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

Great new blog post from HHRN committee member, Dr Suzi Richer! Learn more about Elizabeth Birkett of Townend, Cumbria and the herbal remedies in her commonplace book (1699) #herbalhistory #histherb #herbalmedicine #C17th #bookhistory #recipes #cumbria #Townend herbalhistory.org/home/experie...

First, I was really pleased that the essay collection I co-edited with @maddypelling.bsky.social was published by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social back in December. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/18th-cent...

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications. Deadline: 1st April 2026 More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359

The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf offers residency fellowships in Schloss Wiepersdorf (State of Brandenburg, Germany) to artists and scholars. Applications for 2027 are welcome until April 15. Details at the link below: www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de/en/individua...

Attention ABO readers! Issue 15.2 (2025) dropped earlier this month. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities

📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

I just listened to this episode and it’s my favorite commentary on HR thus far (and I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts about the show!) Refreshing to hear people talk about it who GET IT and also understand its popularity

My latest article is up! Published among briliant pieces within the special issue "Affective and Emotional Encounters in/with British Women's Writing, 1600–1800" eds. Anna-Rose Shack, Zoë Van Cauwenberg, and Fauve Vandenberghe by the @abojournal.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...

Delighted to have had my abstract "Older women writers and intergenerational mentoring" accepted to the @bars.bsky.social conference in Birmingham later this year! I am very excited to see all of you there 🥰

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Excellent news

📖 Presentació del còmic ‘La SEAT: motor de llibertat’ a la llibreria Jaimes Dijous 4 amb la participació dels autors, Jordi de Miguel i Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López. #sentitcrític  

To honor the winter break on the horizon, Letterboxd crew and contributors share twenty underseen holiday favorites: where Christmas and Hanukkah deep cuts and surprisingly festive noir and stop-motion delights all have a seat at the table. boxd.it/2QQ

If it this sounds intriguing, sign up below! Can't wait to hear what my fellow PGRs talk about too ✨️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists! Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies. It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍

We have a cover

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize. ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation

@facudiaz.net Hola Facu, estic corregint un TFG i el corrector em suggereix això.

@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting

Part 2 of the video shared in yesterday’s post re @fbls.bsky.social’s essay on on erased 18thC author Eliza Hayley bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays

Incidentally, bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor wasn’t @fbls.bsky.social’s first piece on Eliza Hayley. She wrote a fantastic essay on Hayley’s 1780 book: a #translation of 𝙀𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙡𝙙-𝘼𝙜𝙚 by the Marchioness de Lambert. Read it at bit.ly/FBS-WTW #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory

@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation

Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award! Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered. Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

Call for Contributions. Conference: Language and literature across the lifespan. Location and dates: University of Namur, Belgium. 11-12 December 2025. Extended deadline for proposal submission: 5 October 2025. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

Wonderful article on Miss Lambe in Jane Austen’s Sanditon in The Conversation by our brilliant colleague, Olivia Carpenter! theconversation.com/jane-austens...

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born #OTD, 11 Sep. Plays on the Passions, a series of female-led comedies & tragedies, brought Baillie fame during a period when serious drama was in decline. Her 256th birthday was commemorated by a Google doodle in 2018 #C18th 1/3 doodles.google/doodle/joann...

Slightly diminish a poem: We Are Six

✨ Fast facts about the Pforzheimer awards! - Who can apply: Grad students, untenured faculty, & independent scholars - Purpose: Expenses related to research in Romantic-era literature & culture - Award amount: $3,000 - Deadline: Nov. 1 Find more info & apply today! www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

After a brilliant day of papers and a monograph workshop at our PGR & ECR conference, Trinity College let us see some of their collection in the Wren Library, including PB Shelley’s famous register entry from the Hotel de Villes de Londres!

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

📣 Calling all grad students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars! 📚 Apply for a Pforzheimer Grant by Nov. 1st to help fund your research expenses for projects relating to Romantic-era literature and culture. 🔗 More info here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

We’ve long known Samuel Pepys was a sleazebag, but Guy de la Bedoyere’s new edition of his journal reveals it was way worse than that — he was a relentless sexual predator www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

The sartorial details in this (probably) self portrait of Adèle Romany c. 1799 are breathtaking. See the clocked stockings, blue slipper tied with ribbons at the ankle and the neoclassical decorations at the hem of the robe à la grecque. From the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen. #dresshistory #18thc

BBCRadio4 is re-running a series that I was involved in recording a few years ago. If you are interested hearing me talk about doors & visits in Jane Austen's time, do have a listen: The Hidden History of the Front Door - 13 Aug 15.30 GST. #skystorians 🗃️#c18th www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Delighted to be asked to write the foreword for the York St John University Critical Edition of Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales which you can now read here!

Ooh Whitby Town FC new kit draws on Dracula for inspiration 🦇 🧛‍♀️ But, fellow Dracula enthusiasts, what should they have renamed the team?! Give me your best Goth/vampire football puns plssss! www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-n...

#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...

Applications are invited for 2026-2027 Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Fellowships (four weeks) and Travel Grants (two weeks). walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...

The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies is offering a PhD scholarship on “Robert Burns & the Environment” – part of a new research strand on Burns, the Environment & Sustainable Cultural Heritage DEADLINE 18 AUGUST #C18th #Romanticism www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Hector reposting Mo Salah.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize. First Book: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire Main award: Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth Judging panel: Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne. Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.

“Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” Meet erased 18thC author bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays @fbls.bsky.social #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #romanticism #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

This is a fantastic post about a fantastic research project by @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social — it could be an episode in AS Byatt’s Possession! It also highlights the importance of serendipity in research and also how online research will only get us so far. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...