@DoctorCPhillips This is just a reflection of the value that society now places on knowledge that doesn't directly make their lives easier, or that doesn't result in them getting more cheap stuff.
Sylvia Plath: Life inside the Bell Jar. Confirmed for BBC2 broadcast Sat 11 Aug 9pm. Dir. Teresa Griffiths, producers Clive Flowers & @TimKendall70. Includes interviews with Frieda Hughes, @Plathbiography, @tristineskyler, & friends of Plath from NY & MA. https://t.co/I9TpBs9Q9E
@CECSYork Could I please ask where the creator of this flyer found the 18th-c. style publishing embellishments etc? Working on something similar and remembered this.
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 6th edition, is now published. There are 46 new poets and over 330 new poems (out of 352 poets/1850 poems in total). Many thanks to my brilliant fellow-editors, Mary Jo Salter and Margie Ferguson, and to all the team at Norton.
We've had feedback over the last week that some people are unhappy with our plan to offer up to 14 scholarships to refugees living in the local area. To these people, we would like to say: Tough. Jog on. https://t.co/ioDLPp5crw
The worlde kan be a terrible place. Hange on to ech othir. Remember good thinges. Gyve helpe whanevir ye kan, and ask for support whanevir ye neede. All of us are heere alone, wanderirs, and so we helpe.
Just when you thought we'd run out of news...
We're delighted to present the summer schedule for postgrad forum - all sessions in King's Manor, K/G07. We hope to see you there!
Fascinating 1731 #map of #Scotland showing #clans and their territories, including the number of men who joined the 1715 Rising. It shows the military strength of the #Jacobites in the turbulent years leading up to the Battle of #Culloden.
Zoom in: https://t.co/1DETwjeSvs
A blog post of mine for the @GilbertWhites Museum, on the world of 18th c. Selborne, where Gilbert White became a pioneering naturalist. A world where wildlife abounded in Hampshire that is now locally extinct, and so quiet you can hear a signal cannon from 23 miles away! https://t.co/96qhkLceeW