Anna Gell @_annagell
Publicist @OUPAcademic. All views my own. Oxford, England Joined January 2017-
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Are you a theist or an atheist? These are not the only options available. This brilliant and searching essay explores the idea that there is a cosmic purpose to the universe. For more on this, join us at Sophia Club London on 3 December @Philip_Goff bit.ly/3MICqWQ
Latest edition of The Media Show on @BBCRadio4: China and the information war. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Join us for an event with @OldFortunatus on Wed 19th April at 7pm on 'Shakespeare's First Folio. Four Centuries of an Iconic Book' @OUPAcademic Chaired by @williamnhutton Tickets cost £5 @blackwellbooks eventbrite.co.uk/e/emma-smith-s…
'What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine' will be broadcast online beginning at 1:00pm ET on Friday, March 17th. Please tune in and please give generously! civic.ukma.edu.ua/benefit/#sched…
Today at Shiny, Helen Parry reviews Fantasy: How it Works by Brian Attebery @OUPAcademic shinynewbooks.co.uk/fantasy-how-it…
QUAD: 'Unexpected ‘wrong turns’ in careers can be strokes of genius' Physicist Prof Tim Palmer (@WolfsonCam, 1974) talks about his book The Primacy of Doubt and his remarkable career at @metoffice. Find out why Michael Fish can be seen as a godsend: ➡️ bit.ly/QUADTimPalmer
Today at Lviv BookForum, free online. Register now → hayfestival.org/lviv-bookforum
40 writers. 15 events. Free online, 6-9 October. Join @MargaretAtwood, @Elif_Safak, @SPlokhy, @SamarYazbek, Kateryna Kalytko, Neil Gaiman, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Abdulrazak Gurnah and more as Ukraine’s @bookforumlviv streams live to the world. Register > hayfestival.org/lviv-bookforum
"Gorbachev was a very different kind of Soviet leader from his predecessors and one who was serious about changing the system he had inherited." The best books on The Cold War recommended by Archie Brown fivebooks.com/best-books/the…
Ukraine’s biggest book festival @bookforumlviv comes to the world, 6–9 October, in a new digital partnership with Hay Festival, part of the UK/Ukraine Season of Culture devised jointly by the @BritishCouncil and @UA_Institute.
“Not a few of Bunting’s experiences have a purgatorial quality but these are punctuated with Edenic interludes” — @julian_stannard immerses himself in Letters of Basil Bunting, selected and edited by @Alex_Niven @OxUniPress thecritic.co.uk/issues/aug-sep…
In this week's issue, @Alex_Niven makes the case for the posthumous acclaim due to Basil Bunting, a beat poet who celebrated Northern life in his vibrant stanzas. Available from your local vendor or online: bit.ly/3A2uR7b
‘An important contribution to our understanding not only of Afghanistan, but its effect on the international politics of the late Cold War era.’ Review of the latest book from @BloomsburyHist: bit.ly/3PWSK5Y
This one officially out today blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ…
Shiny Tuesday: and @drharrietd reviews Back to the Shops by Rachel Bowlby @OUPAcademic shinynewbooks.co.uk/back-to-the-sh…
I am delivering the Prothero Lecture to the Royal Historical Society. I am calling it 'The Gaiety Girl and the Matinee Idol' looking at glamour in the Edwardian West End of London. RHS Prothero Lecture — Professor Rohan McWilliam, 6 July 2022 | RHS royalhistsoc.org/events/rhs-eve…
"Stoicism is often seen as an individualistic philosophy – about self-reliance and detachment – but its techniques are really about pursuing the common good." newstatesman.com/ideas/agora/20…
"Stoicism is often taken as a form self-control for self-advancement, but stoic self-control is really meant to benefit humanity as a whole" -Nancy Sherman (Georgetown) on stoic community in my Agora series @NewStatesman #Philosophy @HistPhilosophy newstatesman.com/ideas/agora/20…
Rachael Bowlby, author of 'Back to the Shops' @OUPHistory on how the future of shopping was shaped by its past
Rachael Bowlby, author of 'Back to the Shops' @OUPHistory on how the future of shopping was shaped by its past
"Back to the Shops is certainly a move back to books and their stories, and their ability to inspire us to trade places and perceptions. It also contains a forward momentum that may perhaps yet redeem us." #RachelBowlby #BacktotheShops @OxUniPress bookanista.com/trading-places/

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