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'August, the sinister pause in the year...' – Rosamond Lehmann, The Weather in the Streets (1936)

My god. Imagining fleeing the worst possible thing you could imagine. Barely surviving. You've kept going because of your kids, who are with you now. Some Nazi sets your hotel on fire and blocks the exit.

“Be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur”

A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle: publicdomainreview.org/collection/yel… “And when he opened the 7th seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour” (Silos Apocalypse, BL Add MS 11695)

Delighted to announce the relaunch of Print Exchanges and our upcoming Critical Bibliography event on 13th November! Come along to watch our illustrious panellists, and join a supportive, cross-period network of colleagues working on print printexchanges.wordpress.com/forthcoming-ev…

We're looking for a Cambridge University student to join our board of trustees 👀 Passionate about the Botanic Garden's future? Apply to join our Syndicate alongside Beverley Glover & Fiona Reynolds Please share! More info: bit.ly/CUBGSyndicate @plantsci Crop Science Centre Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)

For the last year, I’ve been thinking about the final passage of Berger’s “Photographs of Agony” almost every day.

If the sight of human beings burning alive won’t stop the UK government supplying arms to Israel, what will?

Israel’s military offensive and siege pose an existential threat to Palestinians in Gaza. The UK Government must end its complicity in Israel’s war on Palestinians and immediately halt ALL arms transfers to Israel. Take action now: map.org.uk/campaigns/emai…

🚨🚨🚨🚨 WE DID IT! After workers of Piraeus all night blocked the #israel container the ship "Marla BULL" departed WITHOUT the weapons The people can win! From Greece From the world #Palestine is not alone! MURDERERS OUT FROM THE PORT!

Happy to announce something exciting that we’ve been working on for a while. The Long Wave, a weekly newsletter on Black life and culture around the world, is launching on 30 Oct. Written by me and edited by the mega talented @jaseokundaye. Sign up here! theguardian.com/global/2024/oc…

Palestinians being rounded up and executed by Israel as the world watches on. I don’t ever want to hear the words human rights and international law mentioned again. They don’t exist.

My faculty colleagues and I have been banned from Widener Library for two weeks to punish us for reading quietly while displaying quotations from the Library's statement of values

Pun in the title of this post all my own work btw