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Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

Enjoyed today's #RSVPDigiEvent? Can't wait for more #19thC periodicals' chat? Our March event is just around the corner next Friday, March 6! @triproftri.bsky.social will talk to us about the "Racial Anxieties of Polite Culture in the Forget Me Not for 1825 + 1833." Register now!

Finally, a government that takes the #enshittification of digital space seriously. Funny and dark and to the point

Deadline Day! If you have a good idea, please share it with me! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

"History shows that wars can be lost before they are even declared if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now,

Between bouts of rain.

The vile Victorians were funnier than they looked, using brutal Valentine’s Day cards to mock people they didn’t fancy much.

Since I heard Penn State launched a course called "One Book Slowly" this year (Eric Hayot is teaching Madame Bovary) I can't stop thinking about it

I "know" without having to articulate it to myself that injecting LLMs into the experience of learning to write is bad for learning how to write. It changes writing into something else. Whether this other thing has value or not I can't say and don't think we'll know for a while. I also know that...

I just signed to edit a new strand for Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture called "Periodicals and Print Matter." More details to follow but I look forward to your ideas on anything connected to periodicals, catalogues, zines, and ephemera. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

Clothing ad, 1896. These are are very cool, and that looks like a very impractical amount of sleeve going on! 🗃️ #c19th #fashionhistory LOC www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

I used to teach an autobiography of an AI engineer in my robots in literature class where he supposed that all medieval monks could imagine as progress would be a bigger pen and parchment, but we know that the monks were conceiving of worlds insane enough to melt your eyeballs out of your head

Born on this day in 1905, Anna-May Wong was a trailblazing Chinese American actress in the early years of Hollywood when cultural diversity was not very common. She wore this 1934 gown by Travis Banton in the film Limehouse Blues @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Sounds like they need humanities majors…..

O tempora, o mores

A view from Brseč. So quiet, you can hear the bees fly by and the ferry putter along slowly in the distance.

A December morning.

It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.

This late #Victorian dress by Jacques Doucet looks magnificent - and ready for a #neo-Victorian hommage in contemporary fabrics: botfrens.com/collections/...

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

...and it is finished!#showmeyourknits #knitsky #knit #sustainablefashion #handmade

Boats leaving the port of Le Havre, France, ca. 1855 Gustave Le Gray

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

What happens when @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @qaqv.bsky.social join forces? This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/ You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️

My general feeling is that if something is called a “Revolution”, but there is no mention of the people and/or cultures destroyed in the process, it’s either not a revolution or it’s violences are being intentionally obscured

A morning surprise, or, new developments in the port of Rijeka.

#showmeyourknits #knitsky #knit Knitting a lace stole, the texture of warm gossamer

I still stand by these, even as universities around the world, including my own, brainlessly capitulate to AI.

Beach bodies online: a quick lesson

Died (alas!) on this day in 1494, Melozzo da Forlì. Painted beautiful works, many of them since lost or damaged. Alas again! Here, angel of the Annunciation, 1466, with some extreme drapery.

The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

Neighbourhood watch

Quiet afternoon.

Gulp

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

Naoise Dolan: I've protested Israel's actions every way I can. Now, I'm joining the flotilla sailing for Gaza Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action. www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

Fuck yeah whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-europe...

Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website! rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

I did it the other way

The Curran Fellowship covering research and travel expenses for research on British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century may be of interest to #DH and #VictorianStudies folks on here ☺️ rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

The current pressure to impose surveillance on everyone and everything brilliantly explained by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy : pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/b...

CFP: Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Issue, Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form (Abstract Deadline: 11/15/25) bit.ly/4miqNpa