@kovesi
Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal. Seems important to add, son of a political refugee.
Naval surgeons, theatre cleaners, and Ozzy Osbourne - some of the talks we'll be giving at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sat 21st March for our next launch event. Book via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Huge congratulations! Here's Haydn Corri's take on Clare, sung by Vestris of course, especially for you Brianna!
Members of the Robert Burns Centre at Buckingham Palace with then University of Glasgow Principal Professor Anton Muscatelli.
About 2 years ago I took this picture of most of the Robert Burns Centre crew @glasgowburns.bsky.social with @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social at Buckingham Palace, there to receive their Queen's Anniversary Prize.
Was a very proud day for all @glasgow.ac.uk!
lads, i am beginning to suspect fifa were a bit hasty with that peace prize
A soft toy hot cross bun character to hang on the Easter tree. It's what Jesus would have wanted.
A soft toy hot cross bun character to hang on the Easter tree. It's what Jesus would have wanted.
Greatest moment in TV is when the lead character Michael of BBC's Small Prophets gets a box-sized Shreddie, all the singles joined into one massive one. In episode 1 he pops his Shreddie doublers on the side of his bowl to eat at the end of his breakfast cereal. A life of small, cherished victories.
Where's the launch?!
Huge congratulations Taylor!
Thank you!
Ooh. How do we find out about this method, Eugenia? Sounds fab.
The 1911 ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA entry on John Clare, alongside my contemporary response, which ends with the word "tarmac" for some reason:
eb11.uvic.ca/clare_john.h...
#EnglishCreates: Futures
Today, Prof Gail Marshall (University of Reading) reflects on a treasured first edition of Middlemarch:
'Books connect us to each other... but they also grow with us, and connect us to different versions of ourselves'
Full post: universityenglish.ac.uk/reading-matt...
University of Glasgow Professor Alison Phipps wearing a red robe in front of an ornate window.
A major report led by @alisonphipps.bsky.social calls for a renewed national commitment to supporting multilingualism as a core pillar of integration, education, and community wellbeing.
It was launched at the @royalsoced.bsky.social New Scots Language Taster day.
Read more: gla.ac/4tPdjFJ
To Novalis The holy stranger rests in dark earth. God received the dirge from his soft modest mouth as he sank back, in his bloom-time. One blue flower sustains his song, in pain’s nocturnal house.
Georg Trakl, tr. Stephen Tapscott. just perfect
Current earworm is a snippet of an as-yet-unfinished (I think?) "Trillionaire" song by Jessica Mazin. Best swearing in a song I've heard for a while. What a voice she has.
youtube.com/shorts/TqYzQ...
Current earworm is a snippet of an as-yet-unfinished (I think?) "Trillionaire" song by Jessica Mazin. Best swearing in a song I've heard for a while. What a voice she has.
youtube.com/shorts/TqYzQ...
Congratulations!
Thank you for this nugget, Popbitch.
popbitch.com
2,000 social media influencers were paid by Warners to post nice things about the Wuthering Heights movie.
#EnglishCreates: Futures
We kick off our series on Critical Reading with Prof Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway): 'in the increasingly scientised discourse which has so effectively helped to teach decoding, the fundamental holism of reading can get lost.'
universityenglish.ac.uk/reading-is-a...
"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"
Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷♂️
Brick from a brick factory in Kőszeg, Hungary. Jewish residency in the town began in the 14th century and continued for five hundred years. From 1919 to 1921, Jews in Kőszeg and throughout Hungary were targeted by the White Terror pogroms for their perceived association with communism. Leading up to World War II, the Jewish population in the town was approximately 100 people. In December 1940, a forced labor camp was established with Jewish and non-Jewish workers at a brick field and an old brewery in the town. The camp housed eight thousand laborers who were forced to march 10 kilometers to and from work. They worked 10 hour days, 7 days a week, with only a daily ration of 17 ounces of bread. In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary and the Jews of Kőszeg along with other Jews from the surrounding area were confined to a small ghetto in the town. On July 4, the remaining Kőszeg Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German occupied Poland. In March 1945, the Germans liquidated the labor camp. As part of the liquidation, 95 sick laborers were locked in a sealed barrack and gassed to death on the property of Kőszeg Varosi Teglagyàr (Kőszeg Urban Brickworks), one of two brick factories in the town. In 1985, a park and a memorial were erected on the former property of the brick factory where the execution took place.
Image of a Kőszeg brick in the collection of the United States Holocaust Museum.
My Dad was born in Kőszeg, Hungary, on the Austrian border. When he was 6 yrs old, in 1945, out gathering firewood, he saw piles of white "logs" from which his dad ushered him away. They were the dead bodies of Jews, covered in lime.
The context:
collections.ushmm.org/search/catal...
Go Andrea!
Come for the garbled quotation, stay for the fact that TWO Victorian lit professors are being quoted, multiple times each, in Variety magazine! (including yours truly, which is fun)
The greatest fraud is to call it "intelligence".
It is artificial, but it's artificial mindless, mendacious, flatulent, puerile, copyright-busting cut-and-pasting.
AMMFPCBCAP, not AI.
