Ahead of launching the actual CFP, thought I'd give a little preview of a thing I'm doing 🫢
EarlyModernista
@ellierycroft.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
The higher education backgrounds of Andy Burnham’s new Cabinet - HEPI share.google/lyI0h6b5bh57... 'Pulling the ladder up' springs to mind.
The higher education backgrounds of Andy Burnham’s new Cabinet - HEPI
This blog was kindly authored by Freddie Pflanz who is a current HEPI intern and master’s student in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. As Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister, more than half of h...
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Yay, summer holidays! Six whole weeks wihout any emails about head lice.
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
Letter from the world's largest disciplinary association in the humanities, the @modernlanguage.bsky.social on the proposed cuts at the University of Exeter #DefendExeterUni
I never quite understand it, especially as a historian, when scholarship is denigrated as "old". Yes, there might be problematic value systems in play, but there might not. And an insight is an insight, no matter when it was made.
Herewith the reminder that #ChristopherNolan studied English Literature #EnglishCreates "The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis" | Film | The Guardian share.google/yRnVSUlkMzaJ...
The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis
Doing full justice to the Homeric legend, Christopher Nolan amasses an epic cast to convey the true cost of war with film-making of thrilling ambition
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Will be on this radio show this morning talking about my work, if you fancy finding out more about women, walking, night-walking, public health, education, sustainability.... I hope to cover it all! One Love One Planet - BCfm Radio share.google/9mZSxIrctAPh...
One Love One Planet
One Love One Planet is BCfm's environmental show, but it's about so much more than global warming and all things eco; it's also about feeling connected to our amazing planet!
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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.
‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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If you're looking for something to do with your Saturday night, or to fill up the hours between now and the football, why don't you find out more about Predramatic Theatre with me and @gregmw4.bsky.social?!
Beyond Shakespeare@beyondshakes.bsky.social · last mo.🔊Latest pod drop - it's a discussing episode looking at Predramatic Theatre by Dr Eleanor Rycroft and Professor Greg Walker. Find out more about how radical and exciting the early models of performance could be, and why we should all relax and love an interlude. #drama? audioboom.com/posts/890164...
Love this. The only way VAWG and gender-based violence will ever end is if we all take collective responsibility for that to happen. Well done, builders! metro.co.uk/2026/06/25/b...
Builders march on Downing Street in call to end violence against women
'We have got men gnarled old veterans out there, shoulder to shoulder with the killed women's families.'
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So angry and upset for my Exeter colleagues after the terrifying news about their livelihoods this week. Exeter is in many ways our sister university and a teaching and research powerhouse in the south-west, especially in the departments which are facing this unwarranted vandalism: c.org/jRyQBBcJmz
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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The news of brutal cuts to the Arts and Humanities at Exeter and elsewhere highlights the self-destructive nature of the ´strategies’ being pursued across UK HE. Exeter’s English Dept was rated the best research unit in English in the country in RAE 2008. 1/4
Exeter, Hertfordshire, & Northumbria: all after marks in & before the end of the financial year. We NEED someone to give a shit about #UKHE, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social. All VCs care about are covenants; their shorttermist fragmented cuts accumulate to the UK losing a sector it can't afford losing.
Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · last mo.A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.
Three hours work is quite enough for a day like today
Highly recommend the Not Just the Tudors podcast on plague with @rebeccarideal.bsky.social. Fascinating stuff!
Sad to report that I've turned into the kind of prat who says, 'the only bad workout is one that didn't happen!' Sorry, all.
Fuming that I've been doing work on women and walking for several years now, and the women of colour I collaborate with are repeatedly telling me that their freedom & perceptions of safety are being affected by the 'Raise the Flag' movement. How dare you make people feel afraid to get from A to B.
Getting increasingly excited for WSC but am mainly excited to model the best conference practice I learned from @ramonawray.bsky.social at RSA Dublin...inviting folks round to my accommodation for endless bottles of fizz.
Academic research means reading 1 article, which leads you to a book and 6 other articles, which lead you to 17 articles and 4 book chapters, and oops now you’re an expert in the 1990s feminist criticism of Taylorist management philosophy, a thing you didn’t know existed until 3 days ago.
Further thoughts on 2 Angry Women of Abingdon - there is a v queer layer beneath the veneer of affluent heteronormativity. Frank and Philip are far more interested in each other than in marriage and the kiss between the wives could be presented very interestingly. I really want to direct this play!
Absolutely brilliant watching the @beyondshakes.bsky.social crew reading out the Two Angry Women of Abingdon. Only on Part 1 but such a funny play so far! Wonderful to hear it brought to life as it didn't read as well on the page.
This is what it's like to put your professional ideas out there. Published a not terribly controversial article yesterday in mainstream press - awake today to find it dismissed by keyboard warriors as 'woke trash', 'nonsense', 'pseud's corner' & 'you cannot be serious' that I'm a professor. Morning!
Bristolians! Still spaces for our Walkfest workshop on Thursday...please share post if you think it might stimulate sign-ups. More on the thinking underlying the workshop here: 'The history of walking is tied up with a history of exclusion' share.google/rDlVjDALCuri...
'The history of walking is tied up with a history of exclusion'
Dr Eleanor Rycroft puts walking today into its historical context
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Just goes to show how indoctrinated into academic terminology I am when I saw that J.D.Vance used to be a VC, and investigated what university.