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Writer & teacher & speaker. Professor @ Uni of Birmingham, UK. New book: A BRIGHT COLD DAY: THE WONDER OF GEORGE ORWELL (Oneworld, June 2025). Also: Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley. #EduSky https://drnjwaddell.co.uk

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Interesting caption, BBC.

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This.👇

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The delusions of omnipotence - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Listen to the inimitable @michaelshallcross.bsky.social discuss his extraordinary, unfinished and generatively unfinishable research into the Devil, parody, and literature across the ages.

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Publication Day! Six years in the making for THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF GEORGE ORWELL & it's now here, all 848 pages of it. I've learned bucketloads from the 48 contributors who made it possible: a mix of established Orwell scholars & other voices, all of them superb. 🎉🎉🎉 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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'That does not make it any less stressful for... a thirtysomething humanities lecturer wondering whether, after years of impoverished study, their job will even see them into middle age.' Mine, like so many others, didn't see me into middle age. Not even close. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Good ol’ Georgle Orwell.

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Summarily demoted (or is that pushed sideways?) to 'a Nathan'.

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😍😍😍

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New video, courtesy of the superb duo of @robbiehawken.bsky.social and @mollyblackall.bsky.social at @inews.co.uk, featuring some thoughts from me about Orwell's legacy amid ceaseless attempts across the political spectrum to 'claim' him. youtu.be/G7TIohV3YlM?...

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Full marks for footnote 3.

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Some #Orwell resources / Orwelliana from my personal scholarly website. I use these resources mainly for university teaching, but they might be useful for others. 1. A list of webpages, online documentaries, and podcast episodes concerning Orwell's life & work. drnjwaddell.co.uk/orwelliana [1/3]

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love the start of a new term. every year the same rituals. the smell of freshly sharpened pencils. the boxes of post-Christmas Quality Street in the staff kitchen. the emails from management assuring us that the app for registering student attendance definitely, definitely works now

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Orwell £2 coins out tomorrow! Literary detail lovers will enjoy knowing that in 1984 it's Big Brother who appears on the Oceanic currency: '[Winston] took a twenty-five cent piece out of his pocket. [...] on the other face of the coin the head of Big Brother.' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Today = Astro Bot. P.S. The soundtrack to this game slaps. #astrobot

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Have read & can confirm it’s 10/10. 🔥

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Went for a Christmas Day walk in liquid-chalk light.

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It may be Beethoven’s birthday today, so here’s some early morning moonlight that looks, instead, like sunlight.

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Shakespeare webinars throughout 2025 with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and distinguished guests! Looks absolutely brilliant. 🤩

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For seven years I ran the British indie publishing house Handheld Press, and I kept a work diary every single day. These are the Handheld Diaries, and they'll be coming to Substack in January. Subscribe for weekly or fortnightly episodes! 📚💙#publishing katemacdonald.substack.com/p/introducin...

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Really pleased to be part of this superb collection of essays on the British novel of ideas, edited by Rachel Potter & @matthewtaunton.bsky.social, which is publishing today with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Approaching the end of teaching my final-year undergraduate course on George Orwell and throughout I've been supplementing my lectures with episodes from my (intermittently produced) Reading Orwell podcast, which includes thematic discussions of texts & interviews with scholars. #EduSky [1/3]

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Approaching the end of teaching my final-year undergraduate course on George Orwell and throughout I've been supplementing my lectures with episodes from my (intermittently produced) Reading Orwell podcast, which includes thematic discussions of texts & interviews with scholars. #EduSky [1/3]

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Proofs! #orwell

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Proofs! #orwell

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📢 CfP Modernism & Data Special Issue of The Modernist Review Submissions of 1000-1500 words (articles, creative responses) to the topic. We are just as excited about papers that use digital methods as those that refuse to; as long as you tell us why! 📌 Deadline - 20th December 2024

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