If you missed our digital events on 'Walking Forward with Annette von Droste Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth' and 'Romantic Creativity', you can catch up on the Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...

Virginia Woolf, 3 Guineas (1938): "He is called in German and Italian Führer or Duce; in our own language Tyrant or Dictator. And behind him lie ruined house and dead bodies--men, women and children...we are not passive spectators doomed to unresisting obedience but can ourselves change that figure"

Paid a visit to the fabulous Costume Couture exhibition at London’s Fashion & Textile Museum yesterday. For EM Forster fans, they exhibited these costumes from Merchant Ivory’s A Room with a View & Howards End, together with one of Peggy Ashcroft’s costumes from David Lean’s A Passage to India.

Dancing into the weekend here at BAMS, with an exciting general issue of The Modernist Review on the horizon, and another dedicated to the latest New Work in Modernist Studies conference hot on its heels 💃

Virginia Woolf podcast with Karina Jakubowicz. The most recent episode is a most interesting discussion with the great art historian and biographer, Frances Spalding. Free on our website. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/podcasts

"Who lives in a house like this?" 🤔 Some v intellectual types actually. 29, Fitzroy Square #London. #BookSky 📚

The Hours (2002) Director: Stephen Frears #filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex - portrait in the Ulster Museum #Belfast Executed 25 Feb 1601.

Registration is now open for our joint event with the Seamus Heaney Centre on 2 March: LATE HEANEY: NICHOLAS ALLEN IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK CARRUTHERS (available online and in-person) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

a mundane curse #comic

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Australian sculptor John Morris (b. 1963) Title: "CAT 23"

Arthur Wesley Dow Spring Landscape 1892

On This Day in History: February 23, 1821 John Keats dies in Rome at 25, most likely from tuberculosis, then called “consumption.” Some accounts point to mercury treatments making things worse, because nineteenth-century medicine loved being confidently wrong.

Divided, Still #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

#OTD 1503, Elizabeth of York was laid to rest. She had died in the Tower of London due to complications in childbirth on 11 February.

Elizabeth Bowen who died on this day 1973

Congratulations to @christinegrandy.bsky.social for the publication of Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain, the latest title in our Cambridge Modern British Histories series. Paperback a snip at £28. #Skystorians

The photographic studio ‘Ramsey & Muspratt’ opened on St Andrews Street in Cambridge in late 1932. The town’s main photographer predicted that ‘those two ladies won’t last six months.’ Two years later Lettice and Helen bought out his studio for £600 and established their own premises there.

Casual Reading #oilpainting #art

New Scholarship Award Launched!! The Dance Research Advisory Board is pleased to announce that Dance Research, the journal of the Society for Dance Research, invites applications for the newly instituted McGowan-Crisp Award for New Scholarship in Dance. See bio for link to application guidelines.

Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold Join Naoise Dolan, Anne Griffin & Ailbhe Malone in conversation, in collaboration with @dublinbookfest.bsky.social. Ancient Irish myth, retold — bold women reclaiming their stories. 📅 4 March at 6.30pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Call for Contributors! Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830. We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

Paperback edition of my book A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell, out from @oneworldbooks.bsky.social in June 2026. oneworld-publications.com/work/a-brigh...

Call for Contributions to edited collection - The Prosthetic Ocean: Technology, Culture, and Maritime Imagination. More details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/call...

Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London. Deadline: 16th March 2026 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137845-...

Looking to forward to listening these three things on Virginia Woolf. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics position Full time and permanent 👇 #skystorians

Join us for our next OWC #Shakespeare webinar on 2 March at 6pm. In this online event, Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be discussing #CYMBELINE with Kim Gilchrist. Register for your free ticket: shakespeare-webinar-cymbeline.eventbrite.co.uk

Online Book Club | #Beowulf 📅 Fri, 27 Feb at 1pm: https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/online-book-club-beowulf#Beowulf Join us for a discussion on 'Beowulf', the definitive translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic, translated by Heaney in 1999. All welcome - no prior knowledge or expertise is required!

A very cool collaboration for next winter's MLA in LA! See this CFP below.

Join us on Tuesday, 24 February to hear Dr Valerie Schutte kick off our Spring Seminar Series with a fascinating paper on 'Katherine Basset as a Case Study of the Household of Anne of Cleves'. Please find the sign-up link via this page: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

#WorldRadioDay: Women tuning in for news of #CharlesKingsfordSmith’s round-the-world flight https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000599776. He landed at Portmarnock before completing his historic journey in California: https://www.nli.ie/news-stories/stories/exploring-aviation-ireland-nli-collections

Fantastic funded PhD opportunity here in the School of Humanities at Reading - please share widely! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Women are far from invisible. Women’s activities in seventeenth-century St Andrews investigated using a broad range of archival sources including wills, guild records, court books, and church records. #archives #Fife #LocalHistory #genealogy #herstory #skystorians 🗃️ 📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Fellowship Opportunity! Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...

Such a great paper—rich comparative analysis of “baby farms” in Britain, France, and the USA (late 19th–early 20th c.), showing how labor and care were reconfigured differently despite similar feminist arguments. Can’t wait for the book @emilybaughan.bsky.social! (also check out this wild image)

"I think Virginia Woolf is probably the person whose technical daring & her skill at doing that kind of thing & moving from one head to another head, from one point of view to another, in the years and in the ways, is the most admirable." (Ursula Le Guin) Virginia Woolf, born 25 January 1882.

birthday wishes to Virginia Woolf (born 25th January, 1882)

This is one of the only color photographs of Virginia Woolf & her last professional portrait. bsky.app/profile/fema...

"Quien nos roba los sueños nos roba la vida". 📷T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf y Vivienne Eliot (1932) En recuerdo de Virginia Woolf, nacida tal día como hoy de 1882.

Virginia Woolf book cover designs by her sister, artist Vanessa Bell ( 1920's - 30's) #WomensArt

It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Here are a few highlights from Kodak Research Laboratories in Harrow, documenting innovations led by women in as early as 1891. #KodakHistory #Harrow #WomenInSTEM #Innovation #PhotographyHistory #HiddenHistories

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

🚨We are looking for deputy editors to join the editorial board of Architectural History, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Apply by 16 March - please spread the word with anyone who may be interested!🚨 www.sahgb.org.uk/features/cal...

In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’

Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant. Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply

A Glasgow glazer's advert from 1912.

Did you know that a new education centre is being built by hand at Stonehenge? It is based on Durrington 68, a late Neolithic square-in-circle timber structure. Watch regular updates from Luke, the project leader, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATY...

Very excited for this one.