Dr. Niall Allsopp
@niallallsopp.bsky.social
Early Modern English literature, English Civil Wars, Restoration, literature and political, social, local history.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/NiallPSER
Work: https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/allsopp/
Book: https://tinyurl.com/NiallPSER
Work: https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/allsopp/
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What’s a big export sector shared by Leicester, Exeter and Newcastle? Award yourself five points if you said higher education
September 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
What’s a big export sector shared by Leicester, Exeter and Newcastle? Award yourself five points if you said higher education
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Ozy has a barrow in the marketplace
Mandy is the singer in a band
Ozy has two vast and trunkless legs of stone
And his shattered visage lies in the sand
O bla di o bla da…
Mandy is the singer in a band
Ozy has two vast and trunkless legs of stone
And his shattered visage lies in the sand
O bla di o bla da…
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ozy has a barrow in the marketplace
Mandy is the singer in a band
Ozy has two vast and trunkless legs of stone
And his shattered visage lies in the sand
O bla di o bla da…
Mandy is the singer in a band
Ozy has two vast and trunkless legs of stone
And his shattered visage lies in the sand
O bla di o bla da…
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hi, wreck expert here! this is not funny, two vast and trunkless legs of stone only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
hi, wreck expert here! this is not funny, two vast and trunkless legs of stone only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
Ozy has a barrow in the marketplace
Mandy is the singer in a band
Ozy has two vast and trunkless legs of stone
And his shattered visage lies in the sand
O bla di o bla da…
Mandy is the singer in a band
Ozy has two vast and trunkless legs of stone
And his shattered visage lies in the sand
O bla di o bla da…
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ozy has a barrow in the marketplace
Mandy is the singer in a band
Ozy has two vast and trunkless legs of stone
And his shattered visage lies in the sand
O bla di o bla da…
Mandy is the singer in a band
Ozy has two vast and trunkless legs of stone
And his shattered visage lies in the sand
O bla di o bla da…
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Unimaginably still haven't seen this on my TL today so consider it my comment (again, this song continues to be as news-ready in 2025 as in 1982):
"They never read that tattoo on his arm/....They never thought he'd cause folks any harm"
"They never read that tattoo on his arm/....They never thought he'd cause folks any harm"
No Thugs In Our House (2001 Remaster)
YouTube video by XTC - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Unimaginably still haven't seen this on my TL today so consider it my comment (again, this song continues to be as news-ready in 2025 as in 1982):
"They never read that tattoo on his arm/....They never thought he'd cause folks any harm"
"They never read that tattoo on his arm/....They never thought he'd cause folks any harm"
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a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
![A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:glqdunvigi5zxowf6heik65g/bafkreigi4rz7omz3cell5pa7hlyceoxd4fxsjy2ynmcd37fozanjejhsry@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
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I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society
Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them
Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them
This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.
October 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society
Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them
Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them
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Who did what in early modern England?
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Who did what in early modern England?
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Online early from our next issue: Colin Burrow on Muriel Spark’s wickedness.
More new writing at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, when the rest of the issue goes live on our website.
For now, there’s ‘a world-beating buster-upper’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
More new writing at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, when the rest of the issue goes live on our website.
For now, there’s ‘a world-beating buster-upper’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow · World-Beating Buster-Upper: Muriel Spark’s Wickedness
The characteristic flavour of Spark’s writing was that of a Catholic ironist, for whom the terrible and the laughable...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Online early from our next issue: Colin Burrow on Muriel Spark’s wickedness.
More new writing at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, when the rest of the issue goes live on our website.
For now, there’s ‘a world-beating buster-upper’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
More new writing at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, when the rest of the issue goes live on our website.
For now, there’s ‘a world-beating buster-upper’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
And what tremendous consequences for UK HE that “good policy” has had
The return of Clegg provides an opportunity to re-share this beautiful anecdote, from David Runciman's review of Cameron's memoir
August 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
And what tremendous consequences for UK HE that “good policy” has had
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These photos are remarkable! While also being completely typical
Treat yourself to a lovely start to the day - like looking through @anniechave.bsky.social 's photo feed!
www.theguardian.com/sport/galler...
www.theguardian.com/sport/galler...
Fog, a satellite dish and sandwiches: A Portrait of Cricket – in pictures
Award winning photographer Tom Shaw, who in the past spent 15 years as the photographer with the England national team, turns his lens towards the lower leagues of the recreational game across the cou...
