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Jenny Kenyon
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20th century literature & sound | SWW DTP funded PhD @bristoluni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk | PG rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | Patrick Hamilton appreciation society
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Let us know what you're working on this Monday using the #ModWrite hashtag 📚
February 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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For the first #ModWrite Monday in February we are pleased to share #TheModernistReview58! Our first issue of 2026 celebrates the 34th Anuual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/t...
The Modernist Review Issue #58: 34th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference
2 February 2026 For the first issue of 2026, we are delighted to share with you a special collection for the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. This issue contains a selection …
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February 2, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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🔊 There's 1 week left to apply for open positions at BAMS, including 5 roles on our committee, and 3 postgraduate representative roles. To apply, see here bams.ac.uk. For an idea of what being a PGR Rep involves, see a blog from our reps here:
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BAMS Elections: A Representative Dialogue
20 December 2025 At the end of another year and the start of the holiday season, it is once again time for the BAMS elections. As current Postgraduate Representatives, we would like to take this ti…
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January 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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how i yearn for saint sebastian garlic parmesan monkey bread
etherelleart.bsky.social Etherelle 🌈➡️BLM➡️🇺🇦FUCK▪︎ICE @etherelleart.bsky.social · 29d
✨️🍞✨️ It's Saint Sebastian's Feast Day, my dudes. ✨️🍞✨️

Let's lean into the chaos and this time: Bake him into my favorite bread, Savory Garlic Parmesean Monkey Bread.

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January 21, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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It's #ModWrite time! Banish the spectre of Blue Monday and let us know what you're working on this afternoon using the hashtag 📚
January 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Ah we see your Blue Monday and raise you a Moo Blunday
'The Champion Shorthorn’. A painting depicts a shorthorn cow, a man and dog, with a landscape background. It was painted and signed by William Smith of Chichester in 1856.
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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ernest thesiger, i was unfamiliar with your game. if you do anything today, read @markharris.bsky.social short thread about maybe the most perfect pillow to have ever existed (it doesn’t start where you’d think). i’ve been writing thesiger’s name in my PhD research since day one… 🧵
markharris.bsky.social Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Jan 14
He needlepointed this himself. It's a needlepoint pillow of the actor Ernest Thesiger needlepoint. It took forever and is awesome.
I can't do it justice, I'm sorry. It is very colorful and minutely detailed and is about 24"x30". Ernest Thesiger was a magnificent old character actor and wrote a book about needlepointing.
January 15, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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This would be a banger Graham Greene novel.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jan 14
BREAKING: The UK is sending a single military officer to Greenland at the request of Denmark to participate in a multi-nation exercise
January 14, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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join @modernistudies.bsky.social! 3 PGR Rep roles are available, see below for a blog post from @lilyvmartin.bsky.social & yours truly about our time as reps so far.
January 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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What a wonderful #NWiMS15! So far we've had 2 fascinating panels on identities and ecologies, and I've spent my lunch break going back through the H.D. Scrapbook, thinking about stone, the self, & materialities - our next session!
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Detail from the H. D. Scrapbook: a black and white photograph of a kneeling figure in a garden, overlaid with torn up images of broken sections of classical statues
January 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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not my emotional support amanda!!!
amanda at The Traitors breakfast table, sipping a cup of tea suspiciously after someone said ‘wouldn’t it be funny if there was a secret detective amongst us’
January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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one assassination custard to go, please
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Jan 7
Ah, 7 January – or as it’s otherwise known, 88th anniversary of the time Samuel Beckett was stabbed by a pimp on the streets of Paris in the small hours, causing him to meet his soulmate and giving rise to the phrase (and recipe) ‘assassination custard’ 🧵
Illustration of a blue and white striped bowl filled with yellow custard. There is a bomb floating in the custard, its fuse lit. The illustration is from a Dublin restaurant's Facebook page. Details later in the thread
January 7, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Final call! 🔔 Register to attend New Work in Modernist Studies 15 by 5pm this evening - we have an exciting array of papers covering identities, ecologies, readerships, travel, gossip and silence. Sign up here: forms.gle/BjALZ5Ukapzu...

Full programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 7, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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I don't know anything about D. H. Lawrence's writing, but his delivery company is a joke.
January 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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resisting arrest with no name to speak of - for today’s #ModWrite I’m thinking about crime & revenge, with a side of trying not to kill my bonsai tree
Two books on a black table - Wilkie Collins’s No Name and Rushing’s Resisting Arrest, with the trunk of a bonsai tree
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Looking to start 2026 off with a dash of modernist inspiration and community? There are three days left to register to join New Work in Modernist Studies 15. Sign up here forms.gle/5qyW6Yzx2imE... by 5pm on Wednesday 7th.

Peruse the programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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1926: less radio, less reading in bed

2026: MORE please
pessimistsarc.bsky.social Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Jan 2
2026 new year resolutions : cycle, read, play chess MORE

1926 new year resolutions: cycle, read, play chess LESS
January 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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We're happy to announce that we have extended the deadline to sign up to attend New Work in Modernist Studies 15! Please register by 5pm on Wednesday 7 January.

Take a look at how the programme is shaping up below: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We can't wait to see you there!
New Work in Modernist Studies 2026 Draft Programme
New Work in Modernist Studies 15 About the conference The fifteenth postgraduate conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place online on Friday 9 January 2026. BAMS is dedicated to fo...
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December 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The final #ModWrite of 2025! 🌟

Don't forget to sign up to attend New Work in Modernist Studies 15 before the end of today: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
New Work in Modernist Studies 2026
Register here for the British Association for Modernist Studies postgraduate conference, New Work in Modernist Studies. The 2026 edition will take place online on Friday 9 January from 10.30am to 4.3...
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December 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The CFP deadline for BAMS/MSA is today! Get those abstracts in! 📣
December 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Just up on the Telegraph, a thorough and thoughtful piece about the wrongheaded policy changes at WAC. Thanks to Kate Murphy, @illuminations.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social and @marklewisohn.bsky.social for giving up their time. Gift link here

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The BBC scandal of 2025 that went unnoticed
The Written Archives Centre has closed its doors to the public, despite being funded by the licence fee
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December 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Ring in the new year in style (in modernism), registration is now open for the @modernistudies.bsky.social New Work in Modernist Studies conference ✨ 9 January 2026 ✨
December 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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“I went to bed early I *think*” (think is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence, Evelyn)
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Dec 19
Happy 79th anniversary to this diary entry from Evelyn Waugh, in which he drinks enough to make you wonder how he lived for a further 19 years:
Thursday 19 December 1946 I went to London by the early train. I have now reached an age when any disturbance of routine is disagreeable, and I sat misanthropic, smoking cigars, while the train lost more and more time until it halted for three-quarters of an hour in a snowstorm just outside the Paddington station. I had time to try on a suit which has taken six months to make and then went to luncheon at the Beefsteak where I talked to Harold Nicolson and Clive Bell and drank enough wine to fuddle me slightly. In that condition I went to Duckworth and signed sixteen copies of When the Going was Good for Christmas presents. Also to the travel agency who are sending me to Hollywood. At 5 o’clock there was the Beefsteak committee meeting. My candidates Maurice Bowra, Ran Antrim and Randolph Churchill all got in the latter after long discussion in which 1 Hugh Sherwood made a spirited defence and overbore two men who had come with the firm purpose of blackballing him. During the meeting I drank a lot of whisky and went rather drunk to a cocktail party given by John Murray’ where I got very drunk. Rose Macaulay attempted a serious conversation in which I did not shine. I spent most of the time with Hermione Ranfurly jeering at people who were introduced to me and ended by bearing off a diminutive man called Gibbings to White’s for champagne cocktails. From then my memory is vague but I went to bed early I think at the Hyde Park Hotel.
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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There's still time to submit your proposals for NWiMS 15, deadline 5pm today! ⏰
modernistudies.bsky.social British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Dec 16
🔊 NWiMS Deadline Extended! If you're a PGR or ECR with an idea for a paper on modernist cultures, the deadline for submissions is now 5pm (GMT) Friday 19 December. Full details here: bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-...
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM