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Tim Youngs

@timyoungs.bsky.social
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Author / editor of books on travel writing. Poet. Interests in visual art, especially that of Gurminder Sikand.

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are pleased to announce our Spring/Summer 2027 Catalogue: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/catalogues/
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Catalogues | Fitzcarraldo Editions
Released biannually, catalogues outline our forthcoming publications. Spring catalogues include titles publishing between January and July, and Autumn catalogues include titles publishing between Augu...
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We're delighted to announce an OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS for our brand new journal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe'. More info attached, and on the new submissions site (www.whp-journals.co.uk/EE/index). Submissions will open on 15th September. #envhist #envhum
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Talk, coming up 24 Sep 2026 - Moveable Type and the Early Modern Imaginary Image reproduction and the Early Modern mental universe Lecturer: Stephanie Leitch Sponsor: American Academy in Berlin www.americanacademy.de/program/move...
This printed image is a German colored woodcut, artist unknown, from c. 1505. It depicts in the foreground dark skilled people - men, women and children - standing on land wearing skirts and feathered headdresses, and in the background a body of water on which ships are visible.
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Enjoyed Lila Matsumoto's 'Talk a Blue Streak' (Monitor Books, 2026).
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Our 🌠 Series Advisory Board for Early Modern Maritime Humanities 🙏 Fred Hocker, Vasa @elsjevankessel.bsky.social @medievalmariner.bsky.social @stevementz.bsky.social @plymprivateer.bsky.social @schottemargaret.bsky.social Sebastian Sobecki, Toronto Uni @suzezij.bsky.social brill.com/page/forthco...
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Very pleased that Gurminder Sikand is one of the artists in 'Women on the Edge of Time', curated by Linsey Young, which opened at the Vadehra Gallery, Delhi, today. On until 18th September, 2026. www.vadehraart.com/exhibitions/...
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The Friday Poem @thefridaypoem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A simple tree rooted in a quiet dream open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...
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A simple tree rooted in a quiet dream
Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of Tree Poetry.
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Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📢CFA - Would you like to join the team "Travellers' interactions in early modern Italy" at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento? A 32-month position is now open for a postdoctoral researcher focusing on encounters involving travellers in Trento and Gorizia! isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta...
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FBK is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Early Modern History, with a focus on encounters involving travellers in Trento and Gorizia
This position is offered within the project Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy (TRAVEL), funded by a Consolidator Grant from the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS-2023-02909) (PI: Sandra ...
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"As I approach the blocking stones I realise that the barrow is, for me, a sacred place, because the memory of childhood is a sacred place. And part of it is preserved here." Seventy miles, thirty-five hours, four counties, two long barrows. longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/slow-netwo...
Blocking stones, West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire, July 2024.
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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
50% off! Just putting in a plug for "Balkan Departures", studies of travel writing from Southeastern Europe (Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian) www.berghahnbooks.com/title/bracew...
Balkan Departures: Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Edited by Wendy Bracewell and Alex Drace-Francis
(Berghahn Books, currently half price)
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David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'm happy to announce that my anthology of Black sea writing, I Will Take to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea, is scheduled to be published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2026. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The cover for the book I Will to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea. The image includes a painting by Winslow Homer of a muscular Black man aboard a small ship in stormy waters, looking ahead as sharks circle the ship.
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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Please consider submitting your work for our upcoming special issue with VPR based on RSVP's theme for the recent conference: rs4vp.org/cfp-movement...
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VPR CFP: Movements & Migrations – RSVP
Victorian Periodicals Review calls for proposals for a special issue on "Movements and Migrations." Proposals due 1 September!
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Thrilled that 8 of Gurminder Sikand's paintings are in India for a group show, curated by Linsey Young, at the Vadehra Gallery in Delhi. (Further details to be posted when the show opens later this month.)
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Spend an hour with Ange Mlinko, Michael Caines, and me as we discuss the work of Henri Coulette (1927-1988), whose NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, which Michael and I co-edited, is now available from @carcanet.bsky.social: youtu.be/WodlOh5NjMY
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Henri Coulette: New and Selected Poems Book Launch
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Naush Sabah @naush.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My new pamphlet, Lentic, is out today with Guillemot Press. 💙🏘️💦 Grab a copy here: www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/naush...
Image of Lentic by Naush Sabah on a desk with other books in the background.The author, Naush Sabah, smiles holding her new pamphlet, Lentic, in front of bookshelves.New book, Lentic, on a mantle between a houseplant and mirror.
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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I review four titles from @tapsalteerie.bsky.social today ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/f... #poetry #bookreviews
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Four from Tapsalteerie: A Review
Devour Everything, Sarah Stewart, Tapsalteerie, 2026, SKU: 978-1-9192208-0-2, €15.00  Knockan, Jim Carruth, Tapsalteerie, 2026, SKU: 978-1-7384396-9-0, €15.00  Weathershaker, Stewart Sanderson, Tap…
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Save on your summer #poetry reads. Come in for a browse, with up to 50% off, direct from us ☀️ ninearchespress.com/shop#!/SALE/...
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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I've been doing a new project w/a grad student collaborator & we got interested in Tagore's short stories. (Alongside everything else, he was a world-class short story writer!) We made a collection of them; it's the largest set currently online (I think): scalar.lehigh.edu/literature-o...
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Literature of Colonial South Asia: Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore: A Collection
A Collection of Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore in English Translation
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Are you interested in developing genuinely interdisciplinary piece of research? Applications for the International Interdisciplinary Research Projects, focused on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ are now open. Apply now: bit.ly/4y9wiwJ
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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I recently featured on a Behavioral Scientist Reads podcast about the fictional subfield of “travel psychology” that appears in the novel Flights by Olga Tokarczuk. It is a discussion of mobility and its politics. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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Episode 2: What Is Travel Psychology?
Podcast Episode · Behavioral Scientist Reads · 30 July · 54min
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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here's a chance to buy my ELLE and 100s of other books at a handsome discount! robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle...
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ELLE: A VERSE NOVEL is now published
My new book  Elle: A Verse Novel  is now published by Broken Sleep Books   Details for ORDER:  Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Bro...
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
FREE UK postage across your #poetry purchases direct from us until the end of July. Don't miss out on these recent books and so much more...📚 ninearchespress.com/shop
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Shop | Nine Arches Press
Buy Nine Arches Press poetry books online - purchase our poetry collections, Under the Radar magazine subscriptions and browse new publications.
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A summer treat for our lovely readers - buy direct from us and get FREEPOST across all UK book orders. Poetry direct to your door ✉️ What will you choose? ninearchespress.com/shop
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 05/07/2026
In this high-concept hybrid work, Deryn Rees-Jones summons a vivid fever dream of Paris, a city simultaneously real and mythologised, where place is sodden with memory and time seems to exist all at once
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Poetry Review: Hôtel Amour by Deryn Rees-Jones
CJ Wagstaff Few poets navigate the terrain of grief and memory with the same authority and daring as Deryn Rees-Jones. Celebrated both as a writer and Professor of Poetry, Rees-Jones has long establis...
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Enjoyed @padrig.bsky.social's collection 'Blood Feather' (2023), poignantly read around appropriate anniversaries.
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A return visit to the book sale on its final day and another very pleasing purchase: £4 for the first volume of Hilary Spurling's biography of Matisse to put with Gurminder Sikand's copy of the second volume.
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Pleased to have picked up for £4 in a sale 'Gauguin: Maker of Myth' (Tate Publishing, 2010), including an essay by @cforsdick.bsky.social on Gauguin and Segalen.
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Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📢CFA: I'm very pleased to announce that a new PhD position has opened up in my FIS project "Travellers' interactions in early modern Italy", at the University of Roma Tre in collaboration with the Italian-German Historical Institute Trento. More info: isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta... Deadline: 14 July.
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TRAVEL – CfA 3 PhD Positions in Early Modern History
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Delighted that giving the opening talk at yesterday's event on 'Travel Writing and Its Limits' at the University of Warwick allowed me to be at such an enjoyable day of stimulating papers and productive discussion from which I learned much. And a pleasure to catch up with @carlethompson.bsky.social
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Poetry Salzburg sent the new collection, Candlelight, to the printers today. John Lucas is remembered in its pages.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A happy #Bloomsday to all! Hear Joyce reading from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake in two rare recordings from the 1920s: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j… #Bloomsday2023
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Always great to see the fantastic work the #EnglishAssociation does @englishassociation.bsky.social and today to celebrate the winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Huge congratulations to Susannah Dickey, this year’s winner, for ‘Isdal’
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We're launching a new journal and can finally share the news! Edited by Stephen Brain and Victor Pal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe' will open to submissions in Autumn this year, for a first issue in 2027. More information forthcoming soon! #envhist #envhum
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Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Join us for the FREE online launch of exquisite new poetry pamphlets by Hilary Menos and Elaine Ewart on 28 May: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... NEW PAMPHLETS by Hilary Menos and Elaine Ewart - now available! newwalkmagazine.bigcartel.com
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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Maritime history can tell endless types of stories. If you are working on a maritime topic, consider submitting to #RoyalMuseumsGreenwich conference on Maritime Histories from the Margins. #skystorians #cfp 🌊🗃️
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Call for Papers | Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present
An interdisciplinary conference co-convened by Royal Museums Greenwich and the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures, University of Portsmouth
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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I know small poem Sunday is a thing here, but I’d love to do a more general round-up of minimalist poetry. Which poets do you admire who write/wrote on a very small scale, (i.e. work that is slight, compact, compressed, even aphoristic)?
