Karen Ecky
@eckyk.bsky.social
Former teacher of English and former trustee of British Shakespeare Association. All round chatterbox and riot of colour in a dull grey world 😉
July 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope!
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope!
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Read all about the best things to see and do next week at the York International Shakespeare Festival 2025 in our latest article at bit.ly/4h1GjTR
April 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Read all about the best things to see and do next week at the York International Shakespeare Festival 2025 in our latest article at bit.ly/4h1GjTR
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social As an aside, this is the bit of the film when I first saw it in cinema as a child that stayed with me- terrifying! #POTUS is terrifying me now 😔
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social
We all know he needs to be here with the rest of the (space) rubbish/trash #StarWars #May4th #Trump
We all know he needs to be here with the rest of the (space) rubbish/trash #StarWars #May4th #Trump
May 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social As an aside, this is the bit of the film when I first saw it in cinema as a child that stayed with me- terrifying! #POTUS is terrifying me now 😔
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social
We all know he needs to be here with the rest of the (space) rubbish/trash #StarWars #May4th #Trump
We all know he needs to be here with the rest of the (space) rubbish/trash #StarWars #May4th #Trump
May 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social
We all know he needs to be here with the rest of the (space) rubbish/trash #StarWars #May4th #Trump
We all know he needs to be here with the rest of the (space) rubbish/trash #StarWars #May4th #Trump
My lovely Aquarian Mum is 91 today ❤️❤️❤️I’m so lucky to have her and thought she deserved a share with the rest of the world! @therussellgrant.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My lovely Aquarian Mum is 91 today ❤️❤️❤️I’m so lucky to have her and thought she deserved a share with the rest of the world! @therussellgrant.bsky.social
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💥 A quick-click form to write to your MP and ask them to attend the Youth Mobility Scheme debate today (after PMQs):
action.stayeuropean.org/campaigns/yo...
action.stayeuropean.org/campaigns/yo...
January 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
💥 A quick-click form to write to your MP and ask them to attend the Youth Mobility Scheme debate today (after PMQs):
action.stayeuropean.org/campaigns/yo...
action.stayeuropean.org/campaigns/yo...
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Look look look look look!
Please spread the word about my FREE online workshops starting on Saturday 25th January - aimed at new writers but all welcome, no requirement to share your work!
Do get in touch for more info or have a look here:
elspells.com/2025/01/13/e...
#WritingCommunity ✍ 💙
Do get in touch for more info or have a look here:
elspells.com/2025/01/13/e...
#WritingCommunity ✍ 💙
January 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Look look look look look!
Have just had phone call with my Mum’s GP (I look after my Mum) and she was just really wonderful and reassuring. I realise how fortunate we are to have such a good practice #NHS #HopwoodHouseOldham @carers-uk.bsky.social @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social @arthritisuk.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Have just had phone call with my Mum’s GP (I look after my Mum) and she was just really wonderful and reassuring. I realise how fortunate we are to have such a good practice #NHS #HopwoodHouseOldham @carers-uk.bsky.social @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social @arthritisuk.bsky.social
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"the past is always read through the prism of the present and thus the present reads into it whatever suits it" - Martin Johnes 🤌🏾
January 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"the past is always read through the prism of the present and thus the present reads into it whatever suits it" - Martin Johnes 🤌🏾
Just give #MarkCharnock all the awards. He never fails to break my heart @emmerdaleinsider.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Just give #MarkCharnock all the awards. He never fails to break my heart @emmerdaleinsider.bsky.social
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Great interview with @teresacremin.bsky.social about Reading for Pleasure. If you want to encourage it in your school, this is an excellent place to start thinking about why & how! eg www.tes.com/magazine
January 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Great interview with @teresacremin.bsky.social about Reading for Pleasure. If you want to encourage it in your school, this is an excellent place to start thinking about why & how! eg www.tes.com/magazine
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On a new episode of the @folgerlibrary.bsky.social Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the influences on the “upstart crow” as he created a canon of timeless works, with author @freeburian.bsky.social.
Listen here:
www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
#Shakespeare
Listen here:
www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
#Shakespeare
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with Darren Freebury-Jones | Folger Shakespeare Library
Darren Freebury-Jones explores the ways in which Shakespeare reshaped the works of contemporaries like John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, and Christopher Marlowe into something distinctly his own.
www.folger.edu
January 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
On a new episode of the @folgerlibrary.bsky.social Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the influences on the “upstart crow” as he created a canon of timeless works, with author @freeburian.bsky.social.
Listen here:
www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
#Shakespeare
Listen here:
www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
#Shakespeare
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“So where is home? For me, home is storyland. That is where we find a sense of belonging, a sanctuary, a motherland.”
- Elif Shafak in @theguardian.com today - a wonderful article about the meaning of home… theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/child-france-turkey-spain-stories-children-home
- Elif Shafak in @theguardian.com today - a wonderful article about the meaning of home… theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/child-france-turkey-spain-stories-children-home
Strasbourg, Ankara, Madrid: none felt like home, but in books I discovered my people | Elif Shafak
As a child I moved from France to Turkey to Spain – then I finally found roots and belonging in stories, writes novelist Elif Shafak
theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“So where is home? For me, home is storyland. That is where we find a sense of belonging, a sanctuary, a motherland.”
