Jemma Walton
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Jemma Walton
@jemmawalton1.bsky.social
Birkbeck PhD student interested in surrogacy memoirs/ medical humanities; English teacher. I like books...
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Egg freezing, fertility tech and why ovulation is like the Hunger Games.

Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility.

Listen now on your favourite podcast platform:
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November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Government’s Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper marks an important moment for higher education and social mobility in England.

@jondatta.bsky.social outlines what the announcement means for widening access to university in our latest blog ⤵️

www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...
What the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper means for access and participation - The Sutton Trust
The impact of the Skills White Paper on university access?
www.suttontrust.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project
September 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...
British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press
At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...
uolpress.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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**UNHEARD BOOK EVENT - LONDON**

21st October at the beautiful Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garrett in London. I used to pass this venue all the time when I was a medical student at Guys Hospital so this is really exciting!

Join us! Tickets 👇🏽

oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...
September 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa
The shadow economy behind the international student boom
A lucrative revenue stream for universities has led to an industry of unregulated agents now under scrutiny for making lofty promises
www.ft.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Following the success of Julie Irigaray's Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you her new online course, The Body in Poetry

📅 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:00 - 20:00 BST

Whether it is changing, (un)tamed, or suffering, the body plays a greater role in our lives than we want to admit...
September 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Marie Antoinette at the V&A: opens 20 September 2025.
Marie Antoinette: fashion revolutionary or vacuous spendt...
A magnificent exhibition at the V&A tries to capture the woman behind the possessions
observer.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Maria Reva, @schreibersnaturarium.de, and @edyong209.bsky.social discuss the inspiration of snails, ecological grief, and why “nihilism is a luxury we truly cannot afford right now.”
How One Snail Inspired Two Novels on Two Different Continents
What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, to…
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September 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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GUYS. I OPENED THE BOX.

Obvs have not opened the book though, that would be mad.
August 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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What is the future of fertility?

Meet the panellists for one of the upcoming live episode recordings of our podcast, A Question of Science:
@profjoyceharper.bsky.social, @lucyvandewiel.bsky.social,
@nmoris.bsky.social and @gunes-taylor.bsky.social.

🎟️ Book now ⬇️
🔗 lostintv.com/tv-show?id=1...
August 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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New from @edinburghup.bsky.social The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, edited by Loïc Bourdeau and @cilloyd.bsky.social, “provides a compassionate, capacious and complex analysis of the over-discussed but under-analysed concept of the millennial and its relationship to long-form fiction”
August 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!
Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/
August 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Book cover designs by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell (c.1930) #WomensArt
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Writing my poems I forgot the dustbins.
August 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Just read the proof of this remarkable book - chapeau, Madeline
My book now has a cover! Out from @haymarketbooks.org in November
July 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇
🔎 The University of St Andrews research team led by Katherine Keenan and partner in the SOC-MISC project is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on analysing Scottish public data on miscarriages.

More information in the link below :
👉 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162
Post-doctoral Research Fellow – AR3162, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Salary: £38,249 - £45,413 per annum, Start: Earliest December 2025 (to be confirmed), Fixed term for 18 mont...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
August 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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“‘Disgrace’ became popular, well-known, and worlded by playing on certain stereotypes of South Africa pre- and post-1994 (and the achievement of democracy) that were overfamiliar, irksome, and even offensive to many of his South African readers.”

New at PB: www.publicbooks.org/j-m-coetzees...
J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” @ 25: A Roundtable
What freshly nuanced perspectives might we bring to the violent late 20th-century history Coetzee describes?
www.publicbooks.org
August 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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And finally, a bonus 'new in paperback' for one of our handbooks, 'The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film': www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-h...
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film
Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of…
www.bloomsbury.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
July 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship
3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
@womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
www.lse.ac.uk
July 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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These ten titles inspired Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans, Kylie Cheung’s “attempt to contextualize the deeper impacts of abortion laws, particularly on endemic gender-based violence in our society.”
10 radical works of fiction and nonfiction that inspired Kylie Cheung’s book on post-Dobbs violence.
Kylie Cheung’s forthcoming book Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans is a searing investigation into the intersecting structures that control the lives of women and pregnant people. In h…
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July 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
July 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM