can @britishacademy.bsky.social explain why their mid-career fellowship is open for just… the school summer holidays? have they decided working mothers simply have things too easy in academia and need a little extra stress?

We also have a new funding programme for RHS Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Is there somewhere socio-linguistic research on the names given to white people by Indigenous people in diverse colonial contexts? (yes, fellow indlebe zikhayi langa, that'd be tough, fair, and fun)

We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

It’s been out a while now, but Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thcentury British travel to Spain and Portugal that is free to download here! uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...

Programme du colloque "Quand les enfants voyagent : Histoires, expériences et représentations des enfants voyageurs", 26-27 mars 2026, Université d’Angers, organisé par A-F Quaireau et T. Williams avec le soutien des Pays de la Loire (PULSAR), CIRPaLL, SELVA, TEMOS, EnJeux et de la SFR Confluences.

Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius. #Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork

Soon!

📚 New publication! 📚 On the move: mobility and Early Modern translation 👉 buff.ly/9rFFBQ5 Co-edited by our own Giancarlo Casale and Ann Thomson The volume investigates the translators' role as agents of encounter in a world in which ideas, texts and people circulated as never before

Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be co-editing a special issue of Gothic Studies: Arctic Gothic with Monica Germanà and Sara Wasson. Check out the CFP here: www.globalgoth.org/blog/arctic-...

The intro to our Itinerario special issue on the entwined histories of tourism and imperialism has just passed 1,000 views! 🥳 Many thanks to all readers, keep spreading the word and remember to check out the great contributions that make up the issue, too. doi.org/10.1017/S016...

Coming up this Monday 6 Oct at 1pm (Sydney time) I'll be talking with Peter McPhee about my book which explores the history of children, youth, welfare, criminality, punishment, incarceration etc in France at the turn of the 19th/20th century. All welcome. Register at the link in the original post.

Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche : participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co... #esr #TeamESR #HelpESR

I'm so excited for the conference "Children on the Move" which will take place at the University of Angers on March 26-27 ! If you haven't already sent us your proposal, there is still time (deadline: September 12). Full call for papers available here: www.crlv.org/actualites/a...

CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social) Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Call for papers: (Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026 This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work #C19th #litstudies docs.google.com/document/d/1...

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS*** Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

CFP for Sex in the #19thC (deets in alt) Abstracts (300 words), biographies (100 words), and should be submitted on Monday 22d September 2025 to rrr @ soton.ac.uk. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, and include your full name, discipline & institution.

One week to go until the BAVS 2025 Annual Conference @engfac.bsky.social If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...

On the Intimate Connections between Romanticism and Slavery www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...

🚨Poste d'Ater Le Département d'études anglophones de l'Université de Poitiers recrute un ATER en littérature. Prise des fonctions le 1.10. Dépôt des dossiers jusqu'au 23 juillet informations administratives et la fiche du poste en ligne : www.univ-poitiers.fr/documents/re...

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Eighteenth-Century Studies Collection offers over 700 volumes from two perpetual access digital collections and includes a complete archive of all content published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series between 1955–2021. Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...

Campagne du #PrixMnémosyne2025... C'est parti ! 🥳 Retrouvez toutes les informations sur notre site ⤵️ mnemosyne-asso.com/prix-mnemosy...

Calling #Skystorians : I will be teaching an intensive seminar on academic writing in English for MA history students in France. Do you have any recommendations for particularly well written articles that you have read recently?

📢Call for co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts📢 a great opportunity to work alongside Prof Alexandra K. Wettlaufer & a wonderful & active editorial team on this interdisciplinary journal. Apply by 18 July or get in touch with questions 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Anyone with an interest in #18thC literature, politics, life-writing, women’s lives, networks up for reviewing this? bit.ly/HayleyGeeCrosby Lemme know if so! And I’m grateful for all RPs. Thank you! #18thcentury #18thCenturyStudies #C18th #lifewriting #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory #biography

🌍 Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for environmental humanities — and ready to build something collaborative and interdisciplinary? We have an open call that might interest you.

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

C’est parti pour l’atelier SELVA du congrès #SAES2025 à Toulouse ! Ravie de retrouver les collègues pour échanger sur les récits de voyages anglophones, de Mary Wollstonecraft à l’épistémologie du champ, en passant par la romance impériale et Dawn d’Octavia E. Butler ! @saes-2025.bsky.social

100% human-authored! (and boy, can you tell)

La revue Viatica (journals.openedition.org/viatica/ ) dédiée à la littérature des voyages est à présent sur Bluesky. Elle comporte des dossiers thématiques, des varia, des arts de voyager, des compte rendus, des créations viatiques et pense aussi aux frontières des écrits de voyage. Rejoignez-nous!

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

Come and hear me talk about the Cook voyages, natural history and Indigenous knowledge on 30th May!

In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism tells the story of French explorer's search for the “lost” Maya, deep in the Mexican jungle. With 50 pages of graphic illustration, as well as photos, drawings, and a map, it's an impressive work. buff.ly/RW8njIT

A couple of events coming up related to *Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms* (punctum books, 2025), edited by Subha Mukherji, Rowan Williams, and me (punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...):

2) Symposium on “Migrant Forms: Creative Futures” at Magdalene College, Cambridge on June 16, culminating with the launch of *Crossings*. Info here and registration opening soon: www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archive... All welcome to both events!

I'm pleased to announce the new IAHI-NACBS VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP--a collaboration between the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) and @thenacbs.bsky.social. www.nacbs.org/fellowships/... #skystorians #history #envhist #histci #envhum #humanities #environmentalhumanities

🔍 Zoom sur l’atelier SELVA au congrès SAES 2025 : Transitions du récit de voyage, du romantisme à la contemporanéité 🌍✍️ Dans le cadre du congrès SAES 2025 et autour du thème Transitions, l’atelier du SELVA se tiendra du 5 au 7 juin 2025 à Toulouse. #SAES2025 #BritishTravelWriting #Romanticism

Two weeks' time! The next @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar - online, Thursday 1 May, 17.30 UK. #Railway200 Free to all, but booking needed. 👇

📢 Call for Papers - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers) Join for a captivating exploration of the rich histories, diverse experiences, and compelling representations of child travellers. #histchild

A really exciting event for next spring in Angers on a very poorly explored topic, travelling children. I am very honoured to be invited as plenary speaker.

CFP: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (Submission Deadline: 5/30/25) bit.ly/4jOSaWt

AAC - Quand les enfants voyagent : Histoires, expériences et représentations des enfants voyageurs (26-27 mars 2026, Université d’Angers) - Organisé par Anne-Florence Quaireau et Tom Williams - Conférencier invité : Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social) A partager sans modération ! Merci :-)