Also genuinely moving to see the students reading through debates around specialisation and interdisciplinarity in the earliest planning for @york.ac.uk uni and campus - knowing they embody and finally bring that vision full-circle as our first Liberal Arts cohort.

Brilliant time in the archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social with Liberal Arts students today, going through old planning documents, prospectuses, and press clippings around the origins of @york.ac.uk - from a failed 1647 bid to more radical ideas for learning & student life when it launched in 1963.

40 years ago today, the first Calvin & Hobbes comic strip was published. I honestly don’t know if any writer or artist has given me more lasting joy and wonder than Bill Watterson.

I agree, Four Quartets pamphlets are so lovely! Took me a while to get a decent set, and I still get a thrill from spotting one in the wild.

Weekend book foraging! Perks of living in York, the UK’s rare book capital. It’s not a Hogarth but glad to add a 1940 Faber Waste Land to the Eliot collection and complete my set of Faber Berrymans with a pristine His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.

Smiths in York Station looking Pride-ready as I head to Edinburgh today for a talk in this very exciting Queer Data Showcase 🏳️‍🌈 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-queer-...

Mini-festival today for PhD students @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social - immediately fascinated in a session on careers outside academia to see some actual (rare) data on this, showing Humanities PhDs are most likely to move into ‘other occupations’.

Preludes to a Mallorcan pilgrimage.