Michael Craske
@mjcraske.bsky.social
More moustache than man. #Autistic Victorianist English lecturer @qmul.ac.uk https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/research/staff/staff/craskem.html
Research on Swinburne and Wagner https://verseandmusic.com/2025/04/13/swinburne-and-wagner/
Research on Swinburne and Wagner https://verseandmusic.com/2025/04/13/swinburne-and-wagner/
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Michael Craske
@mjcraske.bsky.social
· Sep 10
New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series!
'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)
All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)
All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske
Modern Humanities Research Association - Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske
www.mhra.org.uk
Very excited by this! Great that this fabulous novel is being republished with the care and attention that it deserves! #sabinebaringgould
Reposted by Michael Craske
Next week @conwayhall.bsky.social is hosting what is sure to be a brilliant conversation between Daisy Dunn and Hetta Howes about the Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women. Looking forward to chairing! Join us in person or online 6:30 Wed 19 Nov. Details & tickets www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Next week @conwayhall.bsky.social is hosting what is sure to be a brilliant conversation between Daisy Dunn and Hetta Howes about the Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women. Looking forward to chairing! Join us in person or online 6:30 Wed 19 Nov. Details & tickets www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
I just signed this, please consider doing so c.org/bzYk4kTFvq
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I just signed this, please consider doing so c.org/bzYk4kTFvq
Discussing Olaudah Equiano's 'Interesting Narrative' today in our 'London Global' module seminar and am reminded of this sculpture by Christy Symington at the Queen's House in Greenwich, where he's flanked by naval officers, the Greenwich meridian in the background
#OlaudahEquiano
#OlaudahEquiano
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Discussing Olaudah Equiano's 'Interesting Narrative' today in our 'London Global' module seminar and am reminded of this sculpture by Christy Symington at the Queen's House in Greenwich, where he's flanked by naval officers, the Greenwich meridian in the background
#OlaudahEquiano
#OlaudahEquiano
Now why has MS Word/Office started to want access to my location? **** off!
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Now why has MS Word/Office started to want access to my location? **** off!
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Excited to announce this new special issue of Volupté on the (reluctant) decadent Lafcadio Hearn: volupte.gold.ac.uk/hearn
Volupté 8.1 - Lafcadio Hearn — Volupté
volupte.gold.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Excited to announce this new special issue of Volupté on the (reluctant) decadent Lafcadio Hearn: volupte.gold.ac.uk/hearn
The British Library really has become so unreliable in the last few years. It must be a complete mess working there
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The British Library really has become so unreliable in the last few years. It must be a complete mess working there
The gloom that hits when the 19th Century novelist presents you with several pages of "comedy" regional dialect...
November 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The gloom that hits when the 19th Century novelist presents you with several pages of "comedy" regional dialect...
Very happy to see this now in print, 'Salome's Bookshelf: Artists and Writers of the 1890s', ed. Simon Reynolds, with my own chapter 'The Music of the Venusberg: Richard Wagner and the poetry of Arthur Symons' #RichardWagner #Decadence #ArthurSymons
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October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Very happy to see this now in print, 'Salome's Bookshelf: Artists and Writers of the 1890s', ed. Simon Reynolds, with my own chapter 'The Music of the Venusberg: Richard Wagner and the poetry of Arthur Symons' #RichardWagner #Decadence #ArthurSymons
greenex.co.uk/home/p/salom...
greenex.co.uk/home/p/salom...
An academic career in the UK - constant anxiety. Every moment of every day you're thinking, oh **** I need to do that, and that too, and oh **** that too, and **** I've forgotten that, & that, & that... And still you're working flat out...
#academia
#academia
October 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
An academic career in the UK - constant anxiety. Every moment of every day you're thinking, oh **** I need to do that, and that too, and oh **** that too, and **** I've forgotten that, & that, & that... And still you're working flat out...
#academia
#academia
Ooh, do you think our wages could now rise with inflation too? 🧐
October 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ooh, do you think our wages could now rise with inflation too? 🧐
Because all kids, of course, talk about gassing people. And raping people, etc. Apparently, that's what kids talk about. Just monstrous
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Because all kids, of course, talk about gassing people. And raping people, etc. Apparently, that's what kids talk about. Just monstrous
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What is it about Post Offices? You approach, no one to be seen. Within 20 yards, several people shimmer out of nowhere and create a queue. Then they pay in pennies and old buttons....
