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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
1.7K followers 1.8K following 2.1K posts
Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

Anywhere near Books, Music and Films

#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries

Green Party Member
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
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I'm still thinking about this amazing snail 🐌👇

#AdoreSnails
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Publication day! Delighted to make my first post here to celebrate this new volume, Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World. So grateful to my co-editor, Rebecca Totaro, to @ardenpublisher.bsky.social for the stunning production, and to all of our amazing contributors.
Cover image for new volume, Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World, out today
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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White Narcissus, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Some snail news 🐌

Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News
A team is hunting for the finger-sized snail along the River Thames to help recover their numbers.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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📢 Register now for our next ASLE-UKI Seminar, Ecopedagogy as Method on 12th December, 4-5:30pm!

Speakers:

Laura Albertini

Hugh Dunkerley

Petra Hansson

Jasmin Kirkbride

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposted by Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
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It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Coda:

My post below refers only to academic staff

My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale

Solidarity ✊️
earlymodlancs.bsky.social Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 2d
There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.

BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future

Onwards and Solidarity
earlymodlancs.bsky.social Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 3d
What a gorgeous photograph !

Taking this vibe into the new week
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
earlymodlancs.bsky.social
There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.

BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future

Onwards and Solidarity
earlymodlancs.bsky.social Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 3d
What a gorgeous photograph !

Taking this vibe into the new week
glengrambo.bsky.social Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 3d
African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy.
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...
"I Stop Being Human"
Rosemary Tonks, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
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November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Here's the latest pic of "Daphne"

(17/11/2025)
Anne Hirsch-Henecke's "Daphne", 1972-3, County South Lancaster University, Uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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An especially brilliant issue of the always brilliant 'Green Letters ' @asleuki.bsky.social

arrived in the post this week 👇

#OvidAlert

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Green Letters
Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics. Volume 29, Issue 2 of Green Letters
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November 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”

Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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My university colleague Jess Davies on the importance of soil sustainability 👇👇👇

#Soil_Imaginaries

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How soil could help us reach climate targets
From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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As the climate emergency begins to bite a few world leaders meet with a lot of fossil fuel lobbyists and can't even agree that fossil fuels are a problem. Truly frightening. We need radical action not weak willed leaders scared to stand up to the rich and powerful.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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"The first sighting of a pine marten in Studland, Dorset, in more than a century!" swanage.news/rare-and-end...
A pine marten.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Here I reflect on how Baldwin's writing unsettled my fixed idea of linear European time, which traps us into repeating history's evil patterns. 'Instead of speaking about the civil rights movement, let us pretend that I am a survivor of the latest slave rebellion.'

folukeafrica.com/me-james-bal...
Me, James Baldwin and the Un-fragmenting of Euro-modern Time
Or how do we enter into a time present, of things future?
folukeafrica.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
earlymodlancs.bsky.social
What a gorgeous photograph !

Taking this vibe into the new week
glengrambo.bsky.social Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 3d
African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy.
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
A bull African Buffalo crosses a river in Kruger park, South Africa. He is walking towards us and has quite large horns. He is carrying about a dozen red-billed oxpecker birds on his back. The oxpeckers are eating ticks and parasites off the buffalo and also acting as sentinels to warn the buffalo about approaching predators.
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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It's
#DeliaDerbyshireDay

😊🎊😊🎊
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Reposted by Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
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Sunday #morningread
☀️🪽
from A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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THis is still a major victory! It shows that exposing management's unsound financial decision-making alongside tireless organising and pressure works! We hope this sends a message of strength and solidarity to sister unions accross the sector✊
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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BUT the dispute is NOT over! Serious concerns remain about the university’s financial mismanagement and the consequences of programme closures for staff. We need a long-term solution and we will continue to fight for it!
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reposted by Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
lancasterucu.bsky.social
📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch!
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Cornell are having a 44% off sale until December 5th! Buy books including mine… www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Well you know about this one, but any excuse, I am SHAMELESS...
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starcrossed2018.bsky.social Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 15d
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Now...

tell me the books you've had published in the last month

I've really missed your news!

Please tag with
#NewBookNews
earlymodlancs.bsky.social Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 4d
Whike I was on social media sabbatical, the hard copies of "Translating Shakespeare: Access and Mediation" arrived. | SpringerLink share.google/hkBEzs2r770c...

Many to thank ...
Our first thanks must be to Eoin Price for organising such a important British Shakespeare (BSA) conference on "Shakespeare, Race, and Nation" at Swansea University in 2019, and to all the speakers and auditors at that event. We are especially grateful to all the speakers who took part in that conference's "Shakespeare and Translation" seminar, whose papers and discussion points helped shape the inaugural idea for [this book]: Luis J. Conejero-Magro, Carolina Conte, Coen Heijes, Marina Kitzma, Maureen McDonnell, Paulo da Silva Gregorio, Michael Slater, Kathryn Vomero Santos and Roberta Zanoni. We are very appreciative of the time Preti Taneja spent talking to us about translation via Teams during the global pandemic, as this conversation helped to inspire new ideas and to consolidate others that have benefitted the collection well beyond the interludes themselves. Thank you to Varsha Panjwani and Brandi Adams for their input during the essay collection's formation, and to Sijing Lu for taking the time to share her translation expertise as the volume neared completion. Thanks also to Jessica Chiba and Tetsu Motoyama for their roles on the organising committee of the "Found in Translation: Understanding Shakespeare through Intercultural Dialogue" conference held at Waseda University in 2022, which included helping the delereach Tokyo at a time when the logistics were still rather challenging! The ideas discussed at this conference led directly to the creation of an additional chapter, as well as adding further impetus to the collection as a whole. Finally our biggest thanks must be to our contributors for working so closely and supportively throughout.
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM