As I say in my intro, I aimed to have Judith as keynote from when I saw her paper at Sheffield’s Creativity and Tumult 1816 conference and her keynote was a fantastic, interactive finale linking pedagogy with posthumousness #Rom2Uni

I feel like I learned from Matt’s approach to peer review which was to assertively stick to his guns where necessary - working with him made me feel more confident in engaging with peer review #Rom2Uni

I still sort of disagree with Colette’s argument about Wollstonecraft as reviewer but *believe* in the power of dissensus to keep academia moving #Rom2Uni

I really enjoyed working with John-Erik on bouncing Godwin against Ngai’s aesthetic theory #Rom2Uni

Mike was my boss in simpler times and it was a pleasure to have him lead our #Rom2Uni special issue with his take of undergraduate and literal hellraising in Beddoes’ life and work!

Emily’s essay opens with the startling statistic that the Napoleonic Wars closed 40% of European universities! #Rom2Uni

Blogpost revisiting hosting ‘Romanticism Goes to University’ #Rom2Uni ending with the UK HE Shrinking list and solidarity to @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social in particular (on your phone you might have to scroll *quite* far down to get there!)

Re-upping this with thanks to @cardiffbookhistory.bsky.social for shepherding this #Rom2Uni special issue through to publication and to all contributors for their patience and ideas and hard work 🖤🖤🖤

Shout out to My Gothic Dissertation by Anna Williams - a PhD by podcast supervised by Judith - and a really interesting forebear to the themes of hope, creativity, and mourning in ‘Romanticism Goes to University’

@judithmpascoe.bsky.social rounds off the special issue with a consideration of Godwin’s immersion in Wollstonecraft’s work after her death, musing on his work of mourning as a teaching and learning experience - and how mourning informs teaching today

Colette Davies reviews Wollstonecraft’s reviewing practices, positioning her as a surprisingly conservative gatekeeper

@johnerik-h.bsky.social thinks about what Godwin finds interesting in and for children’s literature in relation to Sianne Ngai’s aesthetic category of the interesting

Emily Dolive looks beyond the university to women poets using elegy to teach lessons about war & mourning

@mjrsangster.bsky.social traces a variety of poetic responses to the Romantic era university

Mike Bradshaw follows Thomas Beddoes to Germany and finds him raising hell with students there

In my introduction, I try *really hard* to move from despair over the current state of universities to some kind of hope

OMG my Romantic Textualities special issue ‘Romanticism Goes to University’ is OUT www.romtext.org.uk/issues/issue...

📣Out now on #firstview! Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social and Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social on 'Anticipating Birth in Early Modern England' #Birth #Motherhood #Pregnancy #Medicine #History 17thc 18thc 👶🌿🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

⭐️ I’m absolutely delighted that my article ‘The Volcano and the Vampire’ (@gothicstudies.bsky.social) has been awarded the honourable mention in the @ncsascholars.bsky.social Article Prize! Thank you NCSA! Entries for the 2026-7 prize now open. ncsaweb.net/ncsa-article... #c19th

You can now read mine and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social new article about the remedies 18thc women took six weeks before birth. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

I can't wait for you to read this. Nearly a decade of research has gone into uncovering how Britain’s food shaped its sense of place in the world during the First Age of Nationalism. 'The King's Dinner', out 1 June 2026. uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...

Still time to send in an abstract for our PGR/ECR conference on place in the 19thC - it’s sure to be a friendly and supportive and thought-provoking event! Join us!!

You still have time to get your abstracts in for 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', hosted by EHUNineteen's PhD students!

Join our own @drbeard79.bsky.social & other good eggs to talk about cracking applying for funding

Reading @triciamatthew.bsky.social’s gorgeous edition of Northanger for a thing.

Fun Conversation piece on books about being a teenager - my Frankenstein joins Holden Caulfield, Esther Greenwood, Carrie, and others (none of the people in this photo look like teenagers 🤷‍♂️)

Once again sharing our upcoming EHU19 PGR & ECR conference as the abstract deadline for 1st May is looming closer! We're very lucky to have @drclaireocall.bsky.social as keynote & running a journal workshop! Send any abstracts or queries to [email protected] ✨️ @ehunineteen.bsky.social

ALT: a beautiful and possibly Romantic-era and otherwise significant painted image of an ornate gate and building with church spire to the side plus trees and cloudy blue sky advertising BARS 2026 ‘Romantic Retrospection’ at Birmingham 29-31 July Exciting!

