Laura Swift 🦇

Editor, maker, writer, researcher. Commissioning in higher education. PhD on bad feelings in early modern London: paranoia, jealousy, abjection and disgust.

[Laura Swift 🦇 @lauramswift]

My new article is out now in the Ben Jonson Journal! One for fans of noise theory, paranoid masculinity, early modern London, and non sequiturs about Japanese horror cinema. https://t.co/oXzSGu6jLH

[Laura Swift 🦇 @lauramswift]

@NoJusticeMTG I like to picture him getting binned off by his former editor at Penguin and then ghosted by every major publishing house one after the other on his way to winding up with British London

[Laura Swift 🦇 @lauramswift]

I'm at #ASA2025 in Birmingham this week with @ManchesterUP! Come and say hello to talk books

[Anthrohubuob @anthrohubuob]

Around #ASA2025: The Book Exhibit in full swing! @berghahnbooks @ManchesterUP @mare_nostrum_uk @UCLpress

[Alison Rumfitt @hangsawoman]

my main impression of the English civil war from this book about the 17th century is that it went on forfuckingever and was oddly boring

[Liam Gallagher @liamgallagher]

@themesfromretro @blurrygintonic I can do anything i just choose not to do certain things sometimes

[Laura Swift 🦇 @lauramswift]

🎥 Save The Prince Charles Cinema! #SaveThePCC https://t.co/uCockYmrpj via @38degrees

[Manchester University Press @ManchesterUP]

Introducing: University Reimagined

A new #HigherEducation book series offering a home for fresh ideas about higher ed, & innovative solutions to the challenges it faces.

@StevenJones_MCR @educ_research @lauramswift

Proposals now OPEN! Find out more 👇

[Laura Swift 🦇 @lauramswift]

So pleased to be able to announce this, and delighted to be working with @StevenJones_MCR and @educ_research on this exciting new series!

[Steven Jones @StevenJones_MCR]

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by Dr Sadia Habib (@educ_research) and me, with thanks to @ManchesterUP, esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch through Bluesky or email if you have an idea. https://t.co/LhIglbpCcU

[Laura Swift 🦇 @lauramswift]

@lauramswift.bsky.social let's go

[Michal Schatz @miyyka9]

The first @VersoBooks Palestine Pamphlets are here 🇵🇸 🍉

https://t.co/H07P8EygHn

[Youth Front For Palestine @_YFFP_]

On Thursday 31 October, students and staff from the University of Manchester (UoM), along with the wider community, disrupted a normalisation event titled “Is Antizionism Anti-semitism”.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Alyssa 🌻 @alyssaleann]

A photographer I follow on Instagram has put together that his bronzer use amps up when he’s stressed / close to an election and is tied to his days in the rise of reality tv, and it’s fascinating

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[Alfie Stirling @alfie_stirling]

This also means inequality is rising.

The poorest third of households are seeing their real disposable incomes fall by 3.3% between today and October 2029, while the highest income third see a fall of 1.7%. 3/

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

oh fuck off

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

English Heritage staff repositioning the Stones at Stonehenge ready for the the end of British Summer Time this weekend (27th ROCKTOBER) ⏰⬅️😀#ClocksGoBack #BST #DayLghtSavingTime #Thattimeofyear #Calendar #Rocktober

[Society of Young Publishers @SYP_UK]

Laura Swift, Editorial Co-ordinator at Manchester University Press! 🎇

[Laura Swift 🦇 @lauramswift]

should be fine