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Julie Sanders
@profjsanders.bsky.social
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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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Quite the skies this evening
Vivid red sunset over a silhouetted building with many towers and turrets
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/...
short eared owl sitting with ear tufts up on slope with scrubby long grass short eared owl in flight over scrubby grassland with people walking in front of chain link fence and building in the background short eared owl on grassy slope looking sideways.
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
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Theatre ❤️
December 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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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
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December 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Pinocchio review – full-tilt family musical swaps Collodi’s darkness for heartwarming lessons and humour
Meticulous direction and an excellent cast bring to life the story of Geppetto and the puppet he crafts from wood
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December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️
A Christmas tree made of knitted squares with knitted and crocheted decorations
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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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
Sunrise can be seen through bare winter trees. There is an orange glow and a trace of frost on the grass and balustrades that frame the scene
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
Monet Houses of Parliament at sunset
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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And looking forward very much to our St Cecilia concert @royalholloway.bsky.social this evening …🎶
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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
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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