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We join 230+ organisations calling on all F-35 partners, like the UK gov, to take action in line with their legal obligations and immediately halt the direct and indirect transfer of F-35 parts and components to Israel. Read more here: amn.st/3637

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Are you a state school student? Do you want to find out more about studying #English at Oxford University? We're holding our annual State Schools' Open Day ONLINE on 8 March. The event is free & open to state school pupils & educators. See full programme & register>> #TeamEnglish #EnglishLiterature

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A thing about language that a lot of people don't know is that you can dislike a usage intensely – a pronunciation, a piece of grammar, etc. – without presuming to reject it on behalf of all people, in all places, for all time

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If you'd like to take a student's survey on attitudes to accents, one of ours has one right here: universityofkent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... You'll need to have spent most of your childhood in the UK to be eligible. #linguistics

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Support your A Level English students with a subscription to emagazine https://buff.ly/3PYyEd4

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Too many people do not know what the "Prevent" duty is - or why it’s broken. So we’ve worked with New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) to create a messaging guide. FREE WEBINAR: How to talk about the "Prevent" Duty 📅 Tuesday 11th February 2025 ⏰ 1-2 pm 📍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-ho...

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925,000 UK children will be plunged into poverty. Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates. What will families go without? Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering. Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

In UK, the 6th largest economy. 1m retirees skip meals. 1 in 10 retirees malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. 7m pensioners turning down heating. 2m have unmet needs for care/support. In 2022, 110,000 pensioners died from fuel poverty. What future? leftfootforward.org/2025/01/pens...

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I’m so grateful to Kim A Snyder for allowing me to be a part of this film. “There’s never been a movie more vital this year than The Librarians. If you prize literature, intelligence, independent thought, safe spaces for children, it’s a necessary watch.” thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/the-librar...

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Who hasn’t been innocently hanging out at the inauguration of a man dubbed by people in his own party as the next Hitler and accidentally performed a Nazi salute that could only be more blatant if it was accompanied by a tiny finger moustache? thedailytism.com/the-autistic...

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The facts

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Hay Festival Academy, assemble! We have 29 spots at Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye 2025 for young people exploring careers in the creative industries. Apply now! www.hayfestival.org/academy

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Dear Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting: the NHS is not for sale. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 49 days ago • 38 comments

I wrote this before Christmas for the @engmediacentre.bsky.social blog. If you're looking to recruit students to the A Level next year or after, there are some useful (free) resources flagged up that are worth sharing: www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/promoti...

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When over a million east Londoners moved to Essex in the second half of the 20th century, they took their accent with them | Dr Amanda Cole

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Florence Turner making all the faces in her comedy DAISY DOODAD'S DIAL (1914), which she also directed. Turner plays a woman determined to be the local face-making champion but her public rehearsals land her in jail.

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

To every guy who came into the comments on my Gisele Pelicot article to yell “not all men” at me and demand I give due deference to the good guys… It’s time to be quiet. Investigation uncovered more than 70,000 users in Telegram group chats admitting to raping women & sharing tips to sedate them 🧵

submitted 69 days ago • 112 comments

Just top notch medieval choir stall seat carvings (misericords) spotted this afternoon during a visit to St. Laurence's church in Ludlow...

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

How many of is walk taller, unashamed of our vernaculars, directly or indirectly because of him?

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday, we lost William Labov, a foundational figure in sociolinguistics. In his Abralin Talk, Labov reflected on a lifetime of scholarship that has mentored generations and advanced the pursuit of social equity through linguistics.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Amnesty International: “Iranian authorities have adopted a new draconian law that further erases the human rights of women and girls, imposing the death penalty, flogging, prison terms and other severe penalties to crush ongoing resistance to compulsory veiling.”

submitted 72 days ago • 12 comments

Pointless jobs: the unbearable ennui of office life – in pictures. Lars Tunbjörk spent the 1990s photographing offices in Stockholm, Toyko and New York. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.

submitted 79 days ago • 44 comments

Ummm...LOL ? "China’s internet regulator has launched a campaign to crack down on “unauthorized” use of language online, in a move experts say is a bid to stem the widespread use of slang and abbreviations by Generation Z on social media." www.languagemagazine...

