The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is looking to hire an 18th century specialist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

We've published a free e-book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner's seminal essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' including his own reflections on the contributions liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

#otd, 205 years ago, John Keats, just 25 years old, died in lodgings on the Piazza di Spagna, Rome, now Keats-Shelley House

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

Intrigued by a suggestion afterwards that Keats (if he’d lived) could have become a great novelist www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Nearly 10,000 *online* and *open access* collections of radical, labour and anti-colonial historical documents are now listed. But always looking for more! If you know of any collections not listed, please get in touch. #history #archives hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network (@e-cen.bsky.social) will be hosting their inaugural seminar online and in-person at Heslington Hall, Uni of York on 26th Feb at 5pm! Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds) will present on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Articulate Sounds by James Grande (@jamesgrande.bsky.social) is now available Open Access at bit.ly/4qQ8vhz. This British Academy Monograph reveals the deeply ambivalent relationship between music, religious dissent, and literary Romanticism.

"For my fellow soldiers and me, [anti-war protest] songs didn’t weaken our sense of duty; if anything, they sharpened it. We were being asked to do what many Americans didn’t want to do....[T]he music made clear that service and conscience were not opposites." www.thebulwark.com/p/bruce-spri...

📚 Why does Jane Austen still matter? At an event hosted by @kingsartshums.bsky.social, novelist Tessa Hadley joined actor-writers Anni Domingo & Romola Garai to explore why Austen was a revolutionary writer for her time & why she remains relevant to readers today. 🔗➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/storyte...

Extracts from Harry Clarke's stained glass "The Eve of St Agnes" - commissioned in 1923 by Harold Jacob for his father’s house in Ailesbury Road, Dublin. Clarke took his inspiration from John Keats’s poem of the same name. Hugh Lane Gallery Harry Clarke 17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) #SpéirGhorm

Congratulations to @claireconnolly.bsky.social on the publication of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" @universitypress.cambridge.org ❗We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm ⬇️⬇️⬇️ as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Out today! Thanks to everyone who has inspired and supported me over the 12 years I’ve been researching and writing this book. Published open access by @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social so the ebook can be downloaded for free www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

New year, new issue of the Keats-Shelley Review! Articles on Mary Shelley and The Liberal, Percy Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener, Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, update from Rome and poems and essays from Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics prizes www.tandfonline.com/toc/yksr20/c...

Happy New Year friends old and new on here! Already seems nicer and saner than the other place.