsa MLitt ann am Foghlam Foillseachaidh, Oilthigh Shruighlea, 2025-26.

www.gaelicbooks.org/cothrom-mlit...

Cothrom - MLitt ann am Foghlam Foillseachaidh, Oilthigh Shruighlea, 2025-26 - Comhairle nan Leabhraichean

Scholarship opportunity in Gaelic publishing course at the University of Stirling

www.gaelicbooks.org

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Alastair Horne @pressfuturist.bsky.social · Jul 9

Wonderful news: the Gaelic Books Council (@leughleabhar.bsky.social) is offering a full scholarship to a student with fluent written and spoken Scottish Gaelic, to study for the M.Litt in Publishing Studies at Stirling!

See the link for more information!

www.stir.ac.uk/scholarships...

The Gaelic Books Council Scholarship | Scholarships | University of Stirling

www.stir.ac.uk

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jun 22

Found some background reading for an important #TheArchers debate://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/50339-the-scone-pronunciation-map-of-britain

The scone pronunciation map of Britain | YouGov

Is it scone as in ‘bone’, or scone as in ‘gone’?

yougov.co.uk

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jun 14

Can we have a sorbet version too?

Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jun 14

Lovely pictures Melissa. I missed the conference deer!

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jun 13

Well, it was acquired by Continuum when the founders retired, but I think it had lost its connection with the University of London by then. Bloomsbury only acquired Continuum about a decade later.

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jun 13

T & F do have form on this. I had just joined UCL Press as an editor in its first incarnation in 1997 when it was unexpectedly acquired by T & F. This acquisition destroyed much of the hard work and good will that had gone into setting it up.

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · May 19

My favourite form of punctuation! I devoted a significant chunk of a first year seminar to the semicolon recently.

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · May 5

Come and join us at the BACLS-WHN biennial conference next month!

BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

BACLS WHN 2025: Conference Registration now open!

The registration for the BACLS “What Happens Now?” Conference taking place 10th June – 12th June 2025 at Stirling University is now open. Please register via this link:
shop.stir.ac.uk/conferences-...

British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now? (BACLS-WHN 2025) | University of Stirling Online Shop

Seventh Biennial Conference of the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies.

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · May 5

A comment as the local organiser. We are holding rooms on campus for participants but we can only guarantee availability for these until 9th May as Stirling accommodation is much in demand over the summer. So please do book this week if you require accommodation!

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Apr 13

I was there on Friday afternoon and hugely enjoyed it. Some brilliant singers in the cast and excellent comic acting.

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Feb 7

Reminder! Get your @bacls.bsky.social proposals for in by the end of today! (Midnight GMT)

BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · Jan 28

Call for Papers: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN)

10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling

Proposal Deadline: Friday, 7 February

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Google Forms: Sign-in

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jan 24

That's the first article we sent the student, Martin!

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jan 21

It is beautiful Lorna - I’m looking forward to reading this!

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jan 19

I’m with Sylvia! The Forth is tidal a long way upstream but that doesn’t make it sea. The section right up to Kincardine Bridge from the Isle of May at the estuary mouth is known as the Firth of Forth. So I’d say it’s sea only beyond the Isle of May and river only upstream of Kincardine.

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thanks so much Alastair! I am also eating a belated dinner.

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jan 12

Which is your favourite, out of interest?

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Jan 12

Happy birthday Alastair!

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Dec 8

Congratulations Carly!

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Dec 5

@artsofdenial.bsky.social

Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Nov 24

It’s a series, published in the 60s and 70s about a girl who goes on holiday to north Cornwall and meets a dragon who has been around since Arthurian times. Gentle and charming - Green Smoke is in no sense a scary dragon.

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Nov 24

Green Smoke

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Nov 19

Brilliant opportunity for publishing graduates interested in academic publishing.

Elinor Potts @elinorpotts.bsky.social · Nov 19

Great opportunity for graduates looking to break into academic publishing - come and work with my wonderful team at LSE Press / LSE Library 💫

LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · Nov 19

Publishing hopefuls - listen up 🔊

We are seeking a Publishing Assistant to join our ambitious non-profit open access press at LSE Press.

Closing 8 December 2024. 📚 Salary from £32,135 to £35,304 pa inclusive, potential to progress.

Apply here: https://buff.ly/3Zcy1lG #BookJobs

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · Nov 19

Ten writers of whom I’ve read more than five books:

Kamila Shamsie
Ali Smith
Isabel Allende
Tove Jansson
Naomi Alderman
Sarah Waters
Sarah Moss
Sara Paretsky
Kate Atkinson
Maggie O’Farrell

Alastair Horne @pressfuturist.bsky.social · Nov 17

Ten writers of whom I’ve read more than 5 books.

Graham Greene
Vladimir Nabokov
P. G. Wodehouse
Terrance Dicks
Ian Rankin
Muriel Spark
Josephine Tey
Martin Amis
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ian McEwan

Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · Nov 16

Ten writers of whom I’ve read more than 5 books:

Bill Watterson
Terri Libenson
Alex T Smith
Alastair Chisholm
Nadia Shireen
Judith Kerr
Vashti Hardy
Kelly Yang
Aron Nels Steinke
Luke Pearson

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