Gillian Wright
@gwrightbham.bsky.social
Professor of English and Irish Literature, University of Birmingham. Editing, Aphra Behn, contemporary and early modern Irish literature.
Massively looking forward to this:
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Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film
Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison
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November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Massively looking forward to this:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Today marks 111 years since the first Member of Parliament was killed in action during the First World War.
Head to the #HistParl website to read our short biography of Captain Arthur O'Neill, MP for Mid Antrim.
Head to the #HistParl website to read our short biography of Captain Arthur O'Neill, MP for Mid Antrim.
‘The first M.P. to fall’: the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O’Neill (1876-1914) - The History of Parliament
Over the next four years, we'll be blogging short biographies of the MPs who died fighting in the First World War. Dr Kathryn Rix, of the Victorian Commons,
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November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today marks 111 years since the first Member of Parliament was killed in action during the First World War.
Head to the #HistParl website to read our short biography of Captain Arthur O'Neill, MP for Mid Antrim.
Head to the #HistParl website to read our short biography of Captain Arthur O'Neill, MP for Mid Antrim.
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New on the blog today, I've written about ten excellent novellas I highly recommend.
Featuring books by Anita Brookner, William Trevor. Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #Novellas #NovNov 💙📚
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Featuring books by Anita Brookner, William Trevor. Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #Novellas #NovNov 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
Ten excellent novellas I highly recommend
There’s something very satisfying about reading a whole book in one or two sittings on the same day, especially when time is tight. I’ve always been fond of novellas, which often offer the best of …
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October 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about ten excellent novellas I highly recommend.
Featuring books by Anita Brookner, William Trevor. Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #Novellas #NovNov 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
Featuring books by Anita Brookner, William Trevor. Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #Novellas #NovNov 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
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October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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This @fotoole.bsky.social piece is one of the best things I have ever read in a newspaper.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age | The Observer
Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This @fotoole.bsky.social piece is one of the best things I have ever read in a newspaper.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Died #OTD 1687, Edmund Waller.
Serving as an MP since 1624, in 1643 Waller was involved in a royalist conspiracy to capture London known as ‘Waller’s Plot’. Although other conspirators were hanged, Waller bought his own stay of execution for £10,000.
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Serving as an MP since 1624, in 1643 Waller was involved in a royalist conspiracy to capture London known as ‘Waller’s Plot’. Although other conspirators were hanged, Waller bought his own stay of execution for £10,000.
buff.ly/CwKftHR
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Died #OTD 1687, Edmund Waller.
Serving as an MP since 1624, in 1643 Waller was involved in a royalist conspiracy to capture London known as ‘Waller’s Plot’. Although other conspirators were hanged, Waller bought his own stay of execution for £10,000.
buff.ly/CwKftHR
Serving as an MP since 1624, in 1643 Waller was involved in a royalist conspiracy to capture London known as ‘Waller’s Plot’. Although other conspirators were hanged, Waller bought his own stay of execution for £10,000.
buff.ly/CwKftHR
Wow!
GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
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"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
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October 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Wow!
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At this event I will be talking to singer Adriana Festeu and Christopher White, Head of Opera at the RAM, about the opera-elitism stereotype and how things differ between Britain and Germany. Free to attend and open to all but you need to book a space.
Please come along and hear me discussing my new book "Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British" at this event at the Royal Academy of Music on 26 September.
www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/ope...
www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/ope...
Opera's Social Status | Royal Academy of Music
www.ram.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
At this event I will be talking to singer Adriana Festeu and Christopher White, Head of Opera at the RAM, about the opera-elitism stereotype and how things differ between Britain and Germany. Free to attend and open to all but you need to book a space.
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With the usual prudent caveats about first examples in the OED; I love that Jonson is the first to be cited for "I told you so"
September 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
With the usual prudent caveats about first examples in the OED; I love that Jonson is the first to be cited for "I told you so"
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Out soon: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gullivers...
Gulliver’s Afterlives
The first deep dive into the cultural afterlives of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, this book explores how the strange adventures of the 18th-century voyag…
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September 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Out soon: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gullivers...
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Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern
The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse
In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.
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September 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern
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Died #OTD 1701 the exiled King James II. In 1688 the king's Catholic wife, Mary Beatrice, had given birth to a son setting the country on a path towards the so-called 'Glorious Revolution' and James's removal from the throne. Find out more here 👇
The ‘warming-pan baby’: James Edward Francis Stuart - The History of Parliament
James Edward Francis Stuart. It was his birth, in 1688, that led to the now abandoned tradition of Home Secretaries being present at a royal birth.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Died #OTD 1701 the exiled King James II. In 1688 the king's Catholic wife, Mary Beatrice, had given birth to a son setting the country on a path towards the so-called 'Glorious Revolution' and James's removal from the throne. Find out more here 👇
A wonderful new prize, and a very worthy first winner. Tremendous news!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo
The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize
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September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A wonderful new prize, and a very worthy first winner. Tremendous news!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Interesting, depressing, and entirely unsurprising insights from France. I'd be amazed if it wasn't the same elsewhere.
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Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds | PNAS
Social class disparities exist from the earliest stages of education. Research has suggested that class-based differences in factors such as social...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Interesting, depressing, and entirely unsurprising insights from France. I'd be amazed if it wasn't the same elsewhere.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...