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@jamesgrande.bsky.social
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Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 14h
And did those feet ...? Breaking news here: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/william-bl...
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William Blake, ‘Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion’ (c.1810)
And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's ...? No. No, they didn't.
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Listening to Zoe Ball talk on her and Jo Whiley's podcast about how it's been 30 years since she first presented Live & Kicking. Around the same time I was in the live audience, dressed as a giant peanut for a game ('Let's Go Nuts'). The Backstreet Boys also appeared, on their first visit to the UK.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Tilford Oak, Surrey - 'By far the finest tree that I ever saw in my life', according to William Cobbett in 1822. Shown in its prime in 1938 and passed away after 800 glorious years in 2026.
Black and white of tree in 1938Colour photo of dead tree with major branches lopped in 2026
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Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Uttara Natarajan’s Realism and the Romantic Essay is also here, and it has been such a pleasure to work on. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lovely to be at the always brilliant Hazlitt Day yesterday - a highlight of the Romanticist calendar! You can become a member of the Hazlitt Socjety for £10/year and receive their excellent journal. sites.google.com/view/thehazl...
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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What is LinkedIn?
The rise of mindful slop
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Keats-Shelley House has a new website! A thing of beauty... keats-shelley.org
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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Final proof (let’s hope) has arrived for indexing (620 pages). Thanks to all those waiting & watching. #AmIndexing #TheLongestJourney
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Can anyone recommend a new series of books or new author for my Y5 daughter? So far she loves Lottie Brooks, Wings of Fire, Dork Diaries, Horrible Histories, Wimpy Kid series (but probably a bit easy for her now). Any thoughts?
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bowled over to see Ross Wilson's very kind review of Articulate Sounds in this week's @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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‘Tuning our voices’
You wouldn’t catch Falstaff or Sir Toby Belch singing it, but Iolo Morganwg’s “rational drinking song” nicely illustrates some of the tensions
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Now a six hour workshop to draft a new Faculty AI policy, after one hour's sleep. This feels the wrong way round...
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Favourite summer holiday reading so far - Eric Puchner, Dream State (2025). Marriage plot, family saga and climate fiction combined, set in the lakes and mountains of Montana. A baggy, big-hearted American novel.
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Took the kids to see some art at Museo Picasso Málaga. They were very sceptical but eventually won over.
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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My Dolly Parton story is that she contributed a foreword to a book I edited, and that book make the NY Times best seller list - yet more evidence her book magic was every bit as great as her music magic.
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Wayfaring Strangers
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in t...
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Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Isobel Armstrong on saving English. Brilliant as ever. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/savi...
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Saving English
The government’s drive for ‘vocational’ education is accelerating the death of the humanities, at a time when the study of literature is more vital than ever.
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A characteristically thoughtful and erudite review of the Miles Davis prom by Richard Williams at thebluemoment.com
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
excellent casual writing prompts here
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A glorious defence of the essay from Felicity James.
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Wonderful to be back at @bars.bsky.social with friends old and new. Congratulations to the organisers on a brilliant conference. Mary Favret’s keynote ’Legible / Illegible‘ a particular highlight for me #BARS2026
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
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AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Norwich vs AFC Wimbledon at Plough Lane the perfect post-World Cup tonic. No air conditioned stadium, no hydration breaks, no Infantino or Trump. Paid £12 for my ticket.
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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.
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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Publication Day for “The Anthropocene and Literature”! Massive thanks to Tore Rye Anderson for this magnificent volume. So exciting to be in this company! Get your copy for 20% off today! (link in comments) www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🤿 What can we learn from an underwater world seen through divers' eyes? On 16 July, join @kingsenglish.bsky.social and the Environmental Humanities Network for the launch of Underwater Lives: Humans, Species, Ocean – a new book by Professor Clare Brant 🐡 🔗 Register ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
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Book Launch: Underwater Lives | King's College London
You are warmly invited to the launch of Clare Brant's new book, Underwater Lives: Humans, Species, Ocean.
