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Julie Sanders
@profjsanders.bsky.social
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Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Proud Trustee at Shakespeare’s Globe, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
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When a book you have been longing to read arrives and when it is by one of the loveliest people you get the privilege to know @starcrossed2018.bsky.social ❤️📚🪡
Cover of Textile Shakespeare by Hester Lees Jeffries showing a sample of material in close up. The colours are cream and grey predominantly
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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On my way back from the Englefield Green Remembrance Sunday events … #LestWeForget 🕊️
Image shows a knitted post box topper decorated with white and red poppies and the message “We Will Remember Them”
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Happy Halloween 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Latest lovely volume by Patrick Cheney is now out in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series with Oxford University Press that I am very proud to co edit with Garrett A Sullivan Jr …
Cover image of Patrick Cheney Placing Elysiam in Renaissance Britain book published by Oxford university Press The full Early Modern Literary Geographies series on display on a wooden bookshelf. The livery is white with different colours at the base identifying the different volumes …
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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THe City of London in and just after the rain is always a thing of loveliness
View coming out of Bank station, early evening in autumn. Passers by have umbrellas up due to the rain and the evening lights are coming on providing a contrast with the waning daylight. St Paul’s Cathedral at night, floodlit catching the white stone and the green of trees in front and with lights reflecting yellow and green onto the rain soaked pavements
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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“Hand on my stupid heart”
Meditations in an emergency Cameron Awkward-Rich I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.
August 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Marina Tabassum’s summer pavilion at the Serpentine with its references to Bangladeshi wedding pavilions and a welcome pause to drink coffee and chat about space and congregation with my partner. #Saturday
The pavilion is a series of arched panels letting the light in with sections open to the weather. A ginkgo tree is placed at the centre. people can be seen sitting at the edges and also standing and buying coffee at the far end of the structure. It is a cloudy day and the sky is visible in the open sections
August 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Work that pulls you in and yet remains so utterly and defiantly outside of your cultural vocabulary. The remarkable Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition at a Tate Modern late in London last night. #EmuDreamings
Small detail of painting by Emily Kam Kngwarray with brown white grey and pinkish dots creating lines and networks and in some instances depicting the three toed emu foot Large exhibition room at Tate Modern with series of hanging batiks in shades of ochre white rust and orange by Emily Kam Kngwarray Another detail of an Emily Kam Kngwarray image showing emu travelling with three toed footprints and pink brown and blueish dots clustering around a central depiction of a waterhole created with blues and creams
July 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Terrific open day at Wilding Cider in Somerset yesterday. Thanks for the warm welcome and the chance to have a glorious picnic in the shade as well as see the amazing orchards. A wonderful time out from the world for a few hours. 🍎🍐🍾❤️
Picture of ripening cider apples in bright sunshine with text saying Open Day at Wilding Cider in Somerset - Magical Day in Every Sense Bottle of Wilding Cider’s November Perry and a baguette and some hummus and two glasses on a table in the shade - a summer picnic Blackboard Sign at entry to farm saying Cider Open 10.30 to 16.00 Inside space at Wilding Cider on a Saturday open day with owners talking guests through different tastings - there are lots of bottles of cider and perry on display. People are listening attentively.
July 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Sometimes all you need is a moon rising to lift the spirits at the end of a long hot tiring day!
The so-called Buck Moon rising in Surrey on the edge of London. It is a striking orange red colour as it rises up above greenery …
July 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Superstar passed by the window on campus today … 🐻‍❄️ #Colossus
View of Colussus a large white polar bear mascot through a sash window. Some trees and balustrades can be seen behind Back view of Colossus being helped down the stairs - of of his large black boots is visible Another back view of Colossus with both boots visible - he is waking with intent
July 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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And so after an amazing final day at London’s Stratford Olympic Park site yesterday full of community, dance, procession and wonder @theherds.bsky.social move on … wish I was going with. 🐘🐺📦🚚
Large puppet elephant manouvered by several puppeteers makes a stately procession out of the Olympic Park beside people buying ice creams and coffee from stalls. A cardboard box clearly marked 1 Wolf A cardboard box marked Baboon 6 and “This side up”
June 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Magical moments in St James Park last night as part of the Caught in the Light performance by @theherds.bsky.social ..
A sustainably made cardboard covered gorilla puppet worked by two human puppeteers dressed in black appears caught in torchlight by a tree.
