If your business model relies upon using stolen property then it’s not a viable business

The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.

To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇

Not exactly: Swift is focusing on Ophelia’s own experience rather than the reactions of her male relations, just as Millais’ painting does. From Ophelia’s perspective, the man she loved destroyed her mental health by obsessing on his own drama: to my mind, Fate of Ophelia is very much a woman’s song

How thrilling! Have read of such things in books, but never seen one in the wild before

Excited to see my article on Beatrix Potter, timber, and arboreal stewardship published in Plant Perspectives (OA) 🪵🧚🏻‍♀️

Ah, no that sucks! Sorry, wish I could be more help

Long shot, but it seems to be available here and if you sign up for a free trial you can download 3 pages before it asks you to subscribe: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/resul...
(would love to help, but have already used my 3 free pages 😕)

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

📖 In “Paratextual Mediation and Narrative Reconstruction: An Analysis of Footnotes in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl,” Jingxuan Yi explores how Owenson redefined Anglo-centric colonial narratives in her epistolary novel, tracing paratextual elements as subversive tools. Check out the article👇:

The miscommunication led to introduction of mandatory 24-hr radio monitoring, a measure which would probably have ensured the Californian would have known about the incident sooner (distress flares were also standardised after Titanic, to prioritise safety)

As I understand it, the Californian is now believed to have been 17-20 miles away from Titanic at time of sinking, & recent research/documentaries suggest it was most likely not the mystery ship seen from Titanic’s deck sailing away (it was locked in ice & misinterpreted the distress flares)

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

⭐️Happy Launch Day: TEN CHILDREN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD!⭐️ #Waterstones #HachetteChildrensGroup #ChildrensLiterature #History

Great start for @sophiasgaler.bsky.social 's 'Universities Challenged' with its 'Tuition Impossible' episode. A primer for the uninitiated on university finance and economic impacts.

Hoping research too gets attention in the next episode, when culture wars are under view. Well worth listening to.

There are only 4 Reform MPs in Parliament (which has 650 seats in total). At the moment, with approx 0.6% of the Commons they are a statistical non-entity. Other parties that saw a rise in popularity at the last election aren't getting nearly this much extra BBC news coverage.

It’s not the Bodleian, but my brother sent me a link for this set a while ago & I feel like it would still be in your area of interest: www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...

My brother (a particle physicist & Lego enthusiast) designed three different sizes of Lego model of the ATLAS detector at CERN (the project he works on), including a 3-foot-long model for his university‘s physics dept ☺️

Pope Pius IV famously had nudity covered up in the Sistine Chapel (Alexander Pope later references it in one of his Ethic Epistles), perhaps the person who annotated this text was following his teachings/approach?

What a nasty little man he is.
He should try reading Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

And probably with a slight scouse accent (as he was found on the streets of Liverpool)

It’s really not just you: I will never not be disappointed that they keep getting the casting of Heathcliff so completely wrong. The new trailer is sadly unoriginal & uninspired as well as ahistorical (that wedding dress🤦‍♀️)

On Anna May Wong for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?

Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship open 1st September 2025 to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).

More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn

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TWO MORE SIGNATURES and we'll have 450 - every voice counts, you don't have to be an academic or involved with universities in any way <3