How odd to bump into #Blake's life mask at the National Portrait Gallery on the day he died

follow serpentine paths: will Eternity swallow 'the vast / Leviathan, the Bubbles vain, that ride / High on the foaming Billow'? This #Blake watercolour @britishmuseum.bsky.social sees a scaly green man riding his glorious green serpent up from the bottom of the sea around Edward Young's words...

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...

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'. ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

what I am working on today, thinking about serpentine formations in #Blake's trees for bsky.app/profile/abda... and bsky.app/profile/dran... #LiteraryArboretum

Sorting my papers, looking back and looking forward, still thinking about the metaphors and material forms that shape the #sibyl's prophetic leaves #TheBookUnbound

Not medieval or Renaissance, but Gillian Russell's _The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century_ is amazing. Or you could pre-order the new book by @luisacale.bsky.social , _The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting_, which will soon be knocking all our socks off.

Tonight at Birkbeck Arts Week: "The Man who painted his house": join @drvickymills.bsky.social, Derek Jarman Lab film maker Lily Ford, composer Richard Uttley for a screening and discussion about Victorian Art Labourer David Parr's House Birkbeck Cinema, 6pm: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event....

@drkarinkoehler.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social @luisacale.bsky.social @drvickymills.bsky.social @cncsi.bsky.social

Not to be missed: 'The Man who painted his house': #Victorian Art-Labourer David Parr An essay film screening & panel discussion Birkbeck Cinema, 7 May #BBKArtsWeek

Save the date for the Great CECS book sale on 16 & 17 May! We’re raising funds to support the research of our brilliant postgraduate community at York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. Not in York in those dates? You can still lend your support; full details at spsr.me/6Gxx

Arts Week is coming: join us for an exciting range of events showcasing what we do, from essay films in collaboration with the Derek Jarman Lab in our Cinema to theatre scratch nights, exhibitions, workshops, debates, & much more 6-9 May, Gordon Sq, London: www.bbk.ac.uk/annual-event...

Fabulous panel on craft culture. I wish I could be there. Will it be streamed/recorded, @amyeelkins.bsky.social?

Our latest issue to become free to read is spring 2020 blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl..., which contains our annual sales feature, plus a review by @luisacale.bsky.social of the 2019-20 @tate.bsky.social exhibition and catalogue. I remember this one as our first issue published during lockdown.

Looking forward to hearing Elizabeth Denlinger from @nypl.bsky.social discuss books, chapbooks, games, fiction, periodicals, and autobiographical accounts of trades and career choices for children in the Romantic Period at the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social on Friday 2 May.

Looking forward to hearing Sanja Perovic speak about 'Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture in France, Britain, Italy (1789-1815)' 6 March, 6 pm, Birkbeck School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, 43 Gordon Sq Book your place here: my.bbk.ac.uk/ords/f?p=832...

The YCBA will have a Blake exhibition from Aug. to Nov.: britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-... There's also Romney at the art gallery, in collaboration with the YCBA, from March to Sept.: britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-... Thanks to our exhibitions editor @luisacale.bsky.social for alerting me.

Looking forward to @katherineharloe.bsky.social talking about Goethe's Winckelmann at the London Paris Romanticism Seminar at Senate House, University of London on Friday @ies-sas.bsky.social @ics.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

Creator of Nightmares has just been delivered to my door. I am looking forward to reading and reviewing it for @blakequarterly.bsky.social

LP 68: 'Oaths, Odes and Orations', edited by David Duff & Marc Porée. Essays by Francesco Buscemi, Rémy Duthille, Judith Thompson, Pierre Lurbe, Robert W. Jones, Dafydd Moore, Catherine Bois, David Duff, and Paul Hamilton. 🔓 Available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2024...

If you're in US or Canada you can win a free copy of my @mitpress.bsky.social book until 14th Feb at Good Reads. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... It's got such beautiful illustrations, by my long term collaborator, Anna Burel. I know you'll want one. Oh and the words are good, too. Please share!

📢 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 📢 [Please Share Widely!] Picturing Pennant is a new crowdsourcing project to "tag" the illustrations in Thomas Pennant's eighteenth-century Tours of Wales and Scotland. Can you help us identify the places, people, and much more in these wonderful illustrated volumes?

We published our winter issue today. It will be free to read for a week or so. blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl... The cover image is a side view of "Albion Rose" on display at William Blake's Universe at the Fitzwilliam Museum last year.

Just heard that my latest article has been published in Blake Quarterly - alongside exciting-looking contributions from @luisacale.bsky.social @urthonaunbound.bsky.social & Mark Crosby. I discuss artworks by Sokari Douglas Camp, Hew Locke, and Jazzmen-Lee Johnson blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...

READ. And share. Christopher Newfield's "Humanities Decline in Darkness" www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/6

So excited to be able to announce this before putting 2024's work to bed: @celj.bsky.social has been awarded a $555,000 grant from the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to assess and re-imagine peer review practices in humanities publishing. Absolutely stoked to be part of this incredible team.

'An annual statistical report produced by Advance HE showed that 20,220 academic staff left their jobs in 2022-23 for a known destination – a 15 per cent rise on 2021-22....This leavers’ count represented about 8.4 per cent of all academics employed in UK higher education that year.' 1/2

So looking forward to reading about Transnational Women Writers. I enjoyed following the metamorphoses of @dralexiswolf.bsky.social's fascinating project tracing the #Wilmot sisters' travels between Ireland and Russia during the Revolutionary period @19birkbeck.bsky.social

A 'must read' on the history of early nineteenth century English radicalism. The journal '19' has brought together an eloquent series of essays on education & C19 culture. Open Access at www.19.bbk.ac.uk. Loved it. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @luisacale.bsky.social

This poem by Mary Robinson, published in The Morning Post in 1800, addressed to that newspaper's "Type," really must be the only poem about a typeface (as well as in a typeface) written in the #19thc. (But, gosh, I would be happy to hear of others.) Here are the first 2 stanzas. #BookHistory

Looking forward to welcoming Katharina Boehm to speak about #Antiquarian #Conjectures, #Romantic #Material Culture, & the Novel at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London, on 13 December. Please spread the news, @bars.bsky.social, @antiquaries.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social

Just want to add my shout out for Scott Newstok's annotated bibliographic resource, www.closereadingarchive.org, which he "compiled in conjunction with John Guillory’s [forthcoming' book _On Close Reading_" (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)

Want to hear about (some of) my Chevalier d'Eon discoveries among The National Archives' vast legal collections? Well, you're in luck. I'm giving an online talk on Valentines Day 2025 to chat all about them. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cheval...

Ready to discuss #Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities tonight in #MA Victorian Studies, thinking about serial fiction, writing in past & historic present tense, & the world of #Victorian #commodities: this first advert in the monthly issue features #Heal's, still a landmark nearby on Tottenham Court Road

Celebrating Birkbeck English and a new edition of @19birkbeck.bsky.social on the anniversary of the college foundation day last night. A fantastic issue put together by @luisacale.bsky.social

Elizabeth McHenry delivers the first in this year’s Panizzi Lectures this Thursday: Black Bibliography, Here and Now. Join us as we explore the challenges of studying Black print history and its impact on understanding Black literary production: bit.ly/BLPanizziBla...

For those who missed the press around the William Blake discoveries (mentioned in our previous post), catch up here: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/...

2.12.1824, on laying the first stone of the new lecture theatre at the London Mechanics Institution, George Birkbeck issued an invitation to 'the Feast of Reason', where 'the charms of Literature' join 'the powers of Science'. What was the place of #literature then? what is it now? 19.bbk.ac.uk

... and then the launch of the new issue of Vala #Blake's Birthday. Cannot wait to leaf it through... Thank you, @blakesociety.bsky.social

Enjoying Susanne Sklar's inspiring and powerful discussion of the I:Thou vs I:It in Blake and Buber at #Blake's Birthday @blakesociety.bsky.social, reflecting on Blake's Jerusalem through Palestine today, ending with the Vision of the Daughters of Albion: 'Everything that lives is holy'.

#Blake's birthday: lingering on this plate, a single-leaf design originally produced for TheBookOfThel, reprinted without the text, given a new leaf of life with a new emblematic caption, 'Does God take care of these', an existential line that prompts Songs of Experience. @blakesociety.bsky.social

‘At the heart of the problem is a lack of money, infrastructure and expertise to archive digital resources.’ Editorial from @natureportfolio.bsky.social on digital records preservation www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hey, are you unsure what to do as you wait for pie? Maybe write up a statement of interest for the "Building Book Labs: Hands-On Research & Teaching in Book History" symposium @skeuomorph.bsky.social this May—SOIs are due 15 December 15—Lots of dynamic ideas coming in—it’s going to be fun! #DHMakes

Is it time to reintroduce student number controls in England? The removal of recruitment caps in 2015 was hailed by ministers as a boon. But the tuition fee’s declining value and the Russell Group’s ever-growing market share now threaten the viability of some institutions

For a taste, here's our edition of #LGBTQHistory icon Anne Lister's 1822 Tour of North Wales, including her visit to fellow queer trailblazers, the Ladies of Llangollen [Edition by Kirsty McHugh and Elizabeth Edwards] editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/doc/0023

Horace Walpole's 1746 scheme for taxing ladies' calling cards (a satiric essay the Gothic novelist published in the periodical The Museum) led me down a research 🐇hole last night & led me to #19thc printed "escort cards" aka "flirtation cards." Do you all know about these little paper bits? I WANT!

For its 41st iteration, a special issue dealing with photo albums, the journal “View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture” is looking for contributions. Submissions are due on December 10, 2024. Here is the call for papers:

I'm trying to write today about "papyromania"--an obsession w/ the illusionistic representation of paper--& about a 1780 watercolor by Samuel Lewis, a detail of which you see here. Kind #18thc & art history Bluesky pals, what is the paper object marked w/ the letter N & the word Isleworth? thanks!

Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...