June 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Kudus in Camden - another remarkable feat by puppeteers in the @theherds.bsky.social company. And a sighting of a pangolin in the wild too. #TheHerds #PublicArt #ClimateEmergency 🌎
A sustainably made cardboard covered Kudu puppet worked by a team of puppeteers dressed in black appears in front of The Buck’s Head pub on Camden High Street. It is a sweltering hot summer’s afternoon. A crowd has gathered to watch. Two Kudu puppets face off on the high street with the Buck’s Head pub on the left and the BoxPark centre on the right. A crowd has gathered to watch in strong afternoon heat and sunshine. Many are taking photos. A cardboard pangolin puppet is draped over a man’s shoulder - its tail hanging down past his tattooed arm.
June 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Has been the most amazing day following @theherds.bsky.social through London. Astonishing teamwork, creativity and camaraderie demonstrated by the puppeteers and a message about climate change and extinction that grew in potency through the day. 🦓🦍🦒
Sustainably made cardboard covered gorilla puppet - facilitated by three humans - looks out with deep black eyes A number of large animal puppets - two giraffes, kudu and others - move into place around the back of the London assembly building on a sunny summer morning. In the courtyard of Somerset House in intense late afternoon sun puppeteers dressed in black sit by the now inanimate puppet animals they have spent the day operating. A crowd watches moved.
June 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Amazing street art in Leicester last week #RichardIII
Spray painted wall showing a skeleton wearing a crown pushing up out of the ground. The reference is to King Richard III whose remains were uncovered in the city just a few years ago. The colours are pink, orange and yellow.
June 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Well at least it kept me company waiting for a bit of Friday summer night train chaos to pass in Leicester … 🚂☀️💜
Purple East Midlands Railway mascot by a Ticket sign …
June 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Open day is buzzing on our @royalholloway.bsky.social Egham campus today. Thanks to all the colleagues and student ambassadors doing such a great job engaging with visitors. Been to some brilliant talks and had some lovely chats around the edges too #RHTogether #ForWhatMatters 🐻‍❄️🧡
View of Founders Building at Royal Holloway University from the roof terrace of the Emily Wilding Davison building. It is a sunny day and there are clouds in the blue sky. Grassed area, a small or faced and the main square are all visible with Open Day activities Professor Jonathan Phillips giving a History taster talk at a Royal Holloway Open Day on medieval women and global power networks. Colossus mascot plush polar bear sat on a roof terrace white table with a view of founders building behind. Colossus wears a black sweatshirt with orange lettering saying Royal Holloway University of London
June 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Thanks to @hepi-news.bsky.social team for a really great conference. Serious focus on student journey - before, during & after. Special thanks to UUK’s Vivienne Stern for managing with some verve (& seriousness) to commence the day in the “Hundred Aker Wood” … #StillALittleBitTigger
Early morning view of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben … it is a sunny morning. Westminster Bridge is unusually quiet as it is 7.30am …
June 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The world will go on believe me but I am so glad to have this song in my life. Thank you for the music, Brian Wilson.
Yellow and red vinyl single of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys’ song God only Knows
June 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Lovely event tonight @royalholloway.bsky.social co-presenting the first ever Royal Holloway Students’ Union Student Impact awards as the prelude to our student summer ball. Am definitely leaving them all to the ferris wheel and silent disco now though. 💃🏽🎉
Picture shows a board pointing guests to the Student Awards. It is the North quad of Founders Building at Royal Holloway University so behind the grass and statues and one of the main towers is clearly visible. It is early evening and still light.
June 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Beautiful time of year in our university woodlands #Foxgloves #LivingCampus @royalholloway.bsky.social
A woodland glade in morning sunlight with several tall pink foxgloves flowering. Close up shot is of a single sunlit pink foxglove the white centre of its multiple bells very visible. Set against green woodland background.
June 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Fun to watch a beautiful egret having huge success on the Thames today catching small silver fish for their brunch 🐟🐟🐟
A white egret, its golden feet and black legs clearly visible and its white tufted head feathers blowing in the breeze is fishing in very shallow waters and has a small silver fish in its beak.
May 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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“it is a sharp time”
Engrossing and necessarily unsettling production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at The Globe this evening. Occupying that amazing space, defeating the insistent helicopters, and resonating in oh so many ways. ⭕️
View from the back passage of wooden steps to middle gallery seating at The globe Theatre London. The stage can be partially seen dressed for a production of The Crucible with wood used to suggest wooden housing and other effects to suggest fields beyond. It is the interval so a few red cushions can also be seen scattered on the wooden audience seating.
May 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Birthday weekender at Tate Modern in the sunshine was a very nice thing … the Turbine Hall has been a magic space over those years and I am so grateful for their underpinning premise of Art For All #Tate25 🎨
The brick tower of Tate Modern can be seen against a blue sky. Wording on the building saying “Free and Open to All” is also clearly visible. In front is a mass of late spring greenery - lots of shades of green, yellow and lilac can be seen. It is a very sunny day.
May 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM