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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 2d

"Mrs Dalloway-Lemington-Smyth said she would buy the flowers herself, and mount the dishy gardener..."

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 2d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 3d

The prospect of moving to New Zealand is tempting!

Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 4d

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

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Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 9d

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

University English Funding

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 4d

Looking very cosy

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 6d

Happy National Poetry Day!

#NationalPoetryDay

Mrs Darwin by Carol Ann Duffy

7 April 1852
Went to the Zoo.
I said to Him -
Something about that Chimpanzee over there
reminds me of you.

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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 7d

The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz.

In select theaters October 17, on Netflix November 7.

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 7d

😘

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The Swinging Christies @christietime.bsky.social · 7d

Our live episode is on track to be our BIGGEST EPISODE on YouTube to date! (Which makes sense I guess, given there's something to watch, even if it is just our wild gesticulations.) See what all the fuss is about > www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjs_... 📺💃💃 or listen as normal > pod.fo/e/332d77

The Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s: LIVE! Cool Covers and Groovy Graphics - Packaging Agatha Christie for the 1960s

It’s The Swinging Christies as you've never heard (or seen) it before - with a live audience! Join Mark and Gray at the 2025 International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, Devon, for this...

pod.fo

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

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...

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations. Wonderful news

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 10d

"She's a lecturer. She's a researcher. She's a specialist. She holds an academic chair. She wears obsession by Calvin Klein."

Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 11d

The moustache really suits you!

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 12d

Happy birthday 🎂

Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 15d

Oh I'd love to visit there one day!

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 25d

Game of Pricks
@nailheadparty
William Blake stans: this man is visionary... a true psychedelic mystic and seer of old Albion
William Blake:
tiger tiger you are neat seeing you's a real big treat
2:56 AM • 5/14/19 • Twitter Web Client
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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 19d

These look amazing

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 19d

👌👏

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 22d

Calling all Victorianists with Lego Ideas accounts! (yeah, I see you)
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The Crystal Palace | LEGO® Ideas

Welcome to the Crystal Palace and the grandest event of the Victorian age - the Great Exhibition of 1851!…

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 22d

We MUST have it!

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 24d

It's Agatha Christie's birthday today, and we're delighted to announce a major exhibition on the Queen of Crime, coming autumn 2026 🕵️‍♀️

Find out more: bit.ly/BL-AgathaChr...

#AgathaChristie #CrimeFiction

Agatha Christie poses at home on December 1956 in Wallingford, United Kingdom.

Photo by Hubert de Segonzac/Paris Match via Getty Images.

Agatha Christie’s Remington typewriter from 1937.

© The Christie Archive Trust

Agatha Christie boarding the EET Salon at lunchtime on the train from Bulawayo to the Cape.

In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the world. Her husband Archie had been invited to join a trade mission to promote the British Empire Exhibition and Agatha was determined to go with him

© The Christie Archive Trust

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 24d

You do have a fabulous wardrobe, though

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 24d

I think another vacation is called for to recover from the work trip

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Jordan @jordanwelshy.bsky.social · 24d

The lack of conversation and personality is the worst!