🚨🚨 Our annual postgraduate essay competition opens today! Deadline: 31 January 2027. You can read further guidance and T&Cs here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/09/14/r... Please share widely with relevant postgraduates! 🚨🚨

Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2027

We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 13th year. The deadline for entries is 31 January 2027. The prize for the winning entr…

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Delighted to say that my mum found this readable, which is a serious endorsement. It was great to do the first of the new interview series for @r-williams-soc.bsky.social, and I hope that it includes useful stuff for others who want to think about capitalism and culture as intertwined ✊

Hayley G. Toth@tothhayley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Enjoyed speaking to @katespowage.bsky.social for @r-williams-soc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. Essential reading on the state's 'trial and error' approach to governance, and the ways ordinary ways people can and do challenge the status quo. 27 min. read for your lunch break... 🥯🥗☕

it's a monday morning in mid july so of course we're writing syllabi! against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, please send! against-a-i.com

🚨🚨Check out the first instalment of our new interview series. @katespowage.bsky.social talks about language, politics, video games, and, of course, Raymond Williams. Enjoy! raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/07/10/w...

“We shouldn’t comfort ourselves that our work is outside of social struggles”: An interview with Dr Kate Spowage

In this first instalment of a new interview series, Hayley G. Toth (Secretary of the Raymond Williams Society) interviews Kate Spowage (Executive Committee member of the Raymond Williams Society an…

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Congratulations to Amy Todd, who has won this year's Simon Dentith Memorial Prize for her essay ‘A Red Rag to a Bull: Red Rag magazine, Socialist Feminism, and the Communist Party of Great Britain.'

Reminder to get free tickets for this upcoming event with Prof. Mark Steven via the link below!

Raymond Williams Society@r-williams-soc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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...

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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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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🚨🚨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…

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Interested in guest editing a special issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism? We've made it easier than ever to pitch us. Download our special issue proposal form here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/submission-g...

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social Deadline: 6 February 2026 More details: @sslh.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c... sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u... Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk #GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…

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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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🚨🚨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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Thank you to everyone who has started sending us their abstracts. We will start reviewing submissions after the deadline (10 July) and will be emailing decisions by 1 August 2025. Full details at comicsandai.org

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts

A multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity

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Register for a two-day conference taking place at MMU on 19th-20th June 2025: www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/neith.... Co-organised by RWS Chair Dr David Wilkinson and other members of the Subcultures Network.

Neither Factory Records nor Madchester: Rethinking Manchester’s Musical and Subcultural Histories - School of Digital Arts (SODA) – Manchester Metropolitan University

Cities tell stories about themselves. Manchester likes to tell a story about itself that’s often summed up in the alleged words of Tony Wilson, founder of

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We are delighted to announce two winners of the 2025 Simon Dentith Memorial Prize, the Society’s postgraduate essay competition. First prize goes to Friederike Sachs. Second prize goes to Alexander Curtis. Read more about the winners here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/05/01/e...

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In case you missed it Key Words 19, and Key Words 20, guest edited by @danieljhartley.bsky.social, are now both freely available online. All past issues are available here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/view-issues/

View Free Open Access Issues

Issue 1 – (1998): Download Key Words 1 Issue 2 – ‘Ecocriticism’ (1999): Download Key Words 2 Issue 3 – ‘Futures’ (2000): Download Key Words 3 Issue 4 &#821…

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Delighted to see my paper on masculinities, structures of feeling and the British left in the latest edition of Keywords, published by @r-williams-soc.bsky.social. My thanks to editorial board for their supportive and collegiate comments during the publishing process

Just a few weeks left to submit your essay for our PG essay prize! Please share widely.

Raymond Williams Society@r-williams-soc.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....

We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....

Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2025

We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 11th year. The deadline for entries is Friday 28th February 2025. The prize for the wi…

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