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The Arts Column in today's Times.

This book has been a best seller in the category of political poetry since its publication last Friday, and now I have my copies!

Are you interested in researching the history of girls' & women's magazine reading in the 20th century? I'm looking for PhD researchers to work on the Femorabilia LJMU collection. Applications for Liverpool John Moores University studentships open - please contact me to discuss! ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd-s…

Are you interested in studying for a PhD? If you want to study Victorian Print Culture, satire and/or Victorian women writers then drop me a message! Happy to chat about Dickens or Charles Kingsley too. ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd-s…

Another fascinating TikTok by Chloe Wilcox, this time interviewing Simon Rennie about Chartism and how the movement was influenced by Romanticism ⬇️ tiktok.com/@bars_romantic…

Today is the day! 🥳 All six episodes of #WeavingHistoryPod are available now. It's the perfect place to learn about the Lancashire Cotton Famine and the incredible literature surrounding it. Find it on your favourite podcast platform 👇 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weavi…

The amazing people in the podcast include: Simon Rennie (University of Exeter) Onyenka (UoN History) Dr. Alison Chapman (UniversityOfVictoria & Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry) Andrew Hobbs (@UCLan) Charlotte (Skipton Town Hall) Alan (Rooley Moor N Forum) Mick (Bent Architect) Jenny Harper (Mid Pennine Arts) Sid (Lancashire Authors Association)

Never heard of the Lancashire Cotton Famine? 🤔  Then episode 1 of #WeavingHistoryPod is for you!   Join me and Simon Rennie from University of Exeter to introduce this incredible part of working-class history  All episodes are available now: buff.ly/4bXQOES

Coming in March 2025 🥳 Oxford Classics Oxford Academic OscarWildeSociety

Thanks to BAVS for featuring our Weaving History Podcast in the summer newsletter 📰 If you haven’t listened yet, what are you waiting for? 😇 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weavi…

New episode of SoundBox Signals just dropped! Listen to University of Exeter undergrads Sofie Drew and Emily Chircop discuss a 1980 recording of Sharon Thesen reading at the Bowerings’. SpokenWeb FCCS University of Exeter UBC Okanagan soundbox-signals.simplecast.com/episodes/sharo…

Dr Charlotte Tupman from Classics and Ancient History and Exeter Digital Humanities accompanied Sofie and Emily to UBC Okanagan where they spent time at the @amplab3. Delighted that their podcast is now available to listen to!

Come to Wells Festival of Literature this October! The festival programme is 😍 featuring A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR Petroc Trelawny Susie Dent Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 & more… incl me talking about Oscar Wilde and why we all need a bit of decadence: wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/event/2024/kat… Wells Festival of Literature

I'm giving a zoom talk with Heptonstall Museum on 9th Jan 2025 about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. Free/a £3 donation which will support the museum's amazing work. I'll be talking about her pioneering (and timely) anti-fascist journalism. Booking info below: heptonstallmuseumfriends.org.uk/events/?fbclid…

I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Brian Maidment this week. We collaborated for years on the Cotton Famine Poetry project, and it was a privilege to get to know a scholar whose work on labouring-class C19th culture was foundational. He will be much missed.