Delighted to receive this award! Thanks to the panel and @acdsociety.bsky.social

A free streaming service curated by extremely chill experts who will order whatever you want and give excellent recommendations in a super chill, comfortable building connected to all of your community resources. Impossible to overstate how amazing libraries are.

So much to love about London Tide. The staging and particularly the lighting design were brilliant. What they chose to include/exclude worked well. That said if you don’t like PJ Harvey you might struggle with it!

Super proud of our Edge Hill English and Creative Arts students for responding with a mixture of righteous fury, love, and care to news of redundancies threatening our department! Please share and sign their petition(s)!

I’m not going to finish rereading Our Mutual Friend before I see London Tide tomorrow am I…

Said hello to the Gloucester Candlestick yesterday. Somehow it’s about 11 years since I was thinking about it during my MA. I loved the freedom to think that course afforded me. Happy times

I remember how excited I was by all the options as an undergrad delivered by so many experts, and I wonder what options will be left for my history-loving teen when he gets to that stage

This was great! I’m looking forward to the book.

Absolutely delighted that the wonderful Caroline Arscott is here at last! Hi @carscott.bsky.social

Have had such an enjoyable evening reading the papers and annotations for this panel. Eagerly awaiting the discussion the discussion tomorrow.

Very happy to see the summary of my article ‘Authority and Medical Expertise: Arthur Conan Doyle in The Idler’ is up on the Medical Humanities blog today: blogs.bmj.com/medical-huma... I was lucky to have the article published online first in May but it’s now part of the December issue

Today’s mood

Still a bit of time to get your abstracts in for 29th @dickenssociety.bsky.social Symposium at University of Birmingham, 15-18 July 2024. Deadline is 15 January. More info: dickenssociety.org/home. Birmingham is a dream Victorianist location & we have lots of fun social & cultural events planned!

Gutted today as one of my wonderful colleagues worked her last day with us. If you haven’t already got yourself a collaborator/ sounding-board/ co-conspirator/ team-teacher who is a librarian, you should absolutely make that your priority. Librarians make the best colleagues. And friends

This was a fabulous event! Beautiful singing and fascinating context for the carols. Made my Monday a bit less Monday

Just booked! Looking forward to feeling a bit festive after what is turning into the longest week ever

I am so delighted that my first post shares a beautiful essay by my dear friend Scott Sandage. For years, I have taught his method to my students. Now I can assign this moving explanation of its history (in his voice) published by @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social commonplace.online/article/how-...

Took some of our PGRs on a writing retreat on a train today! It was the best. We went to Lancaster and met up with PGRs from the Glasgow campus who did a train retreat too. Can’t claim credit for the idea but it was such a lovely day and I would 100% recommend doing writing retreats on a train!

A fresh library card is always so exciting

Beautiful day for one of the highlights of the academic year! It’s graduation today and tomorrow and I am delighted to be celebrating with our wonderful GCU London students. This is what all the hard work is for!

This was exactly the break I needed last night. So silly and fun and now I feel recharged and ready to help students write their research projects today.

Found my #19thC spooky story for Halloween. ‘The Phantom Death’ - a shipboard poisoning mystery by W Clark Russell from 1893, illustrated by Seppings West

The #19thC botanical stereographs at the photography centre at the V&A are absolutely worth seeking out.

Finally had a chance to start trying out curatr.ucd.ie/about after learning about it in an excellent London #19thC studies seminar earlier this week. Excited by the possibilities

Looks awesome #19thC

The Minerals project website is now live! We will be launching a wiki-style database of #19thC texts of mineral mining in the British southern settler colonies early next year! You can find out more about the project here: imperialminerals.ie

Laughed til i cried - Bridget Christie was wonderful last night. Totally recommend and there’s still plenty of opportunity to catch her in the UK over the next couple of months. www.bridgetchristie.co.uk/gigs/

Reminding everyone about the International Symposium on the Future of Digital Editing & Publishing, to be held at UCC on June 6th & 7th, 2024. There are no fees and free accommodation, so I'm particularly eager for people to share with graduate students & ECRs! Generously supported by IRC & AHRC 🙏

Spotted new signage up outside our new building this morning. We’ve been excited to move to our new learning development centre and library for a while so this is a great start to the week

Glad to be finding posts I’m interested with ease- think I’ll like it here