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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 13h

it's not the main thing we need, but we do need a David Lodge style Changing Places exchange program so that professors realize the way their institution does things is not standard nor inevitable

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 17h

Well, my Firefox is now in Ukrainian and I *still* can’t open attached files. This is looking to be a less productive day than I was planning.

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ALT: Elmo's Long Exasperated Sigh

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We—and I cannot emphasize this enough—do not have to normalize the use of this technology. I know it’s already here and students are using it: that’s the point. They don’t need me to teach them how to use it the right way; it’s my job to teach them they don’t need it.

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I genuinely feel like I’m losing my mind when I’m around other educators who are talking about teaching students “responsible uses of AI”.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I reviewed @profdarryljones.bsky.social's new biography of M. R. James. Long-awaited by fans, and surely the most important book about MRJ yet to appear this century: drfrancisyoung.com/2026/09/28/r... 📚👻📜

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Review: ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ by Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones, For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James (Oxford University Press, 2026), 437pp. M. R. James did not make it easy for anyone to write his biography. He introduced this difficult…

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Map of 300 years worth of mining tunnels underneath Cornwall, UK. [Keith Russ / abandonedminemodels. com] Original post

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I returned to my old place of work at some point yesterday, as I vaguely recall.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mr Walker and the UK Government need to brush up on their phonetics - see me after class.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it."

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m not saying I’m bribable, but if anyone wants to buy me this…

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Sordya 〓〓 @sordyakernow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Treusenedh is pronounced truhz-EN-edh, where dh is the th in 'this'. Would folks appreciate some reels with pronunciations? That's something we can think about doing. Gwiryow treus bys vykken! #Kernewek #Cornish #Kernow #Cornwall #trans #lgbtq

gour treus/benyn dreus = (a) trans man/trans woman
treus ov = I'm trans
treuskas = transphobia
treuskaser = (a) transphobe
kawgh dhe dreuskasers = fuck transphobes
gwiryow treus bys vykken = trans rights forever

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I remember becoming helplessly giggly over an essay that talked about Macbeth and his friend Banjo

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Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So many, but the one I will never forget was not a typo, but the most desperate final gambit in an essay on, I think, Stravinsky’s Oedipus rex. The student recounted the tragedy ending with, “Few, today, put out their eyes.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you exchange the ability to read books and perhaps even write them for the ability to ask a machine to tell you about them or to put words in your mouth, you have not made a good trade. You have not traded like for like or worse for better. And that is the exchange being proposed

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favourite remains the student’s exam answer discussing at length Whistler and the London frog. Other than that minor error, it was a good essay, mind you. 🐸

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 24/09/2026

This is true and it's tiresome how much it needs saying. We have to respect that people we don't like have the same rights we want to enjoy. Otherwise we're on the road to fascism no matter how "right side of history" we think we are.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Everyone generally thinks he got this wrong but there is no express decision saying so. As a result, the official form which you can use to enroll a deed poll evidencing a change of name in the High Court includes an endorsement saying “please ignore him”. I can’t think of any similar example.

Screenshot of page 2 of:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69bd2860b920af63be1c7572/LOC020_0326_save.pdf

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unpopular opinion Histoire de France : quelqu'un qui serait capable de réciter dans l'ordre tous les rois / présidents depuis les origines, mais sans connaître l'enquête linguistique de 1863 ou les réalités qu'elle illustre, ne connaît et ne comprend en fait rien à la trajectoire historique du pays

carte tirée du livre d'E Weber sur l'enquête linguistique de 1863 montrant un grand nombre de départements non francophones (sud, ouest, est)

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Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Love the fact that in most places back then, rumours of a vampire in the neighbourhood would have had the local kids hiding in their bedrooms, while in the Gorbals, they were like: "Let's get tooled up and leather the cunt."

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know that bit in the Gospels where Christ says that if anyone causes a child to stumble,* it would be better for them to have a millstone tied round their neck and drowned in the sea? Well. * Matt 18:6

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll be sharing some thoughts on the New Zealand artist Len Lye, who worked for the General Post Office Film Unit in the 1930s, making some dazzling animated shorts such as 'Rainbow Dance'.

Shot from Len Lye's 'Rainbow Dance' (1935)

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My friend who works in education always says that we want education to solve all our society's problems, when we should see those problems as something we must solve in order to have good education

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Come celebrate all the winners at the virtual MSA Prizes celebration during the Modernist Crossings Symposium sponsored by Modernism and Pedagogy on Wed., Sept. 30 from 9 am- 11 am EST. Registration is free: www.tickettailor.com/events/msamo... Congratulations again to all the winners!

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Select tickets – Modernist Crossings - Teaching Modernism across the Curriculum, with MSA Prizes Announcement! – Zoom

Modernist Crossings - Teaching Modernism across the Curriculum, with MSA Prizes Announcement! – Zoom, Wed Sep 30, 2026 - All are welcome to join at the start of the event, when the MSA, and Second Vic...

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Spodomancy @spodomancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also of course "you are still basically a child but we think you have inherent qualities that make you a leader, here's a crowd of creatures who may well seem barely human to you, now lead them into battle" is not just "you are a Pevensey" but also "you are a subaltern in 1914"

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is, quite simply, a treat and a delight to write a letter of support for a review/tenure/promotion file. People are so brilliant, and their work so moving, and every time I get to make a deep dive into a file, I feel lucky to see humanity in action in these thoughtful ways.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perhaps foolish to be sitting at my desk and smoking a pipe as I open with great anticipation @profdarryljones.bsky.social’s biography of MR James upon this illustration…

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am writing an essay on why I think universities that do not invest in the study of Black/African history have no business with Black History Month.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I have become increasingly convinced that we are heading for a disastrous confrontation and that the 21st century will be remembered for a terrible war between mankind and goats"

Goat war: an apology
FRIDAY'S Argus featured a Your Interview with Richard Robinson.
We would like to clarify that the quote "I have become increasingly convinced that we are heading for a disastrous confrontation and that the 21st century will be remembered for a terrible war between mankind and goats" was a reader question and not a response from Mr Robinson.
The next paragraph: "People often underestimate how dangerous a goat can be - I personally know six people who have become severely injured by goats, and the annual death toll racked up by goats is over
2,000,000",
, is also a reader question and not a response from Mr Robinson.
The Argus is happy to correct this and would like to apologise for the error.

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Ian Saltern 〓〓 @saltern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Onen hag oll | One and all Islamic centre overwhelmed by support after damage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Islamic centre in Cornwall 'overwhelmed' by support after damage

The centre has also released CCTV of the incident

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I judge unsparingly anyone who doesn’t get this right: on no other point am I quite so mercilessly pedantic, nor do I recoil quite so viscerally from any other error.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, that was one way to win a fifty-quid bar tab and a baseball cap I’ll never wear.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I seem to have entered myself into a chilli-eating competition at the brewery. If I don’t make it out, it’s been a pleasure.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One thing I like about my job is that it gives me a reason—requires me!—to know stuff about other stuff. Not at expert levels, but with familiar curiosity. Literary studies is always already interdisciplinary.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(reposted to give due credit to Beryl, whose sentiment of "why don't you piss off, you horrible little man?" is one I think we can all learn from)

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A guy whose fame was based on performing bawdy ditties with a ukulele got booted out of South Africa in 1946, in part for hugging a black woman at one of the free gigs he insisted on doing for black audiences, and his wife telling the govt to shove it up their arse. Can we be serious here.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Make the choice you wanna make, but own it. Don't tell me it's impossible to take a stand when George and Beryl Formby were effectively extradited from 40s South Africa.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you can't handle my "Fuck Apartheid" you don't deserve "My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock".

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When the venue manager objected, his wife and manager Beryl responded, "Why don't you piss off, you horrible little man?"

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

George Formby refused to perform to a segregated audience in apartheid South Africa. Just something to think about.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s Jack’s birthday tomorrow. 📸 Jack Cardiff (1956)

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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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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