And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, ate the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive him they were delicious so sweet and so cold

Got to meet Bruce at Doreen Thierauf’s paper at @navsa2025.bsky.social

Check out navsa.georgetown.edu/outline-sche... for the full program for #NAVSA2025! See you tomorrow!

Next time you visit the Pre-Raphaelite galleries at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, keep an eye out for more information about my project, Victorian Art & Design and the Global! More information available at: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/about/what-w...

Chickens, nakedness, and pre-Raphaelites - what more could you ask for in "Visuality and the Fine Arts" with Joanna Madloch, Don LePan, & Susie Beckham at #NAVSA2025

I beg of you, please let me get this extremely wordy paper for @navsa2025.bsky.social under 20 minutes. I swear it’s necessary for me to say “second phase Pre-Raphaelitism” this many times…

We are delighted to announce that the plenary speakers for our upcoming conference are Dr Sarah Jackson, Professor Peter J. Capuano and Caroline Seymour! Visit our website for more information: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference

It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185

Want to learn more about the fantastic artist Anna Alma-Tadema? Check out my piece for ArtUK! artuk.org/discover/sto...

Reminder that this is tomorrow - putting together the presentation now, and excited to be talking about Morris and the Thames again!

after a good research/writing day yesterday, we return to the “whyyyy is this so hard” and “no no no this is too long” stage of essay writing — jolly good

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Seeking an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in the MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art & Media to join our team at UCL East. 🕒 Working Pattern: Part-time, on site 💷 Salary: £43,981–£52,586 📄 Contract: Fixed-term (12 months) ⏰ Closing date: 12/10/25 👉 Apply now: shorturl.at/57NCS

Reminder to register for the social and intellectual highlight of the year!

Thrilled to be starting my first day at Delaware Art Museum as the 2025 Amy P. Goldman Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies -- archive time baybeeee delart.org/opportunitie...

This was SUCH a great episode. The Coleridge quote about “seeing Kean is like READING Shakespeare by flashes of lightning” is so interesting. His son Charles would often be described as evoking Pre-Raphaelite art on the stage. So fun to think about theatre as embodiment of other art/literary forms

The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has become the first UK public collection to own a painting by the Impressionist Marie Bracquemond. Read Apollo’s monthly round-up for more details of this and other important museum acquisitions buff.ly/wg9Dcbe

Reminder that I am open for business for all your research, writing, editing and copy-editing needs! Recent projects include creating a personal archive catalogue, and copy-editing English academic manuscripts for authors of other languages. Get in touch via website or DM! www.drvicclarke.co.uk

Interested in adaptation studies, but not sure where to start? Check out our listserv, which connects like-minded adaptation scholars with information and updates in the field:

Conference Announcement: Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment - cfp and details attached. Victorians scholars please circulate @lindakhughes.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianmasc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS*** Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

One of the best parts of #BAVS2025 (other than the stellar, thought provoking papers) was witnessing @hosmeriana.bsky.social ‘s reaction to her first Punch & Judy show complete with sausage-stealing crocodiles 🐊

Can confirm that Eliza is an absolute DREAM to work with. If you work on drawings, get in touch with her and the ArtUK team asap ✨

Delighted to announce my new short film made in partnership with Lily Ford, Richard Uttley and the David Parr House! @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @birkbecklibrary.bsky.social @luisacale.bsky.social www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbec...

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

Okay, #academicbluesky, help a Rossetti scholar out: IF (and it's a big if) Christina Rossetti had read an English translation of #Sappho in the 1840s, which one would it be?

So many articles I’m reading just use terms without tracing or defining or citing them and 1 my supervisors would never let me get away w that and 2 it has this post in my mind constantly

Also, if you're working on C19 sources, see @patrickleary.bsky.social's invaluable list of open-access 19th-c periodicals here:

Ripped William Chadstone wants you to know that registration and hotel bookings are open for #NAVSA2025

Join us Friday, 20 Jun for our 3rd free #RSVP2025 pre-conference panel on "Representation & Remediation in Victorian Periodicals"! This 90-min event will showcase how "remediation" shapes print culture in myriad ways. No travel required! Register to get the Zoom link here: rs4vp.org/june-digital...

A job! Not on panel! DM me?

Any Hans Christian Andersen experts following me? Came across an issue of The Spiritualist for which he seems to have written as a correspondent... including on William Crookes and the psychic force. Was this really him? iapsop.com/archive/mate...

📢Job Alert!📢 Our AHRC-funded Victorian Hand project is looking for a 3-year, full-time Public Engagment Fellow, based at the London College of Fashion, to join our team & help deliver our programme of activities. This amazing opportunity closes on 24 June so please spread the word far & wide!

Oooh my new article on P J Harvey, Romanticism, and Lacan is up on the always wonderful Romanticism on the Net:

Dear All, I have here a CFP for an edited book with a preliminary title "Other Spaces: Spatiality in Popular Culture." Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2025. The full CFP below. Should you have any questions, please DM me. 😁👩‍🎓📖

I too am a wild boar piglet, ready for mischief* (* ready for annual leave and a bank holiday weekend)

INCSA, NCSA, & INCS Call for Papers / Convocatoria de ponencias Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation July 21-24, 2026 Washington, DC in-csa.com/2026-call-fo... Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación 21 al 24 de julio de 2026 Washington, DC in-csa.com/2026-convoca...

Starting some new research on the experiential capacity of Pre-Raphaelite art and its expression as an aesthetic/vibe in online creative works (in particular, TikTok videos and user-generated Spotify playlists) and how this relates to the popular understanding of Pre-Raphaelite art today.

Happy opening to Austen & Turner, an exhibition at Harewood House Trust co-curated by York English and @cecs-york.bsky.social colleagues @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social and @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social and Richard Johns and Marjorie Coughlan (History of Art). harewood.org/events/auste... 1/

Study for the Garden Court https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-burne-jones/study-for-the-garden-court

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Are you a) intrigued by artists' books, and b) looking for something to do 16th-20th June? There's still time to sign up for this course ran by the brilliant @gillpartington.bsky.social

Glad to see that the CFP for the BARS symposium, “Global Romanticism,” that I will organize is out! @bars.bsky.social Time: 23rd July Format: Online CFP deadline: 16 May Please join!! For more info: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5963

Got an opinion piece on the boil? Meet @dremilyvincent.bsky.social - our Forums Editor: she is commissioning bold, informed discussions of topical, controversial, or neglected research questions in long 19th century studies around the work.

Do any Victorianists / 19th-centuryists / material culture people know of any scholarship on pattern and madness? Thinking particularly of The Yellow Wallpaper, but open to anything. This inquiry brought to you by Morris's claim that commercial pattern-designers "have a great tendency to go mad."

“We will delve into the affective and sonic turns in media studies and discuss how researchers can engage with these non-verbal and subconscious aspects of digital sociality.” So so jealous of everyone able to go to this in Amsterdam this week! 😭

The closing Q&A to @hosmeriana.bsky.social and I’s ‘The Artist as Art Historian’ panel — a wonderful end to a super productive @forarthistory.org.uk conference at the University of York! Thank you to all our brilliant speakers and attendees 💕

It's happeningggg #ForArtHistory2025 #AAH2025

📣 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!