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CLondoner92 (New Account)

Network Rail Property has submitted plans to redevelop #London Liverpool Street Station, aiming to accommodate over 200 million passengers annually by 2041. This transformation will boost London’s economy and establish a landmark gateway to the City. The station, currently serving 118 million passengers, will expand to include step-free access, new lifts, escalators, toilets, and family-friendly spaces. The redevelopment will also feature new retail, leisure, and workspace options, enhancing public spaces and supporting the #City of London’s long-term growth. The project is expected to create 250,000 jobs by 2035 and generate £32 billion in tax revenue. The redesign respects the station’s #Victorian #heritage while improving accessibility, with input from local communities and heritage groups. The transformation will be funded through private partnerships, including new office space above the station.
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Network Rail Media CentreIt's time to transform London Liverpool StreetNetwork Rail Property submits application to redevelop Britain’s busiest station making it fit for the future. 
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Excessively Diverting

It's time for the monthly update of upcoming Austen and Brontë virtual events! There are lots of new events, and quite a few are now scheduled into the fall. (What! It's just turned April!) #AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian @romancelandia #JaneAusten

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open.substack.com📚Jane Austen and the Brontes 💻 Issue #30 Upcoming Virtual Events for Spring 2025A list of virtual talks and presentations on Austen and the Brontës this spring.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“THE OPEN DOOR… explores the borders between the natural physical world and the spiritual one. Like many of Oliphant’s ghost stories, it is about a past which refuses to be silent and a modernity which refuses to listen to it.”

—Prof Rosemary Mitchell on Margaret Oliphant’s THE OPEN DOOR

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Leeds Trinity UniversityMargaret Oliphant’s ‘The Open Door’: Looking Back to Move Forward
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“The Victorian era witnessed the emergence of a new genre of science fiction, dystopian literature… Oliphant’s short story ‘The Land of Darkness’ is an important and overlooked example”

—Dr Oliver Tearle on Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Land of Darkness’

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interestingliterature.com/2017

Interesting Literature · Dante Among the Machines: Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Land of Darkness’In this week’s Dispatches from the Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle considers a curious dystopian story by Queen Victoria’s favourite novelist The terms ‘dystopian’ and ‘ecology’ both g…
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“The belief persists that nineteenth-century Scotland failed to develop a realist novel […] I have argued here that this supposition rests on the neglect of women’s writing”

—Prof Juliet Shields on “Oliphant & Co.”: Scottish women writers of the later 19th century

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The Bottle Imp · Oliphant & Co. - The Bottle ImpMargaret Oliphant (1828-96) has attained the obscure place in English literary history that she gloomily predicted for herself in her posthumously published autobiography: ‘No one will mention me in the same breath with George Eliot. And that is just. It is a little justification to myself to think how much better off she was. Should […]
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Virginia Woolf wrote that Margaret Oliphant had “sold her brain” & “prostituted her culture”…

—on BBC Sounds: Clare Walker Gore discusses Oliphant’s career, laments Woolf’s dismissal of her work, & shows why Oliphant deserves to be read today

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bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0853wzj

BBCBBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas, Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelfThe Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“Oliphant… creates a series of insightful, witty & compelling narratives & characters that are deeply uncomfortable with the romantic conventions of the 19th-century novel”

—Laura Witz on Oliphant’s subversion of Victorian romance & gender conventions

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dangerouswomenproject.org/2016

Dangerous Women ProjectMargaret Oliphant and the Romantic Novel - Dangerous Women ProjectOne of Scotland's lesser known but most prolific writers, Margaret Oliphant, subtly subverted 19th century society's expectations in her romance novels.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was born #OTD, 4 April – a 🎂 🧵

“MISS MARJORIBANKS (1866) is surely the most interesting and entertaining example of a woman writing about men in the 19th century”

—Tom Crewe in the London Review of Books on Margaret Oliphant’s 1866 novel MISS MARJORIBANKS

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London Review of Books · Tom Crewe · On the Shelf: Mrs OliphantMargaret Oliphant, like Jane Austen, was a realist. Marriage was no guarantee of happiness. She could manage without a...
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Leah Price

Quorn Laws. #Victorian #Tariffs

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AiDock RulingsThe tariff classification of an imitation meat product from the United Kingdom – AiDock RulingsProduct Overview The product in question is Quorn Vegan Fillets (item A04461), a frozen imitation meat product produced by Quorn Foods in the United Kingdom. These fillets are characterized by their meat-free composition, predominantly made from mycoprotein. The fillets are packaged in boxes weighing 252 grams each, with a total net weight of 3 kilograms for the twelve-box shipment. This packaging is designed to maintain product integrity during transport and storage. Chemical or Material Composition The primary ingredient of the Quorn Vegan Fillets is mycoprotein paste, which constitutes approximately 90 percent of the product. Other ingredients include 2 percent water, 2 percent potato protein, 2 percent pea protein, 1 percent calcium chloride, 1 percent wheat gluten, and 1 percent natural flavoring. The formulation also contains trace amounts of pea fiber, calcium acetate, carrageenan, and sodium alginate. The high concentration of mycoprotein denotes its strategic use as a protein alternative in…
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