English Faculty Library
Sorting books and knowing things. Library supporting the teaching and research for the @cam-english-fac.bsky.social.
Working under @theul.bsky.social.
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Term Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9.15am to 7pm
Sat: 11am-5pm
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryDominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga's filmmaking [caption id="attachment_10217" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Nyerai Films 2002[/caption] Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has...
- Reposted by English Faculty Library"What [Shakespeare Curriculum] does - if you're a young person, put yourself in the mindset of an actor, or a director, or the set designer." RSC Trustee Geoff discusses the impact of rehearsal room techniques on young people's learning More on Shakespeare Curriculum👉 www.shakespearecurriculum.com
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryJoin our lunchtime Research Practice Seminars ✏️ Thursdays from 12 - 2pm in the CRASSH meeting room Lead by a member of CRASSH, they allow us to explore some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice All welcome! bit.ly/3LYjCFL
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryCongratulations to Karen Solie on winning the TS Eliot Prize for her most recent collection Wellwater, published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.
- Did you know that the EFL subscribes to the LRB and you can read the most recent copies in the library? Find it (along with other literary acronyms) on the new books stand every week!
- ‘Writing shakily about England’s putative glory did not encourage Auden. His mad evocation of England hurt him into exile.’ Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryFrom our Close Readings subscription podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford begin a new series with the treatment of desire in a poem that contains one of the most explicit depictions of sex in English poetry – Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander’. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryMini-article out now Open Access in Notes & Queries – take a look for my theory of what Wulfstan II means by ‘injustice in the north’ (spoiler: Vikings and weird legal stuff in the Danelaw) doi.org/10.1093/note... #Medievalsky #Medievalists
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryComing soon! "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" a minigraph from the Cambridge Elements Shakespeare and Text series (ed @roaringgirle.bsky.social and @loughnrv.bsky.social ) by me, Heidi Craig, Kris L. May, and Dorothy Todd ANNNNND it will be open access!
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an award winning poet, translator and professor @tcddublin.bsky.social, who served as the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019. Find her works in @theul.bsky.social libraries across Cambridge via idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. What is her advice for young poets? 🧵⬇️
- We are delighted that the first Southword Poetry Podcast of 2026 is out now with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and is available to listen to on our website - southword.buzzsprout.com/share #podcast
- 'Read and keep reading, from every period; read in translation, translate yourself if you can, keep asking yourself ‘what does poetry do’? And never say more than you mean. And definitely never live with anyone who thinks it is your hobby.[..] 🧵⬇️
- Spend time with real poets, though you will find that some of them too are obsessed by prizes and reputations – their presence is the only thing that will remind you that what you are doing is real.[...] 🧵⬇️
- At the core of every poet is an immense arrogance and ego: this is a beast you have to feed even if your character is quite retiring and polite, because the poems won’t come if you starve him.' Read more of her interview with the Forward Arts Foundation: forwardartsfoundation.org/in-conversat...
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryHello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! Sharing again for morning Bluesky!
- Reposted by English Faculty Library📝 The Research Skills Training Programme from University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives is open for bookings! 👋 Designed primarily for PhD students and researchers, the sessions are open to all Cambridge staff and students. 🔎Learn more and book: loom.ly/RjU6dj4
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryOf especial interest for UK researchers, research institutes/organisations and/or partnerships with higher education expertise and the ability to measure social & cultural infrastructure. Deadline 17:00 GMT 4 February; duration 10 months; value c. £60k. 1/2
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryA miniature battle for 'Freedom' at the edge of the paper landscape... A poetic doodle from Alfred Lord Tennyson's Notebook 'X' (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social O.15.17). cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-O-00...
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryToday (12th January) marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Dame Agatha Christie; mystery writer, playwright, plotting genius, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple AND THE BESTSELLING NOVELIST OF ALL TIME. If you've never read her, the time is now. #ReadChristie2026
- Edward George's 'Black Atlas' exhibit is open at the Warburg Institute (London) until 31 January!
- ‘Nothing in modern history has been subject to such violent and intentional forgetting as the history of empire, and with it the history of race and racialisation.’ Francis Gooding on Edward George’s ‘Black Atlas’, at the Warburg Institute: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
- ⏯️GOOD NEWS! New linguistics mnemonic just dropped. 🎤✒️👂🕶️
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryA poem by John Kelly as it first appeared in Poetry Ireland Review.
