This review of a book about Eric Hobsbawm manages to avoid saying where he worked for his whole career: Birkbeck. He was (t)here from 1947-1982, then emeritus, then President, 2002-2012. A university focused on giving education to working class people. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ce...

Utopia in London, this Tuesday. William Morris. Join us! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory

Due to public demand we have increased the number of tickets available, for the book launch of Alice Meynell. Talks by Alex Wong, Laura Mulvey and yours truly. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Just a reminder of the conference tomorrow ‘Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now? Contemporary interventions in art and literature’. Date and Location: starting at 9am, Sat 20 Sept 2025, Birmingham and Midland Institute, UK. For all the details: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

Only 3 more days to submit to the roundtable on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century that @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social and I are organizing for the 2026 ASECS. Your abstracts have to go through the ASECS portal, but please reach out to us individually if you're thinking of submitting & have any questions.

Book launch of a new Alice Meynell collection! Please book your seat. Talks by Alex Wong and great grand daughter, and renowned film theorist, Laura Mulvey. Date 31 October 2025. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Feliz de que se pueda leer por fin en castellano a Levy, Harkness y Black. Gracias Gonzalo Montor y gracias a El Pais.

El traductor Gonzalo Gómez Montoro da a conocer por primera vez en castellano obras de las escritoras Amy Levy, Clementina Black y Margaret Harkness elpais.com/cultura/2025...

As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza amidst its ongoing genocide, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed themselves and their families. Read on: amn.st/63322fK1Ze

79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None. Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.

Unbearable www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Spanish TV before Eurovision today

I went to talk to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday morning to talk about my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present'. Catch it on iPlayer. #nonfictionreads

The wonderful Isabel Davis!

It was so great to have @drsallybd.bsky.social and @bradders953.bsky.social on campus for their amazing paper, “Do Androids Dream of Vernon Lee?” yesterday. There are still two speakers left in Teesside English and Creative Writing seminar series. All welcome!

Word of the day? Penguins

Tesla tea party! 😂

I loved every minute of this. What a wonderful conference. With thanks to the brilliant @juliemariewise.bsky.social and @yivory.bsky.social Papers by new scholars in the field were 🔥🔥And there was a #MichaelField strand too!

What a fantastic event this has been! Smart papers, witty conversations, good friends, old and new. Thanks to extraordinary co-organizer @yivory.bsky.social, keynotes @kristinmahoney.bsky.social and @veryverso.bsky.social, as well as everyone else who made this weekend happen. Now, time for a nap.

Friends, do come along if you are in the Boston area for my talk on Michael Field and Women Artists @harvard.edu libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14158949

That’s right. 🇺🇦

Huge congrats Isabel!!!! It’s beautiful

Victorian Poetry is thrilled to announce a new open-access special issue, “Transition and Transformation.” Guest edited by Erik Gray, it features contributions by Florence Boos, Mary Ellis Gibson, @lindakhughes.bsky.social , Britta Martens, & Herbert F. Tucker. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53644

This is an important letter from bodies representing Arts and Humanities in the UK. Please share widely

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

I'm very excited to serve as one of the cohosts of this virtual program on The Picture of Dorian Gray, which will run weekly February through March! 💜 #OscarWilde

ICE raids will begin tomorrow in Chicago. Please share this so as many people as possible see it. Thank you.

Can’t be repeated often enough ‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’ on.ft.com/42hzVmL

CHAINS OF LOVE AND BEAUTY, now out in paper! @princetonupress.bsky.social

I am trying to learn about nineteenth-century translations of #Hegel's Aesthetics into English. Is Bosanquet in 1886 the very first one? Or are they others? Has there been a study of the history of Hegel's translations into English?

Badly hit by a virus. Doing a rest cure....

How did developments in adult education from 1823 shape Birkbeck, and how has the college adapted to survive over time? Read Laurel Brake's fantastic article, followed by Robyn Jakeman's timeline, at 19.bbk.ac.uk

Have spent the holidays with Hegel. I need now a novel.

When you ask for an Americano and the water is hotter than the surface of Venus.

I would call it the Old Wise Owl, the Old Wise Fowl's best friend ;)

Watching 1890s films as I prepare my Modernising Victorians class. Very beautiful.

He is definitely in the shadows.

Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures, a newer journal from Johns Hopkins UP, has migrated over to Bluesky. Please take a look at our submission guidelines. We welcome work across the turn of the century, across disciplines, and across national boundaries. www.press.jhu.edu/journals/cusp

Wonderful, can' t wait to use this. Ax

What a dream to listen to @drsallybd.bsky.social on #VernonLee (including androids)!

Taught this week in our BBK 19thC course #EBB #CasaGuidiWindows. Striking the resonances with today: lies, power, spectacle.

Coming to #MLA25 and want to find out what you can do about legislative overreach into higher ed? We have lots of sessions, including mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...

gorgeous

One of my most fav moments, working with Marie Spartali Stillman dress, shoes and coat. Thank you Delaware Art Museum

Materials for my Poetry Nouveau chapter and talk (thanks MSL Collection!)

Had a blast organising a Michael Field show at the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection