Sarah Wright
@sarahwright.bsky.social
Professor of Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Head of Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures. President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland AHGBI. Editor-in-Chief @SpanishBulletin & BSVS
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I am certain that if we had mainstream language learning pathways from 16-18, we would have a greater pool of applicants for university philology degrees.
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How the manufactured narrative of ‘failure’ is distracting us from resolving the systemic problems holding back the study of Modern Languages – Part 2. - HEPI
This post was kindly written by Vincent Everett, who is head of languages in a comprehensive school and sixth form in Norfolk. He blogs as The Nice Man Who Teaches Languages. In Part 1, I looked at h...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I am certain that if we had mainstream language learning pathways from 16-18, we would have a greater pool of applicants for university philology degrees.
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/10/h...
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/10/h...
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📢 Galician Studies panel at the AHGBI Annual Conference 2026, hosted by @lancasteruni.bsky.social
Dr Martín Veiga, from University College Cork, is putting together a Galician Studies panel for the 71st Annual Conference of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social.
📩 Enquiries & abstracts: m.veiga@ucc.ie
Dr Martín Veiga, from University College Cork, is putting together a Galician Studies panel for the 71st Annual Conference of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social.
📩 Enquiries & abstracts: m.veiga@ucc.ie
September 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📢 Galician Studies panel at the AHGBI Annual Conference 2026, hosted by @lancasteruni.bsky.social
Dr Martín Veiga, from University College Cork, is putting together a Galician Studies panel for the 71st Annual Conference of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social.
📩 Enquiries & abstracts: m.veiga@ucc.ie
Dr Martín Veiga, from University College Cork, is putting together a Galician Studies panel for the 71st Annual Conference of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social.
📩 Enquiries & abstracts: m.veiga@ucc.ie
We saw Samara Joy and her brilliant jazz musicians in Santiago, Chile last month. What absolute joy!
#TinyJoys is sitting on the sofa with a good book and the Proms on iPlayer. Specifically The Great American Songbook with Samara Joy. The *lungs* on that woman! And those brass players!
August 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We saw Samara Joy and her brilliant jazz musicians in Santiago, Chile last month. What absolute joy!
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Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455
August 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455
@llc-rhul.bsky.social Open Day @royal holloway
June 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
@llc-rhul.bsky.social Open Day @royal holloway
Getting ready to meet everyone at today's Open Day @llc-rhul.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social!
June 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Getting ready to meet everyone at today's Open Day @llc-rhul.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social!
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If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
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WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…
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June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
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Few obituaries of Forsyth mention that his remarkable career (whatever one thinks of his retrograde politics) was possible because he took the time to make himself fluent in five languages.
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Frederick Forsyth: adventurer and bestselling spy novelist
A pilot who turned to writing to clear his debts, British author Frederick Forsyth, who died Monday aged 86, penned some 20 spy novels, often drawing on real-life experiences and selling 70 million co...
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June 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Few obituaries of Forsyth mention that his remarkable career (whatever one thinks of his retrograde politics) was possible because he took the time to make himself fluent in five languages.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Shout out to our Inter-Library team in the Library @royalholloway.bsky.social. I have recently placed two requests for specialist articles and they were sent to me the same day - fantastic service! 👏
June 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Shout out to our Inter-Library team in the Library @royalholloway.bsky.social. I have recently placed two requests for specialist articles and they were sent to me the same day - fantastic service! 👏
So wonderful to celebrate Ann Hobbs, administrator extraordinaire in the Humanities team today, who has spent 30 years at Royal Holloway!
June 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So wonderful to celebrate Ann Hobbs, administrator extraordinaire in the Humanities team today, who has spent 30 years at Royal Holloway!
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'If ever you’re in need as I was
may you have an island of strangers
like I had.'
Michael Rosen nails it again.
may you have an island of strangers
like I had.'
Michael Rosen nails it again.
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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May 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
'If ever you’re in need as I was
may you have an island of strangers
like I had.'
Michael Rosen nails it again.
may you have an island of strangers
like I had.'
Michael Rosen nails it again.
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These are good, but my favourite example of this genre remains Dr Weliton Menário Costa's 2024 'Kangaroo Time': informative, inclusive and utterly joyful doctoral science: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Eurovision meets science, dance your PHD competition winners
Could you explain
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May 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
These are good, but my favourite example of this genre remains Dr Weliton Menário Costa's 2024 'Kangaroo Time': informative, inclusive and utterly joyful doctoral science: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
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April 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
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📚Colleagues might be interested in this co-authored piece by AHGBI member María Delgado on the potential impact of decoupling outputs from individuals in the REF—just out on Wonkhe: wonkhe.com/blogs/portab...
