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Associate Fellow at Cardiff University (she/her) writing a thesis on ghosts and Tennyson. Dubbed an “eminently salvageable” academic.

Joined October 2021
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#OTD in 1892, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Britain's longest-serving Poet Laureate, died age 83. He reportedly died with a copy of Cymbeline, his favourite Shakespeare play, beside him, as moonlight streamed through the window.
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#OTD in 1833, Arthur Henry Hallam, son of historian Henry Hallam & Julia Elton Hallam, died age 22 of a brain aneurysm. He was a poet & essayist, but better known as the subject of Alfred Tennyson's elegy "In Memoriam A.H.H."
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OTD in 1850, Tennyson's monumental poem In Memoriam A.H.H. was published. It was not just an elegy, but an examination of many things in life including science and faith. It contains the now-famous phrase "Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all."
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A list of resources for people who want to resist the uncritical adoption of AI. I've only read the first, but it's a corker. Like getting shaken by the shoulders, smacked around the chops & given a lifesaving dose of the elixir of truth at the same time docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Morgan Lee retweeted
AI cheating has gotten so bad that I now feel genuine affection for horrifically bad essays clearly written by the student
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Details for booking your place at the 2026 Tennyson Conference: tennysonsociety.com/tennyson…
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Online booking for the Tennyson conference 14-17 July 2026, will soon be available on the Lincoln Bishop University website. In the meantime, here is general info on the conference: tennysonsociety.com/2026-ten… We look forward to seeing you in Lincoln in July!
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Thank you to the people that aggressively nod during presentations.
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Dr Michael Sullivan (Oxford Faculty of English) introduces the Recovery of Literary Manuscripts project, which is developing new digital techniques to recover lost lines of literature. youtube.com/watch?v=IvIqW-qj… #MultispectralImaging #Literature #Tennyson #Shelley
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Our next Tennyson Talk will be 6 November at 7:30 pm, featuring Prof Patrick Scott, speaking on 'Tennyson and Contemporary Science: Herschel's Preliminary Discourse, A Book That Got Away'.
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Our @cncsi C19 #Gothic Afterlives programme is now live! 🌴@gothicmmu Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America 📖 @RomGothSam Adapting Heathcliff 📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves 🎮 Marijke Valk occult gaming 📺 @drdjohnston Gothic TV Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/halloween-w…
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Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-committ… @BAVS_PGs
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2026 Tennyson Conference: Call for Papers tennysonsociety.com/tennyson…
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Series 4 of our Tennyson Talks will begin in October 2025.
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Today I presented my paper ‘Rest in Pictures: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Deathbed and its Pictorial Afterlives’ at the @BAVS_UK 2025 Conference hosted at Oxford University. Delighted to have been part of such a great conference and on a fascinating pictorial panel!
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