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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks!

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 18h

Finally, here is an extract from my chapter in The 1930s volume. (5/5)

The 1930s as a Key Decade of Social and Cultural Change

The 1930s was a key decade of social and cultural change, marking the emergence of a mass democratic twentieth-century culture, in which both women and the working class had representation, from th…

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 18h

I wrote about The 1930s (co-edited with @elinormtaylor.bsky.social & @thelong1930s.bsky.social) on my own blog (4/-)

The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

Nick Hubble, Luke Seaber and Elinor Taylor, eds, The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Ten years ago, very few people were predicting that we would move into a pe…

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 18h

I wrote about the 1950s & 1960s volumes for the Bloomsbury blog. (3/-)

British Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s - Bloomsbury Literary Studies Blog

Guest post by Nick Hubble The past may be a foreign country, as L.P. Hartley claims in his 1953 novel The Go-Between, but recently it has seemingly become the populist destination of choice for those ...

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 18h

These are currently available until Sunday at the Bloomsbury sale price of £27.99 (2/-)

The Decades Series: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) - Bloomsbury

‘[The Decades Series] will generate and sustain lively debates that will inspire a fresh generation of critical perspectives on the field… An ambitious and comp…

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 18h

Today is the publication day of the paperback editions of 3 volumes in the Decades series @bloomsburylit.bsky.social. These means that 9 of the 10 volumes are now in paperback, with only the recently published The 1920s still outstanding (and that will appear in due course). Further details below 1/

Cover of The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, edited by Nick Hubble, Luke Seaber and Elinor Taylor. One of 10 volumes in Bloomsbury's The Decades Series.

Cover of The 1950s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, edited by Nick Bentley, Alice Ferrebe & Nick Hubble. One of 10 volumes in Bloomsbury's The Decades Series.

Cover of The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, edited by Philip Tew, James Riley & Melanie Seddon. One of 10 volumes in Bloomsbury's The Decades Series.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 19h

I haven't read that yet but it's on my radar.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 19h

Today is the last chance to read and vote for my Galadriel essay in the BSFA Awards. Lots of other good stuff to vote for across the categories.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 27d

My essay 'Should Galadriel have taken the Ring?' has been nominated for the #BSFA Award for Best Short Non Fiction and @speculativeinsight.bsky.social have very kindly made it free to read for the voting period. So please read to find out about the significance of #Galadriel being the Fairy Queen.

Should Galadriel have taken the Ring? — Speculative Insight

The Fourth Age under the dominion of men isn’t going too well, is it? Did the free peoples of Middle-earth really combine to overthrow Sauron so that the world would be delivered on a plate to the lik...

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British Science Fiction Association @bsfa.bsky.social · 21h

🚀 attention members!
Today is the last day of shortlist nominations for the BSFA Awards! So get over to the website and have your say!
If you aren’t a member but would like to vote, you can join at BSFA.co.uk

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social · 1d

Opened this @thehubble101.bsky.social essay up a few weeks ago & finally read it through, & it is so good! Ahhh! #LordOfTheRings #Galadriel www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/galad...

Should Galadriel have taken the Ring? — Speculative Insight

The Fourth Age under the dominion of men isn’t going too well, is it? Did the free peoples of Middle-earth really combine to overthrow Sauron so that the world would be delivered on a plate to the lik...

www.speculativeinsight.com

Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody is saying the Democrats are exactly the same as Republicans wrt trans rights. What we are saying is their acceptable compromises aren't acceptable to us. I will not share a tent with people who are fine with our segregation and second-class status.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 1d

No. 65. Storm Jameson’s In the Second Year (1936). I have been unavoidably reminded of this novel by the high-profile emergence of an unabashedly fascist political party in Britain (i.e. Restore). In the Second Year imagines the banal evil of a Fascist regime taking control of England in 1940. 3/-

Storm Jameson’s In the Second Year (1936) as SF Text

This is the third instalment – and again it is very much a few notes yet to be formed into a coherent argument – in an occasional series, which began with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as SF…

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

All seven volumes to date in the #MassObservation Critical Series @massobscritical.bsky.social are also currently at attractive prices in the @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social sale until Sunday @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

The Mass-Observation Critical Series: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) - Bloomsbury

The Mass-Observation Critical Series pairs innovative interdisciplinary scholarship with rich archival materials from the original Mass-Observation movement and…

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

'The 2010s is the concluding volume of the Decades Series. Although novels will continue to be written and read in the UK, there are good reasons for thinking that future fiction written in Britain is unlikely to have the same cultural signification within national life as over the past century.'

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction is currently available on the Bloomsbury website at a 30 per cent discount price of £20.29 until Sunday night. This is a flash sale across most Bloomsbury books.

The 2010s

This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends,…

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 2d

The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction is currently available on the Bloomsbury website at a 30 per cent discount price of £20.29 until Sunday night. This is a flash sale across most Bloomsbury books.

The 2010s

This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends,…

www.bloomsbury.com

Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social · 2d

There's a new Briardene Book coming! The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing by Christopher Priest will be out on 2 April. Read more, and pre-order, here: briardenebooks.uk/2026/02/17/t...

The Recollections by Christopher Priest: Pre-Orders and Events

Briardene’s next book, The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing by Christopher Priest will be published on Thursday 2 April!

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 3d

The Player of Games and Against a Dark Background would make a nice combination for a comparative read.

Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 3d

Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Keith Scaife, 1989; R, Mark Salwowski, 1993
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for The Player of Games. A craft zips towards buildings over a waterfall.

Cover for Against a Dark Background. Woman looks over rail at a complex set of machines.

Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 3d

*facepalm*

Government cancels plan to delay local council elections in England

Polls in 30 areas had been due to be postponed as part of the government’s shake-up of English councils

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social · 3d

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 3d

Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Keith Scaife, 1989; R, Mark Salwowski, 1993
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 3d

New C21Literature @c21literature.bsky.social special issue: “The Century at 25”, guest edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh and Denise Wong:
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

Cover of C21 Literature, Volume 12, Issue 3 (2026), titled The Century at 25.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 4d

Thoughts on the first section of our reread of The Two Towers is now up, where we talked about narrative structure, a hero's death, Aragorn's leadership, how Tolkien talks about peoples as a whole, and the problems inherent in his portrayal of the orcs amongst themselves.

A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 9 – People and Peoples

After a little yuletide gap of mulling things over (or loafing about eating cheese, delete as appropriate), Ed and I have come back to our The Lord of the Rings reread, picking up now with The Two …

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 4d

There was quite a lot of snow at the cyclocross in Brussels today.

Devolved Election Projections @devolvedelections.bsky.social · 4d

A Projection on the latest Norstat poll in Scotland:

🎗️ SNP — 59
🌹 Lab — 19
🌳 Con — 11
🌱 GP — 11
🐤 LD — 6
➡️ Ref — 23

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 5d

One of my all time favourite writers.

Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 5d

Gwyneth Jones (1952-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Sue Lanzon, 1985; R, Lionel Jeans, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind. Woman with earring looks at the expanses of the cosmos.

Cover for Escape Plans. Woman with a cybernetic brain looks across an urban expanse.

Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 5d

New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW.

I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.