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Sorting books and knowing things. Library supporting the teaching and research for the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge. Working under @theul.bsky.social.

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Mon-Fri: 9.15am to 7pm
Sat: 11am-5pm
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Have weird feelings about the racism in Wuthering Heights, and/or its erasure in adaptations?

A 🧵by @romgothsam.bsky.social 👀📖🍿
romgothsam.bsky.social Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 2d
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
eflcam.bsky.social
Elizabeth Gaskell diaries, short stories, novels, photographs, critical texts, and more (!) available at E 64 GAS in your friendly, neighbourhood EFL. 📖📚✒️
groomb.bsky.social Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3d
Remembering Elizabeth Gaskell, who died on this day 1865.
groomb.bsky.social Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Mar 17
Made in Manchester: Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65). Her wide-ranging work is valued for its social history, including first-hand accounts of Manchester’s poor, as well as its literary qualities. Much of what she wrote was innovatory or controversial. 1/5
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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citylightsbooks.bsky.social
City Lights celebrates University Press Week 2025
We are hosting a panel discussion on the subject of close reading
View it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehZ0goJfiqY

Brought to you by the City Lights Foundation, Association of University Presses, @princetonupress.bsky.social & @sunypress.bsky.social
CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Close Reading Today - Celebrating University Press Week 2025
YouTube video by CityLightsBooks
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November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Hamlet kills Claudius! (finally) ☠️🍷
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Two RSC Hamlets giving Claudius what's coming to him: Toby Stephens & Clive Wood, dir. Michael Boyd des. Tom Piper 2004; David Tennant & Patrick Stewart in 2008-9, dir. Greg Doran, the second image from the filmed version.
A photograph of a play in performance. A young man wearing a grey linen coat with a high collar is snarling as he forces an older man, wearing a black doublet over a white shirt and black breeches, to drink from a big silver goblet, which is obscuring the older man's face. He is also bleeding from a wound in his torso, which he's clutching with his right hand. A photograph of a play in performance. A young man wearing dark jeans and a white fencing jacket is holding his left hand outstretched with a silver goblet in it, and a fencing foil in his right hand, pointing straight at a dapper older man wearing a neat suit and tie, who's holding his hands out. Other people are watching in the background. A close up of the same young man as in the previous image, from the POV of the man he's facing, so that the cup is right in the foreground and the rapier is pointing into the camera. The young man is looking very cross.
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.”

-- Wole Soyinka, The Man Died
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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irishlittimes.bsky.social
Shortlist unveiled for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Shortlist unveiled for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards
Cecelia Ahern, Donal Ryan, Oscar-winning actor Brenda Fricker, John Banville, RTÉ presenter Miriam O'Callaghan and former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar are among the authors on the shortlist for this year's ...
www.rte.ie
October 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
New Writing Scotland Submission Manager
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 23d
Well, I bet this 1848 Wuthering Heights reviewer feels like a wally now
It will live a short and brilliant life, and then die and be forgotten. For when the originality becomes familiarized, there will not be truth enough to sustain it. The public will not acknowledge its men and women to have the true immortal vitality. Poor Cathy's ghost will not walk the earth forever; and the insane Heathcliff will soon rest quietly in his coveted repose.
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
eflcam.bsky.social
Who LIKES #18thC #BookHistory, they cannot lie? 👀📖

(though pamphlet-lovers might deny...)

FREE online book launch of the latest from @universitypress.cambridge.org 'People of Print' series.

(➕) Early Career Workshop to practice pitching your own excellent book! A bargain at twice the price.
elementaladam.bsky.social Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 25d
Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history!

The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer
Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires
observer.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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sthughslibrary.bsky.social
Take a step back in time to discover the histories of alchemy, death, language, and fantastical beasts in this term’s new exhibition titled “St Hugh’s Library of Curiosities”, on display until Hilary 2026.

Image from “The History of Great Britaine”, RBS KK5 (SPE)
October 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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memrn.bsky.social
Something for the early modernists!
revelsoffice.bsky.social Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social · Oct 1
Hey Bluesky!👋 We're the Revels Office, an academic network for PGRs and ECRS researching all things early modern📚

Our community is a friendly space to share ideas and resources, ask questions, support each other, and meet fellow early modernists.

Check out our website for more! revelsoffice.com
Revels Office
⋅ a virtual network for early modern PhD students and ECRs ⋅
revelsoffice.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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archive.org
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Greg Newby
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
eflcam.bsky.social
👋Oh hello #OpenAcess.

What a delight for #MedievalSky, Cambridge English students, and other medieval mystic enthusiasts.✒️🕯️📖

(Or the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval & Renaissance Women Digitisation Project - currently moving websites!)

#EarlyModern
#MedievalWomen
#EverydayImCodexing
hannahalucas.bsky.social Dr Hannah Lucas @hannahalucas.bsky.social · 24d
Really pleased that my latest article is out in New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession.

"On Frustration: Reading The Book of Margery Kempe in the Classroom" thinks (with Adam Phillips and others) about readerly frustration and what it might teach us.

Avail open access!
doi.org/10.5070/NC3....
On Frustration: Reading The Book of Margery Kempe in the Classroom
Author(s): Lucas, Hannah | Abstract: This article thinks about the role of frustration in pedagogical encounters with texts. Taking as my case study the frequently frustrating (and frustrated) The Boo...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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petrebreazu.bsky.social
What happens when AI fails to see hate? Join us at Trinity College, Cambridge on 6 November to find out. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-f...
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Tonight, Tuesday 21 October, 7pm: our online launch event with Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill & Kit Wright. Watch live or later via YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/DhDrtmZ...
October 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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cemsexeter.bsky.social
CEMS members are invited to attend ‘Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World’, a two-day conference taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October 2025.

Full programme attached.

Register attendance (for one or both days) via: [email protected]

@lsangha.bsky.social
Conference Poster for 30-31 October, ‘Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World’, University of Exeter
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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byleaveswelive.bsky.social
'Prime' by Theresa Muñoz

The Scotsman's #PoemoftheWeek
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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alexhouen.bsky.social
Looking forward to launching SEE YOU THROUGH in Cambridge with Geoff Gilbert at 7pm, Thurs 23rd October. We’ll be reading with Iain Britton, who’ll be launching his pamphlet UNCERTAIN DENSITIES. The event is free and open to all. Further details here👇
poetics.english.cam.ac.uk/2025/10/16/i...
October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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irishlittimes.bsky.social
The British Library has honoured late Irish writer Oscar Wilde by reissuing a reader's card in his name, 130 years after his original was revoked following his conviction for "gross indecency".
bbc.com/news/article...
Oscar Wilde's British Library card reissued 130 years after being revoked over gay conviction
The celebrated Irish writer had his pass revoked in 1895 after being imprisoned for a gay relationship.
bbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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magdlibandarch.bsky.social
The writer Alan Garner was born #OnThisDay in 1934. He studied classics at Magdalen in the 1950s. Here we have two of his works which are part of our Magdalen Authors Collection, Red Shift and The Owl Service. Both books have been signed by the author. Many happy returns to Mr Garner 🎉🎂🎈
Two books side-by-side on a wooden book rest. They are 'Red Shift' and 'The Owl Service' by Alan Garner Title page for the library's copy of 'The Owl Service' by Alan Garner, which has been signed by the author Title page for the library's copy of 'Red Shift' by Alan Garner, which has been signed by the author Dedication page in 'The Owl Service' by Alan Garner. Typed in is 'For Cinna' and added in ink is '& Julia from Alan'
October 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
eflcam.bsky.social
Another notable week where Cambridge Faculty of English staff Fiona Green and David Trotter have cover articles in this fortnight's @lrb.co.uk!
London Review of Books, volume 47, number 19, October 2025. Newspaper held in from of 'new books stand' in the English Faculty Library. Headlines are: 1.) David Trotter: Mrs Dalloway's Demons 2.) Julian Barnes: Author v Publisher 3.) Fiona Green salutes Jorie Graham
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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sachacoward.bsky.social
Ecstatic and honoured to be heading to Cambridge University Student Union next week to talk about the queer side of myths legends! See you there on the 24th October?

(Oxbridge reject who?!)

www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Chaucer, The Knight's Tale (the Ellesmere manuscript)
#medieval #poetry #Literature #English
Once on a time, as old stories tell us, There was a Duke whose name was Theseus. Of Athens he was lord and governor, And in his time so great a conqueror Mightier was there none under the sun. Full many a rich land had he won, What with his wisdom and his chivalry. He conquered all the Amazon country, That long ago was known as Scythia, And wedded its queen Hippolyta, And brought her home to his own country With much glory and great festivity, And also her young sister Emily. And so with victory and melody I’ll let this noble Duke to Athens ride And all his host in arms him beside. And were it not indeed too long to hear, I would have told you fully of the manner In which the Amazon kingdom was seized By Theseus and by his chivalry, And of the great battle on occasion Twixt the Athenian and the Amazon, And how he besieged Hippolyta, The brave and lovely queen of Scythia, And of the feast they had at their wedding And of the tempest at their home-coming; But all of that I must omit for now. I have, God knows, a large field to plough, Weak oxen pull my blade, the field is rough. The remnant of my tale is long enough. Likewise I’ll not delay us on the route; Let every fellow tell his tale about, And let us see who shall that supper win! – Where I left off, I will again begin. This Duke of whom I now make mention, When he was almost come into the town, In all his splendour and his great pride, Became aware, as he glanced aside, That there kneeled in the highway Two by two, a company of ladies, One behind the other, in clothes black.
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...

romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
Romancing the Gothic 2026 Conference CFP
More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final po…
romancingthegothic.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM