Meanwhile, at the Cage aux Folles Bar & Grille…

📣 Please do what I cannot & take in @physiciansgallery.bsky.social's forthcoming exhibition. For details & to register for the launch on 26 February, w/ talks from the (bloody) excellent @helenking.bsky.social & Prof. Marc Turner👉 shorturl.at/fnH5m #AcademicSky #Skystorians #MedicalHumanities

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

Happy publication anniversary to Northanger Abbey! Celebrate by accusing your crush’s dad of murder.

Why on earth are Americans interested in concrete? Is this true, American people on BlueSky?

It turns out that it takes upwards of ONE HOUR for me to recognise that I've accidentally left repeat-one on and have been listening to one song on a loop. Even when that song is 'Back to the Start'.

Happy birthday Lord Byron! Mary Shelley after reading Thomas Moore's edition of his Letters and Journals:

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Some lovely #LordByron -ish news, in case anybody else missed it: a statue of Ada Lovelace will be unveiled on Lower Bond Street in #Hinckley, Leicestershire, 2-4pm on 31 January 👇 @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Skystorians

📣3 days to go until the deadline - we can't wait to see you for our 50th anniversary in Lancaster!

📣 The Figure of the Politician in Modern & Contemporary Europe from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, edited by Pasi Ihalainen, @rosariolopez.bsky.social, Kari Palonen, & Henk te Velde, launches online on 6 February 👇 #AcademicSky #Skystorians #HistParl #BookSky

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

I'm finally clocking (& logging) off for Christmas: Happy Holidays one & all!

Discipline and Nourish.

The author was dead: to begin with.

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary! We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands. 📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe... #CFP 🗃️

Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵

👇This response to #dishist in #highered & the experiences of disabled, chronically ill, D/deaf, & #ND #skystorians is a must-read, w/ recommendations relevant across the Humanities & #academicsky. Thank you, Sarah Holland, @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social, Sarah Hayward, & @tillyguthrie.bsky.social! 🗃️

Amazon is rude to ask for you to review your book purchase when you clearly haven't had a chance to read it yet. Clearly they should wait 10-15 years before sending that follow-up.

We can only whole-heartedly endorse 19th century politicians as Christmas tree decorations. Gladstone would ideally be at the base of the tree with an axe!

📢 On 21 January, join novelist Tessa Hadley & actor-writers Anni Domingo & Romola Garai in conversation with Professor Lara Feigel from @kingsenglish.bsky.social as they ask why Austen remains so popular and what she has to say to us after 250 years. 🔗 Register here ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/auste...

The Lord John Russell - "The true Christmas spirit of reform?" -flask is mine. WHO knew that crafting a #histparl research themed Christmas tree decoration could be so much fun?! A cracking idea from @ihr.bsky.social. (Now #AcademicSky talk to me more about creative outputs & the #REF?)

Coming up this Thursday in Manchester! Our last Open Mic in Belfast was great fun - highly recommended event in a beautiful, historic setting - the @porticolibrary.bsky.social... #skystorians

Do you care about the sharp decline in children reading for pleasure in the UK? Here’s your chance to make a difference by responding to the call for evidence (3,000 words max) to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry. Often the most compelling evidence is not from the « usual suspects »

Friends! #Skystorians! Mancunians! A small reminder that this FREE @historylabplus.bsky.social open mic event is just days away... #AcademicSky @ihr.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social 🗃️

📣live @ukparliament.parliament.uk calls that may be of interest: for contributions for a POSTnote on 'lifelong learning & skills in the UK' (deadline 18/01 👉 shorturl.at/lDwOC) & for evidence on the sharp decline in children reading for pleasure (deadline 22/12 👇) #AcademicSky #Skystorians #BookSky

Tschüss, Frankfurt! I had a delightful time at 'Short Narrative Forms of the Long #c18th' talking #GeorgeCrabbe & whether to write short stories that are 'performative' or just fun. Thank you Roslyn Irving, Anna P-M, & @mainzuniversity.bsky.social's lovely English & Linguistics team for inviting me!

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉 universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/ (All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.) Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

CALL FOR PAPERS! Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026). Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History

CFP: Order and Disorder in Global Intellectual History There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it. 👇 fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH

www.raceandregency.org/podcast We have a podcast!

In the lead up to the #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner announcement next month, we are shining a light on each of the shortlisted books. This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.

So delighted that this long-gestated brain child is now out and in the real world. I'll be talking about it at the English Faculty in Cambridge, @cam.ac.uk on Thursday of next week at 5pm. Do please come along if you're in town!

The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.

Creature schmeature - if you’re an academic, I gleefully inform you Victor Frankenstein is One of Us 🖤

BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. Deadline: 12th January 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

If you have tea and some fig rolls you may also be in heaven

#cfp Explore Austen's first-sold and last-composed novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, with the Jane Austen Society of North America. CFP closes November 30. #c18 #18thc #18thcentury #austen #janeausten

“‘People read Foucault […] & develop an alienated view of the world’. God, did I love this. An ‘alienated view of the world’! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.”

I interviewed the exceptional James Graham for Waitrose Weekend and I would just like to scream this bit from the rooftops. www.weekend-online.com/issue768/#10

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!