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ayoushlazikani.bsky.social @ayoushlazikani.bsky.social · Aug 30

This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

forms.gle

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Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social · Aug 6

WE ARE HIRING!!

Creative Writing (fiction) Pathway 3 lecturer 0.5 in the Department of English at the University of Bristol's thriving School of Humanities.

It's a 3/2 teaching load with plenty of support and mentorship from meeeeeee (others are available)!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

www.bristol.ac.uk

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Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · Aug 15

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

No Country for Travellers?

No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...

uclpress.co.uk

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Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social · Aug 12

I'm relaunching my website, Set Yet Speaking, which will host my translations of medieval literature.

In this first post, I discuss why I'm giving this another go, why translation matters, and how a short extract from Beowulf inspired the name of the site.

nikolasgunn.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/w...

Welcome to Set Yet Speaking (plus a translation of Beowulf lines 1687-98a)

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Set Yet Speaking. It’s been a while. The last time I properly updated this website, I was still lecturing. Things have changed a bit since then. I realised an …

nikolasgunn.wordpress.com

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · Jul 21

credit for this joke goes to Luisa Ostacchini and the inherent physicality of the pygmy falcon chicks at San Antonio Zoo

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · Jul 21

how your email finds me

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Jul 21

When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering.

It wasn’t quite 90%.

This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships.

Next year they’re giving us 3.

So 89% then.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 21

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’

Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · Jul 14

New week, Old English!
Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by @hattiesoper.bsky.social who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems

#LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges

Holding Harriet Soper's book "The Life Course in Old English Poetry" in front of a wall overgrown with ivy or a similar green leafy plant

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Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social · Jul 14

A HUGE well done to the CMS' own Dr Hattie Soper for being awarded the University English Book Prize 2024! 🎉🎉🎉 What an amazing and well-deserved award; we're so thrilled for you Hattie! 🥰

You can read the announcement here: universityenglish.ac.uk/announced-un...

#medievalsky #skystorians

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today at #isseme25!

First powerpoint slide: 'Playtime, c.800–50', with a black and white photograph by Herbert Bayer of a cluster of miniature objects – a mini ladder, mini wheels, a bone, some shells, with clouds floating in between.

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jul 2

Do you like: magic? women? magic women? history? romance? biblical poems with dodgy rhymes? Then please come to @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 837, magical learning in history and literature, Tues at 4.30pm, with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, Harry Lewis and me,
chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social

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Leah Pope Parker @parkerchronicle.bsky.social · May 29

Look at this beautiful book cover. That shiny lady? That’s Saint Æthelthryth. Heck yes I named my cat after her.

A book cover depicting an illuminated manuscript miniature on parchment, predominantly using gold, blue, and peach. In a floriate rectangular frame, St. Æthelthryth stands wearing draped robes of peach and gold with a golden veil and aureole, holding two golden lilies and a golden book, and surrounded by golden Latin text announcing this as the image of St. Æthelthryth. The beige parchment background extends to the edges of the cover, bordered by pairs of ruled lines. At the top of the image is the title of the book, Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature, followed by the author’s name, Leah Pope Parker.

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · Jun 25

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · Jun 18

Oh I know isn’t it interesting, 1951! But I mean that the pedantic sense is early in the history of the word. I agree nitpicking as an actual activity is very important - that is why I think the pejorative sense is funny. I like your distinction between the viewpoints of picker/pickee!

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · Jun 18

I think the pedantic sense is actually very early according to the OED!

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · Jun 18

I like how “nitpicking” must date from a time when picking nits out of someone’s hair was considered needlessly pedantic

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NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social · Jun 6

♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely!

www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

Lecturer in Old English | University College Cork

UCC wishes to appoint a scholar with a proven commitment to excellence in teaching and research to the role of Lecturer in Old English.

www.ucc.ie

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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · Jun 2

A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

The abstract for Dr Ashley's article: 'Many neurodivergent people are also trans, and lived‐experience narratives, creative practices, and research outputs have storied this intersection in powerful and capacious ways. Yet, in the face of increased antitrans hostility across the globe that relies on the mobilization of incoherent pseudologics, neurodivergent and trans persons are mutually imbricated, and in violent ways. This essay invites coalition among trans studies, critical neurodiversity studies, disability justice, and the literary health humanities to consider the effects of these violences and to think through the possibilities of choreographing shared potentials through nonnormative cocreation.'

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · May 28

3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social

www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...

Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner

Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner: For as long as there have been children, there have been toys which make irritating noises. Originally made from the foot bones of a pig, Buzz Bones make a hu...

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · May 26

June is the time for hay making in the golden sunlight. #Medievalcalendar
BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.6r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · May 29

Congratulations on both counts! 💐💐

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · May 28

its time will come!

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