Prof Bob Davis
@rokewood.bsky.social
Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, University of Glasgow. Chair of Philosophy of Education Soc. Religion, Myth, Arts, Humanities, Music, Education, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—all posts etc personal
Big thanks to all associated with the SERA Conference for everything that went into this year’s Aberdeen event. Great university & city hospitality (inc a blast of real winter 🥶). Many fine presentations & most engaged & responsive audiences. Enriching experience.
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Big thanks to all associated with the SERA Conference for everything that went into this year’s Aberdeen event. Great university & city hospitality (inc a blast of real winter 🥶). Many fine presentations & most engaged & responsive audiences. Enriching experience.
Let me add a few more from that Twitter thread to illustrate my point
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Let me add a few more from that Twitter thread to illustrate my point
The sobering #CovidInquiry report underlines my pre- #COVIDー19 assessment of #DominicCummings. A man I met once, quizzing me on what a p-value meant in Education …
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The sobering #CovidInquiry report underlines my pre- #COVIDー19 assessment of #DominicCummings. A man I met once, quizzing me on what a p-value meant in Education …
Fascinating convergence too of this latest series with these compelling new studies of the experience, & the culture, of *hauntings* #Uncanny. #Christmas presents? 😳
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Fascinating convergence too of this latest series with these compelling new studies of the experience, & the culture, of *hauntings* #Uncanny. #Christmas presents? 😳
every so often there is a convergence in the academic zeitgeist of near astrological proportions. Close to the SERA Conference & only a few weeks since my SocforEdStudies @unistrathclyde.bsky.social symposium keynote on Useful Learning, there is this portentous alignment of the 2025 stars
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
every so often there is a convergence in the academic zeitgeist of near astrological proportions. Close to the SERA Conference & only a few weeks since my SocforEdStudies @unistrathclyde.bsky.social symposium keynote on Useful Learning, there is this portentous alignment of the 2025 stars
the always revelatory reminder that Giorgio Agamben played the Apostle Philip in Pasolini’s 1964 ‘Gospel according to St Matthew’: cast because Pasolini construed Greek-speaking Philip as the philosopher-apostle & believed he had found him in GA
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
the always revelatory reminder that Giorgio Agamben played the Apostle Philip in Pasolini’s 1964 ‘Gospel according to St Matthew’: cast because Pasolini construed Greek-speaking Philip as the philosopher-apostle & believed he had found him in GA
Much better fight than I thought it would be so far #EubankBenn2
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Much better fight than I thought it would be so far #EubankBenn2
And (h/t Richard Bartle), who remembers this mischievous Northern train beastie, The Railway Boggart, introduced to so many children of my generation at primary school in 1970 by the BBC Music Workshop?
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
And (h/t Richard Bartle), who remembers this mischievous Northern train beastie, The Railway Boggart, introduced to so many children of my generation at primary school in 1970 by the BBC Music Workshop?
Here is a memory for #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025
When I rejoined HE in 1991, I took part in the 1992 Year of the decade-long BBC ‘Towards the Millennium’ festival: because ‘92 embraced the music & literature of 1911-20, inc WW1. I attended a fine conference at the Imperial War Museum
When I rejoined HE in 1991, I took part in the 1992 Year of the decade-long BBC ‘Towards the Millennium’ festival: because ‘92 embraced the music & literature of 1911-20, inc WW1. I attended a fine conference at the Imperial War Museum
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Here is a memory for #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025
When I rejoined HE in 1991, I took part in the 1992 Year of the decade-long BBC ‘Towards the Millennium’ festival: because ‘92 embraced the music & literature of 1911-20, inc WW1. I attended a fine conference at the Imperial War Museum
When I rejoined HE in 1991, I took part in the 1992 Year of the decade-long BBC ‘Towards the Millennium’ festival: because ‘92 embraced the music & literature of 1911-20, inc WW1. I attended a fine conference at the Imperial War Museum
3 books now in pb & receiving much attention. It all remains risky & disputed terrain, I know, which is why today I stress how in 1918 #WW1 victory & mourning became profoundly entangled. #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
3 books now in pb & receiving much attention. It all remains risky & disputed terrain, I know, which is why today I stress how in 1918 #WW1 victory & mourning became profoundly entangled. #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025
Not a book that left me feeling elevated. I sporadically half-sensed another István beneath the carapace of appetite, allure & alienation. But wondered if that in the end was my fault & the fault of the other novels I read
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Not a book that left me feeling elevated. I sporadically half-sensed another István beneath the carapace of appetite, allure & alienation. But wondered if that in the end was my fault & the fault of the other novels I read
This is an immensely gripping book, reminding us of what we miss when we marginalise the opening 3 months of #WW1 & resolve the Western Front peremptorily into the stasis of trench warfare. Here is mobility, strategy, courage, decision—& some of the worst casualties of the war
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is an immensely gripping book, reminding us of what we miss when we marginalise the opening 3 months of #WW1 & resolve the Western Front peremptorily into the stasis of trench warfare. Here is mobility, strategy, courage, decision—& some of the worst casualties of the war
Plenty of extraordinarily good stuff from the BBC. Every. Single. Day. And for pennies. Eg.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Plenty of extraordinarily good stuff from the BBC. Every. Single. Day. And for pennies. Eg.
