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Welsh lit, popular culture and politicians’ fictions academic. Fencer, Moultoneer. UCU rep. https://t.co/KvvbwbDnSW. Jointly @awwetweets + @wlv_English
Jul 30, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Bought a lot of books recently, but especially delighted to have found 6 more Left Book Club volumes, and only £3 each. These are from 1943, 1946 and 1947, all owned by Arthur Glyndwr Davies of Pontypridd.
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This is the ongoing LBC collection with a few from the rival Labour Book Service and even a Right Book Club issue alongside. Image
May 18, 2022 13 tweets 2 min read
Hello from the ‘other’ end, where my dept doubled its REF output, and went up 40 places, while coping with all the pressures Jim mentions amid mass course closures and redundancies. Our management rightly say that government hostility to the arts, school curriculum changes, more prestigious HEIs recruiting more widely and the STEM agenda all make courses less viable.