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So @SouthernWater have almost doubled my bill compared to last year, & I have no choice but to pay it. The logic of privatisation, such as it is, requires a competitive market to function. Without competition there is only monopoly & abuse, which is what Southern Water are doing.
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Weird to check back over here and still see people being active. You know Bluesky is much better, right?
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Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social retweeted
📢📢Remember!
The Modern Language Review, the flagship journal of the MHRA, invites original and compelling contributions from emerging and established scholars on any aspect or period of Anglophone literature, as articles (7-9K words) or book reviews!
👉mhra.org.uk/series/MLR
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social retweeted
'The Psalms for All'
And here is a great interview by Barbara Burns with Hannibal Hamlin, whose volume 'The Psalms in English, 1530-1633' has just been published in the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations series👉 mhra.org.uk/news/2024/09/24/…
📢Tudor and Stuart Translations Nº 19 is out!
'The Psalms in English, 1530–1633', edited by Hannibal Hamlin 👉mhra.org.uk/publications/tst…
This is the first volume to feature a brand new cover design for Texts & Translations! 🧑🎨
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Very happy to see this out! I copy-edited it a couple of years ago, before I started my current role, and I've ended up guiding it through production. A truly monumental edition, worth looking at for anyone working on #earlymodern studies 📖
📢Tudor and Stuart Translations Nº 19 is out!
'The Psalms in English, 1530–1633', edited by Hannibal Hamlin 👉mhra.org.uk/publications/tst…
This is the first volume to feature a brand new cover design for Texts & Translations! 🧑🎨
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social retweeted
📢Tudor and Stuart Translations Nº 19 is out!
'The Psalms in English, 1530–1633', edited by Hannibal Hamlin 👉mhra.org.uk/publications/tst…
This is the first volume to feature a brand new cover design for Texts & Translations! 🧑🎨
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Sad news. RIP Thulsa Doom. The greatest cult leader there ever was. They shall all drown in lakes of blood.
RIP James Earl Jones
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social retweeted
Free witchcraft history. Very pleased to see you can now virtually borrow for free my 1999 book "Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736-1951" from the Internet Archive. Witches, cunning-folk, fortune-telling, and much more.
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I just love that the @internetarchive has a search field for an entirely different service top and centre on its homepage, definitely never searched in there by mistake
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A very clear example of when a type layout is over-designed - looks gorgeous, but the words have come a long way behind the design
An already beautiful book made EVEN MORE beautiful: the Vale Press edition of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1899, in a contemporary binding by R.S.B. Watson - head of the bookbinding firm Watson & Co but an accomplished hobbyist craft binder too blackwells.co.uk/rarebooks/b…
ALT A green leather binding, elaborately tooled in gold, including an appropriately nautical themed border of shells.
ALT The opening page of 'Part the first', with an intricate initial 'I' and full-page woodcut border of vines and leaves designed by Charles Ricketts
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social retweeted
We've published two more titles as Gold Open Access ebooks!
👉Claudia Dellacasa's 'Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs'
👉Peter Haysom-Rodríguez's 'Regionalisms and Resistance in the Twentieth-Century Portuguese Novel: Spatialized Ideologies'
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The kind of welcome we give racists here in Brighton. The kind of welcome they deserve everywhere.
#UKriots
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Interesting read. Would be great to see this done with a larger sample size. I’d say the panic about student use of LLMs is mostly unwarranted.
What do History students think of GenAI? During 2023-24 @NevilleMorley has surveyed students @exeterclio on their understanding and attitudes to AI for reading and research.
His finding are now available on the RHS blog bit.ly/4fooiP5 #twitterstorians 1/2
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Demonstration of a 19thC linotype typesetting machine – this is fascinating to me, seems way more complex and baffling than modern tech, even though really I know it’s not!
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The Green Party has the same number of seats as Reform now and the BBC must not be allowed to forget it. #BBC #generalection2024
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