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It's December 1925 and D.H. Lawrence espouses sentiments which would later inform the opening paragraph to Lady Chatterley's Lover #Booksky
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Locating Lawrence December 1925
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December 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The reason I like snooker is it's the only sport where commentary focuses on table heaters rather than the shots. #snooker #ukchampionship
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
National Humanities Lecture with Elif Shafak on 3rd Feb is a hybrid event. Tickets here.
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Award-winning novelist Elif Shafak to deliver the National Humanities Lecture 2026
The award-winning novelist and storyteller Elif Shafak will deliver the National Humanities Lecture on 3 February 2026 from 6-8pm at the University of London’s Senate House.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It's November 1925 and D.H. Lawrence is off to Liguria, Italy.
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Locating D.H. Lawrence: November 1925
YouTube video by D.H. Lawrence: A Digital Pilgrimage
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November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
FfilmSchool (FfS) is recruiting for a paid, collaborative documentary-making residency in the Cambrian Mountains (starting January 2026). The programme is designed to educate in and strengthen radical filmmaking infrastructures. No experience is required.
Apply / info: ffilmschool.org/apply/
apply – FfilmSchool.org
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November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The religion paradox with Jon Stewart: 'Religion has given people comfort in a world torn apart by religion.'

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Jon Stewart on His Faith (or Lack Thereof) | The Daily Show
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November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The Risks and Benefits of Using AI in Research

Research Training

Monday 13th October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 BST (London)

Online live via Zoom

Register here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Risks and Benefits of Using AI in Research
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October 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Freelance Writing Tutor - Evening Workshops for Adults, Landmark Arts Centre
Deadline: 17/10/2025 - London
We are expanding our pool of freelance writing tutors to lead creative writing workshops for adult learners in the evenings (Monday–Friday) www.nawe.co.uk/DB/jobs-and-...
Freelance Writing Tutor - Evening Workshops for Adults, Landmark Arts Centre :: National Association of Writers in Education ::
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October 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another." Toni Morrison
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We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion
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September 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
FREE teaching materials & resources related to graduate skills in the screen industries, created as part of the SIGN network.
Employability and career launch
Problem Solving
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Technological developments
Screen industries – now and in the future
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Home - Screen Industries Growth Network - screen business support
SIGN provided business support, training, development and research to support growth of the screen industries in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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September 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
StoryLab Conversations is an online narrative filmmaking publication for enquiring filmmakers to explore their form through practice-led conversations with their creative peers. See link for more info.
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StoryLab Conversations Editorial Board Introductions
The StoryLab Conversations Editorial Board welcomes participants in the new online practice publication project.
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September 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Where were ICE 200 hundred years ago when slaves needed them?
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What If ICE Was Around During Slavery? - Ian Edwards - Stand Up Comedy
YouTube video by Ian Edwards
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September 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Various talks and workshops were cancelled from the Green Festival today at the last minute because the insurer refused to cover anything deemed political, religious, or cultural. A nature workshop encouraging preservation falls within this definition...
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Welcome .Nottingham Green Festival Nottingham Green Festival
The Green Festival is organised by community volunteers. The ethical standards & sustainability / human / animal rights ethos of the event are long established
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September 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's September 1925 and D.H. Lawrence is ready to return to Blighty for a bit, though he finds the Atlantic an 'unsympathetic' ocean with barely a friendly fish! #booksky #1920s #literaryletters
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Locating D.H. Lawrence: September 1925
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September 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The global fact-checking community is confronting growing uncertainty, compounded by rapid technological shifts such as the rise of generative AI, and the policies of the Orange One in the White House. Get involved here...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The Entertainer offsets the rampant greed and profit obsession of our times by handing over ownership of their toy shop chain to staff.
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Entertainer founder hands over toy shop chain to staff
The toy retailer's 1,900 workers will get a share of profits and a say in how the business is run.
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August 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Talk on 'DH Lawrence and Nottingham' at Erewash Museum, Ilkeston, on Wednesday 13 August at 1pm given by local English teacher Michael Rumble. This is part of this year's Ilkeston Community Arts Festival, more details at www.ictaf.org #Nottingham ##dhlawrence
Ilkeston 2024 week long festival and other eventshome | Ictaf
The events making up the 2024 Ilkeston festival and why the Ilkeston community theatre and festival group (ICTAF) was set up.
www.ictaf.org
August 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Step back to August 1925 to the literary salon of Philadelphia's Centaur Press, who had recently published D.H.Lawrence. #booksky #amreading #1920s #books
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Locating D.H. Lawrence: August 1925
YouTube video by D.H. Lawrence: A Digital Pilgrimage
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August 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Join 'An Absolute Necessity to Move' on Substack if you have any interest in D.H.Lawrence. Monthly posts. anabsolutenecessitytomove.substack.com/subscribe?ut...
August 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
'The state is making an idiot of itself'
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Ian Hislop shares the joke that got someone arrested | LBC
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July 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"There are languages in which the words ‘past,’ “present,’ or “future” do not exist. Would speakers of those languages perceive time—and therefore life, renewal, mortality or death—the same way as we do?"
Wonderful words as always from Elif Shafak #booksky
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Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak | Substack
Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks. Click to read Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shaf...
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July 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"Independent publishers are dropping any problematic subjects and instead branching out into new areas, such as Asian cultures and art history. She sees this as “a form of ideological opposition and survival in this totalitarian nightmare”."

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Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned | Anna Aslanyan
Books – on LGBT themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work, says journalist Anna Aslanyan
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July 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM