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Frank Finlay

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Emeritus Professor of German, University of Leeds. Former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Chair/Trustee Yorkshire Contemporary, Word Up North, Skipton Music

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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · Sep 9

Returning here after a 4-month break to explore other platforms and will be starting to post regularly-ish.

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Ellen Clarke @ellenclarke.bsky.social · 17h

@leedsprhs.bsky.social
Our vacancy for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Social Philosophy has now been advertised: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please spread the word! The closing date for applications is 5 Nov 2025.

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy

Are you an experienced academic in Philosophy with the ambition to carry out world-leading research and deliver an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Woul...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 13h

Decidedly on the chillier side “up North”

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 1d

“Every Little Helps” (Tesco, 2025)

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 1d

The queue for the post-event book signing is generally a reliable indicator of how well an author has been received, and it was through the door for @johnharris1969.bsky.social yesterday @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 1d

A great PhD opportunity here:

Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 2d

@ilkleylitfest.bsky.social

John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant, fascinating couple of Maybe I'm Amazed events this weekend in Durham & Ilkley. Big thanks to Paul Smith & @frankjf.bsky.social for such perceptive interviews, the organisers of two superb festivals & everyone who came
Order the book here linktr.ee/maybeimamazed

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, John, for being such an insightful, engaging and generous guest speaker @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social . A great pleasure to meet you! Hope your long trip home is going smoothly.

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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 3d

Thrilled to be interviewing the multiple-award winning @johnharris1969.bsky.social this afternoon for @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social about his fascinating, deeply moving and richly informative new book.

John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 4d

In Ilkley or nearby on Sunday? At 3.45 I'll be talking about my book Maybe I'm Amazed and everything that surrounds it - music, autism, why songs soundtrack our lives. Details here itsoninbradford.co.uk/events/john-...

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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 3d

Fortunately this was the mantra of my A-Level economics teacher!

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 5d

#JohnLennon

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 5d

I attended the opening of #TurnerPrize2025 but returned to get a a less crowded view of the exhibition, beautifully curated by @Yorkshire Contemporary Contemporary and Bradford Museums @Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Congratulations to the four artists #NnenaKalu #MohammedSami #ReneMatic and #ZadieXa

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 6d

You’ll probably be inundated with comments, so I’ll get mine in early: Bowie, Newcastle City Hall 1978 for a fiver in row 4 — £27.50 in today’s prices according to the Bank of England!

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 7d

Spent many a happy hour there working on the Hilsenrath-Nachlaß. One of my favourite archives!

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 7d

Some fascinating items from “Out of the Box”, an exhibition of 75 years of the archives of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. The exhibition runs until January 2026, and we start with the Tin Drum from movie and novel with the same name.

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 8d

The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire.

www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies

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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 8d

Really looking forward to interviewing @johnharris1969.bsky.social @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social. #MaybeImAmazed is my personal choice for book of the year; a tender, deeply moving memoir about music and autism — and essential reading!

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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 8d

@ilkleylitfest.bsky.social

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 8d

Always love the pre-event calm of an empty hall and the quiet choreography of sound and light checks.
With the brilliant and ebullient @stuartmaconie at #IlkleyLiteratureFestival. In a very crowded field, his fascinating book manages to cast a fresh light on the Beatles story. #WordUpNorth

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10d

And he’s back!!

Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.

His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME

STEWART LEE

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 11d

“True reunification of Germany will remain a work in progress. Every year more young Germans are entering adulthood with no personal memory of anything other than life in the “new” Germany.

Paul Scraton on Germany’s (rocky & ongoing) road to reunification

www.slowtravelberlin.com/the-road-to-...

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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 11d

Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’

In 2004, language learning ceased to be compulsory at Key Stage 4, aged 14 to 16.

www.independent.co.uk

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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 13d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Brian Patten obituary

One of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love

www.theguardian.com

Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 19d

A great pleasure to be at Bradford’s magnificent Cartwright Hall Art Gallery for the preview of the 2025 #TurnerPrize @bradford2025.co.uk

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Ilkley Literature Festival @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social · 19d

A limited number of tickets are still available for our Evening with the Poet Laureate on Friday 10 October, where Simon will be reading two collections, including the Sunday Times bestseller Dwell and New Cemetery. Book soon to avoid disappointment!

Tickets & more info here: buff.ly/JdJbfXW

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