feels like Duckett needs a score as well as Pope, once the light permits....

Art matters because it inspires, challenges, and connects us. It gives voice to the voiceless, sparks creativity, and enriches our lives in ways that words alone cannot. #artsinschools #arts

‘Hacks’ really builds, doesn’t it? Am up to s1e6….

A couple of delicious little sneak-peaks from Sarah Royston - 'Fernseed' collection out now's Fernseed: A Collection of Tales, now available to pre-order via our website! 🌿🌿

A plan has been hatched to put Horden’s name in lights and its people on the stage. David Whetstone meets the man behind Ensemble84 #theatre #countydurham #durhamculture culturednortheast.co.uk/p/curtain-come…

good, of course, to have views different from one's own on the TL, but in recent weeks, I've had - most humanities academic research is now auto-ehthnography; there is no connection between capitalism; and immigration is a threat to ... tweed. Seriously.

Six 4.5-year postdoc research fellowships in our new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, University of Stirling, central Scotland! Please circulate this ad for outstanding researchers to work with me in an interdisciplinary team stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-… (closing 6 Oct).

I love English Teacher's grooves, but I think I just prefer a bit more singing in my music (see also Dry Cleaning, and indeed Fontanes DC, Idles, Sleaford Mods....)

I can’t share this enough! If you’re thinking about Oracy & especially Talk for Learning’ this says so much, so well. Put it on your staff room wall & in all your CPD!

#BookTwitter if you can still hear me - I want to know what the best novels you've read this year are, pls. Bonus points for small presses but nothing self-published cos I'm looking at stock gaps for work and I can't buy those. RT's appreciated. GOGOGO!

We’d love to welcome teachers, school leaders, policy officials and researchers with an interest in #Europe, #oracy and #citizenship to join us. We’ll be hearing from Geoff Barton about the Oracy Education Commission and we’ll discuss next steps for #research, #policy and #practice.

History teachers: complete this national survey to provide an accurate overview of what is being taught on empire and colonialism in British schools today portraitemb.co.uk

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

Reminder: cfp ‘Intersubjectivity and Collective Memory’, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, 24-25 April 2025: phenomenology, psych, social ontology, keynotes Dr. Marta Caravà (Purdue) & John Sutton: 500 words (pdf for blind review) by 15 Oct to [email protected]

PSA for UK academics: when next you visit the British Library, you’ll need a new reader card. It’s part of their recovery of services after the cyber attack. So take your ID.

I regret to inform you that Simon Jenkins is writing about universities again

Kim McGuinness The Journal The Chronicle Daniel Holland I’m working with colleagues across Durham University on #ShyBairnsGetNowt, a project to help young people and teachers across the NE to find and use their voices effectively. Simon John James @durham_classics Research in English At Durham Voice 21 Oracy #Oracy

Introducing the Durham Learning Alliance - our partnership with four colleges to expand education opportunities and drive economic growth in #Durham and #NorthEastEngland brnw.ch/21wMImP Bishop Auckland College @derwentsidecoll @eastdurhamcol @ncdofficial

Great listening to ⁦Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE⁩ ⁦Geoff Barton⁩ & others talk about #Oracy #OracyInnovation eg help children to talk & listen , to learn through talk & listening , learn about talk. Imp to give agency back to teachers re practice of oracy englishassociation.ac.uk/oracy-educatio…

do I have any friends here with access to the British Newspaper archive and who might be logging in sometime in the next couple of weeks who could check something for me, please?