One week today! Join us at our Ambleside campus on Tue 7th May for this free talk by Andrew Frayn on Norman Nicholson's Cumbria and Rural Wartime. Details and booking link can be found below.

If you happen to be in Ambleside on Tuesday 7 May, I'm giving a free public talk on the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson and rural wartime: ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lands…
Norman Nicholson Soc Dr Penny Bradshaw Cumbria Uni English

In collaboration with ⁦University English⁩ led by ⁦Prof Cathy Shrank 🕷️ #ImmodestWoman⁩ ⁦The University of Sheffield⁩ this project will provide info. for teachers of English at all levels to use to articulate the value of the study of English to their students & 1/2 englishassociation.ac.uk/skills-for-the…

Are there any scans of (even bits of) Aimé and Suzanne Césaire's Tropiques magazine kicking around online? I've had a pretty good look but can't see anything :/

Do consider standing, folks - being on the committee has been a really rewarding experience. I'll miss being involved, although I certainly won't be a stranger, and hope to be at the conference in Leeds in June.

Looks great!

These kinds of cuts are always an ideological decision by university managements, unrooted in the metrics they fetishise, and making clear a callous disregard for staff and students.

Unbelievable resource if you're doing anything to do with publishing history.

Academic pals, who has thoughts on using Perusall? I'm looking for a way to get students to collaborate on reading things, particularly modernist magazines, mostly from MJP.

Due to a (my) clerical error, I've a spare ticket for Bob Mould at Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh tonight. Anyone want to join me and Arin Keeble?