Teaching Shakespeare’s Violence survey! We're seeking UK teachers of English literature, KS3-5, to participate in a short survey on teaching the violent scenes in Shakespeare. To complete the survey, please click here: violenceinshakespeare.limesurvey.net/814967?lang=en

We're still looking for UK secondary English teachers to participate in our survey - please do retweet (re-x?) if you're a teacher or have contacts who are. Thank you! Professor Claire Fox

My stepmother just casually mentioned that Alasdair Gray (who was our neighbour for many years) had once done a sketch of my brother. Never thought to mention it before, just the kind of thing one has lying around the house.

Just pushing this one more time - we'd really like another ten or so responses to complete our survey work, so please do circulate to your UK English teacher friends and colleagues. Thank you!

JOB VACANCY - Museum Support Officer Would you like to join our wonderful team? Do you have a passion for heritage and culture? We have a vacancy at The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum & Bookshop. Please visit our website for more details. lichfield.gov.uk/_VirDir/CoreCo…

Some great initiatives led by our students in English and Media at Keele! keele.ac.uk/students/blogs… Keele English and Creative Writing Keele Media Keele University 🐿️

Has anyone written anything good on the idea that if an author doesn't directly condemn something, that should/could be treated as them endorsing it? I've seen a lot of people complaining about this as a modern tendency, but not much in the way of deeper engagement with it.

10 month lectureship in Film Studies at Keele University: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHN466/lec…

JOB! Full-time 12-month teaching-intensive Lectureship in English - any area of post-medieval literatures! More information here bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta…

Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740, 8th biennial conference of the Daniel Defoe Society; Keele Univ., U.K., 3-5 July 2025. Abstracts by 31 Jan 2025. Cfp: defoesociety.org/conference/

The cat is very sweet but he will not settle! He wants to sit on my leg. He wants to sit on the bed next to me. He wants to sit on my book. He wants to sit on my chest and stare at me from close range. I am trying to read about early modern torture; he is not making it easy.

I appear to have finally finished writing this journal article, and it's 2.40pm on a Friday - does that mean I can stop work for the week now?

Keele Observatory's giant telescope is 150 years old! Originally from Oxford, many thousands of people have looked through it since it arrived at Keele in 1962. We're celebrating its birthday on Tuesday 17 December, 8pm - 10pm. All welcome, free of charge.

RIP Hector, who died last night after a short period of illness. He was elderly and it was his time, but I shall miss him so much.

I feel like if you're charging £18 for a cocktail you could at least spell the name right

Excited to share the link for the Shakespeare's Violence project website: we have material on content warnings in education and free resources for teachers - teachingshakespearesviolence.co.uk

Book cover reveal! Coming out in January...

Big news! 2026 has officially been announced as the National Year of Reading by Bridget Phillipson. We’re proud to join Department for Education to lead this national campaign to get the UK reading again. #NationalYearOfReading2026 nationalyearofreading.org.uk

A Call for Papers from British Shakespeare Association's Teaching Shakespeare, which I founded years ago & which is in wonderful editorial hands, including guest editor Richard Stacey (Glasgow). All back issues freely-available PDFs online: britishshakespeare.ws/education/teac…

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