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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sympathy for Burnham's hand-wringing over Russian interference in the #Brexit referendum is somewhat lessened by the recollection that his predecessor explicitly asked Russia to interfere in ours. www.heraldscotland.com/news/1314005...

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Cameron's plea to Putin: help me stop Salmond

Itar-Tass, citing a source in the Conservative Prime Minister's office, said Britain was "extremely interested" in referendum support from Russia, which this year holds the presidency of the influenti...

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Think of the combined CENTURIES of expertise lost here, the creativity, the knowledge, the depth and breadth of cultural learning and understanding, the generations of minds enriched and enlightened, the sheer weight of history that led to the establishment of these programmes. Purged. Destroyed.

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McNaughtan's Bookshop @mcnaughtans.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Hive mind gather round! Do you recognise this man on the right? He was likely an actor, perhaps a director, and worked with Beckett, almost certainly on a British production of Waiting for Godot. The photograph we can roughly date to sometime between 1956-1970.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An ill-divided Europe. It’s 35°C here in Bordeaux today. Bring on the socks

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It all ended rather badly for poor JP-H

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger: Big Boned Lizzy

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Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This bad bastard comes out today. Probably the best I’ve done.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Sud Ouest Bordeaux @sudouest-33.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Canicule : à Bordeaux, les 40 °C atteints six fois en 2026, contre cinq fois sur les 75 années précédentes 🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/yNp3

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Une mort très douce de Simone de Beauvoir est un beau récit. Pensées

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Robert Louis Stevenson @rlstevenson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“The charm of Fontainebleau is a thing apart. It is a place that people love even more than they admire. The vigorous forest air, the silence, the majestic avenues of highway, the wilderness of tumbled boulders, the great age and dignity of certain groves” en.wikisource.org/wiki/Across_...

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Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays/Fontainebleau - Wikisource, the free online library

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I cannot tell you how lovely that looks from my boiling Bordeaux perspective

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/07/2026

STEVENSON & PLEASURE Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie Jaëck Looking at physical, creative, & intertextual/intermedial pleasures, 10 essays explore how pleasure – sensory, intellectual & aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work & its reception #Lit #C19 asls.org.uk/publications...

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Stevenson and Pleasure
Edited by Julie Gay, Lesley Graham and Nathalie Jaëck

Cover image: Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887. Painting by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), oil on canvas. The painting shows Robert Louis Stevenson sitting relaxed in an orange wicker armchair, one long leg crossed over the other. Stevenson is wearing a dark velvet smoking jacket and grey, baggy trousers. One thin hand rests on his thigh and the other golds a cigarette up near his mouth. He has a drooping moustache and a pale face, and he looks out at us with an amused expression. The chair sits on a wildly furry light brown rug in front of a piece of dark wooden Victorian furniture.

Contents

Introduction (Julie Gay, Lesley Graham, and Nathalie Jaëck)
I. PLEASURES OF THE BODY AND MIND
1. An ‘invalid marching to and fro upon the roads’: Pleasure and Exertion in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Early Travels (Kévin Cristin)
2. Pleasure for Profit: Opium in The Wrecker (Audrey Murfin)
3. Desire Free from Malice: Pleasure and Ethics in Stevenson and Melville (Lucio De Capitani)
II. CREATIVE PLEASURES
4. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pleasure of Nightmares (Jean-Pierre Naugrette)
5. Stevenson and Charm (Richard Dury)
6. The Pleasures, and Perils, of Collaboration: Robert Louis Stevenson and Belle Strong in Samoa (Hilary J. Beattie)
III. THE PLEASURES OF INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERMEDIALITY
7. The Pleasure of the Intertext: Aesthetic Self-Fashioning in ‘Providence and the Guitar’ (Burkhard Niederhoff)

8. ‘But somehow it was never Treasure Island to me’: The Elusive Climactic Map of Treasure Island (Xavier Amelot and Nathalie Jaëck)
9. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde on Screen: Experiments in Pleasure (Gilles Menegaldo)
10. Playing the Classics? The Jekyll and Hyde Videogame Adaptations (Nicolas Labarre)
Notes on contributors
Index

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’d like FIFA to take another look at the Brexit vote.

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I’ll be back in Aubigny-sur-Nère on 9th July for a one-day conference on Franco-Scottish friendship.

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A really enjoyable event. Thank you for organising it, “Les Amis de la Machine à Lire” and thank you for the report @euradio.bsky.social

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

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Rue Jo Cox, Députée Britannique, a street sign in Burgundy reads, Assassinée pour ses convictions.

No British road is named after her, I found on returning home, for fear it could have proved controversial.

I remembered in Shakespeare rue even for ruth, called 'herb of grace' because it was used in exorcisms,

by the angel to clean Adam's eyes, and Gulliver back home for his nose against the smell of his countrymen.

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

And last week’s event on Robert Louis Stevenson at La Machine à Lire with Jean-Pierre Ohl and Jean Harambat was equally enjoyable. All part of La Fascinate Ecosse.

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Such an enjoyable event yesterday evening with Anne-Marie Métailié talking about contemporary Scottish authors in the fantastic Bibliothèque Écossaise Collection, Éditions Métailié

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today’s earworm: I was the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Du 27 mai au 15 juin, Les Amis de La Machine à Lire organisent à Bordeaux une manifestation intitulée "Fascinante Ecosse" Programme détaillé ici : amis-lml.fr/wp/wp-conten...

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I’m coming to Scotland tomorrow, I’ll bring it with me.

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Made more sense when I realised you were not talking about the Arthur Miller play

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Loved the Pierre Soulages museum in Rodez. Black, but uplifting. The Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs were an excellent bonus

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Depluralize a movie Dances with Wolf

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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

may you live in interesting times

image of a letter to the editor of The Guardian under the heading Political Footballs -- "So Iran may have to withdraw from the Fifa World Cup because it is being bombed by the winner of the Fifa Peace Prize" by Robert Lee, London

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Dan Israel @dan-mdpt.eurosky.social · 23/03/2026

En première ligne face à la vague de l'IA, les traductrices et traducteurs voient leur métier être détruit à une vitesse sidérante. Les adaptateurs et adaptatrices des sous-titres d'Arte sont concerné.es au premier chef www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...

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Les traducteurs d’Arte dénoncent la destruction de leur métier par l’IA

La chaîne franco-allemande fait de plus en plus appel à la machine pour créer les sous-titres en sept langues de ses programmes. D’ici à la fin de l’année, 50 % de son catalogue sera traduit par IA, …

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Glenda Norquay @glendanorquay.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Very pleased to see this wee book on restless adventurer Robert Louis Stevenson out in the world. Thanks to Reaktion Books for all their support along the way. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/robert-... #RLS @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social

Image of writer Robert Louis Stevenson on cover of Critical Lives biography by Glenda Norquay

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott club issues international call for public readings from the Waverley Novels walterscottclub.com/submitreading

Screen grab of the press release. Info at walterscottclub.com

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Scottish poet Kenneth White left his home in Brittany to the town of Trébeurden along with 100,000€ on condition that it become a writers’ and artists’ residence for geopoetics. The municipality proposes to remove the extensive library he assembled and sell the house. ✍️ c.org/DdF96d6CL4

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Signez la pétition

NON À LA VENTE DE LA MAISON DE KENNETH WHITE — OUI À SON PROJET DE MAISON D’ARTISTES

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It’s the last day of the winter break - all good things …

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Yes, this is a known photograph of Stevenson dictating to Belle Strong in the library at Vailima in 1894. Reproduced in several biographies. Whereabouts of original photo unknown, possibly The Writers Museum.

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Société Française d'Études Écossaises @sfetudesecossaises.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Honoured to have received acclaimed Scottish poet and essayist and former Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie as part of our annual conference on Scotland held in La Rochelle. Thank you @lesleygraham.bsky.social

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Two really great panels this morning at the @sfetudesecossaises.bsky.social conference in La Rochelle with Daphné Cousin-Martin, Glenda Norquay, Julie Gay, Katie Garner and Gabrielle Fath.

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