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Wim Van Mierlo
@wvmierlo.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University

Author of James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome (Bloomsbury)

Documentary and Heritage Photographer
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Scaffolding, St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace #documentingspaces #heritagephotography #historyandheritage #Eastmidlands #nikon #photooftheday #texture #eye_collective
Detail view of scaffolding around the side of a church in bright sunlight, with heavy shadows.
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Rooftop, St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplaces #documentingspaces #heritagephotography #historyandheritage #Eastmidlands #nikon

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A well-weathered stone carving on top of a church roof. In the background is scaffolding and a blue sky with big, white clouds.
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ests-eu.bsky.social
The deadline to submit an abstract for our upcoming ESTS 2026 conference (28-30 May, Lublin, Poland) is quickly approaching!
This year’s theme is Edition and Interpretation. Please visit the conference’s official website for more information: ests2026.arfi.kul.pl
Home - Edition and Interpretation
ests2026.arfi.kul.pl
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplaces #heritagephotography #Newark #Eastmidlands #nikon #historyandheritage

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An old red-brick building with four large windows and several chimneys surrounded by trees underneath a blue sky with scattered white clouds.
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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apache.be
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplaces #heritagephotography #Eastmidlands #nikon #church

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The church during restoration work. Various objects are covered in dust sheets. A scaffolding has been erected next to the stained glass window; beneath the window is a tressle table.
October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplaces #heritagephotography #Newark #Eastmidlands #church #nikon

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October 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
A daye wythout anachronism ys lyke Emily Dickinson wythout her lightsaber.
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
wvmierlo.bsky.social
PhD opportunity with fee-waiver. I'm always interested in supervising projects in textual scholarship and editing, literary archives and modernism (especially the work of James Joyce and W. B. Yeats).

www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

#phd #humanities #lboro
School of Social Sciences and Humanities | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University
We are keen to receive proposals from scholars interested in working within or across a wide range of areas within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
www.lboro.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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shawnaross.bsky.social
CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.

Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
CFP for A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
www.shawnaross.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplaces #heritagephotography #Eastmidlands #church #nikon

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Interior of the church while constructions work is going on. We are looking towards the light of a stained-glass window while the foreground is in darkness; drapes on the left are protecting some of the church interior from dust.
October 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Bristol Cathedral, April 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #heritagephotography #Bristol #cathedral #nikon

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October 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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lboroenglish.bsky.social
Last month Barbara Cooke and @wvmierlo.bsky.social spoke at the Modernist Editing symposium (Uni of Reading). Wim drew on his monograph, Scholarly Editing in Perspective, to re-assess
the default framework for Scholarly Editions. Barbara reflected on 12 years of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh.
October 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
wvmierlo.bsky.social
The Great Finnegans Wake Annotator!
samslote.bsky.social Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Oct 10
RIP Roland McHugh
Roland McHugh at the Finnegans Wake at 80 symposium, TCD, 2019
October 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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RIP Roland McHugh
Roland McHugh at the Finnegans Wake at 80 symposium, TCD, 2019
October 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
wvmierlo.bsky.social
The Godfather
The Lord of the Rings
Star Wars

I don't consider these cultural holes.
hannahfearn.bsky.social Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · Oct 5
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Vicars' Close, Wells, April 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #heritagephotography #documentingbritain #blackandwhitephotography #Wells #Somerset #nikon

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October 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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casparwortpoet.bsky.social
Do you like poetry?

Regardless of the answer I need your help!

As part of my doctoral research @lborouniversity.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social I am collecting responses to poetry.

Just click or tap here to start or scan the QR code: forms.office.com/e/cbXmyRCYnU
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Vicars' Close Wells Cathedral, April 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #beestoncreatives #heritagephotography #documentingbritain #documentingplaces #blackandwhitetag/blackandwhitephotography" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #ClassicMono #nikon #Wells #Somerset #eye_collective

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October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Exterior, Wells Cathedral, April 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #heritagephotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #classicmono #MonochromeMonday #photomonday #nikon #Wells #Somerset #cathedral

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A detail of the Cathedral's facade, looking at the corner of the building, with arches and religious statues in black and white.
September 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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cuddy30.bsky.social
5 years ago, the Government consulted on how dangerous pavement parking could be tackled in England. The Government has yet to respond.

If pavement parking is a problem in your area – fill out the form and add to the map of danger hotspots across the UK.

‪@livingstreets.bsky.social‬
Map pavement parking hotspots
Five years ago, the Government consulted on how the dangerous practice of pavement parking could be tackled in England. The Government has yet to respond. Together we want to show how pavement parkin...
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September 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Western elevation, Wells Cathedral, April 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #heritagephotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #nikon #cathedral #Wells #Somerset #architecture

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September 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I found this short article illuminating, @sadiseshiah.bsky.social.

wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

#HE #HigherEducation #University #UK
Understanding the 2026 league tables
We look for surprises, but it is the fine detail that holds the key to getting the best out of university league tables
wonkhe.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'If you plunge into the subject tables you will find more that may surprise you. The only people that really care about individual placings are university senior managers and marketing teams.'
Understanding the 2026 league tables
We look for surprises, but it is the fine detail that holds the key to getting the best out of university league tables
wonkhe.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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vch-home.bsky.social
Pamela Fisher - @leicsvcht.bsky.social - has written for the @ihr.bsky.social 'On History' blog about her recent community history project on the minute holiday resort of Nanpantan.

A handful of farms, a pub, a crossroads, a leisure space for the working people of #Loughborough. #Skystorians
‘The holiday resort of the people’: Exploring the History of the ‘Community at the Crossroads’ - On History
In this blogpost, Dr Pamela Fisher, County Editor of the  Victoria County History (VCH) project in Leicestershire, describes a project on a tiny midland settlement and shows how VCH research engages w...
blog.history.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM