Early Modern English literature, English Civil Wars, Restoration, literature and political, social, local history.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/NiallPSER
Work: https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/allsopp/
Dr. Niall Allsopp
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Next month (20 June), #Colchester Choral Society performs G&S's Iolanthe. I'm singing Strephon, a fairy from the waste up and mortal from the waste down. He's in love with a shepherdess, ward to a Lord. Parliament gets involved. It's a riot. Come along! colchesterchoralsociety.co.uk/etn/gilbert-...
Denmark Hill station rules!
This marking period has been the most depressing I’ve known in 10 years in the job. A thousand curses on the people who invented this tech, and on the enablers and normalisers who push it.
This marking period has been the most depressing I’ve known in 10 years in the job. A thousand curses on the people who invented this tech, and on the enablers and normalisers who push it.
* it absolutely is 3cm though, not 3mm.
Go and look for yourself on the website with the absolutely mindblowing zoom function: closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpi...
So pleased to be starting this new project on royalist exiles in Paris attached to Queen Henrietta Maria's court, 1644-60. Thank you @britishacademy.bsky.social for funding this research! @openuniversity.bsky.social
OK but how many have you read of this Best Novels list compiled in 1898? (27 in my case)
www.openculture.com/2013/11/the-...
'new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.' futurism.com/future-socie...
Stephen Watkins
Exciting Thursday… my book manuscript is complete and SENT 🥂⚒️
Dr. Niall Allsopp
Historian Sara Wolfson has been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to explore royalist exiles in France, 1644-60.
In 1898, Clement K. Shorter, a writer, tried his hand at compiling a list of the 100 Best Novels for a journal called The Bookman. The ground rules were simple: the list could feature only one novel p...
Thurs May 7th, 3pm-8pm, at Birkbeck: ‘Writing Town and Village in Seventeenth-Century England’, with Niall Allsop, Judith Hudson, Ed Legon, Grace Marshall, Abigail Williams, plus Erica Fudge on ‘Fed on Scraps: Fed on Scraps: Bits of Animals in the Early Modern Archive’: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
If you’re an academic and you use generative AI in your writing I have zero respect for you. If u tell me this I am not nodding or being sanctimonious I am throwing up
If you’re an academic and you use generative AI in your writing I have zero respect for you. If u tell me this I am not nodding or being sanctimonious I am throwing up
On Saturday we took a train to the edge of London in search of wonderful things. We found them earlier than expected, here at Denmark Hill station: a Una Marson poem engraved on the window by the barriers; and sculptures made from plastic milk bottles on the path beside the vineyard; and a vineyard.
