Carl Thompson
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Reader in Romanticism at the University of Surrey. Also write on travel writing (especially by women), shipwreck & the sea, exploration
London, England
Joined June 2009
#NewPublication Connected Cartographies World Geography and the Sino-Western Translation of Knowledge, 1580-1842 Florin-Stefan Morar, Cambridge Univ Pr 2025 Front Matter PDF 🎯 https://t.co/knIyWk2f6n
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Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026. https://t.co/5FKRCMllZs
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Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore....
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer and conductor. His most famous work is "The Song of Hiawatha", a setting of poems by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He named his son Hiawatha. Coleridge-Taylor conducted my local choral society, Rochester
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Calling young poets. Inspiring Voices @EnglishHeritage @UniofOxford Inspiring Voices is now LIVE @OxHumanities @engfac poetry, place, imagination. https://t.co/LSOad1GPEk
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Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them.
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🎧 The next episode of the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast is now available 🎙️ @DrSamWillis speaks to 2 sailors who served on merchant ships all over the world to hear remarkable stories of safety at sea. #maritimehistory #historypodcast #marinersmirror
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The Victorian era was the heyday of the amateur naturalist. Pteridomania is generally considered a British eccentricity,fern madness took over Victorian life. Ferns and fern motifs appeared everywhere..rugs,tea sets, chamber pots,garden benches – even custard cream biscuits…
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#OpenAccess Global History and New Polycentric Approaches https://t.co/Xsyo6Y0l0o Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era https://t.co/MhGEBlqxwp Changing Dynamics and Mechanisms of Maritime Asia in Comparative Perspectives https://t.co/LNPCnec08z
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Book panel, Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World (Oxford University Press, 2024). Zoom Registration Link: https://t.co/rUYI6GuP1S For more information on the book, please: https://t.co/AYVEugyH3w
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TODAY! Talks at 12, 2 and 3:30. Join us to celebrate British heroes & an exciting glimpse into a near forgotten #Georgian world #History #blackhis
A week to go! On 11 October 2025 come to the amazing @ApsleyHouse to see me, @GraemeCallister & @BattlesRayner talking throughout the day on "The Black Soldiers of #Waterloo" - #British #military & #Georgian #history from a new perspective! #London 🇬🇧
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The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing, ed. Sebastian Sobecki (@CambridgeUP, October 2025) https://t.co/qrXVWYm531
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#medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievaltravelling #medievalsociety
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90 years of GSA... and we’re celebrating all year long! Here, our 2025 freshers join in the fun with a birthday song for GSA. We are thrilled to have you all here at GSA! #GSA #GuildfordSchoolOfActing #GSAat90 #GSA90Years #Freshers2025 #GSACelebration #StudentLife
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📚BOOK EVENT📚 @thelrm, author of The Feminist Art of Walking visits @HousmansBooks for an author talk 🗓️ Wed, Oct 8 ⏰ 7 pm 📍 @HousmansBooks
https://t.co/7RlX4gAy3B
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We are delighted to welcome feminist writer and academic Morag Rose to the shop to discuss her brilliant and essential new book The Feminist Art of Walking; a vital intervention in the growing fiel…
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Proofing ….. sequel anthology of poems from the last ten years of work migratory worlds in five sections - out soon…. Freedom to move Freedom to create Freedom to wonder Freedom to bear Freedom to praise
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Fred Cuming was considered one of the finest landscape painters of his generation. Much of his work celebrates southern English coastlines; the sea and skies of Hastings, Rye or Camber as here, illuminated by dawn, dusk, or glowing moonlight.
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So great to hear this fantastic podcast about shipwreck from CBC's Ideas! With thanks to all involved - shipwreck painting added - Ideas with Nahlah Ayed - Sep. 24, 2025: Why the world feels like a shipwreck https://t.co/KbAl7QQdLL
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Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!
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In this week’s email newsletter: #19thcentury Birmingham was a highlight on the grand tours of #India’s Muslim rulers, eager to witness the manufacture of the modern world. 📬 Sign up for Miscellanies at https://t.co/7pY1akMrr3
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