Sophie Coulombeau
@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
We’re moving house next week, a little way out of york. There are excellent reasons for this, and the new house is batshit incredible. Also it still has a York postcode and my job ain’t going anywhere. Nonetheless, the vibe for my last early morning run through york is melancholy/sentimental….
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I regret to inform you that the Bad Place is absolutely killing the Odyssey memes x.com/airbagg3d/st...
kate bush’s husband (@airbagg3d) on X
white people when they hear "mr brightside" at the function
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The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")
It has been quite the Week, and indeed the Month, not to mention in fact the Year, so i took myself to see The Odyssey as a treat. I very rarely make it to the cinema these days, but was a greek myth geek as a child (in fact odysseus was my earliest crush i think) so couldn’t not. Anyway, THOUGHTS:
I'm delighted to be running a creative writing workshop as a part of the Spectral Tourism Conference in York later this month. The conference is free and you can book tickets here ... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spectral-t...
Spectral Tourism Conference
PGR conference hosted and organised by postgraduate researchers from the Hauntology and Spectrality Research Group
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People: we’d like to be able to have homes and food Tech bros: this generation of smartphones uses paypal to harvest poor people’s organs and our new pervert glasses can instantly make anyone appear naked Government: gotta side with the pervert kidney vendors on this one
They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.
Save the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire. Existential cuts to the humanities are a sector wide problem: c.org/n9hYvWfVCJ
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The redundancy programmes recently announced at Exeter, Northumbria and elsewhere are cruel, wrongheaded, and unnecessary. So much solidarity to those affected (inc. some of my personal intellectual heroes). This is such a dark hour in UK HE.
This is good on the complexities of doing family history (or just history history) with online open access sources. Riffing off and paraphrasing the AHA's campaign: We need historians because evidence neither finds nor explains itself. (With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers).
The Nazi files shedding new light on family secrets
Party membership records are now searchable online. But, as many Germans are finding out, the archive poses more questions than it answers
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It has been suggested that we do not value our academic staff. On the contrary, we have a powerful and detailed sense of your value, and how much it will improve the balance sheet if the older and more costly ones would shuffle off and find a corner to die in. thesphinxblog.com/2026/06/26/a...
A Change Is Gonna Come
[The other Neville Morley, Supreme President In Chief of Ex University on Earth 2, has a further bulletin.] Earlier this year we introduced a new training course in Corporate Conscience, compulsory…
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nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse
We're delighted to announce that Volume 21 of the Burney Journal is now officially published! We're an open access journal, so you can find digital versions of all contributions freely available online here theburneyjournal.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/62: as well as in print. (1/23)
The Burney Journal Vol. 21 (2026)
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Was chuffed to post this earlier today with my other hat (a large balloon hat) on. I’m well pleased with what we’ve achieved over at the @burneyjournal.bsky.social in the last two years, and grateful to the scholars, bibliographers and reviewers who’ve submitted. Do take a peek at our vol 21 lineup.
The Burney Journal@burneyjournal.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe're delighted to announce that Volume 21 of the Burney Journal is now officially published! We're an open access journal, so you can find digital versions of all contributions freely available online here theburneyjournal.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/62: as well as in print. (1/23)
Museums and heritage freelancers! There is now a union for you! I've been working with @soupdragon2000.bsky.social and @dannybirchall.bsky.social to set up the Heritage Freelancers branch of @prospectunion.bsky.social Full details and joining info: heritagefreelancersunion.co.uk
Prospect Heritage Freelancers
A branch of Prospect for museums and heritage freelancers
heritagefreelancersunion.co.uk
✨ Out today! ✨ Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...
And after all, why wouldn’t universities toe the line for *checks notes* Candy Crush businessman Mel Morris
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoPeer-reviewed papers are ‘old hat science’, says millionaire investor. Candy Crush businessman Mel Morris says universities “must embrace AI” to transform into economic powerhouses. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...
Finalising slides for tomorrow's @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social talk. Free tickets available to join in person or online tftv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
It is no exaggeration to say York's Centre for Lifelong Learning changed my life. A creative writing course led by @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social has resulted in novels published, new friends, and later this year, I very much hope, a PhD. It's such a loss.
Social History Society@socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 3mo ago📣New Social History Society blog Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social on 'Losing Lifelong Learning' 👉Read online here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
She’s here! And resplendent in gold foil! Available to preorder @faberbooks.bsky.social and out in a few weeks. Featuring 2 new graphics by the award-winning Cherokee artist Rebecca Lee Kunz. 🌻
Drunk on sunshine and wild swimming. Also one little glass of rosé.
📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...
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