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Great letter,readjusting misleading distortions written @dailytelegraph.bsky.social re English Studies/discipline more generally 👏🏽 @englishassociation.bsky.social @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Katherine Baxter @clarelees.bsky.social @gailmarshall.bsky.social @andrewmacrae.bsky.social

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The Mezzotint, livestreamed on Xmas Eve. There seems to be an issue booking online events on Eventbrite "using the app." It's beyond my comprehension. But if you follow the link below you ought to be taken to a page where you can register. chrimbomezzo.eventbrite.co.uk

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Public service announcement: Andrei Tarkovsky classics #Solaris, Stalker, The Mirror and more besides are now available in full (and legally) on YouTube.

submitted 84 days ago • 19 comments

Just what this week needed. 💜👵 Deborah Cameron on 'women of a certain age'. debuk.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/w...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Is anyone here involved in interviews/admissions for HE Linguistics and/or English Language? What would be your key questions to ask a prospective undergrad? Any ideas welcome!

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Hey y'all today is the day we get to celebrate that the world got the gift of yet one more year of Bill Labov! 97 and still trying to solve sound change. You can read @ajdinkin.bsky.social's review of Labov's memoir, CONVERSATIONS WITH STRANGERS in LANGUAGE: doi.org/10.1353/lan....

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A new blog by Dr. Frank Crompton discussing the relative achievements or failures of successive medical superintendents at the Worcester City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (later #PowickHospital). #MentalHealth medicalmuseum.org.uk/newsletters/...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

i have secured funding to run a summer school for secondary school teachers on language and social in/justice. it'll be over 3 days and involve teachers engaging with linguistic justice theory and applying this to practice. more details soon but feel free to express interest!💜

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

🔴Brain Rot: What the Oxford Word of the Year Tells Us About 2024 Dan Clayton traces the remarkably prescient twenty year record of the Oxford Word of the Year award www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brain-rot-...

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

Latest episode is just out. We think this will be really helpful for the A-Level: lots of discussion about different aspects of language online, how to analyse it and also how to approach media discourses about social media.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Prose Rules That Are Not Rules • Don't begin a sentence with "And" or "But."* • Don't conclude a sentence with a preposition. • Don't split infinitives.* Is it always the best thing to do? No. But... Churchill never said that thing. It's not even a real rule. Ignore it. #copyediting

submitted 91 days ago • 26 comments

I felt I had to reply to Amanda Spielman on X & the article in The Times on text choices, the canon & relatability. Both offered simplistic, throwaway ideas about choices, showing lack of understanding both of contemporary literature & of what develops literary knowledge in young people.

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

OMG

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Need a midweek podcast fix? #Language podcast list that isn't only about English 😉 'Powerful educational examinations into language & society, covering #indigenous language, syntax, morphology, forensics, #sociolinguistics, historical #linguistics & digital comms'. discoverpods.com/language-pod...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Yorkshire TV's children's show Music Scene adapted M.R. James' MR HUMPHREYS AND HIS INHERITANCE in 1976, illustrating the importance of music in TV productions. And it terrified its young viewers with this genuinely startling sequence.

submitted 96 days ago • 8 comments

Come and look through our 17th Century copy of The Duchess of Malfi with us www.instagram.com/p/DCmcBblKEFi/

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

We @thequotationbank.bsky.social believe in the power of English. We're thrilled to announce, in collaboration with University College, Oxford The Quotation Bank Essay Prize for Yr 11 and Yr 12 pupils. See below for details and a great prize! @teamenglish1.bsky.social @litdrive.bsky.social #edusky

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

With farm owners protesting today over the prospect of paying a highly discounted inheritence tax, I'm sure you've seen quotes about how they "feed the nation". But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.

submitted 101 days ago • 19 comments

If you're an Eng Lang teacher and looking for some ideas for teaching Lang Diversity and Discourses, @robdrummond.bsky.social and I are doing this @engmediacentre.bsky.social course in Leeds next month. We still have a few spaces available. www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/e710...

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