Brian Cox, the star of hit TV series Succession and a string of Hollywood movies, has given his support to a theatre in Birmingham where he made his debut, amid fears for its long-term future.
bbc.in/3xED7eR

Thank you University English for taking the positive action we all need to show the value of studying literature & language.

Campaign week coming soon on 3-7th June!

universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreates/

Dr Helen Kingstone - also on 🟦 David Amigoni @[email protected] The University English #EnglishCreates campaign is trying to raise awareness amongst 6th formers, their teachers and supporters, and the public. See universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreates/ for more details. Campaign week with lots of events coming soon - 3-7 June

Lots of events in the pipeline, several with our colleagues English Association including Carol Atherton and Robert Eaglestone talking about Carol's important new book 'Reading Lessons'

Create a difference in the world through an English degree, and futureproof your skills for life, work, and social change. - great article on studying English #EnglishCreates

universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreates/

Excellent piece by ⁦@[email protected]⁩: gets to the heart of the challenges for the arts & humanities across the country, as well as the particular issues at Goldsmiths. When finances are so tightly strung, it’s not taking much to push unis into trouble theguardian.com/education/2024…

Humanities are being destroyed because they’re incredibly inconvenient to authoritarianism, representing 'a pedagogical practice that embraces the ethical imperative to care for others & historical memory & works to dismantle structures of domination' ...
theguardian.com/education/2024…

'Like all flatness, if you look close it's a thousand tiny vibrations.'

Noreen Masud ,'Morecambe Bay' *A Flat Place* (Penguin 2024),pp.98-122,p.118

#TheConsolationOfBooks

The cool drama kids say things like 'Suffolk, tonight I am in you'. So ... tonight, 21st century Suffolk, I am in you, reading and talking about 16th century poetry about the 14th century! [Note to self - cool enough? maybe should have gone for Dr Who timey-wimey theme? Ah well]

Birmingham is so full of iconic historic buildings still. Don't let developers demolish The Electric.
The UK's oldest cinema opened in 1909.
The same period as our wonderful Moseley Rd Baths.
Both are vital to Birmingham's rich story of civic pride.

Reminder! Just 20 days to go before CfP for Landscapes and Green Spaces in the Midlands Uni of Birmingham closes. Imogen Peck and I would love to hear from you. Keynote from Clare Hickman. More inf at link: birmingham.ac.uk/research/cmhc/…

My camellia is looking beautiful 🌸 Teresa Pilgrim #BionicMedievalist

Today is the PUBLICATION DAY for Oxford Classics The Merry Wives of Windsor 🎉📕▶️🎭. A little taster from introduction--testimony from Marie Smyth given c. the same year as the play, in which she eviscerates her alleged spouse in court.
global.oup.com/ukhe/product/t…

🚨Tonight! Tonight!
The Fall of Richard II - the ghosts of his reign return to life to tell their stories, based on material from A Mirror for Magistrates. Followed by a discussion with experts on his afterlife in literature and drama. #suffolk
quaysudbury.com/events/the-fal…

✨ Out today! ✨

My new intro to The Tempest for Oxford Classics, where you'll find enchantment and plantation and magical clothing, Black feminist art, Christina Sharpe & diasporic migrations, Madeline Sayet’s Indigenous Shakespeare, & even a 2010 McQueen runway show.

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (11th April) was at 6.20am, sunset is at 7.57pm ⛅️

🎈Today marks one year since Getty Publications published my first book, #RediscoveringBlackPortraiture ! I’m extremely grateful to the wonderful team who made it all possible, as well as to everyone who has read the book, recommended it to others, and supported the project. Thank you! 🙏🏾

Love. This. !!

Thank you Emily Cockayne

#AdoreSnails

Daphne In Flower

Tonight: Episode 200!
#CriminalMinds