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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.
Quite the skies this evening
December 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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On the fourth day of Christmas the winds may bring to you a migrant #ShortEaredOwl - just the time they may be arriving on our coasts after their long journey. Here's a little tale about two we saw around new year this year. #Owls #TheCompanyOfOwls #TweetOfTheDay www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A Woman Holding a Lily-of-the-Valley and a Pansy attributed to Marx Reichlich, 1464–1538.

(The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London) You can never go wrong with lilies.
December 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Theatre ❤️
December 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Just the loveliest person … will be much missed. My thoughts with John xxx
Faith Evans obituary
Talented editor and literary agent who was a co-founder of Women in Publishing
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
One advantage of a very early UUK meeting this morning ahead of our Council strategy away day is catching the sunrise through the trees on campus @royalholloway.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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"In London #November isn't a month, it's a state of mind."
Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
And looking forward very much to our St Cecilia concert @royalholloway.bsky.social this evening …🎶
On her feast #otd 22 Nov, here is St.Cecilia, patron of #music Saint Cecilia, right wing of a triptych, Master of the Brunswick Diptych (attributed to), 1490 - 1500 (Rijksmuseum)
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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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
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 ❤️📚🪡
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 🧡
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
On my way back from the Englefield Green Remembrance Sunday events … #LestWeForget 🕊️
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
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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October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Happy Halloween 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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 …
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
THe City of London in and just after the rain is always a thing of loveliness
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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'Shakespeare's Globe Theatre' by Fiona Horan
fionahoran.com
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
This was a beautiful programme, “deeply kind” in its own right. Thank you as always @horatioclare.bsky.social #Choughs
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
www.bbc.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“Hand on my stupid heart”
August 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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
August 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM