Re-upping our PGR-organised ECR conference on Place - send us an abstract by 1st May for a (hopefully) sunny day in June 😎

Today is your final opportunity to submit an abstract for the VPFA study day on the 'critical age". Get submitting!!

Heads up, Goths: Essaka Joshua’s splendid volume on Disability and the Gothic in the nineteenth century has just been published in my and @angelawright1794.bsky.social Elements in the Gothic series. Open access for the next 2 weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.

THIS WEEK! Join us!! Free, online, all welcome - register in link below

Find out about Vinegar Valentines - by our PhD researcher Grace Marks 🖤

We @ehunineteen.bsky.social continue our Valentines takeover of @uk.theconversation.com with @drbeard79.bsky.social’s Pulpy reading of Wuthering Heights

Florence + the machine day today. Good day to be spooky on Friday 13th!!! ✨️

🔈 Calling all PhDs & ECRs working on 19thC places and spaces! Send your abstracts in for what is going to be a wonderful event! 👇

Plus our amazing poster - please share far and wide to all your PGR and ECR connections! We're all very friendly over at @ehunineteen.bsky.social and can't wait for some amazing papers ✨️

Organising committee 😎😎😎😎

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So excited for this! Please send in your abstracts!!

One week to go!! Excited to see any BARS pals come along and listen to some delightful research insights ✨️

BARS Digital Event Announcement with our friends @chawtonhouse.bsky.social! Join us on 11th Feb at 6pm on Zoom for this event celebrating New Research in Women's Writing! Register to join: uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We'd love you to get involved with our popular blog and TikTok pages! Drop us an email if you have an idea for a post or video! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6286

Very excited to be speaking along with the other wonderful 2025 Chawton House Visiting Fellows on 11th Feb at a BARS digital event! My first time chairing too as I was lucky enough to be the BARS fellow, so extra exciting! @bars.bsky.social @chawtonhouse.bsky.social

On the blog: the wonderful Dr Jodie Marley (@jodielmarley.bsky.social) takes us through some critical approaches to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278

Mainz University are organising an online networking event for ECRs and PGRs, which may be of interest to our members! Contact Roslyn Irving ([email protected]) to join.

✨ANNOUNCEMENT✨ Professor Michael Gamer's edition of Ann Radcliffe's 'The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents' is now available for pre-order!! This is a landmark moment for our project and, for a limited time, get 20% off with the code 'GAMER2026' www.cambridge.org/ag/universit...

Taking place today!! Get your tickets at the link below!

Nobody is prepared for who I will be when I read the Caroline Bingley x Georgiana Darcy romance we all deserve 🫶🏻

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026. Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now. #booksky

I'm using John Hartley's dialect novel Seets i' Blackpool for my second PhD chapter and after a long time using an online scan of a copy in America, I decided to try and find my own version. Very delighted to get a copy on Ebay for a reasonable price. Definitely not a first edn, but still exciting!

🗣️🗣️🗣️ Brilliant CfP for Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026. Keynotes Jeremy Davies and Stephanie O’Rourke. Organised by two @cecs-york.bsky.social alumni! No conference fee! [full CfP in image alt texts]

And our next digital event is on 22 Jan, on 'Rereading the Minerva Press'! Registration: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265

I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

Bought a copy of Seets i' Blackpool, the book my second thesis chapter is based around as the online scan was giving me fear incase it was ever deleted 🫡 very excited get my hands on it!!

New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT For more info and to register for the Zoom link: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265

Here's to 2026, maybe the year I finish my PhD, or at least try to 🫡 May the year be kind to you all ✨️🥂

Just in time to share Anne Brontë’s ‘Music on Christmas Morning’ 🎵👼🤜👿🎶

It's Darcie's first Christmas being subjected to shenanigans (she's a rehome, I didn't pick her name, as perfect as it is!) and she is digging the Christmas spirit 1000× more than her sister...

Fancy a post-Christmas Regency and sapphic chill reading sesh in your pjs? Like and repost this skeet (is that really what we call them?) for a chance to win one of 3 signed copies of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! Open worldwide until midnight 23rd Dec, winners drawn on Christmas Eve.

Said I wasn't going to do lots of conferences in 2026 and then @vaginamuseum.bsky.social announce one... 🤭 three a year again perhaps

We @ehunineteen.bsky.social wish everyone a happy holiday - and we’re already looking forward to seeing you in January for our next seminar - BUT FIRST: rest!

Wearing my Jane Austen scarf on the train so everyone knows I'm a literature student 🫡

Fanny Price is EVERYONE’s passive-aggressive queen 👸

Today is Jane Austen's 250th birthday! If you wish there'd been queer characters in the originals, check out my Austentatious series, beginning with THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET. I murdered Mr Collins off in the first line so that Charlotte Lucas can have a 2nd chance at happiness. (thread)

A Christmas gift package from Penguin publishers was NOT on my 2025 bingo card... Also got clocked for my love of Austen 🫡 Is this what being an influencer feels like???

TODAY!

For our next seminar, the wonderful @digivictorian.bsky.social is hosting our just as wondrous PhD researchers, Liam Pope, Laura Grande Mateu, Emily Hayes, & Emma Butler, for our #19thCFlashTalks. Join us for a pre-Christmas treat on Wednesday 10th December from 6 pm. Free, online, all welcome!

If it this sounds intriguing, sign up below! Can't wait to hear what my fellow PGRs talk about too ✨️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The deadline is TOMORROW!

New academic headshot from my month at Chawton 🤍 - and a silly picture capturing my PhD perfectly Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for the photography/tips (and for being a lovely co fellow & making me gjggle a lot this month✨️)

Really looking forward to speaking at this!

Let our own @digivictorian.bsky.social *scandalise* you about Oscar Wilde!!

I appear as an expert historian in a new documentary film about the trials of Oscar Wilde. Check it out on History Hit from today! access.historyhit.com/videos/a-ver...

TOMORROW - join us!!!

A visit to Winchester to finally say hi to Austen 🤍 of course had to buy the overly touristy Austen scarf, because I fear I'm the main target audience 🫡

My latest foray into the world of television history starts TOMORROW, channel 5 at 8.05pm. The production team 'Coming Up Roses' were an absolute delight to work with. I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch 🙃 #skystorians #historianatwork #womenshistory #birth