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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 10h

#EnglishCreates much-needed compassion

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 8d

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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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 27d

📚Join us on 30 Oct 2025 at Senate House for The History of English Studies in Britain symposium
🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature

The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium

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Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social · 28d

Our call for reviewers might be of interest to...

@ireadoldbooks.bsky.social @mvsa.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @vsawc.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social @incsa.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 24

TWO MORE SIGNATURES and we'll have 450 - every voice counts, you don't have to be an academic or involved with universities in any way <3

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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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Aug 24

Done. Good luck

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Aug 21

The programme for this symposium has just been announced and it looks superb! Featuring @laurajcleaver.bsky.social alongside IES fellows and students.

Book now!

09 September 2025–10 September 2025, 9:30 am–6:30 pm

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library

This 2-day symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to open up existing narratives and bodies of evidence...

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · Aug 18

@bars.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @studiesinrom.bsky.social #AcademicSky
Please circulate!

Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Ronald Blythe Fellowship is John Clare Society's new scheme awarding a PhD student focusing on Clare a £1000 bursary to support their work.
Please pass on - &/or contact me or Honorary Secretary of the Society, Karen Lakey, for further information:
johnclaresociety.wordpress.com/contact-us/

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Aug 8

beyond belief

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jul 24

#EnglishCreates great futures

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · Jul 19

@englishassociation.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @draperel.bsky.social 👇

Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · Jul 19

Hoorah for Héctor Bellerin (even if he was a Gooner).
Cool men read. Tell all the boys in your life. They need to hear it.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

‘Literature has completely changed my life’: footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list

Former Arsenal player wins admiration for his taste in books, but admits one novel defeated him

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · Jul 15

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).

If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jul 14

🥳 🙌 Massive congratulations to all 2025 English graduates 🎉 🥂 Really well done! To celebrate your achievements and looks forward to all that you'll achieve next, we've made this short video with our colleagues in @englishassociation.bsky.social :
drive.google.com/file/d/1StyA...

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jul 14

@englishassociation.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social

Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 14

#EnglishCreates English, History, all the arts and humanities subjects are critical for all of our futures universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jul 6

Huge thanks to Helen Smith wordsmith.bsky.social for an excellent English: Shared Futures conference. It was inspiring, exciting, and fun, and especially moving to hear so many friends and colleagues speaking about why and how English matters to them

Helen Smith (@wordsmith.bsky.social)

Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress. Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 17

And how research in English both changes our historical awareness and improves contemporary practices

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 17

More from Birmingham - BCU this time - and some of the applications of managing large datasets www.bcu.ac.uk/research/eng...

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 17

Listen in to hear how Aston academics use linguistics skills to help solve crime

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 17

#EnglishCreates How researchers at Aston (www.aston.ac.uk/bss/social-s...) help with criminal investigations:

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 16

Above all, Simon was the essence of generosity, an engaging and wonderful speaker, the person you’d be delighted to see at any conference or seminar, a rich and very present presence.
University English sends its condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 16

He was a well-known scholar of the late-19th century, publishing especially influentially on Wells and Gissing. Simon was one-time editor of The Wellsian journal, and edited Vile Bodies for OUP’s landmark Collected Works of Evelyn Waugh.

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 16

We're really sorry to hear of the death of our dear colleague Professor Simon James.
From 2016-19, Simon was PI on the Arts Council England and Durham University collaboration, the Durham Commission on Creativity which investigated the benefits of creativity for young people.

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 10

Championing Scots, influencing public policy, and working with communities and creatives

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 10

More impact stories from #EnglishCreates including this project based in www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite... building local pride and championing working-class writers
More great work at: www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite...

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 9

And yet more: creative writing colleagues at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ help patients with long covid. More evidence that English can help to create a better, healthier world #EnglishCreates

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