John McTague

@johnjoemctague.bsky.social

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Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.

A UCU picket line in front of a glass fronted building. People are standing and talking to one another, holding placards reading ’No Compulsory Redundancies’.
A table containing various items printed at bristol common press for sale.
Printed sheets in octavo format hung up to dry in a print shop. 4 sheets are cisible, the camera focussed on the ornamental title page in the background. The title, ‘four sheets to the wind,’ is legible, and there is a linocut engraving of a pile of books beneath it.
Half a sheet of letterpress-printed text is in the foreground, top right. It’s hanging from a drying line in front of a replica eighteenth-century wooden printing press, which is out of focus. On the side of the sheet visible there is the front and reverse of a ‘colophon,’ the text of which is set in an inverse triangle in an attempt to mimic the colophons of early Italian printed books.
Three pages of metal type (Bembo 12 point) and one full page linocut locked up on the bed of a replica 18th century common press in quarto format. Light rakes across the type diagonally from the low autumn afternoon sun.
A linocut showing Benjamin Franklin holding a locked up forme of metal type in each hand
A photo of a Vizsla x Cocker Spaniel called Judy, rolling on the floor on some grass next to a stick which she has presumably chewed into oblivion, at a velocity sufficient to mKe her blurred.
A proof of a title page for a book-in-progress called ‘Four Sheets to the Wind’. It’s in an eighteenth-century style (or is attempting to be!). This version has no rule at the top.
Screenshot of a spreadsheet demonstrating that, because of the way it is being implemented in two stages, the UCEA pay offer for 24/25 is worth between 4.7% and 1.78% to staff, not the 5.5 and 2.5 percent referred to in comms.
Screenshot of a spreadsheet demonstrating that, because of the way it is being implemented in two stages, the UCEA pay offer for 24/25 is worth between 4.48% and 1.75% to staff, not the 5.5 and 2.5 percent referred to in comms.