Sally Barnden
@sally-barnden.bsky.social
Early modern drama enthusiast. Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University. Aspiring climber and successful cat person.
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Mary Baldwin University is embarking on drastic cuts of its liberal arts programme and of humanities subjects more generally.
A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!)
Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h
A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!)
Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h
Sign the Petition
Protect MBU's Liberal Arts Legacy
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November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Mary Baldwin University is embarking on drastic cuts of its liberal arts programme and of humanities subjects more generally.
A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!)
Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h
A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!)
Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h
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ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
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As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.
UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
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October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.
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Israel has illegally intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, abducting British citizens and seizing ships sailing under British flags.
The government must condemn this attack on humanitarians, speak up for their safety and demand their immediate release.
The government must condemn this attack on humanitarians, speak up for their safety and demand their immediate release.
October 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Israel has illegally intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, abducting British citizens and seizing ships sailing under British flags.
The government must condemn this attack on humanitarians, speak up for their safety and demand their immediate release.
The government must condemn this attack on humanitarians, speak up for their safety and demand their immediate release.
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“The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to making statements in favour of Russia while being an elected member of the European Parliament.” 1/
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to making statements in favour of Russia while being an elected member of the European Parliament.” 1/
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Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.
September 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.
going to write a paragraph in my Two Gents review about how Lossi is unconventional casting for Crab because she's so elegant and has a mournful long greyhound face and generally seems like she might be the wisest character on stage
August 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
going to write a paragraph in my Two Gents review about how Lossi is unconventional casting for Crab because she's so elegant and has a mournful long greyhound face and generally seems like she might be the wisest character on stage
further disincentive for international students is of course *just* what the sector needs at the moment
A proposed 6% levy on international fees could take over £600 million a year from English universities, undermining their global standing and impacting London’s economy.
To keep our city a world-class centre for education, we should be attracting talent, not putting up barriers.
To keep our city a world-class centre for education, we should be attracting talent, not putting up barriers.
International student levy could cost English universities £600m a year
The proposed 6% surcharge has prompted warnings from vice-chancellors over its impact on budgets and global competitiveness
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
further disincentive for international students is of course *just* what the sector needs at the moment
Asking for a student: what is the figure on the right holding in the title-page woodcut to the Haec Vir pamphlet? my first thought was a badminton racket and shuttlecock, but a bit of cursory research into the history of badminton suggests this is unlikely! A handful of feathers and... a spoon?
August 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Asking for a student: what is the figure on the right holding in the title-page woodcut to the Haec Vir pamphlet? my first thought was a badminton racket and shuttlecock, but a bit of cursory research into the history of badminton suggests this is unlikely! A handful of feathers and... a spoon?
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Does anyone have institutional access to AM Digital's 'Eighteenth Century Drama' repository? I'm hoping to read Samson Penley's 1818 adaptation of 'The Jew of Malta'
July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Does anyone have institutional access to AM Digital's 'Eighteenth Century Drama' repository? I'm hoping to read Samson Penley's 1818 adaptation of 'The Jew of Malta'
Does anyone have institutional access to AM Digital's 'Eighteenth Century Drama' repository? I'm hoping to read Samson Penley's 1818 adaptation of 'The Jew of Malta'
July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Does anyone have institutional access to AM Digital's 'Eighteenth Century Drama' repository? I'm hoping to read Samson Penley's 1818 adaptation of 'The Jew of Malta'
Rediscovered an offcut from the ‘Royal Actor’ book about Coriolanus, the French Revolution and George IV misunderstanding satires about himself, and I’m tempted to polish it up as a short-ish article. I am technically meant to be doing several other things instead, though
July 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Rediscovered an offcut from the ‘Royal Actor’ book about Coriolanus, the French Revolution and George IV misunderstanding satires about himself, and I’m tempted to polish it up as a short-ish article. I am technically meant to be doing several other things instead, though
the University of Warwick rebrand is deeply embarrassing, but the sad thing is I can also imagine our Head of School showing it off in a meeting as something that we should emulate
July 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
the University of Warwick rebrand is deeply embarrassing, but the sad thing is I can also imagine our Head of School showing it off in a meeting as something that we should emulate
suddenly wondering if Sabrina Ghayour is making an Andrew Marvell reference
July 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
suddenly wondering if Sabrina Ghayour is making an Andrew Marvell reference
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We're advertising two artist's residencies at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print. Please share!
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print matters artist’s residencies — Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, offering memberships, workshops, equipment hire, events & exhibition space.
Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print welcomes applications for two artist’s residencies, to take place across five days between August and September 2025 as part of our research project: Print ...
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July 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We're advertising two artist's residencies at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print. Please share!
www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...
www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...
Series of personal and professional knock-backs lately, gonna go walk the Salt path*
*wales coast path, I’m not facing the M4 in this mood
*wales coast path, I’m not facing the M4 in this mood
July 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Series of personal and professional knock-backs lately, gonna go walk the Salt path*
*wales coast path, I’m not facing the M4 in this mood
*wales coast path, I’m not facing the M4 in this mood
Lovely Cymbeline at the Willow Globe this evening, worth the lengthy round trip to mid Wales
July 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Lovely Cymbeline at the Willow Globe this evening, worth the lengthy round trip to mid Wales
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Seems important.
June 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Seems important.
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staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...
www.cnn.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
Very honoured and excited to learn that 'Shakespeare and the Royal Actor' is shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize for 2024!
May 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Very honoured and excited to learn that 'Shakespeare and the Royal Actor' is shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize for 2024!
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Absolutely chuffed and very grateful that STRAIGHT ACTING has been shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2024 - it’s made my week!
www.str.org.uk/grants-prize...
www.str.org.uk/grants-prize...
May 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Absolutely chuffed and very grateful that STRAIGHT ACTING has been shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2024 - it’s made my week!
www.str.org.uk/grants-prize...
www.str.org.uk/grants-prize...
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👑 A new book reveals how the royal family has historically benefitted from connecting itself to Shakespeare.
📕 By Dr @sally-barnden.bsky.social, Professor Gordon McMullan (@kingsenglish.bsky.social) Professor Kate Retford & Dr Kirsten Tambling.
🔗 Read more 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/royal-f...
📕 By Dr @sally-barnden.bsky.social, Professor Gordon McMullan (@kingsenglish.bsky.social) Professor Kate Retford & Dr Kirsten Tambling.
🔗 Read more 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/royal-f...
Royal family benefitted from connection to Shakespeare's legacy, says new book
Research reveals how connections between Shakespeare and the British royal family have positively contributed to the evolution of both institutions.
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
👑 A new book reveals how the royal family has historically benefitted from connecting itself to Shakespeare.
📕 By Dr @sally-barnden.bsky.social, Professor Gordon McMullan (@kingsenglish.bsky.social) Professor Kate Retford & Dr Kirsten Tambling.
🔗 Read more 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/royal-f...
📕 By Dr @sally-barnden.bsky.social, Professor Gordon McMullan (@kingsenglish.bsky.social) Professor Kate Retford & Dr Kirsten Tambling.
🔗 Read more 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/royal-f...
I was vaguely planning to jettison Volpone from my 3rd year module, but this year's cohort have written such excellent essays about it that I'm going to have to rethink. A victory for Ben!
May 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I was vaguely planning to jettison Volpone from my 3rd year module, but this year's cohort have written such excellent essays about it that I'm going to have to rethink. A victory for Ben!