- Reposted by English Faculty Library'Our Ukrainian Robert Burns' Tues 27 Jan. 6.30pm FREE Hanna Dyka talks about translating Robert Burns into Ukrainian and latest bilingual publication of Ukrainian translations of Burns’ poems. Also features recitals of Burns' poetry in Ukrainian and Scots. www.ticketsource.co.uk/edinburgh-ce...
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryIn advance of this year's T. S. Eliot Prize readings on 18 January I was invited to write a short piece about my experience when A Change in the Air @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social was shortlisted for the 2023 prize.
- The EFL awoke from our long winter nap to a new year, and new #SlowShakespeare from Cam English's own brilliant Hester Lees-Jeffries! Follow along daily with #MoodMad as @starcrossed2018.bsky.social critically interprets Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and scenes through the years. 🌕🧚🥀🎭
- Theseus: we're getting married! soon but not soon enough! Hippolyta: *thrilled* #MoonMad #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... The (London transfer) poster for the great 1970 @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream, dir. Peter Brook. It changed theatre; my parents saw it & we had the poster...
- The EFL staff counting the sleeps till #MoonMad....✨😴🕯️🌕 #SlowShakespeare
- I can't do a poll, but I can make an executive decision, so🥁🥁🥁 I'll be starting my EIGHTH #SlowShakespeare daily blog on 1 January: #MoonMad aka Midsummer Night's Dream. Because we could all do with some laughs & a bit more fairy-dust right now... (Gwendoline Christie as Titania at the Bridge, 2019)
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryAre you an early career researcher in the arts & humanities with bold ideas? Apply for the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and join a world-class research community. · Develop your vision · Access tailored support · Shape the future of your field Apply: ow.ly/jxqz50XIkpu
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryVacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryJane Austen was born 250 years ago today ✨ Our new display, Dancing with Austen, explores how dance shaped her social world and drove the plots of her novels. Now on display at the Weston Library. #JaneAusten
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryHappy Birthday to Jane Austen, born #OTD in 1775. For those needing an escape from the shopping crowds pop into The Wren Library to see the display or books and modern manuscripts related to her work. Weekdays 12-2pm. Try the parlour game quiz on Emma. Examiner's report to follow...
- Reposted by English Faculty Library🚨 CfP 🚨 We are delighted to announce our Lent term call for papers, deadline 13 January 2026! This term we are accepting work on any theme - we look very forward to receiving your abstracts!
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryDeadline is just two weeks away! But DM them now if you're looking for a panel.
- The conference is on in Loughborough, on the 1st to 4th of July 2026! Message us ASAP if you’re interested in joining our panel! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryThere are loads of great online tools & gadgets that can help you with a wide range of tasks. But how do you judge its quality? 💻🤔 Find out how to evaluate online tools for their relevance to your purpose & use them to the best effect 👉 ow.ly/OYeX50XxZaO #BeingDigital
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryPoem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 11 is 'When Nobody Was Watching' from 'What Remains the Same' by Alvy Carragher 💖 @thegallerypress.bsky.social
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWe are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryA Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh "My father played the melodion Outside at our gate; There were stars in the morning east And they danced to his music."
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryIs there a Caxton on your shelves? It's not a Caxton if you find ... A Title page; Roman or Italic print; Use of Commas; Catchwords. --- William Blades, How to Tell a Caxton: With Some Hints where and how the Same Might be Found (1870) #printing #library #publishing #medieval #books
- ❄️☃️The EFL will close our doors at 5pm on Friday 19 December, and reopen at 9.30am on Monday 5 January for staff winter leave. ☃️❄️ Try not to miss us too much while we're gone 😉📖📚✒️🫖
- 🎄Christmas is fast approaching! ☃️Please remember that Cambridge University Library will be closed 24 December 2025 to 1 January 2026 inclusive. 🌟We re-open at 9am on 2 January 2026. 🔗More info on requesting books and other services: loom.ly/JAHIoXk
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWrite an essay to win £500 📝 Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize. This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members. Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025 Find out more: loom.ly/xZZOdOc
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryMedieval historian Dr Krisztina Ilko (@queens.cam.ac.uk) challenges major assumptions about the medieval Catholic Church and early Renaissance. Forgotten medieval miracles are brought to light in her new book 'The Sons of St Augustine', published today by Oxford University Press ⬇️⬇️
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWe are really looking forward to a fantastic @ssnci.bsky.social conference in @maynoothuniversity.ie next June! CfP Deadline 1 Feb 2026!