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Love these historical comparisons in @philipjcowley.bsky.social’s FT column on the Burnham transition giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Newtown National Nature Reserve, Isle of Wight, first thing this morning.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
later in our lives we will find it hard to believe and extraordinary and wonderful that on 29th May 2026 it was possible to listen to a brand new album by Paul McCartney
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Fixed-term lectureships in 19th-century and early modern literature in the KCL English department next year - come and work with us! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/147465-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/146806-...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
in rome, the size, duration, and lavishly ridiculous violence of gladiatorial games increased in proportion to the magnitude of social unrest
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 26/05/2026
John Doran asked Iggy Pop, Jim Sclavunos, Jason Pierce, Mike Patton, Paul Weller and many other musicians to tell us about their favourite albums by Miles Davis My Favourite Miles Davis Album (#MilesDavis Centenary) buff.ly/uY5wIqr
Black and white photograph of a young Miles Davis playing the trumpet with the instrument resting on his angled knee from a sitting position.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"Dylan was a revolutionary. Bob freed your mind the way Elvis freed your body. ...To this day, wherever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan." Bruce Springsteen on Bob Dylan.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It's Bob Dylan's birthday, so here's your occasional reminder that this iconic slice of footage was shot in the alleyway known as Savoy Steps, just behind the Savoy Hotel in the Strand.
Bob Dylan holding a card saying its my birthday
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Granta shrugs about AI scandal about prize-winning short story: “Perhaps we will never know” if it was AI-plagiarized or not. Absolutely bananas.
Sigrid Rausing, publisher of Granta Publications and Granta magazine, told The Bookseller:
"We showed Claude.ai the story and asked whether it was Al-generated" and that "the response was long, concluding that it was 'almost certainly not produced unaided by a human'... It ended, however, on a cautious note", she continued.
"The strongest evidence against pure AI authorship is the small number of passages that don't fit the pattern - particularly the Zoongie morning-greeting and the agricultural paragraph about the acre. Those passages carry the kind of off-shape specificity that models still struggle to produce unprompted. If the story has a human core, it is concentrated there, and the Al has been used to elaborate around it.'"
She continued that "it may be that the judges have now awarded a prize to an instance of AI plagiarism - we don't yet know, and perhaps we never will know. There is, however, a certain irony in the fact that, beyond human hunches, AI itself is the most efficient tool we have for revealing what is Al generated. But the AI-generated critique of these Commonwealth writers - more than one has been accused of basing their story on AI material - may conceivably itself reflect AI bias. Time will tell.
"The suggestion that writers have submitted material not authentically their own is a charge we take seriously, but until the Commonwealth Foundation comes to a definite conclusion, we will
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Why are populists winning? Disillusionment, delivery and the future of democracy
YouTube video by The Policy Institute at King's College London
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Prof. Alexander Schlutz reflects on teaching birdsong with P.B. Shelley & Keats, incorporating songs of both skylarks and nightingales in discussions of Romantic poetry. Find ideas for incorporating birdsong into your courses on the Birdsong Teaching page. www.k-saa.org/2025-birdson...
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2025 Birdsong: Pedagogy — K-SAA
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Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Important intervention by the @royalhistsoc.org, @ihr.bsky.social, History UK, and the Historical Association. I hope politicians will take note.
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Protecting What Matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR
Protecting what matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Just crazy that the *actual* king of England is explaining the limits on the executive branch under Anglo-American constitutional law — to the U.S. Congress.
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Shakespeare Bought One Property in London. Now We Know Exactly Where. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/w...
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Shakespeare Bought One Property in London. Now We Know Exactly Where.
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships- King's College London - Department of War Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD022/p...
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PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships at King's College London
Discover a PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban owns the media. He controls the information environment. He rigged the electoral system to make defeat next-to impossible. The govt of the most powerful country on earth tried to bribe Hungarian voters in his favour. It didn't work.
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Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A great moment to be in Budapest…
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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#OTD 7 April 1836: death of #WilliamGodwin, author of Political Justice, Caleb Williams, & many other works speaking truth to power; head of one of Britain's leading literary families; writer of 1500 astonishing letters – Vol. IV: 1816-1828 due out from OUP this year. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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AI lectures, Old West folk heroes and Mark Twain: what is Bob Dylan up to joining Patreon?
By far the biggest musician to have joined the membership-based platform, Dylan’s posts have so far been puzzling – and therefore entirely in character
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/03/2026
AI executives and researchers “readily admit that they have not yet released a model that writes well,” Jasmine Sun writes. She speaks with AI experts about why LLMs are built in a way that is antagonistic to great writing:
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The Human Skill That Eludes AI
Why can’t language models write well?
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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/03/2026
Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96
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Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96
Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to survive
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Emrys Jones @emrysdjones.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Really pleased that my third-year course, Inventing Celebrity, has received a BSECS teaching prize. It's a joy to teach. Just marking the mid-semester assignments now, and dare I say it, even that's a pleasure!
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