- Elif Shafak in @theguardian.com today - a wonderful article about the meaning of home… theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/child-france-turkey-spain-stories-children-home
- Elif Shafak in @theguardian.com today - a wonderful article about the meaning of home… theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/child-france-turkey-spain-stories-children-home
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🎄On the 8th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
🌳Eight John Lylys!
🔊 Seven John Heywoods!
🌟Six George Peeles!
🐌Five Nicholas Udalls!
🐍Four Samuel Daniels!
🗡️Three Tragic Ladies!
🎁Two Henry Medwalls!
🐻❄️And an Old Wife and her Tale!
#12DaysOfChristmas #drama
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🌳Eight John Lylys!
🔊 Seven John Heywoods!
🌟Six George Peeles!
🐌Five Nicholas Udalls!
🐍Four Samuel Daniels!
🗡️Three Tragic Ladies!
🎁Two Henry Medwalls!
🐻❄️And an Old Wife and her Tale!
#12DaysOfChristmas #drama
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
John Lyly - YouTube
All the plays of John Lyly in one handy playlist. A complete set of First Look read throughs, plus an increasing number of second passes.
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🎄On the 8th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
🌳Eight John Lylys!
🔊 Seven John Heywoods!
🌟Six George Peeles!
🐌Five Nicholas Udalls!
🐍Four Samuel Daniels!
🗡️Three Tragic Ladies!
🎁Two Henry Medwalls!
🐻❄️And an Old Wife and her Tale!
#12DaysOfChristmas #drama
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🌳Eight John Lylys!
🔊 Seven John Heywoods!
🌟Six George Peeles!
🐌Five Nicholas Udalls!
🐍Four Samuel Daniels!
🗡️Three Tragic Ladies!
🎁Two Henry Medwalls!
🐻❄️And an Old Wife and her Tale!
#12DaysOfChristmas #drama
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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On New Year’s Day, the #curae prize for writer-#carers opens for a second time. It’s supported by brilliant people across the industry and it’s for YOU. It’s free to enter and all the info you need is on the site thecuraeprize.uk This year you can enter a poem, short fiction or short nonfiction
December 28, 2024 at 3:12 PM
On New Year’s Day, the #curae prize for writer-#carers opens for a second time. It’s supported by brilliant people across the industry and it’s for YOU. It’s free to enter and all the info you need is on the site thecuraeprize.uk This year you can enter a poem, short fiction or short nonfiction
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A joy to speak about my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS @manchesterup.bsky.social with Thomas Dabbs for the phenomenal SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE series.
Lend your ears (and eyes) here.
youtube.com/watch?v=NuDI...
Lend your ears (and eyes) here.
youtube.com/watch?v=NuDI...
youtube.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:19 PM
A joy to speak about my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS @manchesterup.bsky.social with Thomas Dabbs for the phenomenal SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE series.
Lend your ears (and eyes) here.
youtube.com/watch?v=NuDI...
Lend your ears (and eyes) here.
youtube.com/watch?v=NuDI...
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This is such an important corrective to some of the current misconceptions and lack of accurate data about the place of creative arts graduates in the workplace, minimising their importance. Creative Arts and Humanities graduates play a vital role.
Creative arts graduates succeed because of their background, not in spite of it wonkhe.com/blogs/creati...
Important recalibration of creative arts careers data and impact by Katie Normington, VC of De Montfort and Professor of Drama, and graduate of English.
Important recalibration of creative arts careers data and impact by Katie Normington, VC of De Montfort and Professor of Drama, and graduate of English.
Creative arts graduates succeed because of their background, not in spite of it
De Montfort University vice chancellor Katie Normington questions why the data on creative arts graduates fails to capture the volume and power of their impact
wonkhe.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:55 PM
This is such an important corrective to some of the current misconceptions and lack of accurate data about the place of creative arts graduates in the workplace, minimising their importance. Creative Arts and Humanities graduates play a vital role.
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Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians
#literacy #libraries #librarians
November 25, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians
#literacy #libraries #librarians
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ICYMI here is a conversation with REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY about my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS.
open.spotify.com/episode/79lv...
open.spotify.com/episode/79lv...
Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers
Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:25 AM
ICYMI here is a conversation with REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY about my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS.
open.spotify.com/episode/79lv...
open.spotify.com/episode/79lv...
My Bertie Boy distinctly underwhelmed by the coming storm named after him #StormBert @chadweather.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 9:59 PM
My Bertie Boy distinctly underwhelmed by the coming storm named after him #StormBert @chadweather.bsky.social
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John Prescott, British former deputy prime minister, dies aged 86
John Prescott, British former deputy prime minister, dies aged 86
Former trade union activist who had Alzheimer's died peacefully at care home, says family
The former British deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86, his family has announced.
His family said he had “spent his life trying to improve the…
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November 21, 2024 at 6:26 AM
John Prescott, British former deputy prime minister, dies aged 86
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John Prescott: a life in pictures
John Prescott: a life in pictures
The former British deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86. His family said he ‘spent his life trying to improve the lives of others, fighting for social justice and protecting the environment’ Continue reading...
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November 21, 2024 at 7:56 AM
John Prescott: a life in pictures