So excited to be on the shortlist for this year's Dinesh Allirajah prize with @commapress.bsky.social! Congrats to everyone on the shortlist and see you at the awards ceremony next week 🥰

Some weekend reading for you. The spring issue of the BAVS Newsletter is out now, with a fresh new look! @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ruthannereads.bsky.social bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

The new @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter is here and it is ✨stunning ✨ This refresh has been a long time in the making, with lots of work behind the scenes from me and @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social - we hope you love it as much as we do! Read the spring issue here: bavs.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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

⏰There's still time (but not much!) for your notices to be included in the winter issue of the BAVS Newsletter! Email [email protected] with details of your news/events/cfp/exhibitions/opportunities before Tues 18th Nov.⏰ @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ruthannereads.bsky.social

Give blood, Dracula says so 🧛 A fantastic campaign from @englishheritage.bsky.social and @england.nhs.uk for @givebloodnhs.bsky.social 🩸 www.blood.co.uk/news-and-cam...

📢Tell the BAVS Newsletter team about any Victorianist News, Events, CFPs, Exhibitions, Displays, Opportunities you would like us to shout about in the Winter issue!📢 Send notices to [email protected] @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ruthannereads.bsky.social

The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!

Had a great time at the Brontë festival of women’s writing this weekend ✍️ Thank you to all the amazing organisers and panellists ✨ @lucythereader.bsky.social @pennyauthor.bsky.social @ekpshows.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social

*Finally* getting to delve into this cool collection gifted to me by @ruthannereads.bsky.social Only two tales in but very creepy and definitely a contender for my Haunted Britain module next year... #SpookySeason

✨Call for reviewers ✨ There are lots of new Victorianist books this autumn, and we're looking for reviewers at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter. It’s the perfect opportunity for Victorian scholars to read the latest releases and publish a review. Full details here 👇 bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

Great to see the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter out in the world 📰 Featuring a review of Jessica Campbell’s new book on “The Brontës and the Fairy Tale” from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social 🧚‍♀️📕 Thank you, as always, to all our amazing reviewers for bringing this issue together ✨

I am so thrilled that my creative non-fiction piece, 'Fox Weather' was published in the 2025 @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social yesterday 🦊 Thank you to everyone who made the launch event so special. Please do buy a copy if you can and support Valley Press ✨ www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/york-...

Loads of new texts to review at @bavs-uk.bsky.social! We’re always on the look out for new Victorianist reviewers so check it out 👇

So excited for this issue of the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter with @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social! 🎉 30+ pages of amazing Victorianist content 🎉 a brand new feature from @gladlib.bsky.social 🎉 loads of CFPs and book review opportunities Check it out below👇

Thank you for all the birthday wishes. I’ve spent the day by the sea 🌊 🎉

The Director of the Exeter CVS, Simon Rennie @simonrennie.bsky.social and Ruth-Anne Walbank @ruthannereads.bsky.social will discuss the Lancashire Cotton Famine at the Lancaster Literature Festival @litfest.bsky.social on Sunday March 16th at 2pm - tickets here: dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/the...

One week today! Links below for online and in-person tickets. And be sure to listen to the Weaving Podcast to give you a head start on all things Cotton Famine 🎧 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/wea...

I'll be at @litfest.bsky.social in just two weeks, talking all things Cotton Famine with @simonrennie.bsky.social from @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social and Jack Southern from @uclan.ac.uk. 📅 Sunday 16th March, 2pm 🗺️ Lancaster Central Library Registration links are below, see you there!

Are you interested in reviewing for @bavs-uk.bsky.social? 📖 We have just updated our list of recent releases we're looking to review, featuring these amazing books and more! See the website below for details and email us if you're interested 📧 bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

#CurrentlyWatching "I Saw The TV Glow" and it's already one of my favourite movies of the year. The perfect blend of horror, nostalgia, and identity crisis.

