How can we decolonize research and academia? This week on the Bloomsbury Academic blog, Tia Ali discusses the need for further resources and initiatives to help fully dismantle entrenched power structures in academia and beyond. 🔗 bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/bl…

.Bloomsbury Academic Director Pooja Aggarwal spoke to Inspired Selection about her pathway into leadership, the things she learned along the way and what she wishes she had known earlier. Read the top 10 take-aways from the conversation: inspiredselection.com/insights/caree…

Labour victory, Conservative collapse and the crisis in Westminster 🗳️ Simon Griffiths, co-author of the definitive British Politics textbook, provides an expert analysis of the UK general election results. 🔗 bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/bl…

We're thrilled to announce that Chantal Lyons book, GROUNDBREAKERS, has been shortlisted for the 2024 #WainwrightPrize for Conservation Writing 🎉 The Wainwright Prize #WainwrightPrize #WainwrightPrize24

We are absolutely delighted that TWO brilliant Bloomsbury books have been shortlisted for the #WainwrightPrize24 Children's Writing Prize! ✨Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell ✨Foxlight by Katya Balen Congratulations to all on the shortlist! The Wainwright Prize

“I realised Anna Maria was a complete superstar of the 18th century” Harriet Constable on her enthralling debut, The Instrumentalist, which tells the forgotten story of Vivaldi's protégé, Anna Maria della Pietà 🎻 🔗 bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/ar…

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“Printmaking is a discipline” Renowned wildlife painter and printmaker Carry Akroyd on her new collection, Swoop Sing Perch Paddle, and advice for those wanting to try screenprinting 🐦‍⬛ 🔗 bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/ar…

“I love writing action sequences, so all the sword-fighting and chases and monster attacks were super fun to do” Mark Powers on where he writes, his favourite character and how the idea came about for his latest children's book, Hero Wanted! 🦸 bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/ar…

This Urdu-language production of The Taming of the Shrew from Theatre Wallay is rich in colour and energy, exploring the difficulties encountered by modern Pakistani women. Now live in Shakespeare’s Globe to Globe Festival on Screen 3: bit.ly/3VwZnQh

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The book is “just a reflection of the world as it is around us. Disillusioned. Amoral. Dishonest. But somewhere within, a bit of hidden good” Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️ on Sons of Darkness & why he wrote a grimdark fantasy reimagining of the Mahabharata 🐺⚔️💀 🔗 bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/ar…

Today on the Academic blog we share an excerpt from What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why) by Susan Allen Ford, which explores Austen's characters' lives beyond the novels bit.ly/3X0SWFZ

What does open scholarship in the humanities mean in practice? What might the benefits be, and how do we get there? Join us online for a unique panel event next month, ft. author Paul Longley Arthur + speakers connected to The British Academy Find out more: bit.ly/3Xl6xZT #OA

"When it comes to boating, the more you put in, the more you get out" Read an extract from Bosun's Bag by Tom Cunliffe, on the progression of yachting and what makes a good bosun ⛵️ bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/ar…

How do we create ‘good’ technology? Dr Eleanor Drage & Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth), co-hosts of The Good Robot Podcast, argue that we should call for technology that isn’t just functional, but ethically good too 🤖 🔗 bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/bl…

We are very proud to announce our first dyslexia-friendly books for adults! A selection of our top-selling trade titles with a large, more readable font, dyslexia-friendly spacing and paper choices are available to pre-order now 📚 Find out more: bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/lat…

What do you want when no one is watching? Who do you fantasise about when the lights are off? When you think about sex, what do you really want? The book you’ve WANTED is finally here: happy publication day to WANT, submitted by anonymous, collected by @gilliana!

Join Carolyn Cocca as she explores the representation of diversity, sexuality and women’s bodies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer with her chapter from Superwomen: Gender, Power and Representation. Free-to-read as part of Cult TV Heroines on Screen Studies: bit.ly/4dhPT32

I wrote for Bloomsbury Digital Resources on play, the city, and ‘super-architectural space’. Like how skateboarding or buildering, for example, transform and transgress the built environment through play. You can read it here (it’s reasonably short & snappy): bloomsburyvisualarts.com/bva-blog-augus…