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Pleased that Gurminder Sikand has two early paintings in the group show 'Diaphanous' at Indigo+Madder in London. Thursdays to Saturdays, or by appointment, till 20th June 2026.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Frederick Douglass was not only a perceptive writer about music; he was also an accomplished singer and competent violinist. All very much in evidence during his tour of Britain and Ireland in 1847: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland - Tuning Himself: Some Notes on Frederick Douglass, Transatlantic Musician
Frederick Douglass was not only a perceptive writer about music, he was also an accomplished singer and a competent violinist. All very much in evidence during his tour of Britain and Ireland in 1845-...
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Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I've introduced some new mentoring packages, as of Spring 2026. Get in touch for more info: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/
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MENTORING
I provide private, one-to-one mentoring (online) for the development of poetry writing projects and manuscripts. The packages I offer suit poets who have some experience already, either starting to…
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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our collections our now available to purchase on the LUP website! Find out more here: bit.ly/PavilionPoet...
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Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
📢CFA: 3 PhD fellowships within the project ‘Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy’, at the universities of Padua, Trento, and Roma Tre, in partnership with the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. More info: isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta... Please feel free to circulate widely!
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TRAVEL – CfA 3 PhD Positions in Early Modern History
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Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
JOB KLAXON - National Museums Scotland is looking for a Keeper of Global Arts, Cultures & Design. Amazing team & collections. If you have senior management experience and expertise in one of these areas, apply! Salary - £76,093 – 86,275 FT 35 hpw Deadline - 30/04/2026 careers.nms.ac.uk/job/856993
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Keeper, Global Arts, Cultures & Design
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
We'll be among the 60+ poetry publishers at Free Verse on Saturday 25 April (Knightsbridge, London): hope to see you there.
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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Glad to have two poems in the new issue (no.28) of NOON: journal of the short poem.
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Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📢 CFA - 3 Postdoctoral Researchers in Early Modern History (35 months) within the project ‘Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy’ at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Deadline: 8 May 2026. jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs... Please circulate widely!
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Jobs | Humanities and Social Sciences Hub - Trento | FBK is looking for three Postdoctoral Researchers in the field of Early Modern History
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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In Memoriam: Pete Messent
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In Memoriam: Pete Messent - British Association for American Studies
The Department of American Studies at the University of Nottingham is sad to report the death of its Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature, Pete Messent, one of the founders of the…
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Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New from Leafe Press: "State Honey" by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social "...fast-moving to contemplative, presenting experience mediated by language that is fragmentary and shifting, disconcerting and never dull." www.leafepress.org/2026/01/stat...
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State Honey - Andrew Taylor
State Honey Andrew Taylor 36 pages The phrase 'State Honey' - a mistranslated caption from a Chinese opium pot provides the starting point f...
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This imminent volume looks so interesting! Women and Their Worlds: The Perspectives of Early Modern European Travellers Edited by Helena Sanson, Małgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan Series: New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800 link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Book jacket - primary colors, rust, red, black and yellow. Top half is text (title, editors' names, etc). In the bottom half is a drawing of two women - one white-skinned, one dark-skinned - standing facing one white man. Servants behind them hold sunshades over each of the three protagonists.
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Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
1st March 2026.
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 12/02/2026
We are thrilled to announce that applications for our 1st round of Microgrant funding are now open! These small seed grants of up to $300 USD support exploratory research or new projects in periodical studies. Applications for this first round of funds are due March 1!
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RSVP Microgrants – RSVP
Microgrants are seed grants designed to support new research projects and/or explore ideas in the field of periodical studies. The Microgrants scheme was established in response to the 2025 survey of…
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