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Julie Sanders
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Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Proud Trustee at Shakespeare’s Globe, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
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Happy #MobileLibrariesDay! 📚

An annual celebration of all the intrepid Mobile Library drivers who head out across the urban, rural and island communities of Scotland every week, delivering books, knowledge and entertainment. 📚

#BookWeekScotland #LoveLibraries
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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When a book you have been longing to read arrives and when it is by one of the loveliest people you get the privilege to know @starcrossed2018.bsky.social ❤️📚🪡
Cover of Textile Shakespeare by Hester Lees Jeffries showing a sample of material in close up. The colours are cream and grey predominantly
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🪾🍁🐝🦇

This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
A large gothic church - image taken from high up looking down at an exhibition. There are temporary walls displayed throughout featuring text art and table covered in books Woman stood in front of an exhibition area where Susie Campbell’s wound is positioned - framed images of torn fabrics are on the wall and a Concertina books on a mirror table reflecting the ceiling of a church
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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On my way back from the Englefield Green Remembrance Sunday events … #LestWeForget 🕊️
Image shows a knitted post box topper decorated with white and red poppies and the message “We Will Remember Them”
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @royalholloway.bsky.social

Founded in 1879 by Thomas Holloway, who had made his fortune selling patent medicines, it was one of @londonu.bsky.social's colleges for women

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a photograph of a magnificently ornate biding, looking like a French chateau. Printed under the photo is "The Royal Holloway College, Egham". Handwritten in pencil is "Passed the College as we walked to Virginia Water. Is not it a fine building? Does it come up to the B F Library?"
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Happy Halloween from the Wren Library, our Halloween Bat is courageously looking into this spooky hood.
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A drawing of a bat looking into a hood on a pole.
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Happy Halloween 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Latest lovely volume by Patrick Cheney is now out in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series with Oxford University Press that I am very proud to co edit with Garrett A Sullivan Jr …
Cover image of Patrick Cheney Placing Elysiam in Renaissance Britain book published by Oxford university Press The full Early Modern Literary Geographies series on display on a wooden bookshelf. The livery is white with different colours at the base identifying the different volumes …
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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THe City of London in and just after the rain is always a thing of loveliness
View coming out of Bank station, early evening in autumn. Passers by have umbrellas up due to the rain and the evening lights are coming on providing a contrast with the waning daylight. St Paul’s Cathedral at night, floodlit catching the white stone and the green of trees in front and with lights reflecting yellow and green onto the rain soaked pavements
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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'Shakespeare's Globe Theatre' by Fiona Horan
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September 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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'October in Bedford Square' by George ER Salter (active c.1956–1959)

(Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre)
September 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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This was a beautiful programme, “deeply kind” in its own right. Thank you as always @horatioclare.bsky.social #Choughs
horatioclare.bsky.social Horatio Clare @horatioclare.bsky.social · Aug 17
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 7.15pm British Summer Time, GMT +1, Tx from New Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A, on the digital, FM, Long Wave, AM and MW spectra and frequencies to the Universe, known and unknown. Please listen! We mean, as men, every single word xx
BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Into the West
Horatio Clare goes in search of the bird he’s loved since childhood: the red-billed chough
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August 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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“Hand on my stupid heart”
Meditations in an emergency Cameron Awkward-Rich I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.
August 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Marina Tabassum’s summer pavilion at the Serpentine with its references to Bangladeshi wedding pavilions and a welcome pause to drink coffee and chat about space and congregation with my partner. #Saturday
The pavilion is a series of arched panels letting the light in with sections open to the weather. A ginkgo tree is placed at the centre. people can be seen sitting at the edges and also standing and buying coffee at the far end of the structure. It is a cloudy day and the sky is visible in the open sections
August 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Work that pulls you in and yet remains so utterly and defiantly outside of your cultural vocabulary. The remarkable Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition at a Tate Modern late in London last night. #EmuDreamings
Small detail of painting by Emily Kam Kngwarray with brown white grey and pinkish dots creating lines and networks and in some instances depicting the three toed emu foot Large exhibition room at Tate Modern with series of hanging batiks in shades of ochre white rust and orange by Emily Kam Kngwarray Another detail of an Emily Kam Kngwarray image showing emu travelling with three toed footprints and pink brown and blueish dots clustering around a central depiction of a waterhole created with blues and creams
July 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Jersey tiger in the garden
July 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Congratulations to Professor Julie Brown, Professor Emerita of Music at Royal Holloway, who has been awarded Fellowship by @britishacademy.bsky.social!

