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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 06/08/2026

"Reading really does build the brain" Speaking at the launch of her new book 'Beyond Words', Karen Stollznow shared the role that books play not only in childhood development but also in encouraging us to explore new ideas and perspectives. 🔗 cup.org/4geVqv1 # NationalYearOfReading

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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

CFP Marianne Moore 2027, an international conference @cam-english-fac.bsky.social. Deadline for proposals 1 Sept 2026. #modernism #poetry

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Christ's College Cambridge @christscollegecam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What is the so-called 'Milton controversy'? Find out in the latest 'Miltonic Mill' blog by Dr Chris Joyce. darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/journey-thro... 📷 Christ's College Cambridge #ChristsCollegeCambridge #DarknessVisible #Milton350 #JohnMilton @cam-english-fac.bsky.social 6d

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Puck: it's FAIRY TIME! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Puck (Ajay Kumar) in the 2006 DASH Arts / @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Tim Supple. (Very slightly later in the action...)

A photograph of a play in performance. A large group of people wearing very brightly coloured clothes are sitting on a stand coloured with sand. In front of them is a smiling man, wearing a bright orange very brief loincloth; his arms and chest are wrapped with black ropes. He has a mohawk hairstyle and is smiling broadly.

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 24/07/2026

What was Alan Turing really like? The ‘father of modern computing’ has an isolated mathematician image. But a racy short story he wrote, newly studied, reveals a 'cheeky' man who loved sex and literature. Read more: bit.ly/4fQ3ZfD 📸 National Portrait Gallery & @kingscollege.bsky.social

A split image with a header reading "New Cambridge research." It features a photograph of Alan Turing in a suit and tie on the left. On the right, there is a handwritten manuscript. The text above reads: "Alan Turing’s short story reveals a fun side to the ‘isolated’ mathematician."

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Oberon: fairies, prepare to dance & sing a blessing! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... A favourite image from the 2005 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Greg Doran: Oberon (Joe Dixon) & Titania (Amanda Harris) with the (beautiful, puppet) changeling boy & the fairies with their lanterns.

A photograph of a play in performance: two people are standing facing front, holding between them a puppet in the shape of a toddler. The man on the left is wearing a sparkly pale coat over a bare chest; the woman on the right is wearing a sparkly top with bare arms. Behind them there are shadowy figures holding poles with lanterns on them. It looks magical.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Theseus: BEDTIME! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Theseus/Oberon and Hippolyta/Titania weren't doubled in the 2016 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream: here's Hippolyta (Laura Harding) and Theseus (Sam Redford), dir. Erica Whyman.

A photograph of a play in performance. At the rear of the stage, a woman in a white wedding dress and a man in a black suit are embracing. There are strings of fairy lights and in the foreground the stage is covered with red petals.

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🎲 Scenes of play in German literature from 1750 10-12 Sept 2026, CB3 9DP Register at bit.ly/3TwubDn With speakers from nine countries and fields ranging from architecture to toy history, we’re excited to kickstart Play Studies in the UK and rethink how we play today

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Puck: it's the WITCHING HOUR! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Three Pucks, almost a century apart: Lucy Ellinson @the-rsc.bsky.social 2016 dir. Erica Whyman, Rosie Sheehy @the-rsc.bsky.social 2024 dir. Eleanor Rhode, & a promotional image: Leslie French in Regent's Park in 1935.

A photograph of a play in performance: a woman wearing a black top hat and black trouser suit with big white cuffs and red powder on the shoulders is standing in the foreground. She's got a broom in her right hand and there are red petals on the floor in front of her. There are other people sitting and standing behind, some of them sweeping the stage, and strings of fairy lights.

A person standing on a dimly lit stage. They're wearing baggy purple shorts and a pale shirt, with long socks and lace-up shoes. Their collar-length hair is green, and they're leaning on a large broom, clasping the handle in both hands.

