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

This looks DELICIOUS 😋

WE HAVE A FRONT COVER!! 📖📚📘 Oh, it makes me so happy! Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...

FINALLY watched the new Frankenstein and although it wasn't 100% book accurate I enjoyed it very much! Gave a lot of the correct vibes, and made Victor Frankenstein even more unlikeable LOL (but I love Oscar Isaac). 9/10 from me ✨️ (Also Jacob Elordi smashed it as the Creature, surprised me a lot!)

i must say, the whole “frankenstein is actually the dr”/“no he was actually an undergrad” thing is very relatable to me as an undergraduate who spends all my time cosplaying as an academic and then having to tell people i’m actually 20 and degree-less

Jane Austen's house was a little dream come true ✨️ the best way to mark #janeausten250

I love that everyone is discovering that Mary Shelley’s monster was eloquent and not the shambling creature that Universal turned him into. I feel like the gothic literature fairy godmother watching the children learn 🖤

My grandad's favourite tea being in the cupboard of the flat is cute because I know he'd have been SO excited for me to be here... Today's Chawton snippets (I'll stop doing this soon I promise but I still can't believe I'm here 🤣)

*extremely* jealous of my brilliant PhD student Emma who is luxuriating in a fellowship at Chawton House this month 🖤

Listen in for our own @drbeard79.bsky.social eating a bun the size of his head and gossiping about Sense & Sensibility

An excellent first proper day at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social ✨️ introduction to the reading room means an exciting start to the fellowship and a lovely chilly walk around the grounds this morning

Piece about this Austen podcast I’m in theconversation.com/jane-austens...

Chawton bound for my fellowship!! First train so far has been lovely and smooth (I've never had such a chilled train to London 😂) Let's hope this continues 🫡

Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November. Details below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻 Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place. Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

Had such fun sharing my spooky research today at the Spooky History conference! There is nothing spookier, after all, than being chronically ill 🤣 Also a fantastic paper from @ornamh.bsky.social too on the Paris Catacombs, so fascinating! ☠️

Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social! Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!

Just one week until I get to chat with the inimitable @drbeard79.bsky.social about disability, care, and belonging in Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, and Walter Scott. Do come along if you can. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My research into a review or advert for John Hartley's book Seets i' Blackpool has so far been fruitless, but I have found 3 seperate adverts of him talking about Veno's cough medicine... This might end up being the topic of my flash talk with @ehunineteen.bsky.social in December if all else fails 😂

Very excited to be sharing a paper based on an essay I did during my MA at this year's spooky history conference! All about vampires, chronic illness as/and menstruation in Le Fanu's Carmilla! It'll be a great day if you fancy a free online conference! Sign up here 👇 forms.gle/Rn7vSGs1xxqn...

Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!

We would love YOU to write for the BARS Blog! If you have an idea for the blog or for our TikTok/Instagram channel, then please do get in touch! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/ More info ⤵️

Tune in in November to listen to our own @drbeard79.bsky.social scoffing a bun bigger than his head and loving the ridiculous Mrs Palmer in S&S 🖤

Excited to be doing a flash talk on my PhD research as part of the @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar series, and looking forward to hearing my fellow postgraduate researchers share their research too! Nothing says festive like ✨️liminal spaces✨️ 🏖

The full line up for our 2025/2026 #EHU19SeminarSeries is available to book now in the thread below! Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!

Coming up! Register now!!

Being plagued by teenagers playing rap music out loud on the way to uni seems to be a theme for me at this point (I wanted to read my Dorian Gray retelling in PEACE ok)

The conference takes accessibility seriously. This means all our conferences are online and they are free to speakers. We offer accessibility training. We provide slides ahead of time with alt-text, encourage written copies of papers, provide a code of conduct and clear guidelines on the day 1/

Reminder: BARS 2026 CFP can be found here: Deadline Sunday 30 November. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101

Very for this!!

What a brilliant title! Courting Disaster by @thezhm.bsky.social 📚🌷 A fascinating, feminist dive into 18C literature – from Richardson to Austen – shedding light on ‘courtship’, consent, & the power of literature 📖 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188854/ (TY @manchesterup.bsky.social 🤓)