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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread

Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking this morning about the importance of writing, reading, creative practice. Not only do the stories we tell have political power, writing allows us to reconnect with parts of ourselves and subverts the noise we've all gotten so used to.

Wishing everyone a quiet moment this weekend.

A typewriter and books on a clear kitchen table

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking this morning about the importance of writing, reading, creative practice. Not only do the stories we tell have political power, writing allows us to reconnect with parts of ourselves and subverts the noise we've all gotten so used to.

Wishing everyone a quiet moment this weekend.

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 8d

Shocked that I received a (small) royalty payment for my monograph today. I thought they were a bit like unicorns 🦄 📖

I'm happy that people are out there reading this lovely thing

boydellandbrewer.com/book/transna...

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Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social · 9d

As the new academic year starts here in Cambridge, my thoughts turn towards libraries... I wrote about the extraordinary Mary Paley Marshall, who co-founded the Marshall Library of Economics in 1925, and worked there until her 90s.

How to use a library

Mary Paley Marshall, political economist, author and librarian

open.substack.com

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 12d

Writing Historical Non-Fiction Weekend

7-9 November

One space has become available on this sold-out workshop. Join us for an inspiring bonfire weekend in autumnal East Sussex and develop (or start) your project.

www.starcroftfarm.co.uk/weekendretre...

View of a writing desk overlooking a field in East Sussex

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 12d

Please send your writer friends, former students and lovers my way!

Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 13d

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Feeling stuck with a non-fiction project? Need a trusted reader, or someone to discuss your research with? Have a look at what I offer.

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 13d

📖 Wolf Author Services 📖

I'm now offering support to writers & scholars.

Feeling stuck with a non-fiction project? Need a trusted reader, or someone to discuss your research with? Have a look at what I offer.

Please share with your networks. Reskeets welcome 🧡

www.alexiswolf.co.uk/authorservices

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 13d

'Ilaheva Tuaone and I are still seeking panelists for our ASECS roundtable, "The Unwritten Word: Alternative Texts, Epistemologies, and Ontologies." Full description here: asecs.org/sessions2026/

Please get in touch with any questions!

List of Sessions 2026 – ASECS

asecs.org

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · 16d

The world feels heavy. I am wading back to myself after a month of nursery and reception settling. BUT, there are archival visits on the horizon. There are still little stories to be told.

Please tell me: what things are you looking forward to this autumn?

A delicious bound manuscript, held open with an archival snake weight.

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Aug 30

This makes me think of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, when the travellers end up trapped in a mansion in West London with angry protestors outside. Unfortunately, these asylum seekers don't have a magical door they can slip through to escape this hostility (so wish they did).

Screenshot from the Guardian showing far right protectors outside a hotel housing asylum seekers

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Aug 27

I have been quiet all summer! but the end of mat leave looms & I'm thinking about archives archives archives.

I've updated my website w/some exciting autumn events (research & writing on a Sussex farm! speaking at the *British Library*)

have a look & please share:
www.alexiswolf.co.uk/news-events

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Aug 27

I have been quiet all summer! but the end of mat leave looms & I'm thinking about archives archives archives.

I've updated my website w/some exciting autumn events (research & writing on a Sussex farm! speaking at the *British Library*)

have a look & please share:
www.alexiswolf.co.uk/news-events

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Aug 1

This is so tragic

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Jul 22

My favourite thing to do with my young children is go to the library. It follows that when travelling we would do the same. Hence, my babies spent the afternoon in the Oval at the Bibliotheque Nationale, reading and napping and occasionally screeching.

Woman carrying child walking into a beautiful but crowded Parisian library

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Jul 17

At least the author of this 18th c poem on insomnia didn't have to contend with doomscrolling (or Coldplay).

Image of an eighteenth century poem: A Sonnet - My Bed

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 15

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Jul 11

Grateful and delighted to finally be at #globalausten250 preparing to listen to Jane Austen Home and Away

Concert hall with speaker, piano and screen displaying image of road markers to Jane Austen's House

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Jul 9

Amused & glad it's coming - I saw it in May on a special trip to Bayeux (I live in Battle & am low key obsessed). Absolutely breathtaking in person. When I asked the staff if it would be coming to UK, they said 'non, elle est beaucoup trop fragile pour voyager'. I'm glad she's up to it after all.

Bayeux tapestry to return to Britain for first time in 900 years

Tapestry to go on display in British Museum next year, with treasures from Sutton Hoo lent to France in exchange

www.theguardian.com

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Jul 9

Please add me! Excited to see everyone

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congratulations Christine!

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Jul 4

Sometimes, when the world feels like a bin fire and you've been on maternity leave for approximately 4,000 months, you need a little Jane Austen conference. As a treat.

Absolutely cannot wait for next weekend ♡

Banner for Global Jane Austen conference in Southampton

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jul 3

There is no such thing as “saving” money by cutting social programs. Need still exists, hunger still exists, illness still exists. Cuts merely push the remedies for these many forms of suffering into crueler social relations and more chaotic social outcomes.

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Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social · Jun 28

What did they have to say about it? 😆

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