Prof of Victorian Literature and Culture & Head of School of Humanities at @uniofreading; Chair of University English (@univenglish)
Joined June 2012
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Gail Marshall retweeted
2 Jan 2025
I am giving an online zoom talk about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth for Heptonstall Museum on Thur 9th Jan, 7-8.30pm. A rare example of a working class female writer, she was an ethical socialist who fought for social justice. From free-£3, link below:
heptonstallmuseumfriends.org…
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Gail Marshall retweeted
29 Dec 2024
Delighted that HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE is an ‘Editors’ Choice’ in today’s New York Times Book Review 📚❤️🙏📚
@AtriaBooks @EburyPublishing @nytimesbooks #sondheim #books #newyorktimes @gypsybway #theatre #broadway #musicaltheatre #theatre
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Gail Marshall retweeted
6 Dec 2024
Calling all arts, humanities and social sciences early-career researchers! 📢
Applications are now open for a collections-based fellowship to explore sustainability and the environment through our collections.
Apply by 7 January 2025: bit.ly/BLSustainabilityFello…
ALT Digitised image from page 669 of "Expedição Portugueza ao Muata-Ianvo. Os climas e as Producções das terras de Malange á Lunda, etc. pt. I" showing an ipomoea plant with a white flower
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Gail Marshall retweeted
9 Dec 2024
Excellent interview with @Runrober on
@timesradio today. Time to ditch the misleading idea that English doesn't lead to a good job: see universityenglish.ac.uk/engl… and British Academy reports. English doesn't just lead to one career, but to a huge choice of careers
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Gail Marshall retweeted
8 Dec 2024
Thanks to @UnivEnglish Campaign Director @McRaeAndrew for drafting this letter on behalf of UE, @EnglishAssoc and @IES_London More details of #EnglishCreates campaign here: universityenglish.ac.uk/engl… All resources are free to use
Very good letter, readjusting misleading distortions written @dailytelegraph re English Studies/discipline more generally 👏🏽 @EnglishAssoc @BobEaglestone Katherine Baxter
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Gail Marshall retweeted
Very good letter, readjusting misleading distortions written @dailytelegraph re English Studies/discipline more generally 👏🏽 @EnglishAssoc @BobEaglestone Katherine Baxter
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Gail Marshall retweeted
30 Nov 2024
@CarolineLucas, Tim Oates and I fought so hard to get it accepted, only for it to be blocked at the last minute. Nature needs us all to get behind this and put nature education at the heart of school life and learning. This is too important to be trashed by party politics.
30 Nov 2024
IMPORTANT The campaign for a GCSE in Natural History has stalled. Labour see it as a "Conservative initiative" and won't progress it. It is not a political football, every child has the right to learn about the wonder of the natural world. Plse ask you MP to lobby for it now. 🙏
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Gail Marshall retweeted
11 Nov 2024
Colleagues, a reminder that you can also find and follow @UnivEnglish on bluesky at @univeng.bsky.social
We'll follow you back and build up a fantastic community over there
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11 Nov 2024
Excellent advocacy for the importance of creativity, enjoyment, and relevance of English GCSE on @r4Today #EnglishCreates @UnivEnglish @EnglishAssoc @NATEfeed
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Gail Marshall retweeted
22 Oct 2024
AHRC's Creative Communities, hosted by @NorthumbriaUni is extending to 2027, with an additional £1.7m funding committed.
This collaborative initiative re-imagines research in response to community needs.
More from Programme Director @ProfKatyShaw:
orlo.uk/xlmga
ALT Quote from the blog: "Research doesn’t just happen in a lab: it happens on doorsteps and local neighbourhood streets, civic spaces and town centres, schools and hospitals, cities, coasts and countryside, through diverse digital and physical creative communities." ~ Katy Shaw, Programme Director, Arts and Humanities Research Council Creative Communities AHRC logo
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Gail Marshall retweeted
22 Oct 2024
"Bonus payments to water company bosses rise to £9.1m amid sewage scandal."
£3.36m for running a monopoly, how in God's name can that be right?
news.sky.com/story/bonus-pay…
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Gail Marshall retweeted
10 Oct 2024
I'm giving a zoom talk with Heptonstall Museum on 9th Jan 2025 about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. Free/a £3 donation which will support the museum's amazing work. I'll be talking about her pioneering (and timely) anti-fascist journalism. Booking info below: heptonstallmuseumfriends.org…
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Gail Marshall retweeted
10 Oct 2024
On a day when Boris Johnson has no doubt enriched himself royally from the publication of his book, @BJennings90 could not have put it more searingly. Thank you, Ben, for speaking so fiercely, on behalf of so many of us 💔
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Gail Marshall retweeted
9 Oct 2024
Our postgraduate seminar series is back up and running for this academic year, with the first talk on the 17th October. We are so glad to see the growth of this event to include the School of Humanities within our PGR community!
9 Oct 2024
It's finally here! 🥳Semester One schedule for the School of Humanities Postgraduate Work-in-Progress seminars.
All PGRs welcome - please contact Adel (info in image) if you'd like to join the mailing list.
We start next Thursday 5pm (hybrid) with History's own @dmvc18
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Gail Marshall retweeted
8 Oct 2024
Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer’s decision to accept clothing freebies “looks greedy”...
The ex-Tory PM borrowed £52k from a Tory donor to redecorate No 10 flat (which he initially forgot to declare)
He received luxury holiday worth around £15k from a Tory donor to Mustique with wife Carrie in 2019
He received a £24k donation from Tory donor towards his wedding to Carrie in 2022
He accepted free accommodation worth £23.5k from Tory donor after being turfed out of Downing Street...
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Gail Marshall retweeted
So proud of this fantastic achievement! 🙌🎉🙌We raise our students’ awareness also by addressing -in our teaching- the multicultural dimension of living with and combating the #climate #crisis in many communities across the 🌍🗺️
20 Sep 2024
We’re proud to be named Sustainable University of the Year in @TheTImes #GoodUniGuide 🏆
Having leapt into the UK Top 25 overall, we received praise for the ‘impressive’ headway made towards becoming one of the greenest universities in the world.
More rdg.ac/4daSxXr
ALT The White Cliffs of Dover are lit up with a projection of the climate stripes for the United Kingdom alongside the University of Reading announcing that they'd been named 'Sustainable University of the Year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
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Gail Marshall retweeted
21 Sep 2024
So "prominent criticism of [transatlantic] slavery" is a problem now?? We should remember those people who were enslaved by the British, lest we forget. And acknowledge the harms of this history & the legacies of that brutal slavery system: otherwise we deepen the damage.
20 Sep 2024
In the Telegraph Robert Tombs agreed that ‘increasingly prominent criticism of slavery and the British Empire’ and ‘the generally negative portrayal of British history in the media, fiction, TV, films and schools’ were to blame.
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Gail Marshall retweeted
20 Sep 2024
We’re proud to be named Sustainable University of the Year in @TheTImes #GoodUniGuide 🏆
Having leapt into the UK Top 25 overall, we received praise for the ‘impressive’ headway made towards becoming one of the greenest universities in the world.
rdg.ac/4daSxXr
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Gail Marshall retweeted
8 Sep 2024
Hang a banner from a motorway gantry and you are going to jail.
Dump billions of litres of sewage into the environment for millions of hours and nothing. And no matter what anybody says that is not going to change.
Justice? 👇
18 Jul 2024
Both of the actions you see in these photos potentially amount to the offence of ‘public nuisance’.
One is punishable with “long, long prison sentences” & the other is rewarded with huge bonuses & billions in profits.
Why the disparity? What does this mean for the rule of law?
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