A sepia photograph. A young man is emerging from foliage, standing on what looks like ivy. He's wearing a skimpy one-shouldered tunic and looking to his left, his right arm raised.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Bottom: what have we here? oh NO!! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Molly Hewitt-Richards as Snug as the Lion and Emmanuel Akwafo as Bottom as Pyramus and Hilson Agbangbe as Starveling as Moonshine @bridgetheatre.bsky.social 2025

A photograph of a character in a play. A woman wearing black trousers and a baggy purple sweatshirt; she's making roaring gestures and wearing a furry hat shaped like a lion

A photograph of a play in performance. A man wearing a purple sweatshirt and beanie is sitting on the stage, with his back to the camera. Another similarly dressed young man is shining a torch in his face. Off to one side there's a small animatronic dog and a mini Christmas tree.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Summer nights at Vauxhall Gardens: the scene of many a debauched Regency romance! Which brings us neatly to this month's Really Popular Book Club choice: Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer. 📅28 July ⏰7-8pm 📍Online 🎟️ loom.ly/v5CD4a0 🎨The Microcosm of London, 1808 (Harley-Mason.a.3-5)

A book illustration from the early nineteenth century depicting Vauxhall Gardens. We see a decorated, multi-tiered stage with musicians. Many people in evening wear mill around the stage, dancing and chatting.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Theseus: it'll be FINE! Philostrate: PROLOGUE time!😬 #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Bottom (Mathew Baynton) can't WAIT to get the show started, in the 2024 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Eleanor Rhode

A photograph of a character in a play. A man wearing a sharp double-breasted dark pinstripe suit, with yellow shirt and tie and socks, with a mod-style haircut, is smiling and looking excited, fists clenched, taking a big step. There's a flight case labelled PROPS beside him.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Theseus: I'm used to nervous speeches, goes with the territory #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Slightly later, obviously, but here's an example of how to solve a perennial 'problem' both here & in Hamlet: where do you put the onstage audience? Harley Granville Barker at the Savoy 1914

A sepia postcard, landscape format, of a play in performance. Across the front of the stage in a shallow curve, 4 rectangular couches with lattice sides, classical style, with people sitting or reclining on them; there are other people sitting on the floor in front. At the rear of the stage there is a view of tall classical pillars; at the top of a short flight of steps in front of them, there's a play being performed.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Philostrate: but it's a TERRIBLE play! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Two current Quinces, hopefully not hearing Philostrate being so rude about their work: Scout Worsley @the-rsc.bsky.social family show; Victoria Moseley in front of the mini tent Globe at the Globe (mise en abyme ❤️)

A photograph of a character in a play: half length, a young woman wearing a green shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a green furry gilet, and a green knitted hat; she also has round green-framed glasses, and is holding a green notebook in her right hand and gesturing with a green pencil in her left hand.

A photograph of a play in performance. A woman wearing an elaborate fur coat over trousers, checked shirt and red tie, with a hat and glasses, is standing looking a bit uncertain. Behind her is a little pop-up tent theatre made to look like Shakespeare's Globe, with a painted thatched roof and pillars; it's standing on the stage of the actual Globe.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Theseus: people get confused in the dark! Hippolyta: ALL of them at once? #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Pippa Nixon as Hippolyta & Titania @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream 2011 (Jo Stone-Fewings as Theseus/Oberon; dir. Nancy Meckler). Currently a touching, live-wire Beatrice at the Globe❤️

A photograph of a play in performance. A woman wearing all black, with bare legs, sitting on a white leather sofa looking quite grumpy. A man is standing behind her in the shadows.

The same woman in the same play. She's wearing purple draperies and has flowers in her hair; she's standing next to a vertical garland of flowers, holding a bundle that might be a baby.

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Christ's College Cambridge @christscollegecam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What does alumnus John Milton's Paradise have in common with Disney's Zootopia? Read the latest 'Miltonic Mill' blog by English teacher and Milton scholar Dr Anthony Bromley to find out darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton-and-u... @cam-english-fac.bsky.social

An angel appearing to two people in a wooded landscape

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The next @cam.ac.uk undergraduate open days are on 9 & 10 July. We're offering regular guided tours between 9.30am & 4.30pm each day led by friendly students as well as drop-in sessions with academics involved in our admissions process, talks & mock interviews: caths.cam.ac.uk/Open... 📸 Binky Nixon

Four students walking together through Main Court at St Catharine's College

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Theseus: my dogs are the most musical, the most wobblesome...🐕❤️ #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus & the lovers, all crammed together to make the shot in the 1909 silent film of Dream by Vitagraph. Still no dogs alas, even though they filmed in an actual park🐕

