Gillian Wright
@gwrightbham.bsky.social
Professor of English and Irish Literature, University of Birmingham. Editing, Aphra Behn, contemporary and early modern Irish literature.
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#TheCompleteBritten #1
Oh That I Had Ne'er Been Married (1922)
To mark 50 years since Benjamin Britten's death in 1976, in 2026 I'm listening to all Britten's music in the order he composed it. My journey starts with his first surviving song, written when he was just 9, a setting of Robert Burns.
Oh That I Had Ne'er Been Married (1922)
To mark 50 years since Benjamin Britten's death in 1976, in 2026 I'm listening to all Britten's music in the order he composed it. My journey starts with his first surviving song, written when he was just 9, a setting of Robert Burns.
Beware!: Oh That I Had Ne'er Been Married
YouTube video by Malcolm Martineau - Topic
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January 4, 2026 at 8:05 AM
#TheCompleteBritten #1
Oh That I Had Ne'er Been Married (1922)
To mark 50 years since Benjamin Britten's death in 1976, in 2026 I'm listening to all Britten's music in the order he composed it. My journey starts with his first surviving song, written when he was just 9, a setting of Robert Burns.
Oh That I Had Ne'er Been Married (1922)
To mark 50 years since Benjamin Britten's death in 1976, in 2026 I'm listening to all Britten's music in the order he composed it. My journey starts with his first surviving song, written when he was just 9, a setting of Robert Burns.
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Exciting news - a new portrait of Lucy Hutchinson has surfaced.
December 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Exciting news - a new portrait of Lucy Hutchinson has surfaced.
I'll be fascinated to read this.
Universal in Scope and Appeal? The Politics of ‘National’ vs ‘International’ Opera at Post-war Covent Garden | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Universal in Scope and Appeal? The Politics of ‘National’ vs ‘International’ Opera at Post-war Covent Garden - Volume 3
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'll be fascinated to read this.
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Really pleased to have had the chance to write for BBC History Magazine for the first time - and to receive prominent billing on the cover! Available from your local newsagent soon.
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Really pleased to have had the chance to write for BBC History Magazine for the first time - and to receive prominent billing on the cover! Available from your local newsagent soon.
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I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?
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#OTD 1696, a bill was passed that would result in the execution of Sir John Fenwick for treason.
Dr Paul Seaward explores the reasonings behind his beheading and how a bill of attainder sentenced Fenwick to death without the provision of two witnesses:
historyofparliament.com/2025/11/25/t...
Dr Paul Seaward explores the reasonings behind his beheading and how a bill of attainder sentenced Fenwick to death without the provision of two witnesses:
historyofparliament.com/2025/11/25/t...
The passing of the bill of attainder against the Jacobite Sir John Fenwick - The History of Parliament
after a bitter series of debates, finally passed a bill that would result in the execution of the Northumbrian baronet Sir John Fenwick, for treason
historyofparliament.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
#OTD 1696, a bill was passed that would result in the execution of Sir John Fenwick for treason.
Dr Paul Seaward explores the reasonings behind his beheading and how a bill of attainder sentenced Fenwick to death without the provision of two witnesses:
historyofparliament.com/2025/11/25/t...
Dr Paul Seaward explores the reasonings behind his beheading and how a bill of attainder sentenced Fenwick to death without the provision of two witnesses:
historyofparliament.com/2025/11/25/t...
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#OTD in 1459 marked the opening of the Coventry Parliament.
Although this Parliament only met briefly between November and December 1459, it would have a lasting impact in the Wars of the Roses:
Although this Parliament only met briefly between November and December 1459, it would have a lasting impact in the Wars of the Roses:
A turning-point in the Wars of the Roses: the attainders of the Coventry Parliament - The History of Parliament
As significant, however, as this Parliament was in the history of the Wars of the Roses, it had as least as great a longer-term significance. It saw the
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November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#OTD in 1459 marked the opening of the Coventry Parliament.
Although this Parliament only met briefly between November and December 1459, it would have a lasting impact in the Wars of the Roses:
Although this Parliament only met briefly between November and December 1459, it would have a lasting impact in the Wars of the Roses:
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Died #OTD 1737, Queen Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II
As Dr Robin Eagles explores, not only were her last few weeks agonizing, but her death reflected her wider importance to the Hanoverian regime:
historyofparliament.com/2021/12/02/c...
As Dr Robin Eagles explores, not only were her last few weeks agonizing, but her death reflected her wider importance to the Hanoverian regime:
historyofparliament.com/2021/12/02/c...
Death of a Queen: the tragic end of Caroline of Ansbach - The History of Parliament
In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles, considers the grisly end of Queen Caroline of Ansbach, the botched efforts of her physicians to
historyofparliament.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Died #OTD 1737, Queen Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II
As Dr Robin Eagles explores, not only were her last few weeks agonizing, but her death reflected her wider importance to the Hanoverian regime:
historyofparliament.com/2021/12/02/c...
As Dr Robin Eagles explores, not only were her last few weeks agonizing, but her death reflected her wider importance to the Hanoverian regime:
historyofparliament.com/2021/12/02/c...
Hope for pufflings. BBC News - Puffin comeback 'proves restoration works'
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Isle of Muck puffin comeback 'proves restoration works'
Puffins have been seen on the Isle of Muck off Antrim for the first time in at least 25 years
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Hope for pufflings. BBC News - Puffin comeback 'proves restoration works'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Massively looking forward to this:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film
Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Massively looking forward to this:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Today marks 111 years since the first Member of Parliament was killed in action during the First World War.
Head to the #HistParl website to read our short biography of Captain Arthur O'Neill, MP for Mid Antrim.
Head to the #HistParl website to read our short biography of Captain Arthur O'Neill, MP for Mid Antrim.
‘The first M.P. to fall’: the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O’Neill (1876-1914) - The History of Parliament
Over the next four years, we'll be blogging short biographies of the MPs who died fighting in the First World War. Dr Kathryn Rix, of the Victorian Commons,
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November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today marks 111 years since the first Member of Parliament was killed in action during the First World War.
Head to the #HistParl website to read our short biography of Captain Arthur O'Neill, MP for Mid Antrim.
Head to the #HistParl website to read our short biography of Captain Arthur O'Neill, MP for Mid Antrim.
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New on the blog today, I've written about ten excellent novellas I highly recommend.
Featuring books by Anita Brookner, William Trevor. Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #Novellas #NovNov 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
Featuring books by Anita Brookner, William Trevor. Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #Novellas #NovNov 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
Ten excellent novellas I highly recommend
There’s something very satisfying about reading a whole book in one or two sittings on the same day, especially when time is tight. I’ve always been fond of novellas, which often offer the best of …
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October 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about ten excellent novellas I highly recommend.
Featuring books by Anita Brookner, William Trevor. Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #Novellas #NovNov 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
Featuring books by Anita Brookner, William Trevor. Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #Novellas #NovNov 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
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October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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This @fotoole.bsky.social piece is one of the best things I have ever read in a newspaper.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age | The Observer
Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This @fotoole.bsky.social piece is one of the best things I have ever read in a newspaper.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Died #OTD 1687, Edmund Waller.
Serving as an MP since 1624, in 1643 Waller was involved in a royalist conspiracy to capture London known as ‘Waller’s Plot’. Although other conspirators were hanged, Waller bought his own stay of execution for £10,000.
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Serving as an MP since 1624, in 1643 Waller was involved in a royalist conspiracy to capture London known as ‘Waller’s Plot’. Although other conspirators were hanged, Waller bought his own stay of execution for £10,000.
buff.ly/CwKftHR
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Died #OTD 1687, Edmund Waller.
Serving as an MP since 1624, in 1643 Waller was involved in a royalist conspiracy to capture London known as ‘Waller’s Plot’. Although other conspirators were hanged, Waller bought his own stay of execution for £10,000.
buff.ly/CwKftHR
Serving as an MP since 1624, in 1643 Waller was involved in a royalist conspiracy to capture London known as ‘Waller’s Plot’. Although other conspirators were hanged, Waller bought his own stay of execution for £10,000.
buff.ly/CwKftHR
Wow!
GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Wow!
