My piece, about Writers in Whites and the literary cricket culture wars, is out in The Times today:
www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke...
My only regret from yesterday's interview with the incomparable @norcrosscricket.bsky.social is that we didn't coordinate our outfits better
May highlight #1: launching Writers in Whites at a cricket match, and speaking on writers' affinity for playing cricket while proving, with my own inept performance, that this is not always the case
Ollie Randall
May highlight #3: signing copies of Writers in Whites at Daunt Books!
@dauntbooks.bsky.social
May highlight #2: visiting Westminster School to confirm plans to speak at their Winnie the Pooh centenary. (And catching a glimpse of the birthday boy through a window.)
AA Milne features in Writers in Whites, which explains this otherwise strange-sounding speaking engagement
In which I discuss the changing associations of cricket and literature in the early twentieth century, as explored in my book
I'm still so pleased with how they put the book together
Lovely tea time chat between @ollie-randall.bsky.social and @norcrosscricket.bsky.social on the Surrey livestream, talking Writers in Whites 🏏 #Cricket
Ollie Randall
“Westminster needs to wake up…”
An important statement from the RHS today on the unfolding situation in UKHE.
Ollie Randall
"I became a detective in women’s cricket and found treasure in an old Lancashire cowshed."
The Women in Whites is out on 1 June! www.waterstones.com/book/the-wom...
From PG Wodehouse to JM Barrie, famous writers were proud to play for Conan Doyle’s ‘Author’s XI’ — until shifting attitudes led to brutal lampooning
www.thetimes.com
Beth Cooper 🏏
Hannah Elias
Raf Nicholson
The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO
This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians
Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...
