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Matthew Bradley
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Thinks about literature, and occasionally even writes about it. Also dogs and Doctor Who.
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Matthew Bradley @bradders953.bsky.social · 2d
Very excited to be chatting to @johnhiggs.bsky.social about all things Who this Saturday!
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 3d
From Dr Who to digital detox, Mo Salah to magic and witches, the Liverpool Literary Festival, happening this weekend, has something for every reader. Check out the full listings here www.liverpool.ac.uk/literary-fes... #LivLitFest
Liverpool Literary Festival 17-19 October 2025
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Matthew Bradley @bradders953.bsky.social · Jul 22
'Well that's funny, because among my friends I'm known as the man least likely to open a cinema'
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Matthew Bradley @bradders953.bsky.social · May 11
Like much of what this government does, this reads as bullish but is entirely motivated by cowardice. They can see the sector cracking, they have not the first clue what to do, so they're preparing a narrative to absolve themselves from responsibility. Was British steel financially mismanaged?
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · May 10
I am honestly lost for words.
Telegraph article headline: ‘Universities have “lost sight of responsibility over public money” Text underneath: “Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government.”
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · Apr 23
In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.
Mayor Brown making Blight the head of DOPE- the Department of Pure Evil Blight saying “Come on, let’s make Beanotown much worse” Blight saying he’ll sack all the police officers Blight saying he can do whatever he wants
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · Apr 9
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.

Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.

Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Apr 7
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
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University of Liverpool News @livuninews.bsky.social · Jan 17
Dr Sophie Oliver from @livunienglish.bsky.social has discovered two previously unknown poems by Virginia Woolf.📚

The poems, “Angelica” and “Hiccoughs,” were composed for Woolf's niece and nephew.

Read them and find out more 👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/01/16/p...

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Images of the poems handwritten in pencil are credited to Virginia Woolf Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. By permission of the Society of Authors as literary representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf. Images of the poems handwritten in pencil are credited to Virginia Woolf Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. By permission of the Society of Authors as literary representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf.
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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · Dec 9
Final workshop of the first phase of our “Deliberate Ink” project. It’s been a privilege to work with such amazing women to produce these political messages. Still populating the website but you can find out a bit more at deliberateink.org
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Sally Blackburn Daniels @drsallybd.bsky.social · Nov 11
The English & Creative Writing Department Teesside have organised a great line up for their annual Research Seminar Series! @bradders953.bsky.social and will be talking about Vernon Lee in April. The seminars are open to everybody, so if you want to join, let us know!
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Matthew Bradley @bradders953.bsky.social · Aug 15
Hopefully the beginning of something...
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · Aug 15
Key messages from us on the English A-level results. 🧵

English remains a very popular A-level choice and numbers are growing. More than 60,000 A-levels in English were awarded in 2024.
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Sally Blackburn Daniels @drsallybd.bsky.social · Aug 6
Super excited to have the proofs for this. It has been the absolute best working with @bradders953.bsky.social. Should be out mid-September, open access.
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Matthew Bradley @bradders953.bsky.social · Aug 6
Likewise a joy! And this mention has now persuaded me to get the hell off Twitter permanently. So all the good things!
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Matthew Bradley @bradders953.bsky.social · Nov 26
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Matthew Bradley @bradders953.bsky.social · Oct 28
Great afternoon at the First Folio exhibition at #OurShakespeareNorth. Harsh that John Leason's claim to fame is making some mistakes on the typesetting, which involves selecting 100s of letters half as big as a Scrabble piece and arranging them back to front along dozens of lines in exact order!
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