Key Messages from A-level results day 🧵   English remains a very popular A-level choice + numbers are growing. More than 60,000 A-levels in English were awarded in 2024. Robert Eaglestone Matt Carnaby University English IES Team English Litdrive UK The British Academy 1/5

Good news! And always vital to recognise that English Studies is a broad and diverse field, including both lang and lit (along with creative writing at university level).

Our research on employment rates features in The Times and The Sunday Times today in this piece on the data driven case for studying the humanities. It echoes our call for a broad and balanced curriculum, to turn the tide on the narrowing of subject choices post-16. thetimes.com/comment/column…

Renée R. Trilling returns to U of I College of LAS to give inaugural Lux Veritatis Lecture. medieval.illinois.edu/news/2024-08-1…

Fab!

This thread rings true, especially if you never did a postdoc. Whenever I think I've carved out time to work on the second book, something more urgent lands on my desk. I guess the only way to secure uninterrupted time would be to win a fellowship and that's not likely to happen.

Today is the Paper Proposal deadline for #IMC2025! If you'd like to present at IMC 2025 but haven't found an organised session to submit to, it's not too late to submit directly to IMC - the deadline is 23:59 BST (GMT+1). Propose a paper now: imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/propo…

We're seeking contributors to our hybrid #IMCLeeds #IMC2025 IMC_Leeds roundtable! Do you have advice on conferencing? 🧑‍💼💼 How do we get the most out of our conference experiences? 🤝 Share your tips, tricks, and how-tos with us ✏️🗒️ Get in touch by mid Sept. 📨

📢#medievaltwitter #OldEnglish 🚨New book alert! 📙"Truth is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles" ✍️Jennifer Neville 📲Available from University of Toronto Press: utorontopress.com/blog/2024/08/2… 🤫#TOEBI members receive discount flyers for new books, consider joining us!

This month’s blog post is about a singular folio in a newly re-digitised manuscript. It’s an allegorical journey into how the universe operates. #MedievalTwitter #MedievalX #DigitalHumanities Bodleian Libraries Mellon Foundation kerilthomas.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/byr…

"Teaching Beowulf: Practical Approaches," with alumni contributions, now published! loom.ly/w-1s_Yg

Resharing my recent blogpost TOP TIPS for Preparing for your PhD VIVA! Very soon Part I of the post will be up, the student perspective from Dr Teresa Pilgrim #BionicMedievalist 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈, but for now, check this out! drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2024/07/11/top…

Thank you so much for this great guest post, Teresa! Check it out everyone- preparing for the #phdviva from the student perspective 👇

📢New book alert! 📗"Thought and Action in Old English Poetry and Prose" ✍️Eleni Ponirakis 📲Available: doi.org/10.1515/978150…. #⃣ #medievaltwitter #OldEnglish

Member Publication: Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/?p=13224

readers of /postmedieval/ will want to keep an eye out for this new journal—first issue already available 👇

Member Publication: The Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great’s Reform Program #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/?p=13222

Looking forward to a semester of research leave! I'm starting off by revising a creative-critical piece and a chapter for a handbook. Then hoping to make some proper progress with the second monograph and apply for a mid-career fellowship to complete said monograph 🤞.

Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publication…

Flora, fauna and the literary forms of early medieval science: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publication…