A still from a black and white film. In the middle, a man wearing a classical style tunic and a crown has his arm around a woman. There's an older man with a long white fake beard behind him. In the foreground, two pairs of men and women are kneeling with their backs to the camera, one arm around the other, their other arm outstretched. There are tree trunks.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Les Liaisons Dangereuses @nationaltheatre.org.uk last night: OBVIOUSLY Lesley Manville is a goddess but also blown away by Tom Jackson Greaves's movement & Natalie Roar's costumes, brilliantly conceived & reshaped historical silhouettes/textures; extraordinary cutting & dressmaking skills on display

A photograph of characters in a play. A woman in a long red C18-style dress standing next to a man in a white shirt and waistcoat; he's sitting with her hand on his shoulder.

The same woman in a red dress sitting next to a young woman wearing a similarly-styled white dress.

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amymemorris.bsky.social @amymemorris.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm looking forwards to hosting prizewinning US author Tayari Jones in Cambridge tomorrow to discuss her new novel Kin - Friday 5 June, 8pm at the University Arms Hotel. Cambridge Literary Festival info and tickets here www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/tayar...

Image of author Tayari Jones and her new novel Kin

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

✍️ Would you like focused time to write? Would you benefit from joining a writing community? If so, take part in one of our CRASSH writing weeks! 🗓️ 6 - 10 July 2026 Apply at bit.ly/3Qc8AOO, no proposals or references are required

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

How do stories shape legal responses to climate crisis, inequality, and social change? Join us for the conference 'Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Polycrisis' 8 & 9 June Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4uMXGi8

Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Polycrisis, 8 & 9 June 2026.

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🎞️ Weirding Land short film festival An evening of films exploring eco-weird cinema, climate fiction, folk horror, experimental landscapes, deep time, and more-than-human worlds 4 June from 5.30 - 7pm Everyman Cinema Cambridge, free entry! 🎟️ bit.ly/4fQGRhs

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Oberon: time to remove the donkey ears #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... The gorgeous, stage-struck Bottom (disco version) played by Adrian Richards in the current Globe Dream. A reminder that there's still art & community & sweetness in the world. And bubbles, a LOT of bubbles. GO!

A photograph of a character in a play. A man wearing a long coat completely covered with silver tinsel, with matching long silver tinsel donkey ears and pink headphones around his neck. He's standing in front of the galleries of a theatre, smiling ecstatically, in a cloud of bubbles.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The current Globe Dream dir. Emily Lim is sweet, funny, joyous; the cast had the audience eating out of their hands from the pre-set (& singing, linking arms etc). Terrific ensemble (2 covers reading in) & Michael Grady-Hall's Puck should be available on the NHS for the general gaiety of the nation

An actor wearing a ruff covered with flowers, green Elizabethan style breeches, and a cropped jacket with badges; he has a bright pink bubble gun in one hand and clouds of bubbles

The same actor standing on a blue wrought iron balcony around a pillar, showing that he is wearing green tights with bobbles on; he is smiling broadly

The same actor standing and singing on the front of the stage; the audience are all reaching out their hands to him

The same actor on stage with a member of the audience; they're both smiling broadly in a cloud of bubbles

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Bottom: honey, please! 😋 #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... One of the loveliest / most hilarious moments from the @bridgetheatre.bsky.social Dream, here in the 2025 revival: Oberon (JJ Feild; swapped with Titania) and Bottom (Emmanuel Akwafo) having a BUBBLE-BATH.

A photograph of a play in performance: two men are sitting in a bubble-bath drinking champagne and looking very happy. The man on the right is wearing a yellow beanie hat with donkey ears sticking up, and he's stretching out his arm. The bath is sitting on grass, with plants around it; they're in a spotlight and there are bubbles in the air.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

✍️ Ever wanted to write poetry? Led by novelist Dr Yvonne Battle-Felton, Academic Director of Creative Writing at Cambridge, this fun introductory workshop is perfect for poetry beginners. 📅Sat 6 June ⏰10-11:30am 🎟️£10 I 18+ 📍Cambridge University Library loom.ly/zYiLe-M

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