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
These photos are remarkable! While also being completely typical
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Lovely open letter from October 1642, in which Lady Elizabeth Hatton, once the estranged wife of Edward Coke, tells Prince Rupert that Parliament should be the bedrock of the English state. Left for him when she fled her lands in Buckinghamshire as his army advanced.
June 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Lovely open letter from October 1642, in which Lady Elizabeth Hatton, once the estranged wife of Edward Coke, tells Prince Rupert that Parliament should be the bedrock of the English state. Left for him when she fled her lands in Buckinghamshire as his army advanced.
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Some actually good news for early modernists, bibliographers, and catalogers: the beta ESTC is live!!! What an effing journey it's been trying to do research post-BL attack; it is a huge relief to see this progress datb.cerl.org/estc/ 📜📚
English Short Title Catalogue
datb.cerl.org
May 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Some actually good news for early modernists, bibliographers, and catalogers: the beta ESTC is live!!! What an effing journey it's been trying to do research post-BL attack; it is a huge relief to see this progress datb.cerl.org/estc/ 📜📚
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They made me Pope!
How shall I cope?
Better buy some soap
Smoke less dope
Try not to grope
Or elope
How shall I cope?
Better buy some soap
Smoke less dope
Try not to grope
Or elope
May 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
They made me Pope!
How shall I cope?
Better buy some soap
Smoke less dope
Try not to grope
Or elope
How shall I cope?
Better buy some soap
Smoke less dope
Try not to grope
Or elope
They made me Pope!
How shall I cope?
Better buy some soap
Smoke less dope
Try not to grope
Or elope
How shall I cope?
Better buy some soap
Smoke less dope
Try not to grope
Or elope
May 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
They made me Pope!
How shall I cope?
Better buy some soap
Smoke less dope
Try not to grope
Or elope
How shall I cope?
Better buy some soap
Smoke less dope
Try not to grope
Or elope
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Communist convert, Oxford don, radical historian—Christopher Hill contained multitudes.
@rhodrilewis.bsky.social examines a new biography that charts Hill’s intellectual evolution but misses the personal depths behind his scholarly passions: www.prospectmagazine...
@rhodrilewis.bsky.social examines a new biography that charts Hill’s intellectual evolution but misses the personal depths behind his scholarly passions: www.prospectmagazine...
Losing his religion: the life and work of Christopher Hill
The historian underwent a number of conversions— but remained enquiring, incisive and incredibly productive throughout
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Communist convert, Oxford don, radical historian—Christopher Hill contained multitudes.
@rhodrilewis.bsky.social examines a new biography that charts Hill’s intellectual evolution but misses the personal depths behind his scholarly passions: www.prospectmagazine...
@rhodrilewis.bsky.social examines a new biography that charts Hill’s intellectual evolution but misses the personal depths behind his scholarly passions: www.prospectmagazine...
This: a lot of work that seems probably / partly AI-generated I don’t flag, because it’s hard to prove. But I will often mark it down as it is v often generic, lacking detail, ambiguous etc
Just to say that it's definitely the case here that the people marking the AI-generated work were lazy or stupid (or both). There's no reason to think they might not have "flagged" it because it's almost impossible to prove or because they wouldn't be supported by their institution.
May 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This: a lot of work that seems probably / partly AI-generated I don’t flag, because it’s hard to prove. But I will often mark it down as it is v often generic, lacking detail, ambiguous etc
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Just to say that it's definitely the case here that the people marking the AI-generated work were lazy or stupid (or both). There's no reason to think they might not have "flagged" it because it's almost impossible to prove or because they wouldn't be supported by their institution.
May 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Just to say that it's definitely the case here that the people marking the AI-generated work were lazy or stupid (or both). There's no reason to think they might not have "flagged" it because it's almost impossible to prove or because they wouldn't be supported by their institution.
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Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
Full and Final Edition Now Available
News article - 24 February 2025
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
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📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢
Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images.
🗃️ #Skystorians
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images.
🗃️ #Skystorians
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
February 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢
Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images.
🗃️ #Skystorians
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images.
🗃️ #Skystorians
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
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It’s the UK publication day for the New Oxford Shakespeare Titus Andronicus, featuring my critical introduction on theatrical innovation, rape, race, politics, and how the play has always forced audiences to confront their relationship with Shakespeare. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
February 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
It’s the UK publication day for the New Oxford Shakespeare Titus Andronicus, featuring my critical introduction on theatrical innovation, rape, race, politics, and how the play has always forced audiences to confront their relationship with Shakespeare. global.oup.com/academic/pro...