@PenFielding

Professor of English Literature. Scottish Lit. Spy Fiction. Cocktails

 Edinburgh, Scotland
research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/penny-fielding
Joined April 2013
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@StuartHumphryesJan 11
I have cleaned-up this fascinating autochrome of James Thin (famous for his chain of bookshops), who was born 202 years ago (in Edinburgh on 23rd March 1824), making him (so far as is currently known) the earliest-born person ever to have been photographed in colour. He is seen here in the garden of Ashlea House, Stow, at the age of 86. It is original colour, not colourised.
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#CFP #CallforPapers #Scottish #Romanticism How Scottish literature in the late C18 and early C19, does, or should, unsettle. (Peer Reviewed) Issue Title: Unsettling Scottish Literature Deadline for submissions: August 30, 2025 contact email: [email protected]
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Aarthi Vadde@AarthiVadde10 Nov 2024
PSA: Nov. 15 is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Society of Novel Studies meeting. Individual paper or panel proposals welcome! Please RT and submit!
Society for Novel Studies Conference@novelstudies251 Nov 2024
It is now November which means only two weeks left to send us your paper and panel proposals. Don't forget to check out our website to learn more about our Keyword and Peripatetic seminars as well sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsu…
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Celebrating Scott's birthday with a blog post co-written by @HilaryClyd1 for @AbbotsfordScott 🥳 scottsabbotsford.com/news/cr…
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Ailbhe McDaid@McDaid_Ailbhe4 Jul 2024
Please share widely - fully-funded PhD scholarship in Irish Studies /Literary Studies / Publishing History with me on the PATHOS project @MICLimerick. Happy to answer any queries! #jobfairy #irishstudies
deirdre flynn@deirdre_flynn4 Jul 2024
PHD SCHOLARSHIP: Mapping Elsewhere in Irish Periodical Publishing @MICLimerick Working on a defined PhD Project entitled ‘Mapping Elsewhere in Irish Periodical Publishing’, funded by an SFI-IRC Pathways Fellowship led by PI @McDaid_Ailbhe Find out more: iasil.org/2024/06/phd-schola…
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In case you missed it, the 2025 Conference of the Society for Novel Studies is now accepting paper or panel proposals. Check out our website or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions. sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsu…
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⚽️ Tonight’s the night! Which Lewis chess piece best matches your feelings about watching Scotland in the Euros?
Four Lewis chess pieces. A Queen sitting on her throne, hand against her face, looking quite bored. A frenzied Berserker standing holding a sword, biting down on the shield held in front of him. A King sitting with a sword held across his knees, staring directly ahead looking very serious. A Bishop standing holding a crozier, with two fingers of his right hand raised as if giving a blessing

ALT Four Lewis chess pieces. A Queen sitting on her throne, hand against her face, looking quite bored. A frenzied Berserker standing holding a sword, biting down on the shield held in front of him. A King sitting with a sword held across his knees, staring directly ahead looking very serious. A Bishop standing holding a crozier, with two fingers of his right hand raised as if giving a blessing

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@realBenBloch24 May 2024
Rishi Sunak - standing in front of the exit (sign)
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For the first time in 200 years, see Robert and Henry Aston Barker's Panorama of Edinburgh in 360° - now showing in our free exhibition in the Main Library Exhibition Gallery. Open Mon-Thurs, 10am-6pm. Video animation by @ediucreate Makerspace Student Technician Zita Takacs
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Press release about our project's new exhibition @greenfieldvally. Please share far and wide!
University of Wales Trinity Saint David@UWTSD16 Apr 2024
NEWS: A new exhibition about Welsh travel writer Thomas Pennant reveals how a rural corner of Flintshire fits into the history of empire, environmentalism, and the Enlightenment. Click below to find out more 👇 uwtsd.ac.uk/news/exhibition-…
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A good summary of the disaster happening at UK Unis “…another messy, confused decline of something Britain was genuinely once good at, which contributed billions to the economy while projecting soft power abroad” theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding | Gaby Hinsliff

Fundamental restructuring must happen, and an honest debate about what – and who – higher education is really for, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Brian Ferguson@brianjaffa23 Mar 2024
🎥 Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema has been saved & is planned to reopen by the end of 2025 after campaigners secured £1.5m in Government funding for a “transformational” revamp. 🎥 Full details & reaction: scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-a… @FilmhouseEdin
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Gary Younge@garyyounge31 Jan 2024
A scholarship (tuition fees & stipend) for Black Britons has been set up at Edinburgh University in the name of my late, great friend, the novelist Andrea Levy. Please share. Good luck. 1/2
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📣 Call for Papers: ‘The high honour of sistership in her craft’: The Sociability of Scottish Women Writers, c.1782-1854 ✍️ Led by @ferrier_kate, co-hosted by @CentreWalter and @EdinburghSWINC, keynote by @drainsleymac & exhibition at @natlibscot! Deadline: 8th January 2024
Call for Papers.

ALT Call for Papers.

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See this event on Friday!
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Zoe Kleinman@zsk1 Nov 2023
I’ve broadcast from lots of cool places but being on @BBCr4today with @amolrajan in ALAN TURING’S ACTUAL OFFICE here at @bletchleypark is giving me enormous butterflies
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This letter is going viral right now 🔥 …because it destroys BBC Question Time - with clear data. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/polit…

An open letter to the BBC

Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time

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Amazing what a (small, EU) country that isn’t wholly bent on full-spectrum self-harm can do. Compare and contrast with the mass redundancies and closures the nuisance neighbours are obsessively pursuing. #HigherEd irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…

Universities to hire more than 1,500 staff to tackle large class sizes

Lecturers say hiring restrictions have led to worse student-staff ratios, reduced access to tutorials and limited access to supports for vulnerable learners

irishtimes.com
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Roger Luckhurst@TheProfRog22 Jul 2023
Imagine having to get up this morning to argue that there must be no improvement in university education from A level performance while simultaneously demanding ‘value for money’ from the very same universities.
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Edinburgh University Press is creating a £250,000 fund to publish Open Access editions of 50 research publications by University of Edinburgh staff, which will be freely available in their ebook edition to a global audience on publication. Read more: edinburghuniversitypress.com…
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