Closure of language courses is 'national catastrophe, warns VC By Fiona Mcintyre Picture of Adam Tickell
There is a “national catastrophe” unfolding as universities close modern languages courses and important “cultural assets” across the humanities more broadly are lost “by stealth”.
Coverage of Adam Tickell’s remarks at our conference yesterday
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Un volume collectif en hommage à Benoît Melançon, professeur émérite de l’Université de Montréal, paraîtra en 2026 aux Presses de l’Université de Montréal et réunira 27 textes écrits par d’anciens étudiants et collègues.
La maison d’édition sollicite des souscriptions.
www.tiing.co/tendre-l-ore...
IN THE SAME SEA’s @feliciafricke.bsky.social and @heatherfreund.bsky.social together with @silvaperez.bsky.social have published “'Printed for the Proprietress': Women and Printing Families in the Caribbean, 1720s–1860s”, in Early American Studies 🗞️🌊🍀. Open access: doi.org/10.1353/eam....
🗞️🌊🍀.
This is the story of slavery at its most traumatic, one predicated not just on physical violence against enslaved people by slave owners, but the all-encompassing terror of slavery as a psychological tool of control and oppression, and the desperate ways enslaved people tried to resist it. A small 🧵
Campaign from @tessadunlop.bsky.social for the introduction of Romanian GCSE.
In the 2021 census in response to the question of what their "main" language was, the second most-listed language in London was Romanian (after English obviously), with 159,000 speakers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good luck - I’m sure you’ll be fine!
The university of Warwick Kone and the Arts Centre with daffodils in the foreground
A great day today with a series of inspirational people - the morning helping to draft a languages policy for the city of Coventry and the afternoon with @warwickengages.bsky.social at a co-lab discussing the advantages of working with communities
Three images: A poster with the caption 'Weimar Cinema: From 1919 to 1933'. A display case with three film programmes: 'Hai-Tang', 'Madchen in Uniform' and 'Vampyr'. A view of the exhibition space, including three of five display cases.
New exhibition at the MRC!
Weimar Cinema from 1919-1933, showcasing items from the Illustrierter Film-Kurier collection.
Illustrated programmes for early cinema classics, international hits and films which reflected social and political ideas of the Weimar era.
A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...
Good advice!
The image shows Alexander Graham Bell demonstrating the first telephone
AHOY-HOY!!!
Thrilled (and quite smug) to say BBC You’re Dead To Me has reached 150 episodes! Even better — we managed to time our anniversary to land within a week of the 150th anniversary of the telephone being patented. So, guess what we did for this week’s episode… ☎️
Faculty of arts building with a host of daffodils in front of it, university of Warwick
It feels as though spring is on its way!
French historian klaxon: enjoy this floating pancake-making story
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
There is a public perception that copyright libraries have copies of everything published in the UK. That's never been the case. But things are rapidly getting desperate. These are among the publishers who now no longer routinely deposit print copies of their books.
Turn on BBC Radio 4 now to hear the shorter edit of our latest episode about the history of the Spice Trade — or listen to the full length podcast on BBC SOUNDS
💬 "Pour moi, c’est écœurant d’entendre dire que tout est faux, que tout est manipulé. C’est le même comportement que celui des accusés que j’ai rencontrés dans la salle d’audience : ils nient. C’était vraiment le procès de la lâcheté et du déni."
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/GVO
Hello and welcome to Francophone Friday, where we come together to highlight research being done in or about the Francophone world! 1/10
Intrigued by a suggestion afterwards that Keats (if he’d lived) could have become a great novelist www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This week's new walking route is:
Dudley - Oldbury
3.7 miles in the heart of the Black Country along the entire length of the Rowley Hills, the tallest hills in West Midlands county and part of the Midlands Watershed Ridge
Check it out👇
walkmidlands.co.uk/2026/02/19/o...
Dans un mois.
Likewise, if you shrink or obliterate undergraduate programmes in (say) Languages and Area Studies, is the impact on students with known disabilities the same as shrinking (say) Engineering and Technology?
Languages & Area Studies undergraduate kd=30.0%; Engineering & Technology kd=14.2%. 3/3
Things that would be interesting to know about the current contraction of UK academic staffing (and that it would actually be super helpful if REF2029 institutional SPRE statements were required to report on) include:
What's the impact on the equality and diversity of academic staffing? 1/3
Wednesday
In some ways I'm philosophical about The End these days. It is what it is. But for the final wave to hit because of the crisis when we worked the hardest we possibly could, we nearly broke ourselves, and did exactly what the govt told us to do? It seems.. painful.
Use the code 10VABOOKS for 30% off paperback and ebook!
Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!
Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
A creepy parody of Henry Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' (1781) from c. 1800 in the Lewis Walpole Library. The succubus is Napoleon, and he is peeking under the recumbent lady's nightie.
I agree - decline the review - that’s preferable to writing something really anodine to disguise the weaknesses. I don’t think tearing the book to pieces is going to help anyone really
