In our Wilkie Collins era

On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

A friendly reminder that our cfp for "Naming & Classifying in the Eighteenth Century" has an extended deadline to Nov. 30. Send us your brilliant ideas! Please share, too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The cacti are just starting to feel a *smidge* aggressive now…

History Day at senate house organised by the @ihr.bsky.social So nice to meet fellow historians on their career journey and encourage them to join @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social and @historylabplus.bsky.social

A spooky story from the Victoria County History archive (or is it...?). A tribute to M R James and the world of the early VCH, which I first shared on 31 October last year - I hope you enjoy it. #Halloween @vch-home.bsky.social blog.history.ac.uk/2024/10/vch-...

New Job Posts Like: Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and

It’s time! I’ve seen too many! I’m starting a (glacially slow) #puns in #business marketing appreciation thread… w/ special mentions for #crime #wordplay…

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

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-...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

📣 Callum Smith is launching The Foxite Whigs & Visual Culture, 1780-1810: Radical Sociability at @aberuni.bsky.social on 19 November from 17:10. Online (tinyurl.com/yvnukza8) & in person. #histparl #skystorians @bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

I'm on a mission to try and merge my academic and storytelling lives. Hosting this event at the University of Aberdeen's exhibition is an exciting step on this journey!

An embarrassment of riches this #YWESnesday! I also now have Tess Somervell, James Metcalf, & Rayna Rossenova’s mega-review of 2024 #c18th #poetry studies.

Another #YWESnesday & happily I’ve come by another fantastic looking mega-review—this time of 2024 #c18th #prose scholarship...

Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social

Fellowship Opportunity for ECRs: The Byron Society Fellow Focussing on digital promotion activities, with a £2500 annual stipend. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197

Anyone else automatically read this as the men & women really thought things through on those holidays?

#LordByron turning detective? In Venice? Yes please. @essiefox.bsky.social talking all things Dangerous w/ @drtimrideout.bsky.social on 29 October at Nottingham’s The Bookcase 👇 @bars.bsky.social #romanticism

Should you find yourself in the general Peterborough area, I'm giving a talk in aid of the John Clare Cottage appeal on Sat 15 Nov, 3pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inconvenie...

Who is this Tom?

👇Brilliant discussion w/ @evepatt.bsky.social, @clareclarke.bsky.social, @murphgothic.bsky.social, @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social, & Una Mannion on the moral complexities of creating & consuming #truecrime for the 2025 Arts & Humanities Research Festival @tlrhub.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky 🗃️

We're super excited to be hosting Prof. Alison Bashford at @globalaffairslu.bsky.social to hear her talk about her fascinating new book on the history of reading the hand. You can imagine why we'd be interested and we are sure you will be too. Please sign up for free tickets at the link below.

"oh I wrote those comments a long time ago when I was in a different place" I'm thirty nine years old do you know what I call a sweater I got in 2021? "my new sweater."

Well, THIS sucks. I have tickets for One Battle After Another for tomorrow and now I don't know if I should go!

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Thank you @srwride.bsky.social, and thank you for your amazing editing! 😊

Today @helcdall.bsky.social's mega-review of 2024 #c18th #drama scholarship for @englishassociation.bsky.social journal #YWES landed on my digital doormat. So looking forward to diving in! #YWESnesday #editing #academicsky

When a loved one tells you that they will be “bletting medlars”, it’s difficult not to hear they’ll be taking, er, a more interventionist approach to community security from here on out…

The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!

BARS News: Independent Researcher Bursary Call for Applications Independent researchers with an interest in any aspect of Romantic Studies (literature, architecture, art, politics, culture, history etc) are invited to apply for the Independent Researcher Bursary.  www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189

Who knew that the British JAIL for History of Science was in the Leeds School of Philosophy? We'll keep you on the historiographical straight and narrow!

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

I'm hugely honoured and very excited to be giving this year's Historical Research #Lecture at @ihr.bsky.social, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the #public'. Tuesday 4 November, all welcome. More info in AltText. Book here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Alt text: Two images. 1. A headline. The leader of the Conservative party saying, "We need to curb students taking rip off degrees such as English." 2. A bar of chocolate they gave away at the Tory Party conference that says, "When Labour negotiates Britain loses." Britain is spelt B-R-I-T-I-A-N.

It was an absolute pleasure to welcome the new IHR fellows today alongside @ihr.bsky.social colleagues, led by Jade Chesterton. Such fascinating, rich and necessary research in history and beyond. Find out more: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

A Google 'AI overview' gem is foisted upon me as I try to identify the backing dancer in Fun magazine's April 1884 May Day satire... #c19th 🗃️ #folklorethursday

Bristolians interested in Spontaeous Human Combustion or the history of our medical understanding of alcohol's history on the body and mine might like to sign up to my talk at the brilliant @glensidehospmuseum.bsky.social next month: glensidemuseum.org.uk/spontaneous-...

I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...

(Talk) Scotland's Opium Secrets histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/09/les-... #histSTM

I'm so disappointed that I can't attend this! For any other #skystorians or #academicsky researchers interested in better connecting with the TV industry, catch #AHTV2025 @conwayhall.bsky.social on 5 November 👉 www.thetvfestival.com/tv-foundation/career-development/ahtv/ Funding available!

Check out this new podcast for ECRs - I’m proud to have been one of the guests on episode 3, where we talk about the importance of networks and mentors, and where to find them!

Comedy = tragedy + time Scarborough Fair = parsley, sage, rosemary + thyme

HL+ committee members Dr Alex Rigg & Dr Michael Reeve have written a blogpost about the Teaching in a Time of Crisis Conference 2025 at University of Warwick. Have a read! historylab.plus/blog/ @historyuk.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @alexriggsby.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

We are thrilled to announce that @joannabourke.bsky.social and Tracey Loughran will be helping us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the @cshhh.bsky.social. Come along on the 29th of October to hear two fantastic public lectures and to raise a glass with us. Register here: tinyurl.com/4k98rn7w

Self promo plug to say if you’re interested in this & wanna invite me to your dept, esp if your city is nice - then invite me!! I am a good value seminar guest 😅

You know when anyone tries to reboot AI assistant Janet in The Good Place & she's programmed to stop them by pleading for her life in ever more extreme ways? THIS is how attempting to leave McAfee is starting to feel.

👇'Feuding in the Streets? Gender, Crime, and Conflict in Scottish Towns, c. 1500-1600' by @kiritekatawa.bsky.social, online & in person. This looks to be great.