It was great fun to talk #BoxOfficeBears with @andykesson and @EmmaWhipday for @BBCFreeThinking. Hear it on the link below - or search for ‘Arts & Ideas’ on your podcast provider.
We're hosting The Missing Lynx exhibition for two weeks this summer (20 July - 4 August). The exhibition charts the history and comeback of lynx across Europe and invites your opinions on bringing the species back to Britain. Free entry. Find out more - https://t.co/KJ4cuP5jYG
We’ve just finished this creative writing workshop @NottmLibraries. It was brilliant. Thank you to @AngelaClerkin for leading and to all the writers for joining in. If you want a fab afternoon of creating imaginative stories with others - book Angela!!
We’ve just finished this creative writing workshop @NottmLibraries. It was brilliant. Thank you to @AngelaClerkin for leading and to all the writers for joining in. If you want a fab afternoon of creating imaginative stories with others - book Angela!!
it is absolutely ridiculous that every bookshop in central london is still obliged to carry out "bear drills", in case the bears escape from london zoo. firstly there is no evidence they would particularly target bookshops. secondly the zoo hasn't had any bears since 2008.
Tapestry fragment of a chained bear with a ragged staff, heraldic emblem of the Jouvenel des Ursins family #Heraldry#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi#bearhistory (link to bears with the name Ursins & there's also acanthus which is 'ursine' in French...). 15th c. Tournai, now in Louvre
Starting conversations around lynx reintroduction. There is an archaeological record of lynx, from England, Scotland and Wales.
https://t.co/wdUwn9L5mK
Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor's having a moment this summer: 80s rockers @OVOtheatre (dir. Adam Nichols) + the @TheRSC summer production (dir. Blanche McIntyre). Does it speak keenly to 2020s? Read most up-to-date intro in @OWC_Oxford new edition:
https://t.co/UP3ZC1PlHv
🐦⬛our inperson/online hybrid multispecies animal studies symposium is upon us. Starts tomorrow, 3 keynotes, 1 invited panel, 30+ presentations, 100+ registrations, 2 exhibitions, all spread over two sunny days in Brighton (& online!) @uniofbrighton@ahrcpress
A bear licking its cub into shape, after being born formless. Many such images feature in medieval manuscripts.
Source: Cambridge University Library, Ii.4.26, folio 13v
📢 #AnimalHistory Conference
🗓️ 27 and 28 June
⏰ 13.00-18.00 BST (London)
📍 Online
🎟️https://t.co/acSLHTB4Xk
Our Summer Conference is just over 3 weeks away. We'd love to see you there!
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