Andy Kesson @andykesson Twitter profile

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Andy Kesson

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5 years

In the best yet things-my-nephews-have-done, the 7 year old ordered a burger today, and was asked if he wanted it medium. "Could you please make it very large?" he asked. Told that the choice was between medium or well done, he asked if the chef could do the best he could. Yes.

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5 years

Overheard in Chicago Institute of Art: Small child, reading description of painting: Grandma, what's a brothel? Grandma, after enormous pause: it's the place where they make soup THIS IS BOTH THE BEST AND ALSO THE MOST RUIN-YOUR-LIFE-FOREVER ANSWER POSSIBLE

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Meanwhile the 5 year old discovered they have new neighbours, found a step-ladder that nobody knew about, marched to the top of it and introduced himself with the words 'Hello we have one dog three fish and lots of dinosaurs upstairs'

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5 years

I think the waiter thought my nephew is an idiot which I regard as a radical misreading of the situation. Massive well-cooked food all round, please.

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5 years

The hill I am willing to die on, possibly under a car, is that motorists need to indicate for pedestrians and not just other drivers. Also the indicator is for indicating, yes, in advance, which way you are going, not just some merry theatre of light to accompany your turning.

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Andy Kesson

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7 years

Lots of Tories blaming the unexpected youth vote. You hear that, young people? The Tory strategy relied on you not voting. #ge2017

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Andy Kesson

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1 year

One, two, three, roooooar I declare a

weird medieval guys BOOK OUT NOW !!

@WeirdMedieval

1 year

bear war, switzerland, 15th century

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Andy Kesson

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4 years

Now that, my friends, is how you semi-colon

Dr Catherine Haddon

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4 years

CNN got their line clear on Trump comments before they went on the tv. Unlike some others....

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5 years

@NuclearTeeth Souper.

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3 years

Today has been a day of bereavement, Covid, distance from the ones we love and then homophobia in a hospice car park as hubby and I try to comfort each other. Even my idiotic optimism is a bit dented. Look after yourselves good people.

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2 years

Weird how 'We need to learn to live with Covid' has become the go-to phrase from people who just want to ignore it. Like if I was going to live with a tiger, I would be extremely very focused on that tiger, taking steps to mitigate my deliciousness to tigers.

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Andy Kesson

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6 years

In a research library, everyone minding their own business, and my phone suddenly starts playing Bloody Motherfucking Asshole by Martha Wainwright, yes, that's right, the bit in the middle where she just sings the title over and over. I have now left the library.

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Andy Kesson

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3 years

Pier review: this pier is quite nice Academic pier review: this pier would have been much improved had it not been carelessly left in the sea

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Andy Kesson

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6 years

THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.

Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology

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6 years

Word of the Day: MOODLE (v.) to dawdle; to waste time aimlessly

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Andy Kesson

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4 years

Attention people who work on the “long” eighteenth century: I have just been through the century year by year, and I have my suspicions that this century may in fact be exactly the same length as other centuries, mathematically speaking.

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5 years

@Stephen_Neal That's very kind, but tbh most of us are just massive and well done.

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6 years

Everyone is sharing REF stories, so I think I am going to share mine. It’s pretty emotional and I’ve never spoken publicly about it. Going to try to pick my words with care. Solidarity to all colleagues who have been damaged by the REF.

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Andy Kesson

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6 years

For centuries, the early history of British theatre has been assumed to be male: men running all-male stages. Thanks to @B4Shakes , we now know around half of those running or owning the early theatres were female. @callanjd shares some of their stories.

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6 years

Our new post is a @b4shakes / @EngenderStage mash-up on the subject of women and Elizabethan playhouses... It follows hot on the heels of @andykesson 's talk on women playhouse owners at @HistFestUK . #b4shakes #engenderstage #twitterstorians

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3 years

The problem with 'the early modern period' is, it implies the existence of the 'I'm really sorry, I'll be there in five minutes modern period'

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5 years

@meganlcook Megan! This gif is addressed to your self-denying, chickenless, open-headed self.

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Andy Kesson

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2 years

12 years of hostile government mismanagement continue to come to fruition under Covid. Very sorry to say that we at Roehampton are once again joining the many institutions, mostly post-92, where huge numbers of jobs and even departments are under threat.

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Andy Kesson

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3 years

In very unpredictable news, it turns out that trying to get rid of university staff makes it harder to actually deliver teaching.

University of Liverpool: Course cancelled amid surge in demand

The University of Liverpool says record A-level results meant resources were being stretched.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

"Top or bottom?", my husband asked me this morning, because these are the kind of difficult binary choices one has to make when there is only one hot cross bun left in the flat.

