Ah, first Central Line meltdown of the new academic year. When will I get home, who knows.
Apart from everything else, this is such a massive ‘fuck you’ to incoming students from management. ‘Hello, we’ve decided to spend the next year fighting our entire staff over basic employment issues. Enjoy your course!’
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d ago'Brighton informed its University and College Union (UCU) branch on Monday (14 September) that it intends to terminate its current trade union recognition agreement and all collective agreements on terms and conditions from next June.'
Two fractional (0.3fte) lectureships at Westminster available (quite a tight application deadline): 1. Creative Writing (permanent): vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/vacancies/26... 2. English Language & Linguistics (2-year): vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/vacancies/26...
Lecturer in Creative Writing in Central London | University of Westminster
View details and apply for this Lecturer in Creative Writing vacancy in Central London. This post is part-time and permanent, 10.5 working hours per w eek. The salary stated above is the pro-rata a...
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Chatted to Political Fictions about Ellen Wilkinson’s The Division Bell Mystery the other day www.podbean.com/ew/pb-4hbq6-...
The Division Bell Mystery, with Elinor Taylor (#13)
Mark and Cory are joined by Elinor Taylor for our first book! It is Ellen Wilkinson’s The Division Bell Mystery, a political thriller disguised as a golden age detective story. It is written by one of...
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The Stuart Hall Foundation is seeking an experienced Operations and Finance Manager to support the effective financial, operational, and governance management of the Foundation. Learn more and apply by 2nd August 2026, 11.59pm: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...
We just had a meeting with over 700 (!!) of our members and OVERWHELMINGLY voted in favour of a motion to calling for a strike ballot! 🩷 We're doing this together. We are the University! #DefendExeterUni.
Interesting collection of short pieces from the ISRF: ‘Dispatches: Experiencing Academia’s Decline’,
Dispatches: Experiencing Academia’s Decline
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Some lovely PhD opportunities available with Amgueddfa Cymru museum.wales/research/doc...
Doctoral training at Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales | Museum Wales
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Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity
WRITING / REWRITING: CULTURAL STUDIES AND DECONSTRUCTION - ‘THE LINGUISTICS OF WRITING’ 40 YEARS ON June 4, 4-7pm, University of Strathclyde Please join for this event on the legacies of cultural studies and deconstruction today... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writingre-...
Writing/Re-writing: The Linguistics of Writing 40 Years On
A discussion of cultural studies, deconstruction and 'theory' today
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Come to Westminster on 27 May for this year’s Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture by Mark Steven (Exeter), ‘24 Revolutions Per Second’: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/04/17/2...
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This year, Prof. Mark Steven (Exeter) is delivering the RWS annual lecture. Join us on 27 May 2026 at the University of Westminster. More details and free tickets available here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/04/17/2...
24 Revolutions Per Second: The Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture 2026
Please join us in London on 27 May 2026 for this year’s Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Mark Steven (University of Exeter). Mark’s lecture,&nbs…
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Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)
PhD: AHRC CDP Studentship | University of Exeter
The University of Exeter and the British Library are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2026 under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral...
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Our annual postgraduate essay prize is back for a 12th year! The winner receives £250 and a year's subs to RWS, plus the opportunity to revise their essay for publication in Key Words. For details, see: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/02/23/r.... Please share widely with relevant postgrads! 🙏
Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2026
We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 12th year. The deadline for entries is Friday 3 April 2026. The prize for the winning …
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I wrote about The 1930s (co-edited with @elinormtaylor.bsky.social & @thelong1930s.bsky.social) on my own blog (4/-)
The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction
Nick Hubble, Luke Seaber and Elinor Taylor, eds, The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Ten years ago, very few people were predicting that we would move into a pe…
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My essay on the Popular Front is now also available in English via the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung website @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
The Popular Front’s Enduring but Ambivalent Legacy - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Unity against the far right is a vital precondition for social transformation, but socialist strategy must go further
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I’m editing a special issue of Key Words on cultural materialism, fascism and the far right for publication next year. Call for contributions and full details here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/01/28/c...
Call for Papers: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
Speaking in 1980 amid the New Right upsurge, Raymond Williams noted that ‘cultural struggle is absolutely crucial, because this is the terrain on which the interpretation of the crisis had to be es…
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I’m editing a special issue of Key Words on cultural materialism, fascism and the far right for publication next year. Call for contributions and full details here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/01/28/c...
Call for Papers: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
Speaking in 1980 amid the New Right upsurge, Raymond Williams noted that ‘cultural struggle is absolutely crucial, because this is the terrain on which the interpretation of the crisis had to be es…
raymondwilliams.co.uk
🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨🚨Fancy contributing to a special issue on Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, edited by @elinormtaylor.bsky.social? Look no further... Details, including the deadline, at the link: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/01/28/c...
Call for Papers: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
Speaking in 1980 amid the New Right upsurge, Raymond Williams noted that ‘cultural struggle is absolutely crucial, because this is the terrain on which the interpretation of the crisis had to be es…
raymondwilliams.co.uk
With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the @histmat.bsky.social Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.
if you wrote a book on labor history published in 2025, I encourage you to apply for the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The term “labor history” is defined broadly to include the history of workers, institutions, and workplaces & working-class life www.ilr.cornell.edu/taft-award
Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
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Starting 9 October, we have a series of free CRMEP public lectures at Westminster: www.tickettailor.com/events/radic...
Radical Philosphy Archive Ltd
Buy tickets – Radical Philosphy Archive Ltd
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.
Call for Contributors: Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and mater…
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Really excited for this (free!) event at MayDay Rooms on 26 June about The Aesthetics of Resistance
Aesthetics of Resistance with Joel Scott + Harun Farocki’s On Display: Peter Weiss – MayDayRoomsFacebookTwitterInstagramAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative Cont...
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As course leader for said Westminster MA I endorse this message :) A lovely afternoon talking about our modules and the great work our students produce
Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · last yr.Spent the day at Westminster University doing external examining for their MA in English. It’s a fine course and well worth considering. I’m also the EE for another wonderful one: Aberystwyth’s MA in contemporary literature. Do both!
