Gail Marshall
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Gail Marshall
@gm181
Prof of Victorian Literature and Culture & Head of School of Humanities at @uniofreading; Chair of University English (@univenglish)
Katılım Haziran 2012
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I am giving an online zoom talk about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth for Heptonstall Museum on Thur 9th Jan, 7-8.30pm. A rare example of a working class female writer, she was an ethical socialist who fought for social justice. From free-£3, link below:
heptonstallmuseumfriends.org.uk/event/ethel-ca…
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Delighted that HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE is an ‘Editors’ Choice’ in today’s New York Times Book Review 📚❤️🙏📚
@AtriaBooks @EburyPublishing @nytimesbooks #sondheim #books #newyorktimes @gypsybway #theatre #broadway #musicaltheatre #theatre
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Calling all arts, humanities and social sciences early-career researchers! 📢
Applications are now open for a collections-based fellowship to explore sustainability and the environment through our collections.
Apply by 7 January 2025: bit.ly/BLSustainabili…
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@ProfKatyShaw Agreed. There’s a lot of work already being done on reforming the GCSE, which can accommodate a huge variety of ‘old’ and ‘new’ writers in exciting and ENJOYABLE approaches to literature and manifests
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We’ve only been saying this for 10YRS!!
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GCSE English is so dull and distant from English at A & degree level it puts students off carrying on - it’s time to reboot and celebrate the future proof skill sets it develops 💪🏻
thetimes.com/uk/education/a…
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Excellent interview with @Runrober on
@timesradio today. Time to ditch the misleading idea that English doesn't lead to a good job: see universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreates/ and British Academy reports. English doesn't just lead to one career, but to a huge choice of careers
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Thanks to @UnivEnglish Campaign Director @McRaeAndrew for drafting this letter on behalf of UE, @EnglishAssoc and @IES_London More details of #EnglishCreates campaign here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreates/ All resources are free to use
Elizabeth Draper Also @draperel.bsky.social💛📚📕@draperel
Very good letter, readjusting misleading distortions written @dailytelegraph re English Studies/discipline more generally 👏🏽 @EnglishAssoc @BobEaglestone Katherine Baxter @clarealees @gm181 @McRaeAndrew @UnivEnglish @IES_London
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Very good letter, readjusting misleading distortions written @dailytelegraph re English Studies/discipline more generally 👏🏽 @EnglishAssoc @BobEaglestone Katherine Baxter
@clarealees
@gm181 @McRaeAndrew @UnivEnglish @IES_London
Andrew McRae@McRaeAndrew
From today’s Telegraph. #EnglishCreates
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@curlewcalls @CarolineLucas Curriculum Review responses from several English colleagues/bodies have referred to the Natural History GCSE - I hope this will help
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@CarolineLucas, Tim Oates and I fought so hard to get it accepted, only for it to be blocked at the last minute. Nature needs us all to get behind this and put nature education at the heart of school life and learning. This is too important to be trashed by party politics.
Mary Colwell@curlewcalls
IMPORTANT The campaign for a GCSE in Natural History has stalled. Labour see it as a "Conservative initiative" and won't progress it. It is not a political football, every child has the right to learn about the wonder of the natural world. Plse ask you MP to lobby for it now. 🙏
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@UnivEnglish @conversiontales Very much looking forward to the new E:SF in beautiful Yorkshire
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Huge thanks to @conversiontales for leading the team of Yorkshire-based colleagues organising next year's E:SF in York. We're looking forward to it already!
Helen Smith@conversiontales
Call for Papers! Please spread the word. The next #englishsharedfutures will be in York, from July 3rd-5th. We've got lots of great events and special sessions planned, and warmly welcome submissions. englishsharedfutures.org/cfp #cfp
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‘If you poll on white privilege, you only get the most progressive segment of the population agreeing with it…
If you ask: Do people from ethnic minorities suffer disadvantages that white people don't? Everyone agrees.'
@LukeTryl on why the language progressive campaigners use often lands really badly.
@maitlis | @jonsopel
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Colleagues, a reminder that you can also find and follow @UnivEnglish on bluesky at @univeng.bsky.social
We'll follow you back and build up a fantastic community over there
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Excellent advocacy for the importance of creativity, enjoyment, and relevance of English GCSE on @r4Today #EnglishCreates @UnivEnglish @EnglishAssoc @NATEfeed
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@draperel @Safety4Sisters @HOME_mcr @EngSharedFuture @BobEaglestone They were really terrific. Definitely one to remember
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#ThisIsMe celebrates power of storytelling #Community #Solidarity #Creativity #Survival #ReclaimingStories #MigrantWomen @Safety4Sisters launch of 2nd publication👏🏽 @HOME_mcr Remembering performance @EngSharedFuture @BobEaglestone @gm181
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AHRC's Creative Communities, hosted by @NorthumbriaUni is extending to 2027, with an additional £1.7m funding committed.
This collaborative initiative re-imagines research in response to community needs.
More from Programme Director @ProfKatyShaw:
orlo.uk/xlmga
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"Bonus payments to water company bosses rise to £9.1m amid sewage scandal."
£3.36m for running a monopoly, how in God's name can that be right?
news.sky.com/story/bonus-pa…
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An excellent piece @LearNonsense ! I made some of the same arguments on X, which he engaged with, when I railed against the damaging views he was expressing. In addition to what you say, I pointed out that his diatribe against schools & the texts taught was out of date & wrong.
Prof Sara Lodge@LearNonsense
Slightly shy about posting this. But I took on Sir Jonathan Bate in the Scotsman this week. I love some of his critical writing, but he’s wrong when he says that state school students have lost the ability to read long books. They just need adaptable, realistic curricula.
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I'm giving a zoom talk with Heptonstall Museum on 9th Jan 2025 about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. Free/a £3 donation which will support the museum's amazing work. I'll be talking about her pioneering (and timely) anti-fascist journalism. Booking info below: heptonstallmuseumfriends.org.uk/events/?fbclid…
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