CFP: Dickens on Screen – Dickens Society Online Event, Saturday June 6th (Deadline: May 11th 2026) victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/c...

📖Each month we run a free book giveaway! It's open to all, either by form on our website, or subscribing for free to our patreon feed. The book is a random edition of a play, generously supplied by our sponsors The Malone Society. The next draw closes on the 5th May! www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Booked for our symposium with @hbap1924.bsky.social & @heritagenetwork.bsky.social yet? Here are our first 3 speakers to tempt you - @seasideferry.bsky.social @allanbrodie.bsky.social and Samantha Richardson will talk on what #seasideheritage is, its potential as world heritage & its economic value

Our next online seminar is all about amusement parks and funfairs - we'll be looking at their origins, surviving heritage and the current challenges they face. Book your *free* place here: seasideheritage.org.uk/events/upcom...

Have you signed up for our June Symposium about Valuing Seaside Heritage? We're thrilled to be partnering again with @hbap1924.bsky.social and also have support from @heritagenetwork.bsky.social this year. Full details here: hbap.org.uk/valuing-seas...

My next online talk celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. I'll be looking at how the #seaside was represented at the South Bank and how design there, in its turn, influenced the look of resorts in the 1950s and 60s Book your ticket at www.ticketsource.com/kathryn-ferry

EVENT: Join us for an online talk with Eric Parry Architects on 5 May at 6pm. 'Faith, Creativity and Crafting' explores the renewal of St John’s Waterloo — how thoughtful design can revitalise a historic church while strengthening its connection to the community. 🔗

The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants is now open for applications, supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

20 years on the @theguardian.com's @markffisher.bsky.social spoke with Black Watch creators about the enduring legacy of one of the most-celebrated productions in Scottish theatre history. With Vicky Featherstone, Gregory Burke, John Tiffany, Brian Ferguson, Emun Elliott and Laura Hopkins.

Valuing Seaside Heritage Symposium Hosted in partnership with @seasidenetwork.bsky.social, @hbap1924.bsky.social, and @heritagenetwork.bsky.social. @seasideferry.bsky.social opens the day with 'What is Seaside Heritage?'. Register: hbap.org.uk/valuing-seas...

I’m thrilled to join the Carena Institute @bbkhistorical.bsky.social team, which will develop my teaching, build on my research, and also means @drclaireharris.bsky.social and I get to work with @lesleymcf.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social and Esther Breithoff! ✨💚

COVENT GARDEN is DONE. Will be PUBLISHED by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS in SPRING 2027, if everything lines up. Blow me, that was some work. 140,000 words (may well not be allowed to leave it that long tbh). If you want 400 years of London social history, this will probably tickle your fancy.

Out now from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Professor Kate McLoughlin has written in @uk.theconversation.com about #silence, and how noticing silences in literature can make us better readers. "We come to recognise that some things are better left unsaid – indeed, that some things can’t be said." #booksky #reading #literature

Punk masks, Walkmans and Choppers: Museum of Youth Culture to open in London. Opening in May, Camden museum has 100,000-item archive telling story of British youth subcultures, from mods and rockers, to ravers and emo. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... via @theguardian.com

Thank you again for the lovely biro (everyone admires it.)

Proofs! Forthcoming chapter in *The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel* amongst stellar company & excellently steered by Prof Chris Morash. I’ll be doing these with some Easter chocolate to power me through #IrishLiterature #Novels #speirgorm #GulliversTravels

“I hope that identifying the existence of LGBTQ+ people... will encourage us to think more deeply” A Queer Inheritance explores the LGBTQ+ histories and identities behind @nationaltrust.org.uk properties. Read our interview with author Michael Hall ⬇️ www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Breaking news: we've just signed a once-in-a-lifetime loan agreement to bring rural England's most iconic artwork home for the first time in 1,000 years. Introducing our 2027 major exhibition - Bayewe Tapestry: the Fight to Wool England.

Applications for the BAVS/BARS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship hosted at LJMU are now open! You can find out more about this prestigious scheme and how to apply here: bavs.ac.uk/bavs-bars-ni... Deadline for applications: 11th May 2026

Signed all these today, beautiful special editions for @waterstones.bsky.social Out a week from Tuesday!

A new eight-part podcast, The Rise and Fall of Madchester, is now on BBC Sounds. From Factory Records and the Haçienda, to the emergence of Happy Mondays and New Order, with new interviews with artists and DJs, including Mike Pickering. Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... #podcast

Prof Kate McLoughlin has written for The Guardian about #silence and how it has 'inspired, daunted, comforted and terrified writers throughout the long course of English literature'.