Please see the conference website for details of registration fees, the conference dinner, and university accommodation. *To clarify re Concessionary registration fees, these apply to unwaged, postgraduate, part-time and impermanent, or retired delegates*

The draft programme is a thing of beauty and a joy for as long as it lasts in this form - but the NEXT draft programme will also be a thing of beauty 🖤

Join us!

Conspiracy theory! At the Brontë Parsonage Museum A curator took me up to see some Charlotte-publisher correspondence on display and told me his theory that Emily refused the request for an autograph (after Poems but before the novels!) and Charlotte forged Ellis Bell’s signature 😂

Pre-order @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s Reading the Romantic Ridiculous in paperback to make next year’s royalty statement less, well, ridiculous!

CFP deadline this week for our Brontë Studies special issue on Poetry - the abstracts are starting to flock in - still time to send in yours!

I've got an op ed in @telegraph.co.uk, ruminating on how the Victorians approached death and funerals, in case you fancy reading something cheerful this morning! In print, or online: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...

⭐️ The results are in!! My wonderful hons class have made their choices for dream Victorian Popular Fiction dinner party. Who are you adding and where are you sitting?! #c19th

The new @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter is looking gorgeous after its refresh! It also features our halloween workshops for kids at the historic Mackintosh at the Willow tearoom, where we explored the history & ethics of sugar consumption & what it means to be a 'sugar vampire'! Thanks BAVS! #C19th

The CFP deadline for our Brontë Studies special issue on poetry is coming up - 1st April! Don’t be a fool - submit something!

I'm writing on Wickham being a nasty piece of work in Pride and Prejudice. If he was alive today, he'd definitely be featured on the Manosphere doc by Louis Theroux 🤢 (also mid 20s+ going after 2 girls of 15 and 16??? Yikes, even by 1813 standards!)

Notice from the BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' Conference Organisers: The deadline for bursary applications is 16th March (next Monday). Please see your acceptance email for further details of how to apply. Applicants will hear back by the start of April.

Upcoming in-person lecture (and wine reception!) at QMUL (London): 'Slow Reading in an Age of Speed: Wordsworth and the Practice of Criticism' by Jonathan Sachs 2 April, 5:15-7:15pm. More details and book tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slow-readi...

It's official 🎉🎈 Professor Michael Gamer's fantastic edition of Radcliffe's 'The Italian' is out now. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe is off to a roaring start! Be sure to request a copy for your library now - and use the code GAMER26 for 20% off www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

Dr Catherine Redford has kindly shared an insight into her wonderful new poetry collection The Way the Water Held Me with the BARS Blog. To read Catherine's post: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6367 For more about the collection: theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/...

EXCITING TALK ANNOUNCEMENT: @romgothsam.bsky.social will be speaking on Byron's Legacy, Newstead Abbey and Thomas Wildman for the Byron Society. Get your free tickets below ⤵️

If you're around St Albans on 6th June, you might want to check out this study day on 'Ann Radcliffe’s St Alban’s Abbey at 200', organised by Dr Elizabeth Bobbitt, Professor Dale Townshend, and Rosie Garland! More info and book tickets: www.stalbanscathedral.org/Event/ann-ra...

Call for Papers! 2026 Wordsworth Summer Conference: 'Wordsworth's Texts' Get your abstracts and bursary applications in to [email protected] by 15th May. More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6383

I am childish and vain so I would like you to read my conversation article on The Other Bennet Sister and cuteness so I continue to stay on top of scientists at Edge Hill writing about the menopause and cholesterol, please and thank you 🙏

It’s me, sneaking a whole Wordsworth poem into my review of The Other Bennet Sister 🖤

From the sublime to the… cute? I (p)review the new TV show The Other Bennet Sister - which I’m really enjoying!

Exciting opportunity to collaborate with our own @interwarcrime.bsky.social and Lincoln Bishop University on the history of teacher training colleges, with an openness to alternative presentation formats