WW1 has been a major focus of my academic work & teaching since my Graduate Studies Days. But I have been powerfully moved this year by the commemorative culture around the 80th anniversary of 1945. Here are for me important recent texts across the 2 conflicts #RemembranceSunday
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
WW1 has been a major focus of my academic work & teaching since my Graduate Studies Days. But I have been powerfully moved this year by the commemorative culture around the 80th anniversary of 1945. Here are for me important recent texts across the 2 conflicts #RemembranceSunday
I again commend for #RemembranceSunday #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 this inspired collection of music, meditating on the many emotions of this period of the year. & in a dark time once again
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I again commend for #RemembranceSunday #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 this inspired collection of music, meditating on the many emotions of this period of the year. & in a dark time once again
Now here’s a much more cheerful book tweet than my Blackwells one.
Been after the rare edition of the poems of Alexander Mongomerie, Gaelic Catholic favourite of James VI. Tracked it to a bookseller in Chicago. Was warned delivery could take several weeks. Arrived in 7 days
Been after the rare edition of the poems of Alexander Mongomerie, Gaelic Catholic favourite of James VI. Tracked it to a bookseller in Chicago. Was warned delivery could take several weeks. Arrived in 7 days
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Now here’s a much more cheerful book tweet than my Blackwells one.
Been after the rare edition of the poems of Alexander Mongomerie, Gaelic Catholic favourite of James VI. Tracked it to a bookseller in Chicago. Was warned delivery could take several weeks. Arrived in 7 days
Been after the rare edition of the poems of Alexander Mongomerie, Gaelic Catholic favourite of James VI. Tracked it to a bookseller in Chicago. Was warned delivery could take several weeks. Arrived in 7 days
So happy #GuyFawkes from all of us! This very night #GuyFawkes2025
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So happy #GuyFawkes from all of us! This very night #GuyFawkes2025
And some older but indispensable texts
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
And some older but indispensable texts
& of course prayers today for our Blessed Uncle Ambrose Rookwood. Because you don’t have a #GunpowderPlot without gunpowder, right? As Shakespeare knew… ‘The crow makes wing to the rooky wood’ (Macbeth 3.2.52)😉 🎆 🔥
#GuyFawkes #guyfawkesnight #guyfawkesnight2025
#GuyFawkes #guyfawkesnight #guyfawkesnight2025
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
& of course prayers today for our Blessed Uncle Ambrose Rookwood. Because you don’t have a #GunpowderPlot without gunpowder, right? As Shakespeare knew… ‘The crow makes wing to the rooky wood’ (Macbeth 3.2.52)😉 🎆 🔥
#GuyFawkes #guyfawkesnight #guyfawkesnight2025
#GuyFawkes #guyfawkesnight #guyfawkesnight2025
So in preparation for our annual #GuyFawkesNight #fireworks party this evening, here are some of our compass points on this occasion. Beginning of course with some books …on #GuyFawkes. More as the day unfolds
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
So in preparation for our annual #GuyFawkesNight #fireworks party this evening, here are some of our compass points on this occasion. Beginning of course with some books …on #GuyFawkes. More as the day unfolds
Look what we got last year. & All Saints & All Souls fall on a weekend/Sunday rarely. It’s not much to ask really
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Look what we got last year. & All Saints & All Souls fall on a weekend/Sunday rarely. It’s not much to ask really
Bold, insightful journalism from @ftweekend.com. In actual fact more nuanced than the headline suggests (though imv underestimates even US inter-generational secularisation). & of course it’s a source of frustration for many American Catholic Nationalists today that Pontifex Leo ain’t on board.
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Bold, insightful journalism from @ftweekend.com. In actual fact more nuanced than the headline suggests (though imv underestimates even US inter-generational secularisation). & of course it’s a source of frustration for many American Catholic Nationalists today that Pontifex Leo ain’t on board.