Tonight!⚡️ With @simonbirks.com at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social

New hair day with @simonbirks.com !

We are looking for Reviewers for the RRR journal! If you’re interested, please follow the link below and fill in the form to register. www.rrrjournal.com/contact

Had the privilege of hearing a paper from @helenkingstone.bsky.social on ageing, generations, and Oliphant and it was brilliant. Great to see more on this here.

Is there an article, book, or chapter that made you think in a new way about Lister? If you’d like to lead a discussion about a piece of Lister scholarship for the Anne Lister Forum, drop us a message!

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize. The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Got an amazing day to visit Brantwood today! Those views 😍

Ask your husbands if you can go to "Domestic Ideology and Its Others" and get some dangerous ideas from Nina Elisabeth Cook, Shrutakirti Dutta, Christine Colon, & Julie Sorge Way at #NAVSA2025

📢 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' online conference tickets now live - international speakers explore many aspects of dress 1714-1815 Full details of the conference programme costumesociety.org.uk/conference Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…#fashionhistory#cossoc2525

Booked for this Wednesday and looking forward to the @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social event. Amazing to have the option to attend online as well.

JOIN ME in writing your paper proposal on the last possible day of the final deadline extension Not like I have a book to promote there or anything

📢 Final call to submit your abstracts for our upcoming conference at the University of Stirling this January! You have until midnight tonight! 📑🖋️

Looks so good!

😂 know the feeling

While in London, made it to the 'Heiress: Sargent's American Portraits' exhibition at Kenwood House!

Wow. Went to the theatre tonight with the gorgeous @simonbirks.com, a treat after a lot of hard working. Got to go to The Lady From the Sea at The Bridge Theatre. An amazing experience, absolutely incredible. Bit speechless.

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life The smell of firewood from a log burner on a quiet evening The comfort of a soft sweater The sound of a gentle sea Finding you have twenty minutes when you thought it was ten Coming home to your dog

Incredibly proud of @mariellebirks.com - this is such a massive achievement, and her essays are genuinely full of genius and intelligence. Looking forward to going outside, too. 🌳

Dissertation submitted! 🎉🎉 Two years ago I started my MA in Victorian Studies @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and now its done. Lots of emotions but its been a fantastic, wonderful and amazing ride. Could not have done it without my incredible husband. Thank you @simonbirks.com Might go outside now.

The Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are very happy to take any queries, please just email us at [email protected].

📢 Just a few weeks left to submit your abstracts for our exciting conference at the University of Stirling in January! 🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept 📩 Email: [email protected]

RSVP 2026 Conference Call for Papers: 'Movements and Migrations', to be held at Trinity College, Dublin, 23-25th July 2026. Share widely! @rs4vp.org

Heads-up that the CFP submissions deadline for the 2026 Dickens Society NeMLA panel has been extended until September 30th!

If you sign up for someone's emails and then decide you no longer want to receive them, unsubscribing is a much better option than marking them as spam. Unsubscribing takes you off the list, but marking them as spam makes it harder for emails to get to recipients who want them.

Your La Vie Parisienne cover by birth month. Some silliness from the historical periodicals for your #Friday. #c19th

Have you signed up for tomorrow's free online talk on American Witch-Trials in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath with Dorka Tamas, author of the upcoming book Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural? 10am - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1578389969... 7pm - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1578460881...

These opportunities are wonderful, its very cool mini courses like this happen. I can't make this one, but it looks exciting 🔎

This is a superb book - highly recommend backing! @robjoneswrites.bsky.social @rorydraws4.bsky.social Mike Sam rook Check out GRIFF GRISTLE: THE BOATMAN'S CALL Graphic Novel by Robin Jones on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/169...

This beautiful girl. Bit of a scare this afternoon and trip to the vets, but everything was OK. She was such a good girl about everything. Feeling very proud and so relieved with @simonbirks.com

It is a bumper issue and a fitting tribute to mark the centenary of the wonderful Charles Dickens Museum in Doughty Street.🎉

Still time to apply!

Just a moment away from the chaos to appreciate this stunning gown. Agreed for the choice as a firm favourite!

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

Calling all Pre-Raph researchers: event Sept 20th in Birmingham to bring together doctoral students & academics, curators & writers to share their research & discuss 'Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now?' tinyurl.com/mrxs4cr5 #preraphaelite #art #victorian #literature @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social

🖼️ 🚨 ART HISTORY NEWS: One of Evelyn DeMorgan’s Gold Drawings, thought lost, has been found! Edith Charlesworth tells us about the identification process behind her discovery in the Summer Issue of the PRS Review, hot off the press. Become a member at www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/memberships/

Booked! 😍👻

Flowers from @simonbirks.com ❤️🌹

In the office with me today. One of us is working harder than the other.

Amazing write-up of a new portrait of Austen’s Miss Lambe, inspired by the research of none other than @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social (and other brilliant colleagues @cecs-york.bsky.social) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Momentarily emerged from beneath piles of books and not a little research to put my other hat on for @bluefoxcomics.com today. Off to Glasgow for today's @sequential-scot.bsky.social with @simonbirks.com!

All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of. Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.

Brilliant thread! #dracula

Great. I have so much reading to do as is, way too many books, and now I can't wait for November and 'Courting Disaster' from @thezhm.bsky.social 😂

Finally made it to Haworth, in person, to visit the Brontë Parsonage this week! 😍 Attended many brilliant online events, and it was great to get to visit with @simonbirks.com

This looks like: 1) a genuinely nice role for someone 2) Sheffield has resurrected Shelley and is using him as a Research Associate - taking Gothic Studies to the next level!

how it feels to be asked about your research

This Friday, seeing in the weekend with a fascinating programme from @bars.bsky.social