andrew burn
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Emeritus Media prof, UCL @ioe_london. Film, games, play. Melodeons, Northumbrian small pipes @camusmusic1
London and Cambridge
Joined May 2012
I’ve just put online a pre-publication version of the whole of my last book, Literature, Videogames & Learning. With colour pics! https://t.co/YLL3aPT6mx. Help yourself!
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Up to chapter 10 of the second novel in my quartet. A strange song has appeared, which I wasn’t expecting, and it’s on everyone’s lips. 🎶 The novel writes itself …
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Four chapters in to the second book of my series. New characters unexpectedly emerging, little surprise sorrows and triumphs, and a song I really hadn’t anticipated. And the landscape slips slowly into light.
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Hugely enjoy writing in my loft, surrounded by books and art materials … but then upload online, and download for evening browsing and revision on phone. Then email to myself for next morning … It’s a virtuous cycle!
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Our new set of rants, coming up on the next album! Here’s a live version from our last gig. https://t.co/Svt5OCwi8m
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Animal Farm at 80 - exposé not so much of communism as of tyrannical populism - never more relevant.
theconversation.com
Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted thoughts or even feelings.
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We have no problem recognising the talents of individual authors. But the often-anonymous lore that bubbles up through the ages is just as important.
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#tradsongtues Sorry I'm late again, I'm not too well at the moment. Next Tuesday 15 July, is the closest we get this year to Bastille Day so our theme will be #french. So anything that mentions France, or is a french song or french Canadian.
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Had a blast at the lovely Bury Folk Festival last weekend. Thanks to Gavin for booking us, and to Calvin for the sound. @buryfolkfest
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Great gig at St Neots Folk Festival last night. Always an amazingly friendly and welcoming group of people. Thanks to the club.
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Looking forward to playing again at the lovely St Neots Folk Festival tomorrow. One of our favourites!
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Lovely time at the British Academy today launching our new book Playing the Archive. Get it @UCLpress OA. Thanks to @BritishAcademy_ for all their support. Here’s the project team - happy memories!
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This book offers a reflective account of a large-scale project documenting children's play across generations, using intergenerational dialogue to illuminate the changing landscapes of play. Read it free: https://t.co/OQzk3Yaee9
#OpenAccess #SocialHistory #Anthropology
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Publication day! For our new book - Playing the Archive: from the Opies to the Digital Playground. Thanks to our brilliant research team, to our great publishers @UCLpress - and to the Opies themselves.
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Here’s the official poster for the Bury Folk Festival - very pleased to be playing. See you there!
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Here’s Andrew’s tune for the Equinox - The Equinox Hornpipe. Performed here on Northumbrian pipes by Andrew and David, with David’s seconds. @buryfolkfest @ElyFolk
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Here’s a former band of ours, Cobblers Last, with The Bansha Peelers, who arrest a goat for being drunk and disorderly!@TradSongTues #tradsongtues
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A song by us about the Cullercoats fishwives, written by Andrew Burn, performed at the Annual Concert of the Northumbrian Pipers’ Society this year. #tradsongtues @TradSongTues
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And here we are on the Main Stage lineup at the Bury Folk Festival. Hurrah! https://t.co/z5sgfxq8si
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@groodendorst @LinBodhran @calucas16 @andrewburn1 has worked on the collections of these at the British Library @britishlibrary
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Huge congratulations to Nick Park & @aardman for the two (so far!) BAFTAs for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, which I was privileged to see at the BBC preview.
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