A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
Katie Crosson
@katiecrosson.bsky.social
Postdoc @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Exeter Film 🌱 Sentimentalist 🌷 PhD in Play for Today 📺 Feminist Screen Theory; Ideology & Aesthetics; Media Histories & Curation; Realism(s) 🌿 [she/her]
To add my two cents: This isn't the first time Sullivan has been implicated in a case of academics having their work and free speech stifled 😘 www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/anti...
Trans-inclusive academics say they face abuse and censorship
Students and academics say they are bullied and threatened with legal action for opposing ‘gender critical’ views
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Play for Today is back. What does that mean? Tom May & I interview Special Measures writer Lee Thompson, Big Winners director Emma Turner and Play for Today exec producer Paul Testar tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/tv-i...
TV Is the Public Talking to Itself
After a difficult start, could the new revival of the BBC’s often radical 1970s and 80s anthology drama series finally have promise?
tribunemag.co.uk
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
Great to get @katiecrosson.bsky.social expert take on what the relaunched #PlayforToday strand could be ⬇️ #televisionhistory #tvdrama #mediahistory
Katie Crosson@katiecrosson.bsky.social · last yr.Play for Today (2025) could foster solidarity between people facing issues that might not immediately appear connected, through a programme that joins up the dots. Here are 9 ways it can live up to its namesake (me for The Conversation) theconversation.com/play-for-tod...
Couldn’t agree more with this!
Dr Tom May@dreamcargoes.bsky.social · last yr.Here's a strong @theconversation.com piece from @katiecrosson.bsky.social detailing 9 aims the new Play for Today (Channel 5) should have, to emulate the original in today's context. I'd only personally add: make it in *quantity* in a lasting, fixed timeslot. theconversation.com/play-for-tod...
Great piece from @katiecrosson.bsky.social on PFT's non-negotiables. theconversation.com/play-for-tod...
Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original
Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.
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Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.
Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original
Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.
tcnv.link
Play for Today (2025) could foster solidarity between people facing issues that might not immediately appear connected, through a programme that joins up the dots. Here are 9 ways it can live up to its namesake (me for The Conversation) theconversation.com/play-for-tod...
Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original
Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.
theconversation.com
Just under three weeks until the belated launch event for Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene at the Barbican. We'll have copies for sale, and Spencer Banks on the panel. And Cinema 1 is the best possible way of seeing the glorious 2016 remaster. Tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Penda’s Fen (12*) + ScreenTalk with Spencer Banks, Ian Greaves and Gareth Evans | Barbican
David Rudkin’s mystical TV film on paganism, and a discussion with actor Spencer Banks and writer Ian Greaves, whose new book reveals how the masterpiece was made.
barbican.org.uk
This is an important point. The 'general public' are now excluded from WAC facilities following the recent policy changes.
Dr Paul Lee@drpaullee.bsky.social · last yr.I've emailed and asked my name to be placed on the list. When I last visited the WAC 20 years ago, access was more or less free (the only proviso being that you had to book in advance). Now, independent researchers who don't have a commission for a book or article etc. have no access.
Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
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okay maybe there is an obvious answer to this question because ??? but: how do adults will full time jobs take driving lessons? everything is booked up and 2 hour sessions mon-fri 9-5 ??? please 🚗 help 🚗
Our brilliant @womensscreenwork.bsky.social post-doc researcher, Jessica Boyall, wrote an excellent piece on Gurinder Chadha for the Recent BFI Blu-ray release of Bhaji on the Beach. Jessica is working on the Gurinder Chadha Collection for the WSW project.
Why Cats Meow sounds like a John Berger book you’d pick up feeling bemused and have a life changing experience 40 pages in
David Higgins@davidhiggins.bsky.social · last yr.My daughter has been making little books, including The Adventures of Esther’s Cats, Why Cats Meow, and an untitled one about a dog, a cat, some snails, and a monster with 40 heads. When I told her that I liked them, she said that she would bury one with me in my grave!
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
historyworkshop.org.uk
@bookhaus.bsky.social is a third of the way to its target with 50 days left. Let's guarantee it gets there: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
bookhaus - Bristol's radical home
I have managed bookhaus since the beginning. The owners have decided to retire, and I am raising the funds to buy it and carry on our legacy
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Because of the impending ban on Palestine Action, it seems very likely "To Kill A War Machine" will no longer be available to download after tomorrow evening so get your copy (and details of the last public screenings nationwide) here tokillawarmachine.com
To Kill a War Machine
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Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action
Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action
UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warn that proscribing group would conflate protest and terrorism The home secretary is coming under increasing pressure to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action, as UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warned that proscribing the group would conflate protest and terrorism. In two separate letters to Yvette Cooper, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) lawyers’ group and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers said that proscribing the group would set a dangerous precedent. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
If you need cheering up, or even if you don't, I strongly recommend CMAT's set from earlier.
University of Exeter Special Collections@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · last yr.Refugees' stories often feature within our Middle East collections. The documents in this image are from the Richmond papers and concern charitable work in the early 1970s by the Quakers and UNIPAL (Universities' Educational Fund for Palestinian Refugees). 📷 EUL MS 115 #WorldRefugeeDay #Archives
I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this.
This is a brand new letter by “Not in Our Name - Women”, a collective group of cisgender women who support the transgender community and object to the false divide between women’s rights and transgender rights. If you’re a cis woman you can sign your support here ⤵️
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
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(You also do fundamentally need to understand why students cheat, why they don’t perceive it as cheating, what they think the point of higher ed actually is, what other pressures they’re facing around and on top of their studies… to defeat AI we need a cultural shift in what education is *for*)