Once upon a time I did some statistical work for a Policy Thinktank, showing that the Scottish Higher Education sector has shown a clear trend over the last two decades of accepting Overseas fee-paying students to the detriment of Scottish and RUK student places…

Beheading Girl is now Beheading Doctor! (📷: Callum Robert Forbes Irvine)

This looks amazing! I wish I could be there in person, but I will definitely be there online!

We’ve found the Book of Hours captured by Holbein in his famous portrait of #ThomasCromwell! Cromwell’s book is one of the few objects depicted in a Tudor portrait to survive. Tracy Borman OBE has dubbed it “the most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation - if not more.”

We discovered Thomas Cromwell’s Book of Hours…and it’s the book painted on Cromwell’s desk by Hans Holbein the Younger in his famous portrait of Cromwell!! Hever Castle Owen Emmerson Solving a 500 year old mystery - A THREAD (1/9)

🎉Congratulations 🎉 to Dr Roberta Marangi @BeheadingDoctor who graduated today with a thesis entitled 'Off with their heads: Decapitation, Gender and Power in Medieval English Literature'. #EvertoExcel #ForeverSaints #StLeonardsPGs School of English (University of St Andrews)

The British Academy today responds to proposals to limit the number of students taking so-called "low-value" degrees in England. The Academy has long argued that graduate destinations and salaries alone are limited proxies for the value of higher education thebritishacademy.ac.uk/the-british-ac…

Delighted to be hosting this symposium on 'The Local and the Global in Early Modern English Writing' @MooreInst Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd September. More info here: mooreinstitute.ie/event/the-loca…

This is a short-sighted decision that places a high-performing, unique centre of MEMS research in Australia under threat of extinction. Please like & retweet @mcassidywelch's post & most importantly, follow her advice on who to email your protests to. Be noisy #medievaltwitter!

It’s what I do. And then, apparently, I walk out of the lecture hall, fall, and break my right arm.

Come and join the excellent panellists at the #CLiCToExit Symposium today (and then myself, presenting about 11am)! Here's the link to the abstracts and bios: sway.office.com/JtOWxSRH0UHD2C… And the programme and Teams links! onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resi…

Still slightly flustered but so honoured to have been awarded Outstanding Teacher (Arts and Divinity) at the 1413 Teaching Excellence Awards University of St Andrews . Thank you to all my wonderful students who inspire me every day!

Congratulations to Peter Mackay (Outstanding Academic Mentorship) and Roberta Marangi (Outstanding Teacher [Arts/Divinity])

Had the most wonderful evening with the Intersections concert on Thursday! Thank you so much to Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and University of St Andrews Laidlaw Music Centre for organising this, and to Jake Davey, Lizzie Gange, and Alex South for making my research into something beautiful! 📚 🎶

If I could do so again, I would vote for Callum as PGR President. I have seen firsthand all the hard work he has put into making sure PGRs’ concerns are heard, even when very few wanted to hear. He was always there, ‘in the room where it happens’, fighting hard…

Great news from the wonderful folks behind Project Fergusson Robert Fergusson (1750-74), who've worked with Taproot Press to produce this beauty! Very honoured to have contributed 'The Last Tavern', a Dantesque encounter between Burns and Fergusson, and to be put with such amazing company!