October 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
What is it about Post Offices? You approach, no one to be seen. Within 20 yards, several people shimmer out of nowhere and create a queue. Then they pay in pennies and old buttons....
Very excited as I have just discovered how to put drop-down boxes into excel spreadsheets and now my academic admin life is supercharged and every damn spreadsheet is going to get one (or two or more). Watch out colleagues! And I need a 'merit' badge"!
October 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Very excited as I have just discovered how to put drop-down boxes into excel spreadsheets and now my academic admin life is supercharged and every damn spreadsheet is going to get one (or two or more). Watch out colleagues! And I need a 'merit' badge"!
A sudden shock to see my old friend and colleague's face come up on a news page this morning. My friend who was murdered. So sad and sorry for what happened to you Jamal #JamalKhashoggi
www.bbc.com/arabic/artic...
www.bbc.com/arabic/artic...
جمال خاشقجي: مسار قضية مقتله من تركيا إلى السعودية - BBC News عربي
تحل اليوم الذكرى السابعة لمقتل الصحفي السعودي جمال خاشقجي في قنصلية بلاده في اسطنبول، فماذا نعرف عن هذه القضية؟
www.bbc.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
A sudden shock to see my old friend and colleague's face come up on a news page this morning. My friend who was murdered. So sad and sorry for what happened to you Jamal #JamalKhashoggi
www.bbc.com/arabic/artic...
www.bbc.com/arabic/artic...
Why do we have to put up with the now common nerve-shredding sound of souped up exhausts that man-children fit to their vehicles in a desperate attempt for attention? Why is there no enforcement for sound levels, no sanctions against their sale? Btw, If you're #autistic these can destroy your day
October 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Why do we have to put up with the now common nerve-shredding sound of souped up exhausts that man-children fit to their vehicles in a desperate attempt for attention? Why is there no enforcement for sound levels, no sanctions against their sale? Btw, If you're #autistic these can destroy your day
Tony Blair is to serve on the 'Board of Peace'? God help the Palestinians.
September 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Tony Blair is to serve on the 'Board of Peace'? God help the Palestinians.
I wish Tony Blair would just go away and never come back. Please, for all our sakes, and definitely for those of the Palestinians and the wider Middle East, please, please, please go away
September 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I wish Tony Blair would just go away and never come back. Please, for all our sakes, and definitely for those of the Palestinians and the wider Middle East, please, please, please go away
So at very moment the government desperately needs to gain public support they've decided to return to id cards. Seriously? Who came up with this brilliant strategy? The government might as well collectively throw itself off a cliff
September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
So at very moment the government desperately needs to gain public support they've decided to return to id cards. Seriously? Who came up with this brilliant strategy? The government might as well collectively throw itself off a cliff
As I tell all my English Literature students at the beginning of the new semester...
#DragRaceuk
#DragRaceuk
September 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
As I tell all my English Literature students at the beginning of the new semester...
#DragRaceuk
#DragRaceuk
Our fabulous new arts students! @qmul.bsky.social @qmullinguistics.bsky.social @qmullibrary.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Our fabulous new arts students! @qmul.bsky.social @qmullinguistics.bsky.social @qmullibrary.bsky.social
The reality of teaching and employment for many of my colleagues across UK universities right here, in Yara Rodrigues Fowler's there are more things (2022) #ucu #casualisation @ucu.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The reality of teaching and employment for many of my colleagues across UK universities right here, in Yara Rodrigues Fowler's there are more things (2022) #ucu #casualisation @ucu.org.uk
Very excited by this! Great that this fabulous novel is being republished with the care and attention that it deserves! #sabinebaringgould
New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series!
'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)
All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)
All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske
Modern Humanities Research Association - Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske
www.mhra.org.uk
September 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Very excited by this! Great that this fabulous novel is being republished with the care and attention that it deserves! #sabinebaringgould
Reposted by Michael Craske
New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series!
'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)
All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)
All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske
Modern Humanities Research Association - Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes - Edited by Michael Craske
www.mhra.org.uk
September 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New book contract signed for our Jewelled Tortoise series!
'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)
All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
'Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes', edited by Michael Craske (@mjcraske.bsky.social)
All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
September 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM