Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Publishing today! Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy #Ghosts #GothicStudies Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

I’m delighted to be part of this term’s London 19th Century Studies Seminar line up, and on a periodicals panel with @andrewkingc19.bsky.social no less! Join us at Senate House on Tues 14 Oct - all welcome!

This is a brilliant opportunity. Happy to answer any questions if anyone is interested in applying!

✨ 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.

We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin: KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote! And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.

What a fabulous resource! Wedgwood's intellectual work occupied such a fascinating space within #C19 debates about religion, science, and women's work. What a treasure, to have #OpenAccess to her writings. {I also highly recommend Sue Brown's biography, which is cited in Stone's bibliography.}

RSVP generously supports Periodicals research through several grants competitions. Maybe one fits your project!

Incredible but true - I have just had a tour of #Ouida’s house in Florence by a wonderful nun, sorella Rosa. I am very moved, of course, but learnt more. A bit of a change from where she was born in Bury St Edmunds.

CFP: The Hemingway Letters Project: Emerging Research (Toronto, July 20-25, 2026). Please share with students/colleagues/friends who might be interested. Happy to answer questions about the panel in particular and the conference in general. Funding opportunities available.

Reflections on leaving salaried academia: lessons I've learned. profandrewking.me.uk/2025/08/31/r...

Lecturer in Ancient History Newcastle University - School of History, Classics and Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC475/l...

Teaching Fellowship in Twentieth-Century British History- University of Oxford - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC497/t...

Reflections by a retiree on a career in #academia. #retirement #work www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

PhD Studentship: (ECOMEDS: Economic and Cultural Connections Within Mediterranean Ecosystems, c.1250-1550) King's College London - #History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ935/p...

After an amazing three days in Birmingham at the @vpfa.bsky.social annual conference, it's graduation of my last undergraduate cohort at the University of Greenwich - a truly talented year.

Hear hear! It's the @vpfa's deeply rooted refusal of hierarchy in the interest of welcome and joy combined with serious intellectual ambition, isn't it? It's proof renewed every year that fun and rigour make a great alloy!

Well, #VPFAExtremes has been wonderful - the height of my summer so far, as ever! I am deeply grateful to be part such a fantastic, extremely warm and collegiate association. Thoroughly enjoyed the last few days - diolch pawb!

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Very excited but also sorry its the last day of @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAExtremes! The panel I'm in is kicking off with Alison Dingle on Victorian depictions of the Holy Land, esp. Disraeli's Tancred and Tonna's Judah's Lion. Horribly topical.

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize: Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.

Writing a keynote paper for @vpfa.bsky.social's annual conference about encounters with prehistoric animals in nineteenth-century fiction, and as I write Colossal Biosciences can't stop announcing that they're resurrecting extinct creatures. I prefer Jules Verne.

THRILLED to share that my book has won the VPFA Second Book Prize! 🎉

Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it. @vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social doi.org/10.46911/TWO...

First keynote, The Submarine Gothic beginning now in the Charles Dickens room 🦈🦈🦈 #VPFAExtremes

Just chaired an excellent first panel of #VPFAExtremes with fellow #Birkbeck Victorianists @janetteleaf.bsky.social, Jeremy Newton, & Gordon Bates on Hypnotic Gothic Fictions!

We are delighted to welcome the @VPFA1 for day 1 of their 3 day conference "Heights, Depths and Extremes." #VPFAExtremes #VPFA #bmi1854 #birmingham #victorian

@vpfa.bsky.social So happy to see you here!

Don’t forget! Our first (free!) members-only writing retreat is on 21 June, 10am–3pm (UK). Whether you're drafting a paper, editing a book, or just need focused time—you're welcome! Structured blocks, breaks & reflection included. Check your email to register!

Given that it's now more than 6 months since Darwinism's Generations was published, I thought I'd send out an ICYMI for all those who haven't yet noticed. You can find a summary of the contents and arguments in the 'autoreview' I've posted on profmartinhewitt.com. Do check it out!

General registration for BAVS2025 is now open. Come and join us in Oxford in July and help to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of BAVS.

Are you an author? Add your signature to this call from the Society of Authors to protect your rights in the face of unauthorised pirating of your work by AI chng.it/47GzhjP4dV

On my birthday a gift: Granville Bantock's ravishing setting of Sappho fragments assembled by his wife. Here's no 4, a joyful seduction song: "Stand face to face, friend, and unveil the grace of thine eyes.All care let buffering winds bear away..." Indeed! youtu.be/aH-nSLyQrkM?...

It is always worth knowing what the powerful mean when they use terms like "the economy."

Provocative words here. Alas, it's not only travel arrangements.

📣 CFP alert! The Victorian Institute's 2025 conference "Victorian Studies—Who Cares?" will explore why and how we continue to care about a historically-focused discipline like #Victorianstudies. Deadline for proposals is May 1. Thanks for #SharingYourNews!

“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” It's no surprise that several of my students are writing dissertations on Orwell's *1984*.

🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...

I love having a pretty common name. It makes me feel so productive and polymathic (though I'm not sure friends & colleagues would be convinced that all of these really were mine). Thanks @theatlantic.com for an unexpected chuckle over an enraging extraction.

PhD x 4 and Postdoc Opportunity: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz announces the following scholarships within the framework of the new Mini Graduate College (MGRK) "The Aesthetic Inventions of Ecology around 1800" funded by the Gutenberg Junior College (GNK): www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5886

#YWES 👇 is still recruiting! Want to stay up-to-date with relevant publications? write for THE oldest & most comprehensive review of scholarly work? & join a supportive @englishassociation.bsky.social & OUPAcademic community? Come join the #c18th & #RomanticPeriod chapter teams! 1/4

Welp.

Following on the "interesting conversation" about AI and labour ... a revelation when it happens to you. We don't get royalties or acknowledgement by management: no good for career progression is it? Search your name & wring your hands. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Today is Nowruz! From ancient Zoroastrian legends to modern festivities, the Persian New Year has a rich history and vibrant present. Among its origin stories, the mythical Iranian King Jamshid is said to have saved humanity from an apocalyptic winter, marking the first Nowruz. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

Times change and with them my depressed cynicism & pessimism increases... levels of comfort have gone up since 1921. Not sure about liberty. Or happiness. As one comment noted, rhetoric of click bait hasn't!

Interesting conversation re AI and labour here (not unfamiliar but nicely focussed). Raises (by implication) issue about what we academics are being paid for, and indeed the nature of work (but I would say that).

Later today are holding a Zoom to discuss David Graeber's essay - There Never Was A West, with a focus on the myths of democracy in ancient Greece. If you'd like to join in, you can register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/k3eowtklTGmyzTrxOYt0PA#/

navsa.org/2025/03/18/c... Please spread the word about this lovely conference: Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century University of St. Andrews 28-29 August 2025

Research Fellow, Collective Violence,Holocaust & Genocide Studs UCL - Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH993/r...

North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar: Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century Wednesday 2 April, 12.00 - 17.00 BST Geoffrey Manton Building, GM.09A & ONLINE (Hybrid event) Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Details below: