Great adaptation and production, underlining Dickens’s haunting mastery of secrecy, the uncanny, buried trauma: see this and be prepared … to be scared 😱

So, Conservatives pledge to increase apprenticeships by 100k by cutting 1 in 8 degrees. I feel a little thread is in order.

Entries for this year's Three Counties Open art exhibition are now being accepted, you have until Wednesday 12th June to submit yours. Get on it! More details here: stokecreates.org.uk/three-counties… #StokeonTrent

Just 3 days to go before #PoetryPharmacyOxfordSt
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'Year' and 'time' are the two most frequent nouns in British English, occurring 1,963 and 1,898 per million words, respectively.

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With the summer holidays approaching, always worth remembering The Conversation ‘Curious Kids’

The May Sinclair editorial team are at The Keep and we are finally doing something about the ‘unsorted’ chaos of her papers (they arrived all out of order, and nibbled by mice, and, and). We’re literally spreading them out on a table and matching up odd pages. MaySinclairSociety

PhD student Franco Castro Escobar has been selected for a distinguished fellowship at the Hiroshima Peace Institute [peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp]

Franco is in receipt of a PhD studentship co-funded by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the David Bruce Centre.

‘Everyone suddenly burst out singing;/ and the song was wordless’

Today I gave a talk at the University of Macau University of Macau on the history of anti-racism. I read this poem by Siegfried Sassoon in honour of my father Johnny Richardson and his life-long resistance to racism

A very useful looking set of reads here with themes including #digitalsocial infrastructure. TImely too for us National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange to help with our thinking as we prepare our upcoming workshop on the theme of Creative Collaborations and #techforsocialgood

Love this!

The proposed policy would be very difficult to deliver, given the scale of the existing‘training estate’

A reminder that Nigel Farage has cited this man, Enoch Powell, as his political hero. Once up a time, linking yourself to Powell would end your political career.

Wonderful line-up of poets reading #PoetryPharmacy with Arachne Press🕷️ :
'Menopause the Anthology'- Sian Northey & Cheryl Powell.  'Byways: Poems & Stories on Foot' - Sara Louise Wheeler, Ros Woolner & 'JOY//US Poems of Queer Joy'-Cherry Potts, Jeremy Dixon,  and Steph Morris

Winner of The Margaret Mallett Award 2024 for Children’s non-fiction Saving H’Non Chang and the Elephant Trang Nguyen Jeet Zdung ⁦Kingfisher⁩ 👏🏽👏🏽

The Barlow/Darwins and their complex, fascinating relationship to art Erasmus Darwin House

Many congratulations to the winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize : Imperium by Jay Gao 👏🏽👏🏽 -,published Carcanet Press Wonderful to have him here with us today, reading from his powerful work #Poetry

‘Realistic ambition’

Inspiring, thoughtful conversation on Oracy, and how the right understanding of it can help children build relationships, develop empathy, listen, persuade, and become the people they want to be. Dr Khawla Badwan & Charlotte Hacking. English Association

Full of atmosphere, jumps and gasps aplenty: a perfect ghost story that creeps the chill up your spine just as the mist creeps across the moors…