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryNice article on Brontëmania with a link to this news article on Wandering Imaginations, modern short stories written by English and Ghanaian authors inspired by the Brontë’s fantasy land Angria, mapped onto West Africa
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryPhilosophical Logic has joined the OLH! Read their open letter on mass editorial resignation and the push to make academic research “as accessible as possible to both the academic community and society at large”.
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryCalling all creative writers, both published and unpublished. First prize is £1500, including publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology. Enter your short story of up to 4000 words until 31 Jan 2026, with low income entries available on a limited basis every month.
- We’re open for submissions! Closing date 31st January. Visit our website to read our submission rules, register your entry, and check out our amazing judges: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/rules/
- Reposted by English Faculty Library📣 #CfP Reminder 📣 Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence? 📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇 ⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025 📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies
- Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryEntering the US public domain in 2026: Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter. More info behind window 5 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-t… #PDin2026
- Reposted by English Faculty Library'No, we should not curse the winter - and December least of all.'
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryOscar Wilde, who died on this day 125 years ago (30 November 1900, in Paris). "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." (Conversation with André Gide in Algiers, quoted in a letter by Gide to his mother, 30 January 1895)
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWhat will enter the #publicdomain in 2026? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-t… (+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
- Reposted by English Faculty Library"I am accused of being blasphemous. But blasphemy is the comic verse of belief." Brendan Behan
- Reposted by English Faculty Library15 and + years 🎉 Our teenage years online are all about unrestricted screentime Go and explore Parker Library On the Web and find our 560 medieval and early modern manuscripts www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/cel...
- Have weird feelings about the racism in Wuthering Heights, and/or its erasure in adaptations? A 🧵by @romgothsam.bsky.social 👀📖🍿
- When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
- Elizabeth Gaskell diaries, short stories, novels, photographs, critical texts, and more (!) available at E 64 GAS in your friendly, neighbourhood EFL. 📖📚✒️
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryCity Lights celebrates University Press Week 2025 We are hosting a panel discussion on the subject of close reading View it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehZ0goJfiqY Brought to you by the City Lights Foundation, Association of University Presses, @princetonupress.bsky.social & @sunypress.bsky.social
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryHamlet kills Claudius! (finally) ☠️🍷 www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Two RSC Hamlets giving Claudius what's coming to him: Toby Stephens & Clive Wood, dir. Michael Boyd des. Tom Piper 2004; David Tennant & Patrick Stewart in 2008-9, dir. Greg Doran, the second image from the filmed version.
- Reposted by English Faculty Library“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.” -- Wole Soyinka, The Man Died
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryShortlist unveiled for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
- Reposted by English Faculty Library#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit
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- Who LIKES #18thC #BookHistory, they cannot lie? 👀📖 (though pamphlet-lovers might deny...) FREE online book launch of the latest from @universitypress.cambridge.org 'People of Print' series. (➕) Early Career Workshop to practice pitching your own excellent book! A bargain at twice the price.
- Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history! The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
- Reposted by English Faculty Library'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryTake a step back in time to discover the histories of alchemy, death, language, and fantastical beasts in this term’s new exhibition titled “St Hugh’s Library of Curiosities”, on display until Hilary 2026. Image from “The History of Great Britaine”, RBS KK5 (SPE)
- Reposted by English Faculty LibrarySomething for the early modernists!
- Hey Bluesky!👋 We're the Revels Office, an academic network for PGRs and ECRS researching all things early modern📚 Our community is a friendly space to share ideas and resources, ask questions, support each other, and meet fellow early modernists. Check out our website for more! revelsoffice.com
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWe are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
- 👋Oh hello #OpenAcess. What a delight for #MedievalSky, Cambridge English students, and other medieval mystic enthusiasts.✒️🕯️📖 (Or the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval & Renaissance Women Digitisation Project - currently moving websites!) #EarlyModern #MedievalWomen #EverydayImCodexing
- Really pleased that my latest article is out in New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession. "On Frustration: Reading The Book of Margery Kempe in the Classroom" thinks (with Adam Phillips and others) about readerly frustration and what it might teach us. Avail open access! doi.org/10.5070/NC3....
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryWhat happens when AI fails to see hate? Join us at Trinity College, Cambridge on 6 November to find out. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-f...
- Reposted by English Faculty LibraryTonight, Tuesday 21 October, 7pm: our online launch event with Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill & Kit Wright. Watch live or later via YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/DhDrtmZ...
