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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Excellent human, and a stunning example of the heights that an arts degree can take you to; Barney Ronay.

Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Exeter's English lit intake went up by 22% last year, so... the demand is absolutely there, my friend. Exeter are running at a 200 million pound surplus. Each English degree returns its running costs by 1110%. Turning Universities into businesses is a very bad idea. But this is bad business, too.

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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you don’t like the running down of arts degrees you can sign this petition, it’s very easy c.org/XbNrQnjfVW

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Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

You too Mary!! And you and Bettany did make me want to travel. Great fun. Hope we can do it again sometime.

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I so hope so!! (still jealous.)

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Can't wait to listen later, Mary!

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Mary Novakovich @marynovakovich.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Seriously thrilled to be on the panel for tonight's episode of Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4 on the subject of travel. I'll be joining host Shahidha Bari and historians Bettany Hughes, Lucy Powell and Alun Withey and philosopher Julian Baggini. It's also on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Travel

Travel past and present and broadening the mind? Travel journalists and historians debate.

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Would so love to come to this!!

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Goodness I am shocked as anything to read this! How I loved his writing!

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Do you know the Thomas King short story, "One good story that one" ? it's perfect. As is this.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

'Responding to the decision, Devine, 80, said: “In principle I am opposed to changing historic artefacts to suit today’s tastes. To do so is presentism, imposing 20th-century values on those of the distant past.' '20th-century'? Bit of an own goal Sir T.

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Historian attacks ‘ludicrous’ changes to statues with slavery links

Professor Sir Tom Devine, an emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, said he was opposed to changing artefacts to suit modern sensibilities

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Very excited indeed to be speaking at this tomorrow. Do come by if you are in Cambridge at 5pm. I'll be rioting with Austen (and sure, obliquely with Dickens, too), at the English Faculty. @universitypress.cambridge.org, @cam.ac.uk, @bsecs.bsky.social

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The Rape of Lucrece?? Bit of a deep cut that. Errr Burton?!!!

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Hmm...what about A Ramble in St. James' Park by John Wilmot. Always getting their fundaments confused, those Restoration fellas. (Except hang on. The timing for this wld be off. It's paper 3 or Shakespeare)

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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yes! I am saving mine until next week anyway...

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Yes. That society having to morph, in order to accommodate them...

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

So delighted that this long-gestated brain child is now out and in the real world. I'll be talking about it at the English Faculty in Cambridge, @cam.ac.uk on Thursday of next week at 5pm. Do please come along if you're in town!

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 10/08/2025

@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you :)

Private eye article about “Austen novel finally being adapted for screen”, “stopped the constant adaptations of Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, William Makepeace Thackeray and Ann Radcliffe”

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I taught it for the first time last year at Oxford and it was fantastic. It was for a course about word and image. We ended up spending far more time thinking about missing mothers than anything else. !

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I absolutely love Ali Smith!! How to be Both is one of my favourite novels of the last 50 years. So excited to read your thoughts on her!

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Woah Oh Margaret Brown. Things Are Never Quite The Way They Seem @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It's not fair I mean when was the last time a white male novelist won a Booker. You'd have to go all the way back to 2023

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

But volume 2 is perhaps more Proustian. The final paragraph made me squeak!

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Interesting!! Yes, the papers are very loaded, aren't they. I read the first volume as being about a marriage failing. Two people who are in love who begin to inhabit different worlds in the same space, and who cannot recover their twoness. maybe even an alzheimer's allegory! Very not Proust!!

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I also adored it. The Paris aspect of lost time would seem to urge this reading, but I hear nothing else of Proust, anywhere in Baille. Do you? How can I wait (!!) for the next installment. I feel like a lover of Tristram Shandy, circa 1763...

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Check out our upcoming April titles, including "Unruly Comparison" by Alvin K. Wong, "Hemispheric Blackface" by Danielle Roper, and "The Future of Futurity" by Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta. buff.ly/0pkTAfs

Cover of Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone by Alvin K. Wong. Cover features a sculpture by Jes Fan against a soft white background. The sculpture consists of a stack of organic shapes in marbled pastel shades of green, pink, and brown. A clear bubble sits atop one of the shapes.

Cover of Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas by Danielle M. Roper. The cover features art by Leasho Johnson, Banshee #2. The artwork contains a black silhouette of a human figure, which appears to have its back to the viewer. A conglomerate of colorful, textured swirls covers the figure's neck and the lower half of its head. The swirls include blue, red, orange, yellow, light green, and pink streaks. Amidst the swirls, there is a golden shape that resembles a lyre.

Cover of The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City by Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta. Cover has a black and dark gray background. The title is written in blue capital letters. The author's names are written in green capital letters. The subtitle is written at the bottom in a small white font.

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Where are you headed, Declan?! Am impressed by the rude health of your office plants 🪴 xx

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Why do so many of them have featherless penguins??

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I am mad on so many fronts today that I am incoherent with rage.

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What the actual fuck is going on in America???

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Certainly another stimulating BBCFreeThinking from @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social & guests. Though I have my ‘Yes, but-s’ from the start for the guests inc @askwilliamblake.bsky.social @ljpowell.bsky.social Kathleen Burk, Jim Hoare, Catherine Coldstream www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Isolation

Matthew Sweet explores ideas about being on your own.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

On tonight’s BBC Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4 right now we go into isolation (and isolationism) with Carmelite nuns, North Koreans and Covid citizens. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

UK publications - many. But when 150 Palestinians were killed during the 'ceasefire' none were described in such terms that I know of.

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Returning to The Prelude today, and finding there a lovely dismissal of AI and discovering too a new spot of time: a magical Roman restaurant with excellent isecs colleagues...

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Why have you done this to me?

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

At CECS, 2025 is a big year for us because 1775 was, too. We’ve been co-curating a 250th exhibition on Jane Austen and JMW Turner at Harewood House. More info in the coming weeks, so watch this space. #AustenTurner #18thC #JaneAusten Ticket info: harewood.org/events/auste...

Poster for the Austen Turner exhibition at Harewood House, co-curated by CECS.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We're delighted to welcome Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social, Chief Sports Writer for The Guardian, to the English Faculty on 3 March. He'll be in conversation w/ Prof David Taylor discussing everything from the politics of sport to the changing nature of Britain’s media landscape. All welcome!

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Strikes me that the only 18th c person who cld genuinely be everywhere in a bookshop is Rousseau. Even opera!!

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