Three Ravens Haunting Season is BACK! 🖤 Kicking off our annual celebration of all things spooky and weird, we have today released our Three Ravens Guide to Halloween! Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!

How I love mornings like this 🍂❄️🥰

Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Just a spooky girl enjoying her spooky blanket 🖤✨

Had the most beautiful time in Cambridge for #BARS2025 last week. It was great to spend time with such lovely fellow Romanticists 💕 The days were filled with Romantic treasures, insightful panels, inspiring conversations and wonderful company! Thanks so much to everyone involved ✨ @bars.bsky.social

We even got to meet William Wordsworth! @19thcenturyem.bsky.social @realityandreverie.bsky.social

Happy International Cat Day! ❤️🐾

“Gather round the campfire and listen in…” 🔥 Love love love this new book from @threeravenspod.bsky.social! My favourite source for all things weird, wonderful, wild and whimsical… ❤️💫🐦‍⬛ It certainly gets Trixie’s seal of approval 🖤✨

💚 Photo from my collection, 1977.

I am now so depressed that I have not an idea to put to paper — my hand feels like lead — and yet it is an unpleasant numbness; it does not take away the pain of Existence. I don’t know what to write. John Keats (letter B. Bailey, 28 May 1818)

“then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think…” - John Keats 🌊✨ 📍Seaham Beach

BARS is delighted to announce that the 2026 International Biennial Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme is Romantic Retrospection. Weds 29th- Fri 31st July 2026 (with additional online elements held around the in-person conference) www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5908

Well it was rather interesting trying to get home from work today…

the hardest part of living alone really is trying to finish a bag of spinach

Also BARS’ PGR and ECR account has arrived - give us a follow @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social !

Recording: Joanna Baillie's The Tryal Please find below the link to a recording of a staged reading of Joanna Baillie's The Tryal that took place on 23 October, 2024, at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5853

✨✍️✨✍️✨✍️✨✍️✨ #STOPthecuts #ucu @ucu.org.uk stopthecutspetition.org.uk

Just a baby girl. 🥹 Photo from my collection, 1964.

Just some lovely tickets to 18th-century masquerade balls 😍🎭 www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #18c

And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting Love;— then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink. John Keats (letter to J. H. Reynolds, 31 Jan. 1818)

Now more than ever we need to expand and develop our societal relationship with anxiety, in all its forms and crucially how communication, relationships, and anxiety can go hand in hand #skystorians #emotions

Best part of returning home from a trip is being reunited with my little snuggle bug 🐈‍⬛🩷✨

Had the MOST wonderful time at #BSECS2025! Massive thank you to everyone involved in organising and facilitating such a lovely, convivial conference. So much fun catching up with friends, and meeting new people. My first time at @bsecs.bsky.social, but hopefully not the last 📚❤️✨

Made it to Oxford for #BSECS2025. First stop… Blackwell’s and a delicious pizza! 📚🍕 Very excited for tomorrow! @bsecs.bsky.social ✨

Such a fantastic performance in Newcastle yesterday for the Les Misérables Arena Tour. The cast and orchestra had us captivated with every word, every note, every breath. 🇫🇷✨ And it was such a lovely coincidence to be sat beside you, @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social!

Trixie has claimed her place under the Christmas tree. Whether she plans to catch Father Christmas in the act, or she senses catnip in one of these presents… who can say? 🐱🎄✨

Think I may have found my favourite tea!🎄❤️✨

Had so much fun putting together a Christmas Quiz for our Long Nineteenth Century Studies Group this week🎄❤️✨ (also gave me the perfect excuse to wear my Santa Keats T-Shirt! 🎅🏼)

Hello Bluesky! Starting to get used to this platform so, it’s probably time to introduce myself and to let you know a little bit about me and what you’re likely to find on my account… ☺️

THE FEETS. drouot.com/en/l/1999269...

A continuation here! go.bsky.app/SUkFf38

Of all the excellent Joshua Reynolds vibes, I think 'posh 1770s ladies running amok' is my favourite Modelled here beautifully by Diana, Viscountess Crosbie & Lady Jane Halliday #18c