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Penny Fielding

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Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Evening light in the Borders
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Look at this brilliant picture.
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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's a quick reminder that the CfP for the 14th International Walter Scott Conference (University of Edinburgh, 28-30 June 2027) is out. The topic is "Politics, Place, and Print Culture". Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2026.
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The 14th International Walter Scott Conference | English and Scottish Literature | Literatures Languages and Culture
A three-day conference with talks, panels and a plenary session exploring the work of Scottish writer Walter Scott within the theme of 'Politics, Place and Print Culture'. Currently accepting submissi...
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At Kew for spy talk.
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Reading Andrew Lownie's excellent biography of Guy Burgess. It's striking how interlocked the Cambridge Spies were with cultural and educational institutions. Burgess worked for the BBC, dabbled on the fringes of Bloomsbury and knew most politicians and journalists.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This year’s Festival programme was one of the best yet.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
For an introduction to Scott's Lighthouse Tour, now transcribed by Abbotsford House, check out our animation of the Orkney and Shetland sections. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvss...
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walter scott travels to orkney and shetland animation
YouTube video by Abbotsford - The Home of Sir Walter Scott
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Abbotsford House has done a wonderful job of transcribing the MS of Scott's Lighthouse Tour and making it available. Congratulations to all involved. loom.ly/z1icyJ4
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Abbotsford - The Home of Sir Walter Scott
Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott. A breathtaking place to visit located on the banks of the River Tweed in the glorious Scottish Borders.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is easily worth 50 minutes of your time if you're in Edinburgh. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
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Krapp's Last Tape is a journey through an old man's life, filled with hilarious memories and hopes for the future, coupled with the mourning of lost love and unfulfilled ambition. This production, directed by Academy Award nominee Stockard Channing and starring David Westhead, tours globally throughout 2026/27. Revel in Samuel Beckett's classic play, as audiences are invited into Krapp's world of solitude, memories, dreams, elation and despair. Post-show 15-minute Q&A on selected dates noted with a 65-minute runtime.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Two tall people and a very tall tree. With the bro in a rainy botanical gardens
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Friday Margaritas
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Moray coast is pretty close to Elgin. You'd have thought the Greeks would keep away.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I love Yeats, but honestly 'No Second Troy' is the ultimate 'she's just not that into you' poem.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Preferable to the Oxford Classics graduate who became Prime Minister
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I have reached the pinnacle of my academic career. I am now officially a "boffin".
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A Beer, A Bap, and A Boffin | Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Based in the heart of Highland Perthshire, Pitlochry Festival Theatre is Scotland's leading producer of musical theatre and the country's only rurally-located, major arts organisation.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The walls of Magnus Martyr
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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 28/06/2026
everyone with an English degree rn: WELL, WELL, WELL,
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Northern sun
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Writing in the lovely Stromness library under the watchful eye of George Mackay Brown
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Taking refuge from the heat in the beautiful north
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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
CFP: Hogg’s World Now (Conference) navsa.org/News/13637856 Image Source: Portrait by John Watson Gordon, 1830
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Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
After giving the audience at @natlibscot.bsky.social an exclusive preview, we are delighted to share the first taste of our editions of Thomas Pennant's Scottish Tours! (Click on "Show Pennant's Tours" after following the link below) editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/tours
A sailing ship, the 'Lady Frederick Campbell', carried Thomas Pennant and his party across the sea with a view of the mountains of Glenelg, on the western coast of Scotland, in the background
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
St Kilda. Abandoned in 1930, when population decline and lack of medical facilities made the people evacuate after centuries of life there
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Glorious day on Harris
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Such a sad story
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Neolithic architecture at Callanish
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A professor and 3 doctors walk into a bar. 'Hi Johannes' says the bartender. 'What'll it be?' (h/t Phil whose photo it is and whose Bsky handle I've forgotten).
An advertisement in German for a book by Prof Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. Johannes Schilling Kiel.
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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
✍️ Looking to get your academic work published? Earlier this month, one of our Commissioning Editors @emilysharp.bsky.social joined a panel of fellow industry experts sharing tips on finding a publisher, writing proposals and more!
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How to get your academic work published
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This was a great event, showing the great value not only of manuscripts but also on the importance of keeping them in a community that can learn from them and communicate their importance.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Margaritas in thé hope of summer
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Two excellent things about Venice: great coffee in your B&B, and churches
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Great papers and pretty good views at the Stevenson conference
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Very pleased to have an article in this special issue of “Studies in Hogg and his World”. SHW does everything a journal of its kind should—articles, biographical and bibliographical notes, and reviews. Do consider submitting an essay.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I carefully read all the flyers for today's elections, and the one that had the clearest, most reasonable, and appropriately detailed set of proposals was ...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...
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What’s the future for our universities?
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Small town seaside Piers. Beautiful elegance for the people.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
May Day moonlight
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Come along for Lighthouses and more. We're delighted to be celebrating the aquisition of Scott's manuscript by Abbotsford House.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It’s that time again
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It's already destroyed a lot of fossil fuel supply, but the Iran War is shaping up to deliver the biggest destruction of fossil fuel demand in history. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528540...
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'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March
Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again. Universities are roughly 1000 years old. They predate most operating models including capitalism and have lasted for a reason. Installing insecure, helpless managers who ape business methods results in bad businesses, not good universities.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
RIP Len Deighton, the greatest 20th c author of spy fiction and a brilliant chronicler of the absurdities, historical complexities, and political violence of espionage. He was a wonderful, thoughtful stylist as well.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Finally spring
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Our annual Susan Manning Lecture is an exciting one this year. Cedric Tolliver will be speaking on African-American spy novels. Book here: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-lite... @uoe-llc.bsky.social
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The Susan Manning Memorial Lecture | English and Scottish Literature | Literatures Languages and Culture
Join us in person for the Susan Manning Memorial Lecture 2026 by Professor Cedric Tolliver (University of Oklahoma), followed by a Q&A and reception.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Scenes from a wonderful symposium at UC Cork and the launch of @claireconnolly.bsky.social ‘s brilliant book
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Uses of Romanticism symposium at @ucc.ie opens with a poetry reading from the fabulous Maureen McLane.
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Gotta love a hotel with Yeats on the bottled water
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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Really enjoyed the Bodleian’s informative Le Carre exhibition. Was pleased to note that The Author seems to have had no more idea about the plot of The Honourable Schoolboy than I do
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