#REF #HigherEd #AHGBI
#REF #HigherEd #AHGBI
Portability within REF remains key to fairness
Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment
wonkhe.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📚Colleagues might be interested in this co-authored piece by AHGBI member María Delgado on the potential impact of decoupling outputs from individuals in the REF—just out on Wonkhe: wonkhe.com/blogs/portab...
#REF #HigherEd #AHGBI
#REF #HigherEd #AHGBI
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On Apple
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What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel
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What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Bulletin of Spanish Studies - Episode 8
Podcast Episode · Queens University Belfast - Bulletin Of Spanish Studies Podcast · 04/16/2025 · 45m
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April 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
On Apple
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What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
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What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
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What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Now live
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies - Episode 8
Queens University Belfast - Bulletin Of Spanish Studies Podcast · Episode
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April 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Now live
open.spotify.com/episode/3FHu...
open.spotify.com/episode/3FHu...
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I really enjoyed presenting on MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the British Film Institute Reuben Library last night, and celebrating the publication of my BFI Film Classics volume on the film. Thank you *very* much to everyone who came, and to those who bought copies of the book! 1/2
April 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I really enjoyed presenting on MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the British Film Institute Reuben Library last night, and celebrating the publication of my BFI Film Classics volume on the film. Thank you *very* much to everyone who came, and to those who bought copies of the book! 1/2
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I’m looking forward to talking about MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the BFI library in London this coming Monday, 6.30pm. More info and link to tickets here👇
Buy cinema tickets for New Writings: ‘People on Sunday’ and the Cultural Networks of Weimar Berlin with Dr Jon Hughes | BFI Southbank
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April 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I’m looking forward to talking about MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the BFI library in London this coming Monday, 6.30pm. More info and link to tickets here👇
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Out in July: my book on space and place in Spanish horror and Gothic. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...
The Nightmares of Presence
From haunted houses to sandy beaches, The Nightmares of Presence explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and wonder through audiovisual media. With an em…
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April 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Out in July: my book on space and place in Spanish horror and Gothic. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...
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A wonderful evening of conversation and shared commitment to the promotion of Spanish language and culture ☀️☀️
April 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A wonderful evening of conversation and shared commitment to the promotion of Spanish language and culture ☀️☀️
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We were also delighted to be joined by the wonderful team from SPLAS, including Marian Aldaz Aréchaga, curator of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival, and Dr. Carlos Soler Montes, Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Head of SPLAS at the University of Edinburgh.
April 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
We were also delighted to be joined by the wonderful team from SPLAS, including Marian Aldaz Aréchaga, curator of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival, and Dr. Carlos Soler Montes, Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Head of SPLAS at the University of Edinburgh.
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Luis Garcia Montero on the importance of Hispanism, and of Humanities, at the opening ceremony
April 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Luis Garcia Montero on the importance of Hispanism, and of Humanities, at the opening ceremony
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Luis García Montero at the opening of this year's AHGBI Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh: "la gran tarea del hispanismo es difundir la transnacionalidad, para aprender y respetar la mirada del otro"
April 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Luis García Montero at the opening of this year's AHGBI Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh: "la gran tarea del hispanismo es difundir la transnacionalidad, para aprender y respetar la mirada del otro"
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Prof. Sarah Wright (@sarahwright.bsky.social), president of AHGBI, with Caroline Boyle, Chilean Consul ☀️
April 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Prof. Sarah Wright (@sarahwright.bsky.social), president of AHGBI, with Caroline Boyle, Chilean Consul ☀️
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Parallel Session I: Medieval Studies (Room G.01, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh).
Gemma Pellissa Prades (Universitat de Barcelona): “Hispanic translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the early printing press, 1494-1519”
Gemma Pellissa Prades (Universitat de Barcelona): “Hispanic translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the early printing press, 1494-1519”
April 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Parallel Session I: Medieval Studies (Room G.01, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh).
Gemma Pellissa Prades (Universitat de Barcelona): “Hispanic translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the early printing press, 1494-1519”
Gemma Pellissa Prades (Universitat de Barcelona): “Hispanic translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the early printing press, 1494-1519”