Our #TeamUofG community is invited to Refugee Week 2026. Join us from 15 to 19 June to celebrate the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary, and take part in events across UofG. View the programme: gla.ac.uk/explore/sanctuary/events/refugee-week/

🧵✨Heathcliff before Jacob Elordi ☘️ There have been numerous Irish Heathcliffs since 1934 🎭 Heathcliff has spoken Irish onstage and been presented as the “stranger in the house” typical of modern Irish drama

A magnificent hawthorn tree. It shelters a bench haunted by midges...

A very important discussion: failure as a feature, not a bug.

Full programme details for Fantasy's Present Pasts, the first European Conference on the Fantastic (23rd-25th June, @glasgow.ac.uk), are now up on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/crit.... Registration through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fantasys-p.... Non-presenting delegates welcome!

What a fascinating woman!

Blue (and slightly purple).

White.

We are looking for a Finance Worker to come and work with us at Glasgow Women's Library: womenslibrary.org.uk/2026/05/01/j...

🎉📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY: *Women, 'Failure' and Academia* is out today, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... Open Access With @rellypops.bsky.social @tsjharling.bsky.social @dawnlyon.bsky.social @profjoubin.bsky.social @tarabrabazon.bsky.social #Academia #Failure

This morning, we had a visitor.

May is Scotland's magical month.

Now open for applications until 12 June: PhD Scholarship for project on the legacy of Scottish textiles, with the great Sally Tuckett, University of Glasgow, and the V&A in Dundee www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Self-promotion klaxon: this is now out, and it's got an essay by yours truly. #Cage #ScottishCircus #4'33" #Whistlebinkies moderecords.com/catalog/352c...

The bluebells are coming along nicely.

💪 Gran defensora de los derechos de la mujer, Clara Campoamor fue una de las primeras mujeres en conseguir el escaño de diputada en las Cortes, en 1931 🔙 Cuando se cumplen 54 años de su fallecimiento, recordamos a una de las grandes figuras de la historia española del siglo XX

Spring!

Amigas frikis y académicas interesadas en literatura fantástica: a lo mejor os interesa esta conferencia gratuita y en línea organizada por el Centro de Estudios de la Fantasía y lo Fantástico de la Universidad de Glasgow: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

Beautiful creatures in Soria, Castile, Spain.

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

The environment of Madrid's periodicals archive also holds this beautiful modernist petrol station, huddling against the facade of the hotel where I am staying.

Also, Madrid is quite a change from our Scottish spring.

And I have got the one year that I needed to complete my collection of El Ángel del Hogar: 1866! With lots of little gems hidden between the pages, if that's the right word for microfilm scans.

Tomorrow, I will spend the day at the Hemeroteca Municipal de Madrid. I hope there will be some late Easter eggs waiting for me!

📚 Congreso “Mujeres y escrituras de comunidad en la España de la Edad Moderna (siglos XVI–XVIII)”

The first proofs of _Redrawing Europe's Literary Map_ are now off again to the production team. It was quite fiddly work because of the different languages involved and so many authors mentioned - a big shout out to our very professional indexer, Eline van der Veken!

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Something for the colleagues at the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow @dimitrafimi.bsky.social @edunorte.bsky.social

Come and work with us at Glasgow! Full time permanent post in History of Art: lecturer in material and visual culture with specialism in dress history or textile history. Details below 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR311/l...

Aaaaaand - the first proofs of _Redrawing Europe's Literary Map: Transnational Circulations of Literature 1850-1920_ have arrived... I am a bit scared to open them. brill.com/display/titl...

The sun came out today and the crocuses opened!

@glalarn.bsky.social is delighted to host this event to commemorate the life and legacy of indigenous activist Berta Cáceres. If in Glasgow, book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rememberin...

Tomorrow! In person at university of Glasgow and online

Sign the petition to save languages and intercultural studies at Heriot-Watt university. Friends there going through drastic times. They have an incredible interpreter training programme there

After 10 years, it's getting more real! Brill has put on their website a per-announcement of our collaborative volume Redrawing Europe's Literary Map: Transnational Circulations of Women's Writing 1850-1920 brill.com/display/titl...

It's here, and it's live -- our Spring 2026 Seminar Series has just been announced. All welcome! www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi... @srsrensoc.bsky.social @cvc-rhul.bsky.social @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @leuvenup.bsky.social

Knitting in Scotland is in press and published by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social in June in illustrated hardback and Open Access. A real team effort.

The JSCS is excited to announce the Jo Labanyi Essay Prize, an annual award (of $750) for the best article published in the journal each year. The first winner will be named in early 2027 for articles published in 2026! More info at the link: think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...

Aaaaand - the first grant rejection of the year has arrived. Ach, well.

Excited to present some of my work on Austen theatricals behind bars tomorrow at @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social. Part of my forthcoming book Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage @academic.oup.com global.oup.com/academic/pro... #JaneAusten #Adaptation

@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social shares that applications are now open for her new Rare Books School course on "The Rise of Periodical Print Culture, 1700–1830." The course will run from the 12th-17th July 2026. More info at the Rare Books School website: buff.ly/hY81Dzi Thanks for #SharingYourNews!

Guten Morgen!

The Open Book Collective Development Fund Call for Applications 2026 is open! We fund projects dedicated to building capacity, networks and infrastructure for OA book publishing. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti... N.B. this fund is not for BPCs

And it´s time to go back to work.

Issue 10.2 of JEPS is now live! openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/

Meu novo livro sobre literatura mundial/mundo já está disponível, gratuitamente, aqui: www.edicoesmakunaima.com.br/2025/12/01/m...

My thesis is now available online on the history of @socantscot.bsky.social Much of it has been published in articles in the last few years but there's still lots of unpublished material in there if you fancy some Christmas reading #History #Museums #Scotland #Antiquarianism theses.gla.ac.uk/82236/

Vorweihnachtszeit ist Druckfahnenzeit. Unser Tagungsband wird im Frühjahr 2026 erscheinen: "Schreibkalender der Frühen Neuzeit. Druckwerke mit Raum für handschriftliche Eintragungen (1540-1800)", open access und in Papierform, mit Text und Bild, und viel Detailliebe. #Schreibkalender

One of the woodland's most colourful characters wants in on the festive fun... Door 6 is calling! 🎄✨ #RSPBAdvent25