Calling all PGRs and ECRs: three more weeks to submit to the BSLS/JLS essay prize! All entries receive feedback from the judging panel. www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/04/call...

In some better news, look at this week's exciting book post: this long-awaited, mind-blowing, moving new book on Mary Wollstonecraft, by the brilliant @juliehoo.bsky.social. I and many others in #18thc studies are going to be thinking with this book for years to come.

Assistant Professor in English Dublin City University Permanent Expertise in Children’s Literature is essential. Proven experience lecturing in 19th-century literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism. universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...

Portrait de Claude Monet par Auguste Renoir (pastel sur papier, v. 1873) que l'on peut admirer actuellement au @museeorsay.bsky.social dans le cadre de l'exposition "Renoir dessinateur". #HDA

I’m a day late for Daphne Du Maurier‘s birthday (sorry, Daphne) but here’s the notebook she used to jot down ideas for Rebecca. She wrote initial ideas in pencil in small blue exercise books before expanding on them at one of her many typewriters.

“More like a town than a house.” Virginia Woolf, Orlando Knole, in Kent was the home of Woolf’s aristocratic lover Vita Sackville-West and she clearly based the house in her gender-bending novel on the vast Elizabethan mansion. #Scape #ECK #PhotographersOfBluesky #Literature #Architecture

We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...

* WORK OPPORTUNITY * Associate Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Modern Languages/Comparative Literature (Education Focused). www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Vita Sackville-West, 1948, the English poet, novelist, and garden designer who had a love affair with Virginia Woolf, by photographer Gisèle Freund #womensart

Virginia Woolf inadvertently addresses military historians.

OUT NOW! The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 47 chapters on Wells and his worlds Hardcopy to follow in June

Founded in Horbury in 1858 by the Rev. John Sharp and the Sisterhood of St Peter, the House of Mercy was created to "shelter and reform" young women labelled “fallen” in Victorian society often those facing poverty, pregnancy, or social stigma. Its history reflects Victorian values but also now

Online Book Club 📚 | Death of a Naturalist 📅 Fri 29 May, 1pm https://ow.ly/svsq50YSo7m Join us on Teams to explore Seamus Heaney’s iconic debut, 60 years on—featuring poems, manuscripts & letters from our collection. All welcome—no poetry expertise needed!

Excited to share that my book, Notes on the Novella, is under contract with Princeton UP. It's made up of thirty "notes" on thirty different novellas. Boccaccio, Cervantes, de Zayas, Eliot, James, Larsen, Fuentes, Pynchon, Delany, Spark, Lispector, Morrison, Ferrante -- and more!

⏰️ Still time to apply for our £500 research bursary! It is open to masters students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians who research women’s and gender history, particularly for those working on Scottish themes. 🗓 Deadline 31st May 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950) Dancing Bar in Baden-Baden, 1923, oil, canvas. Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, Germany

If you can believe it, it's #ModWrite Monday once again! Share what you are working on using the hashtag ☔

Really looking forward to presenting here next month alongside so many great papers. There's not long left to register if you want to join!

“Only Connect” versus “Only Collect” is the line that stayed with me here. Winterson’s point, I think, is that reading changes us through the act itself: through spending time inside another consciousness long enough for our own thinking to shift. That's worth defending. #EMForster #Reading #Books

Sir David Attenborough has mastered the craft of storytelling. He has undoubtedly inspired generations of people around the globe to love and care for the natural world. And in doing so, he’s become one of the most recognisable – and most trusted – faces on our screens. tcnv.link/Cr8j3oQ

Explore our online exhibition Power & Privilege: The Big House in Ireland https://ow.ly/x4sj50YQWJu Ireland’s Big Houses were 18–19th century landlord estates, once central to rural life. Photos capture a peaceful world—but by the 1920s land reforms and economic hardship brought this era to an end.

Incredible video made using images taken by the Artemis II crew shows satellites in orbit around Earth. This is at 30x speed x.com/i/status/205...

Not raining in Ireland, must be AI

So just what do you do after successfully completing your PhD viva on Virginia Woolf & EM Forster? Yes, that’s right, you walk from Charleston & across the South Downs to see the glorious murals painted by Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Quentin Bell at Berwick Church.