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2 years

We've been told to wait for Sue Gray for so long I feel like the only reasonable thing to happen next is for her to disappear whilst in a mountain then return one book later as Sue White

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4 years

Ooh thanks for asking, well basically I became an academic because I thought it would be a good way to take advantage of my ability to stick to clear and simple writing guidelines

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4 years

Tell me why you went into your field in 5 words or less.

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5 years

It's a little-known fact that dragons are so named because they absolutely love to get their drag on. This explains their tireless obsession with jewels, knights in only very shining armour and, of course, damsels in this dress.

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5 years

@JudithFlanders @SocialHistoryOx My extremely swanky grandmother had a history of accidentally standing at corners in red light districts and wondering why she was getting so much attention. Inadvertently sex-themed grandparents are the best.

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4 years

Well, I am usually quite good at reading quietly in the morning and not waking the husband, but unfortunately this deeply elliptical and unvegan four-word sentence in an account of early book history has just made me roar with laughter, so good morning to South-East London.

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8 years

This is the most amazing example of someone explaining something perfectly whilst also not understanding it.

whyjoe

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8 years

Rush EXPOSES us! "Consent" is the "magic" that makes a sex act OK to liberals. Without, we call the "rape police."!!

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5 years

Am an enormous fan of this very sensible escalator policy at St Pancras.

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5 years

At first I was afraid of methodology Kept thinking I could never live with bibliography But then I spent so many nights thinking footnotes or endnotes And I grew strong, I learned my word count was too long

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Andy Kesson

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3 years

Language changes, and it is usually important to be cool with that, but this is such a bizarre new meaning for the word 'stay'. If you told a dog to stay, and it went off for a two week holiday in Cornwall, you would withhold the biscuit.

Dr. Jessamy Carlson

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3 years

If you are away on holiday in the UK, it is not a staycation. It’s a holiday. A staycation is where you stay at your house and do day trips from there, as though you were away but without staying somewhere else overnight. This is the hill...

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5 years

Ok so this morning, on the tube platform, a very nice woman came up to me and said, 'Young man, do you like fruit? Can I recommend apples? They are delicious and nutritious and they literally grow on tree. I don't know why I am telling you this but have a nice day'.

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3 years

It is 15 years to the day since my husband and I did not meet. We clocked each other across a party, but neither of us went over to say hi. Five months later, we were introduced. Do say hi to each other, people, especially in this unpeopled times.

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5 years

Many years ago, a senior colleague I barely knew asked me how my man was. I didn’t know he knew I had a man, or even that I was a man sort of a man, but I gave him a long and probably very dull update on my husband. ‘Oh’, he said, confused, ‘I thought he was a C16th playwright?’

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5 years

While this isn’t me, specifically, I’m glad I’m not the only one who occasionally talks to the people I’m working on.

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Andy Kesson

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6 years

I’m having a lot of ridiculous photos of me taken with dogs lately. This dog literally just said HELLO YOU WILL BE MY MAT OF CHOICE FOR THE EVENING WHY YES YOU MAY HOLD MY PROSECCO FOR ME THANKS

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5 years

It is my wedding anniversary today, and in an example of the sort of unity and synchronicity that has kept us together all these years, it is the husband's wedding anniversary also. We are going out now for curry and may be gone sometime.

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3 years

Love the idea of making Shakespeare more relatable Titus Andronicus: in this play Shakespeare offers advice on what to do if you have people coming over for dinner but not much in the way of protein to offer them

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3 years

So there’s this TV show called Vera which I’ve never really watched, but appears to be about a women who solves crimes by standing next to very very handsome men. This is 10 out of 10 how I would solve a crime.

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4 years

Not a lot of people know that the word ‘fortitude’ comes from the words ‘forty’ and ‘chewed’, because once you’ve reached one you stand a reasonable chance of having been gnawed on a little by life. This is completely true and has not at all been made up.

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7 years

Tonight I am going to Cornwall on the sleeper train and this is literally the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me. I fully expect a murder, a moustache and a breakdown in Yugoslavia.

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3 years

This is something I was weirdly aware of as a kid, and it's exactly how the theatre of Shakespeare's time worked: repeated choreography and movement allows you to tell lots of different stories with little rehearsal.

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Andy Kesson

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3 years

Hey folks, so I have news. With recent upheavals in the sector, I've decided to go part-time. My work on @B4Shakes , Box Office Bears & @a_bit_lit continues, but I'll also be exploring other ways to make a living in these crazy times. If you have any ideas, please do let me know!

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3 years

I'd love to see @peston respond to this from @lottelydia

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1 year

'"Oops, I Did It Again": Stop Using Pop Cultural References as the First Half of the Title of Your Journal Article'

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Andy Kesson

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3 years

In this strange new life of mine, I keep being asked for headshots, so I got these very nice photos done (if you ignore the model) with the brilliant @ArthurWilson_ . At last, conclusive proof that I am able to look into all four corners of a room, just like an ace detective.

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3 years

Being an academic is 25% reading emails, 25% answering emails and 50% documenting and justifying your work and your field, but it's ok because you can devote the rest of the time to teaching, research and collaboration.

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3 years

Unfortunately I only ever seem to get insomnia at night, when really it would be much more useful during the day.

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Andy Kesson

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6 years

Small child outside Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Does he still live here? Mother: No darling, he's dead. Small child: *so much weeping* As I keep telling you, Shakespeare is bad for your mental well being.

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Andy Kesson

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5 years

I’m reading Philip Pullman’s new book, and I’m sorry but it is very unbelievable. I can deal with fairies, furies & daemons, but the protagonist is a student who checks the references in her final essay whilst in the middle of a murder investigation. Very unrelatable content.

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Andy Kesson

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4 years

Have just received an email advising me to read the work of Andy Kesson, and tbh don’t quite know what to do with myself right now.

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Andy Kesson

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3 years

So yesterday I gave a talk and got propositioned by an anonymous attendee *whilst giving the talk*, and today I have been asked if I would like to pose for a magazine dedicated to bears and daddies. Is this post-lockdown giddiness or a whole new stage of life for me?

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4 years

Have just seen a sprightly young man, in his underwear, pushing a shopping trolley down the street with a huge ornate mirror in it, so if that doesn’t mean we’re all living inside of Philip Spenser’s The Fairie Queene, I don’t know what does.

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Andy Kesson

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5 years

So one slightly odd thing I'm encountering at the moment is academic colleagues complaining to me about research which is published online instead of being tucked away inside reassuringly expensive academic monographs. 'I don't want to read a blog post', I keep being told.

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Andy Kesson

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6 years

Academic books need to be cheaper, whenever possible; but my goodness, we could all do with rethinking the methodology/ disciplinary-facing introductions which open so many of our books. They immediately shut the book off to most readers.

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2 years

The government does not want higher education to be offered to those traditionally excluded from it. It does not like free thinking, genuinely open debate, imagination, historical inquiry. Don't let them get their way. Solidarity to colleagues and to our students.

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4 years

Last week someone began a very very very big Zoom meeting with the words ‘Have you come? I think you’ve all come. You look like you’ve all come’, and it is a marker of my extreme professionalism that I did not immediately bring this to your attention.

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6 years

Husband has just come home very upset about his ‘boys’ who are apparently ‘very nice’ and ‘very handsome’ and don’t deserve their fate. This is the first I have heard of them and it’s taken me a very long time to discover he got Denmark in his work World Cup sweepstake.

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6 years

It really makes me mad when scholars talk anxiously about self-promotion. We are, surely, most of us promoting the primary materials, methods and scholarly fields that we love. There is no shame in seeking readers for those things.

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4 years

I don't have much to add to the brilliant tweets on #SaveUoRAH except to say that I am fiercely proud to work at a post-92 university. The government is finally getting its way in closing off higher education to students from non-affluent backgrounds. We cannot let this happen.

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5 years

You guys, I would really prefer that journalists didn’t describe my colleagues as top academics. There is such a thing as too much information.

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3 years

The right would like to extend rights, privileges and protection to the statues of people who did not extend them to real people in their lifetimes. Very coincidentally, the right would like to not extend rights, privileges and protection to real people in our lifetimes.

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Final push = 'British colonialism wasn't essentially racist, wasn't essentially exploitative' so Rhodes should not fall. Daily Telegraph

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4 years

Excuse me, but can we all please enjoy the very excellent twitter bio for @school_of_arch ?

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3 years

I don't see much value in recirculating transphobia, but people who think Shakespeare lived in some sort of hetero cis-land might want to consider reading some of his - and his contempories' - work.

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4 years

People seem to think 2020 will be very unChristmassy but is there anything more nativity than being forced back to your place of birth by centralised authority, kept in lockdown in unsuitable conditions and then having a bunch of random strangers trying to drop in and say hi?

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3 years

I am spending this morning documenting the fact that there is nobody in London, nobody at all. Full details on Instagram, but here I am dialling around Seven Dials which would normally involve several tourist collisions.

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Andy Kesson

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4 years

FAO people saying how much they miss the gym, let me assure you that the gym is as available to you as it’s ever been, that it is delicious mixed with tonic and also that is not how you spell gym

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2 years

I'm delighted to say that Sandra Nelson, @elbfrankland , @marlboroughprod , @WILD_WORKS and I have won funding to stage John Lyly's mega queer, super trans play Galatea. Please share this advert for a full-time, 30 month post-doc far and wide.

