Sophie Ratcliffe
@soratcli
Writer, academic, Oxford & LMH. Thinking abt reading/what libraries mean. My book, Loss, a Love Story out NOW with Northwestern UP. Views mine - she/her
Happy Paperback publication day @CatJarman - Open up those bone chests, people. There's a treasure of medieval history inside @WmCollinsBooks
Unlock the history of the Anglo-Saxons with @CatJarman's gripping new history of the making of England as a nation. THE BONE CHESTS is out in paperback today!
Dearest Chris. A devastating loss x
Unlock the history of the Anglo-Saxons with @CatJarman's gripping new history of the making of England as a nation. THE BONE CHESTS is out in paperback today!
With @n_j_dames, @soratcli discusses trying to avoid the imperative that seems to govern the exercise of thinking, writing, and research: that input must mean output, that hours spent traveling or reading must yield results. buff.ly/3VBrvCJ
“The ethical work of the book itself is in acknowledging that this fictionalizing—this rendering of others as ‘creatures’—is inevitable, tempting, and also a kind of ethical failure.” buff.ly/3DihtAg
So delighted to have the opportunity to have this conversation with the brilliant @n_j_dames in Public Books - just out today : publicbooks.org/parallel-track…
Please, please give!!
My amazing former student is halfway there in his attempt to get a wheelchair that will give him the freedom he needs - if you can chip in, it would be amazing gofundme.com/f/help-fund-my…
We will miss Chris so very much. Honoured to be at his memorial yesterday and to hear @AndrewSchuman give this eulogy about his beloved colleague and friend
My amazing former student is halfway there in his attempt to get a wheelchair that will give him the freedom he needs - if you can chip in, it would be amazing gofundme.com/f/help-fund-my…
Fabulous to be at the launch of this brilliant venture this evening
My news: The Bookseller - News - Truda Spruyt launches new PR and marketing agency Collective Wisdom thebookseller.com/news/truda-spr…
Looking, tonight, at the Departures board at Paddington Station, remembering other leave takings - this one 36 years ago today
Oh how I love Autumn Journal. Nearly as much as I love Train to Dublin
New old episode up now. Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, with guests Sam West @exitthelemming and Sophie Ratcliff @soratcli and a newly recorded introduction from @i_am_mill_i_am @johnmitchinson and @birchos. 📱🍂 backlisted.fm/episodes/220-a…
As the mornings freshen, a classic @BacklistedPod - Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, with matchless readings by Samuel West (@exitthelemming) + lit context from Prof Sophie Ratcliffe (@soratcli). And a six year's younger me, @i_am_mill_i_am and @birchos. backlisted.fm/episodes/220-a…
And here's the interview alumni.ox.ac.uk/article/go-get…... @VeeKativhu @lmhoxford
It was SO lovely to bump into the brilliant @VeeKativhu at @lmhoxford a few weeks ago. So glad to lend her my office as a quiet space for her interview...we were so lucky to have her at LMH, and wonderful to see her back.