Charleston House, East Sussex, UK, home of painter Vanessa Bell and often visited by members of the Bloomsbury Group, including her sister Virginia Woolf #womensart #RoomArtWeek

How could she not have been a Pre-Raphaelite model? Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846-1895) philanthropist in later years & mother to Virginia Woolf. Legendary profiles have to start somewhere.

Next Sunday I'll be giving an online lecture for The Last Tuesday Society on my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk book ✨Book Curses✨. I'll be talking about curses like that of John Wryghtson, which sits opposite some rather threatening illustrations of surgical instruments (Ox, St John's, MS 76, f. 5v).

'A low-loader, some traffic cones and "the sort of dudes who can set up a Metallica concert in 24 hours" - this was all Banksy needed to install his latest artwork in central London.'

'Making Her Mark: A Celebration of Women in Art' opens today at penleehousegallery.bsky.social, and to celebrate, this week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'women artists'. What an excellent opportunity to share 'I Overslept Until the Evening' (2014) by Makiko Kudo!

Forgot crucial details: Thursday, 7 May 2026, 5:30pm UK time, 12:30pm Montreal time, 9:30am west coast.

“I have a PhD in atmospheric physics. I spent a decade measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. The thing that made me good at it was reading poetry. It trained me to notice what was not being said in a dataset. Every critical decision I made as a scientist was interpretation, not computation.”

Looking up early reviews and writing about #VirginiaWoolf #MrsDalloway and found this book notice from The English Journal ‘Every woman will know herself better after living the day through her’

Lovely! "I will keep the em-dash because Emily Dickinson kept it, because Virginia Woolf kept it, because it is the mark that best honors the shape of a thinking mind."

For a deep-dive into the Italian Resistance and the first hand accounts of people who were involved, we highly recommend the series from Working Class History, available here: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

Took a detour on the way home from Sun Valley to visit one of Idaho’s contributions to modernism (among other things).

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ~Virginia Woolf (Street Haunting)

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

We’re pleased to announce that The Conversation Prize, in partnership with Curtis Brown, is open for entry until 5 July 2026. theconversation.com/entries-now-...

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, by J.M.W. Turner. He had not actually been there to witness it! But he made this spectacular painting of it in 1817, & today is his day.

Did you miss the deadline for submitting an abstract for the BAMS/ MSA Weird Modernisms conference in Loughborough but wish you could still attend? It's not too late! Registration for seminars are still open! More info here at the top of the page: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

We’re delighted to unveil a new stained glass work by Harry Clarke at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. Harlequin (c.1918) is on public display for the first time since 1979. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

The BSLS and the JLS are pleased to announce the opening of the 2026 PGR/ECR Essay Prize Competition! Entries should be between 4,000-5,000 words in length, and are due by 5 June. More details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/04/call...

For my recent Visiting Fellowship at the Univ of Reading, I researched E. M. Forster’s publishing activities in the US btwn 1923-25 by investigating his correspondence with the Woolfs' Hogarth Press. I wrote this blog post about what I discovered. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

Due to popular demand, we have added additional spaces for the roundtable discussion in memory of Helen Carr The event is free to attend and open to all, however, it is essential to register to secure your spot BOOK NOW: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

19th Century Dance Cards. Used by women to record the names of their dance partners. #JaneAusten #Bridgerton #regencyera books2read.com/suziloveYLD

Next Friday at 12, PhD candidate Michael O'Connor will speak about his work on Irish slaveholders in Jamaica in an event hosted by the Centre for 18th-Century Studies at QUB

A couple of years ago no one except the grammar nerds knew what an em dash was, and now clients are saying we should remove them because it looks like it was written by AI. Alternative title: You can take the em dash out of my cold, dead hands. englishtextservices.de/en/ai-em-dash/

'Science is a very special trade: we are trying to learn something we don’t know, and sometimes we don’t even know if it exists.' Nobel Laureate, Professor Konstantin Novoselov @manchester.ac.uk on how discoveries happen. 🎬 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/everyt... @expeditions.bsky.social

We are excited to be recruiting a number of new postdoctoral researchers working across a range of topics from biodiversity modelling and creative future visioning to cultural understandings of biodiversity and game design. Find out more and apply by 28 April: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...