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Andy Kesson

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5 years

But freely accessible digital resources are a lifeline to readers of all kinds, in & out of universities, who are interested in these topics and unable to read about them in the paywalled journals, expensive books and geographically inaccessible libraries in which they often sit.

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7 years

You guys the Latin for proud is 'superbum' and really however you choose to pronounce it this is fantastic.

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Andy Kesson

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2 years

Oh hi there, Brexit was a mistake. Whatever your position on it over the last six years, it’s ok to admit that. The UK is in crisis, and it won’t come out of crisis until we recognise what caused it.

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7 years

‘Let’s put “problematise” into every sentence. Lecturers love that shit’. Things you don’t want to overhear at the British Library.

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5 years

So the tag line for Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet is ‘Imagine a time when love is forbidden...’ Did... did a straight, cis person write this?

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Andy Kesson

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4 years

You guys, I am halfway through The Mirror and the Light and he, Cromwell, hasn’t even begun to take over parliament or chop off the king’s head or declare a republic. Three books in to Wolf Hall and I’m beginning to worry it’ll never happen.

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5 years

Is it possible that the so-called semi colon is in fact just a comma comma comma comma comma chameleon?

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3 years

One sixteenth-century way to spell 'wooing' is 'wowing', and I'd just like to put it on record that consensual wowing would really be a very lovely thing.

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3 years

One thing twitter demonstrates is that being negative about academia is a lot more popular than being positive. So here's an evergreen plea that whilst we hold the sector to account, we also remember to share, promote and celebrate each other's work, and indeed our own.

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4 years

This is the face of someone who has booked annual leave for next week, and honestly, has any year ever deserved to be more annually left?

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6 years

Books are so weird. They don’t ask for your password all the time like some sort of needy henchman, they don’t want to update or reset or restart and they almost never run out of batteries. Books are weird.

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Andy Kesson

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3 months

So I won't be responding directly to laughably inaccurate stories, and I encourage others to stop doing so too. On this website, direct response simply escalates the damage you are trying to oppose.

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3 years

Have just discovered I am the proud owner of two Word files, both with the same name, to which I have been merrily adding research work as I go in the belief that there is only one such master file. Everything is fine and everything is calm, please send help.

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5 years

Delighted to announce the debut, just a few moments ago, on campus and in full view of a library full of students and colleagues, of my latest dance, Andy Has a Bee on His Jumper and Neither of Us Are At All Happy About Any of That.

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6 years

There are many things I love about Kate Bush but quite high on the list is the fact that early on her first album she wrote a song about the sexiness of the saxophone, and even impersonated a saxophone, and then spent four decades entirely ignoring the instrument.

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3 years

The one good thing about being laid up in bed with Covid is it given me lots of time to hear from journalists and politicians, over and over again, that the pandemic is definitely over

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Amongst all the stories of colleagues going back to their offices, my absolute favourite is the person who returned after a year and a half to find ‘Back in 5 mins’ on their door.

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8 years

In the light of recent debate over how we debate, here is a brief summary of some basic positions we might consider.

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3 years

It's a brilliant name for a podcast, but there is something alarming about @greg_jenner posting something new and your iPad turns around and tells you, 'Notification: You're Dead To Me'.

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2 years

Was Shakespeare friends with bears? What was the Globe doing next to a Bear Garden? How do you exit pursued by a bear? Delighted to have my first blog post up on the Box Office Bears website.

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Andy Kesson

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3 years

Absolutely obsessed with these very contradictory readings of the HGV incident. @NoreenMasud @KirstySedgman

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Andy Kesson

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5 years

I was told, by PhD supervisors no less, that working on John Lyly was a ‘1950s Oxford’ thing to do, and that no one would want to publish a book on him so perhaps I might create an online annotated bibliography instead. So, you know, boom. #Shax2019

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3 years

Embarrassing the number of people who use the word ‘pious’ to mean ‘religious’ when it quite clearly means ‘wow this is a lot like a pie’.

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2 years

A journalist has just explained that Westminster Hall is very historical 'because it's where Guy Fawkes, Charles I, everything else happened', so it's nice to start the day off with some facts.

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Andy Kesson

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6 years

I have lots more to say about this, but I don’t want to tread on people’s toes or say things that should probably best remain private. But I am damaged by those years and furious about them. And on a boring professional level, I ended up publishing work before it was ready.

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2 years

You know, given how hyped the Government and press are for very fictional cancel culture in universities, they seem remarkably zen about whole programmes, subjects of study, academic careers and student opportunities being actually irl cancelled.

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Andy Kesson

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4 years

The government is allowing universities to fail at a time when public safety and well-being depends on university labour, from scientific advice and research to tech innovation and the tv, books and other arts allowing our imaginations to thrive.

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Andy Kesson

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7 years

I still think it was a mistake to name England after the Angles when it could have been Sexland from the Saxons though.