BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' programme, on Machado de Assis.
Featuring two REBRAC members, Claire Williams from the University of Oxford and Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação from the University of Cambridge
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Listen to Clare Jackson, Honorary Professor of Early Modern History and Trinity Hall Fellow, on BBC Radio 4’s 'In Our Time' exploring the Levellers – pioneering campaigners who pushed for social equality and religious tolerance during the 17th century. 👇
Strange link between Machado de Assis and Stéphane Mallarmé - both involved with women‘s fashion magazines printed in Paris:
La Dernière Mode - fashionartdaily.blogspot.com/2009/11/la-d...
And #InOurTime describes Machado’s involvement here:
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Available now for download globally: on the Garamantes, ancient people of the once verdant Sahara www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’, recently featured the topic of ‘The Welsh Marches’. The programme was recorded in front of a live audience at the Hay Literary Festival. On the panel were Helen Fulton, Huw Pryce (Bangor University) and Rhun Emlyn (Aberystwyth), with presenter Misha Glenny.
This Thursday, be sure to tune your radios/phones/smart speakers to BBC Radio 4 to hear our very own Prof Claire Williams discuss Brazilian writer Machado de Assis with Misha Glenny on the flagship programme, 'In Our Time'! https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/claire-williams-in-our-time
Amused to see that Bras Cubas’s memoirs shot up to 31st place in biographies this week at a well known online store. Might encourage others to write posthumously 🙂
The great Brazilian novelist, whose satires of slave owners transcend time and place.
Coming up at 9am in UK on BBC Sounds and globally on bbc.com - Misha Glenny and guests discuss Machado de Assis, ‘the Pele of world literature’ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Delighted to hear about the evolution of trees & how they have transformed our planet. And even more delighted to hear two of our Fellows discuss the brilliance of tree evolution on 'In Our Time', with William Baker and Christopher Berry! You can listen below.
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La Dernière Mode was a limited edition fashion magazine/art project created by 19th century poet Stéphane Mallarmé. Jonathan Crary expl...
🌱🌾🌍🌺🌳🌲🌿🐡🌴 Evolution of Trees. Fascinating – fossils, DNA, physiology, climate change. Speakers Jenny McElwain Trinity College Dublin, Christopher Berry Cardiff Uni & Bill Baker Kew. Teams from all in Botanical University Challenge. Prof McElwain asked questions 2025.
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REBRAC - Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural
The great Brazilian novelist, whose satires of slave owners transcend time and place.
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How trees first arose from small plants and changed the world, and why new trees emerge.
📢 Clare Jackson, Hon Professor of Early Modern History @cam.ac.uk on BBCRadio4 InOurTime with @tmbejan.bsky.social & @tedvallance.bsky.social.
They discuss the Levellers, political radicals who pioneered petitions and pamphlets to reimagine the English constitution.
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The political movement during the English Civil War committed to a new idea of equality.
