Professor of French Studies, working on the culture of French Revolution and Napoleonic period. Committed to supporting the learning of languages in schools & universities and to public engagement.https://bsky.app/profile/100days1815.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/100days1815.bsky.social/post/3mmerw3hnpk2aI get to work with amazing creatives on impact projects, learn new stuff everyday from my students and my research reading, spend time in the archives, inspire school pupils with a love of the humanities while doing fun outreach work, and occasionally I even appear on cool radio shows! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:jdsoruvnotkjf5xtfcjp2tlu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmerw3hnpk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/100days1815.bsky.social/post/3mmckwsaz3222I can’t even find books I know Google have digitised - it’s so frustrating to see how useless it’s become [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:jdsoruvnotkjf5xtfcjp2tlu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmckwsaz3222https://bsky.app/profile/100days1815.bsky.social/post/3mlqlalfrqk2cThe current year 12s had sats cancelled and made the transition to secondary school without transition days - the transition for current year 11s wasn’t great but not as bad as for year 12s… [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:jdsoruvnotkjf5xtfcjp2tlu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqlalfrqk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/100days1815.bsky.social/post/3mlqa2oezb22dThe scale of the cull is appalling. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:jdsoruvnotkjf5xtfcjp2tlu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqa2oezb22d