Hear about the range of careers you can launch into after pursuing postgraduate study at the Institute of Historical Research. Learn more about our PhD programme: sas.ac.uk/phd-ihr

Thanks to our speakers this afternoon who provided lots of examples of care and restoration of #seasidegardens at #southport and #scarborough as well as some lovely floral clocks. If you missed the seminar it will be available to watch online via our website soon

CFP royalhistsoc.org/calendar/voi...

Deckchair hire excellent value - Chris has hired one & is charging the rest of us 45 pence an hour.

We do hope KINKY IS BEHAVING.

Do give 40 minutes of your life to watch this fascinating 1988 documentary on the permanent & elderly residents of Eastbourne’s decaying seaside hotels. Mrs Bloom is especially glorious. youtu.be/zgpK5YxqmDo?...

DEADLINE EXTENDED to the 31 March 2026! Join our PGRs and ECRs in Montpellier this autumn to discuss the theme of 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #PGR #ECR #CFP

London friends! (or London-adjacent) I'm going to be at Queer Britain in June in conversation with the incredible Lisa Power about my new book 'Rainbow Wales' June 27th at 2.30pm - a matinee if you will! www.outsavvy.com/event/33534/...

Yes dear people it's time for the COVER REVEEEAALLL www.waterstones.com/book/a-briti...

Registration open - Check out our Cambridge Festival events! 💥 We have a record number of events for all ages and interests this year; from photography, art, film, performances, to an immersive ecological sci-arts experience 16 March-2 April 2026 Registration recommended 👇 https://bit.ly/46a7Fnp

Opportunity for Fighting with Pride veterans to visit Glyndebourne Opera House to see the final dress rehearsal of Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd. The performance is on Thursday 25 June. More details and how to enter the ballot here mailchi.mp/fightingwith...

There are not many surviving interiors designed by #Victorian architect Owen Jones (1809-74) so it's always a thrill to visit St Bartholomew's at Sutton Waldron in #dorset. I wrote my PhD on Jones and to see his favourite primary colours yesterday, singing out after recent restoration, is wonderful

THURSDAY VERY CLOUDY FRIDAY CLOUDY MORNING BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON SAT SMASHING SUNDAY LOVELY DAY STORM DINNERTIME MONDAY SMASHING MORNING RAIN AFTERNOON EVE O.K. TUES LOVELY MORN AND AFT SWIM WED LOVELY MORN BOAT TRIP RAIN LUNCH CLOUDY AFT THURS

The Hay Festival programme is now live! Join Calon author @emilygarside.bsky.social for a fascinating panel with @jaseokundaye.bsky.social in conversation with @sachacoward.bsky.social! Tickets are live now for members and general booking opens on 14 March. 🎟️ shorturl.at/tZKdK

This is going to be great! And what a fantastic venue for our second #seasideheritage symposium with @hbap1924.bsky.social We've got a packed programme lined up for you finishing with 'chips and chat' on the beach thanks to @heritagenetwork.bsky.social Sign up NOW and we'll see you there 🌊🏖️

Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury

I remember doing school events and students would ask if I’d ever met anyone famous. I’d say, “Like who?” And they’d all yell “Malorie Blackman!!” I’d say yes and was cool for the rest of the day. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

I’m looking forward to delivering the plenary lecture at this multidisciplinary conference, which marks the tercentenary of the first publication of the world’s greatest prose satire, in 2026: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Fantastic blogpost by @patthomson.bsky.social on productive discomfort 👏 ‘Academic writing is a form of thinking. It’s not the transcription of thoughts already completed, but a process of thinking itself.’ patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

Appeal launched for the replacement of the (replica) shell seat at Strawberry Hill (the original, designed by Richard Bentley, c1754-56, was sold in the 1842 auction): www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/shell-seat/ #c18 #c18th #18thc

Messing about in boats: Kenneth Grahame, Scottish writer, Secretary at Bank of England, born #OTD 1859; published The Wind in the Willows in 1908, bequeathed royalties to Bodleian Library at University of Oxford. Manuscript [MS. Eng. misc. e. 247] @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...

Calling all Victorianists! Do you have CFPs/events/news of Victorianist interest you want to share? Let us know at [email protected] and we'll circulate it to the BAVS membership in the spring newsletter. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ruthannereads.bsky.social

Have you shown your support for the Seaside Holiday as Living Heritage? Encompassing everything from a stroll on the pier to the tang of vinegar on your fish & chips this initiative seeks to recognise cultural heritage as it is practised. Here's the quick form 🏖️🌊🍦 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Hurrah! This plopped through the letterbox this morning. Not only is it always a thrill to see my work in print (Chapter 10), but I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of the book. Many thanks to Duncan Lees and Liz Oakley-Brown for all their help and support. #Shakespeare #RadioDrama

We've really enjoyed collaborating with @hbap1924.bsky.social If you have time to give them some feedback it would be most welcome 🔽

I hear one of the boys tried to run away.