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It is an honour to co-lead English Association with Elizabeth Draper Also @draperel.bsky.social💛📚📕 & Alex Thomson & to work with University English and IES. We are looking to create networks across sectors, &, with our members, to build resources, advocate & celebrate. Watch this space for news!

Don't forget! Tomorrow Dr Sarah Walton Dr Sarah Walton will lead our Soul Writing workshop. Still time to register for free by following the link below👇

Happy Dalloway Day! 'Looking into all those trees' outside my office window School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication today in 2024, just like Virginia #Woolf did in 1922. A chance to reflect on the conditions of thinking and writing a reflective practice initiative by Lizzie Bennett & Royal Society of Literature

📣Date for the diary, 1-2pm 28th June!! Do join us for the first of our Thinking Forwards conversations on #WorkingTogether, this one between neuroscience and English literature. With School of Advanced Study, University of London English Association is building a database of collaborations.

Thanks to British Association for Romantic Studies & SHARP (@[email protected]) for support for The Global Jane Austen University of Southampton next July, 10-12th. Working hard with English at Soton & Eighteenth Century Studies at Stirling to welcome colleagues to Southampton next year. #janeausten250 #JA250 #janeausten southampton.ac.uk/english/news/e…

$1.8m Auction Estimate for Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience 📚💸 finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-new…

For National Nature Photography Day, admire these early photography negatives, from techniques pioneered by William Henry Fox Talbot. First collected by John Dillwyn Llewelyn, this private collection is part of the Bodleian Special Collections go.glam.ox.ac.uk/talbot CC-BY-NC 4.0

So I also learned that Sing a Song of Sixpence has a version where children are baked in the pie instead of birds, and Ladybird, Ladybird has a more blunt and unforgiving ending. The book is Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, c.1744

a lovely cover for our annual coverage of #Blake out and about in books, pictures, music Blake Quarterly

The Nineteenth Century Studies Association has two awards with deadlines next week: the NCSA Emerging Scholars Award and the NCSA Article Prize. Submissions are due on July 1st, 2024. Funding: Grants and Awards - Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (ncsaweb.net)

Le Champ de Drap D'Or, engraved by James #Basire during #Blake's apprenticeship, is I think the subject that required the invention of a new paper size. Julie Park, great to hear about the letter! imagine finding such a print folded in a book

I'm aware that these notices are now going out to academics who are the life blood of goldsmiths, and brilliant teachers and researchers. This could be any of us and we all need to fight this. #NotADoneDeal

Blake’s ‘Watchman’: Los and the London Police, Wed 18 Sept, 19:30 on zoom - Jake Elliott will discuss Los as ‘Albion’s Watchman’ in the context of the changing face of London policing in late 18th & early 19th century. More info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/watchm…

Strongly endorse plea from Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation. And if Department for Education want to find out about how subjects are already shaping collaborative futures in schools, colleges and universities, do speak also to English Association The RHS Historical Assoc School of Advanced Study, University of London.

14 July, that revolutionary feeling of happiness unthought of, joy of one as joy of many, France standing on the top of golden hours, nature reborn, as #Wordsworth put it so well #BastilleDay #Revolution

“There was a moment where buying a small press for your home was a radical act that allowed you to seize the means of production & make your own stuff without concerns about the market or censorship” bit.ly/463E51u [images: Vanessa Bell designs for Hogarth Press 1924]

Time to end idea that SHAPE degrees are low value Bridget Phillipson. 'The disparity between STEM and humanities students on the job market is exaggerated – a 2020 The British Academy report found just a single percentage point advantage'. varsity.co.uk/features/27881

Ever seen an ‘exploded plan’ before? 💥 Generally known as 'laid-out wall elevations', they were a popular architectural drawing format in the eighteenth century, allowing the often extravagant interior decorative regime to be shown on one sheet of paper! ✍️

Excellent start and finish to Day 1 of the “Books in and out of Time” workshop in Passau uni-passau.de/en/calendar-of…