Showing off our Shakespeare First Folio at the John Rylands, and also various versions of Othello (including the new book by @jallenpaisant!) @TheJohnRylands @ECW_UoM #FirstFolio @ProfFarahKC
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Fab #FirstFolio day today at the Rylands showing the Birthday Book and all manner of other lovely treasures!
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This week is mainly devoted to #Shakespeare, with @ProfFarahKC visiting Manchester to talk tonight, a Schools visit event today/ tomorrow, and a day long event about this bad boy on Saturday (John Rylands #FirstFolio pictured!). @OldFortunatus @TheJohnRylands
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End of #BSLS2023 which is sad but looking forward to '24! It was fab fun thanks to @Emilyalder for amazing organisation! So long and thanks for the Limericks!!!!
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I asked AI to write Hamlet's speech on Yorick in the style of Harry Styles (for a teaching work thing, honest)
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We made some DNA art/ poetry in our session #bsls2023 it was fab fun! @TheBSLS @doublehelixhist @LitSciPod
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Newly arrived in EDINBURGH for @TheBSLS #BSLS2023 [😍 in itself] and I can see SIR WALTER SCOTT from my hotel window #historicalfiction Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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The first plenary of #HFRN2023 is Alison Keith talking about 'Sulpicia, Servius’ Daughter: Life, Love and Literature in Augustan Rome'
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REALLY EXCITED FOR #HFRN2023ST STARTING NOW Y'ALL
plus extra bonus interactive seminar by me on Sunday morning 'The Historical Novel *now*?'
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from An order concerning the excise, 1645. One of the best of these I've seen. Completely foxed the student who was working on it
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Finally the Trilogy is complete, now more powerful than ever in combination.... #oneringtorulethemall #twitterstorians @thomascauvin @TanyaEvans14 @sdecarne @philipeast
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Enjoyed launching Double Helix History last night thanks so much to @BlackwellsMcr and everyone who came along! Thanks to @ZandraAlberda for the cool chat too
Book available here: tinyurl.com/2p8umcdr
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@thomascauvin managed to miss your book launch through idiocy (got my time differences wrong)!!!! YOU ARE A SUPERSTAR THOUGH!!!!! and the book is really important, impressive, and thoughtful
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Ali Ronan reminds us how important Margaret Ashton is to the history of Manchester #FestivalofLibraries
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Used this as an end of term 'and finally' in class but the more I watch it the more I think it contains EVERYTHING you might need to know about Hamlet, performance history, British theatre, Eurocentric cultures of knowledge, Western philosophy and ruffs. youtube.com/watch?v=34ykFlfn….
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And that is all for #BSLS2022!! Thanks to your all for conferring, chatting, eating, and everything inbetween. See your next year in Edinburgh!!!!
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Day 3 of #BSLS2022! We are going to end with a BANG! Plenary from @pravinch_s and some great panels upcoming
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SUNGLASSES!!!! Here we go for day 2 of #BSLS2022, racers, start your engines!!!!
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Jyotsna Singh: 'The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1500-1700'. Stachniewski memorial lecture, 16 Feb at 5:30 BST All welcome for details DM me @oldnorthroad @conversiontales @rhetorician @earlymodatLancs @AdamSmy36314691 @rentravailer @emi_rowe @ECW_UoM @cmanch
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Unlikely @archerfxx/ Paradise Lost crossover (they had a Michel Foucault joke a few episodes back...) #
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So my 2021 #tourdelibrary I went to 14 libraries around Manchester (including Droylsden, pictured, which is about to be knocked down) and 7 boroughs in total which given Covid I'm pretty pleased with. More next year! FORZA!
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Lovely trip to @chethamslibrary with my third years, so nice to be back in the archive looking at old things!! This is the Proclamation for burning Milton's books in 1660
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I'm (hopefully) editing the introduction to my book about genetics and history. If I get off Twitter, that is... #litsciwrite
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Very wet #tourdemanchester today cycling to Ashton via Droylsden library (due to be demolished) #tourdelibrary
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This is my Mum's husband David Thomas's family bible with inscriptions in the inside recounting the family history from around 1850 to 1910
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Then quite the epic journey to Oldham #tourdemanchester passing Failsworth, Chadderton, Middleton Libraries #tourdelibrary
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I've had quite the #tourdelibrary this week, first off Beswick and the Avenue Library in Blackley #tourdemanchester
If you're about on the 3 March at I'll be speaking 'in' Bengaluru about 'The Public Life of DNA' at 9:30am GMT, all welcome, details below
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International Mother Language Day is happening this week, lots to do all around the city, here's a photo from our 2018 event at @gaskellshouse with @cultureword #MCRIMLD21
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Sensational paper by @DrStephR on anachronism, #Dickinson, twerking, C19th wokeness and satire
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More #tourdelibrary today and last week at Didsbury, Abraham Moss, Northenden, Barlow Moor @MancLibraries
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My 2021 slightly eccentric exercise plan is to cycle to every local library in Manchester - here's the first in the snow on Saturday, can you identify it? @macinnes_neil @MancLibraries @McrLitFest #tourdelibrary2021
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Music recommendations from our students for a Friday afternoon:
3/Stuart Nolan’s Deerhoof recommendations: youtube.com/watch?v=Unah8_NV…
Daniel Marx recommends some Jazz for us: Sam Eastmond, Joshua Redmond, Julian Lage.
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Suggestions for mindful working from some of our students:
Stuart Nolan: imisstheoffice.eu
Thomas Dukes: youarelistening.to
David Cane: Dave’s Walks: youtube.com/channel/UCX6CKT9…
Sarah Keirle, breath of the wild soundtrack with rain: youtube.com/watch?v=hjQfYEjv…
Here is Elspeth Garman, Prof of Molecular Biophysics, giving the first Rosalind Franklin Lecture:
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Looking forward to Rosalind Franklin's 100th birthday on Saturday! I'll be tweeting about Franklin all week and recording a podcast about her with @Turi__King and @matthewcobb
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