📚 December reading part 6 📚 The last books of the year! Slightly less than last year at 111 books total, which isn't too shabby 😅

📚 December reading round-up part 5 📚 Historical fiction and graphic novels... all with red covers? ❤️

📚 December reading part 4 📚 A few festive reads for the holiday season ❄️

📚 December reading round-up part 3 📚 It's been a while since I posted any of the Women's Prize for Fiction winners from my book club, and it seems like a good time to wrap up this year's progress!

This is a great introduction to the subject of the Cotton Famine created by @ruthannereads.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/show/wea...

📚 December reading part 2 📚 I've been in the mood for some historical fiction and fantasy... #BookSky #HistoricalFiction

📚 December reading round-up part 1 📚 Kicking off this month's reading with some awesome graphic novels from Queer Lit in Manchester 🌈 #BookSky #GraphicNovels

Ho ho ho? Why not… Poe Poe Poe? 🐦‍⬛

I'm so excited to see #SpotifyWrapped in the year that we launched our Weaving History podcast. It's so cool to see all these stats, but there are so many more achievements that Spotify's analytics don't capture... /1

📚 November reading round-up part 3 📚 A few shorter novels to close off the month 🥰 #BookSky

Had a great time putting together the latest BAVS newsletter with @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social. Check it out! 👇

The snow has arrived! ❄️

📚 November reading round-up part 1 📚 Practising my caligraphy before the Christmas card writing starts 🙈 #BookSky💙📚

I had a fabulous time at Rochdale Town Hall this weekend running our “Powerful Poetry” workshop and panel. Thank you to all those who came along, and thank you to our amazing speakers who made the event so special 😍

📚 October reading part 3 📚 A strange mix of dystopias and non-fiction for this mid-month reading round-up. And will I ever finish this embroidery hoop? (I started it last Halloween 😬) #Booksky💙📚 #ReadingLog

Did I mention it's a two-part event? 😱 Join me, Jayran, Gabriel, and Simon for a free panel at Rochdale Town Hall on 27th October, connecting radical poetry of the past to powerful poetry of the present. Tickets here! 🎟️ bit.ly/PowerfulPoet...

📚 October reading round-up part 2 📚 Some classic Gothic tales as we head into spooky season 👻 #BookSky💙📚 #spookyseason

This is what Weaving History was all about: connecting people to forgotten histories and inspiring new kinds of creativity 💪 I'll be at Rochdale Town Hall on 27th October for a FREE poetry workshop with the amazing Jayran Lear. 🎟️Tickets here 🎟️

📚 October reading round-up part 1 📚 Some shorter readers to start off the month as we head into autumn 🍁 #BookSky💙📚

📚 September reading part 2 📚 Okay, so slightly late with the last September update 😅 But it's been a minute since I posted my progress with reading through the @womensprize with the @wave_of_nostalgia_haworth book club. We're up to 2003 now 🤩

As of today, the BAVS Newsletter is in the very capable hands of Amy Waterson and @ruthannereads.bsky.social 📚 It’s been such a pleasure to be its editor and get to work with @srwride.bsky.social and all the contributors over the past 3 years! bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

📚 September reading round-up part 1 📚 Some shorter paperbacks to kick off the month ✨ #BookSky📚💙

It's been three months since we released #WeavingHistoryPod, and over 450 of you have listened to the podcast. While that's not half bad for a new indie podcast, what's really made Weaving History so special is the way it's resonated with listeners... (1/3)

📚 August reading round-up part 3 📚 Quickly posting another couple of books I've read this month! It's been a busy one between conferences and moving house, so there'll be a few catch-up posts in September 😬 #BookSky 💙 📚

📚 August reading part 2 📚 Settling in for some summer book club reads and catching up on the last few issues of Booktime magazine ☀️ Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami ⭐️⭐️⭐️ When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant ⭐️ The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville ⭐️⭐️ #BookSky 💙📚

📚 August reading round-up part 1 📚 Some summer reads and new(ish) releases to kick off the month ☀️ Emergency by Daisy Hildyard ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Girl and the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️