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Michael Craske

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More moustache than man. #Autistic Victorianist English lecturer @qmul.ac.uk https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/research/staff/staff/craskem.html Research on Swinburne and Wagner https://verseandmusic.com/2025/04/13/swinburne-and-wagner/

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Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 29d

Very excited by this! Great that this fabulous novel is being republished with the care and attention that it deserves! #sabinebaringgould

Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Sep 9

New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series!

'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

Modern Humanities Research Association - Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

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Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 7d

A fabulous shot

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 7d

A sudden shock to see my old friend and colleague's face come up on a news page this morning. My friend who was murdered. So sad and sorry for what happened to you Jamal #JamalKhashoggi

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جمال خاشقجي: مسار قضية مقتله من تركيا إلى السعودية - BBC News عربي

تحل اليوم الذكرى السابعة لمقتل الصحفي السعودي جمال خاشقجي في قنصلية بلاده في اسطنبول، فماذا نعرف عن هذه القضية؟

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Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 7d

Why do we have to put up with the now common nerve-shredding sound of souped up exhausts that man-children fit to their vehicles in a desperate attempt for attention? Why is there no enforcement for sound levels, no sanctions against their sale? Btw, If you're #autistic these can destroy your day

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 9d

Tony Blair is to serve on the 'Board of Peace'? God help the Palestinians.

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 13d

I wish Tony Blair would just go away and never come back. Please, for all our sakes, and definitely for those of the Palestinians and the wider Middle East, please, please, please go away

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 13d

So at very moment the government desperately needs to gain public support they've decided to return to id cards. Seriously? Who came up with this brilliant strategy? The government might as well collectively throw itself off a cliff

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 17d

As I tell all my English Literature students at the beginning of the new semester...
#DragRaceuk

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 23d

Our fabulous new arts students! @qmul.bsky.social @qmullinguistics.bsky.social @qmullibrary.bsky.social

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 24d

The reality of teaching and employment for many of my colleagues across UK universities right here, in Yara Rodrigues Fowler's there are more things (2022) #ucu #casualisation @ucu.org.uk

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · 29d

Very excited by this! Great that this fabulous novel is being republished with the care and attention that it deserves! #sabinebaringgould

Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

Modern Humanities Research Association - Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

www.mhra.org.uk

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

Modern Humanities Research Association - Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske

www.mhra.org.uk

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Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · Sep 4

In Mersea. Mehalah country.

#SabineBaringGould #MerseaIsland #Mersea #Colchester #VisitColchester

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Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · Aug 31

Very sad. Entropy increases indeed...

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Aug 21

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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 ...

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Aug 22

Still time to apply!

Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Aug 12

📣Applications still open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣

In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.

Deadline: 15 September 2025

More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship

Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · Aug 23

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!!
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · Aug 22

Day three since this happened and I still feel, look, and sound like someone ran over my neck several times. Very grateful for the NHS but hey, next time, more morphine! I could have done with several days of being completely off my face! 🤪 If anyone has laudanum please send it my way

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · Jun 30

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · Jun 26

Paying a visit to John Addington Symonds and some other poets

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · Jun 25

Because why not have a winged lion boat to travel around in

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · Jun 20

The only way this vase might represent Wuthering Heights would be to smash it and then roll up and down on the fragments, screaming 'Heathcliff!' and gurgling gibberish as you go.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · Jun 7

What gets me about young people’s use of chatgbt for writing/art/etc is it’s the modern day equivalent of jabbing an ice pick into your brain. You’re making yourself stupid and you don’t even know it.

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · Jun 5

A quick reminder that there's still time to register for the free @dickenssociety.bsky.social Dickens and Death Online Event on Saturday 7 June! 3 talks and discussion on topics including the death of Steerforth, VR representations of Dickensian deaths & Dickens's afterlife:

Dickens and Death Online Event

The Dickens Society is delighted to invite you to an online event entitled Dickens and Death featuring talks and a live discussion.

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Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · Jun 5

#EidMubarak

Michael Craske @mjcraske.bsky.social · May 29

Apparently Elizabeth R has booked my table from 6.30, so I'm wondering which ghost is going to turn up. Glenda Jackson or one of the monarchs?