The Fellowship recognises her outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

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Professor Julie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Music
July 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Now recognised as one of the UK's best green spaces 🌲

We're delighted that our Egham campus has received a prestigious Green Flag Award, which is the international quality mark for parks and green spaces.

Read more: ow.ly/qkLc50Wqslp
July 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Terrific open day at Wilding Cider in Somerset yesterday. Thanks for the warm welcome and the chance to have a glorious picnic in the shade as well as see the amazing orchards. A wonderful time out from the world for a few hours. 🍎🍐🍾❤️
Picture of ripening cider apples in bright sunshine with text saying Open Day at Wilding Cider in Somerset - Magical Day in Every Sense Bottle of Wilding Cider’s November Perry and a baguette and some hummus and two glasses on a table in the shade - a summer picnic Blackboard Sign at entry to farm saying Cider Open 10.30 to 16.00 Inside space at Wilding Cider on a Saturday open day with owners talking guests through different tastings - there are lots of bottles of cider and perry on display. People are listening attentively.
July 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Sometimes all you need is a moon rising to lift the spirits at the end of a long hot tiring day!
The so-called Buck Moon rising in Surrey on the edge of London. It is a striking orange red colour as it rises up above greenery …
July 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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We're pleased to share another year of improvement in the National Student Survey (NSS)!

The results, based on student feedback, reflect another positive step in our ongoing mission to deliver exceptional education and student experience. 👏

#NSS2025
82.9% overall positivity score, up from 80.8% last year (National Student Survey 2025)
July 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The CAPRICORN ♑️ FULL MOON JULY 10- is a moon of reckoning.
Not in fear, but in remembering who you are without the noise.

#sunset #sky #astrology #mindfulness #nature #moon #inspiration #zodiac #healing #energy #mountains
Sunset sky over Colorado mountain peaks, green wildflower meadows and melting snow under a rising full moon. Capricorn, Full Moon, Capricorn Full Moon, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Pluto, Aquarius, Aries, Gemini, Cancer, Pisces, Virgo, Moon, Wellness, Ritual, AstrologyReading, MoonRitual, Colorado, Mountains, Peaks, GreenFields, Wildflowers, SnowBanks, SunsetSky, Outdoors, NaturePhotography, MountainSunset, Mindfulness, Meditation, Well‑being, SelfCare, Clarity, Grounding, Reflection, Intentions, Rituals, SpiritualGrowth, ConsciousLiving, FullMoon, MoonMagic, Astrology, FullMoonRitual, CapricornSeason, MoonInCapricorn, LunarEnergy, WaningMoon, Moonrise, NatureTherapy, MindfulMoments, OutdoorWellness By Eric Meleney @redcranehealth
July 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Superstar passed by the window on campus today … 🐻‍❄️ #Colossus
View of Colussus a large white polar bear mascot through a sash window. Some trees and balustrades can be seen behind Back view of Colossus being helped down the stairs - of of his large black boots is visible Another back view of Colossus with both boots visible - he is waking with intent
July 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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And so after an amazing final day at London’s Stratford Olympic Park site yesterday full of community, dance, procession and wonder @theherds.bsky.social move on … wish I was going with. 🐘🐺📦🚚
Large puppet elephant manouvered by several puppeteers makes a stately procession out of the Olympic Park beside people buying ice creams and coffee from stalls. A cardboard box clearly marked 1 Wolf A cardboard box marked Baboon 6 and “This side up”
June 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Magical moments in St James Park last night as part of the Caught in the Light performance by @theherds.bsky.social ..
A sustainably made cardboard covered gorilla puppet worked by two human puppeteers dressed in black appears caught in torchlight by a tree.
June 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM