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) 🔍

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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...

Come explore Newstead Abbey and experience it through Byron's eyes with me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_3...

Reading Rebecca Solnit & I love this: ""The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns ... turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us."

"Students make one of the most subversive and experimental women writers of the Romantic era accessible for all" www.yorksj.ac.uk/news/2025/ly... via @yorkstjohn.bsky.social #18c #18thC

If you're teaching global history (or, frankly, just history) in the coming year, this 10-min talk will be a fab resource, and can be supplemented by Rebecca's articles on the history of food & her book on the history of the potato, Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato (Cambridge, 2020).

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Find out how developer Michael Kowalski & I made an interactive biography for my PhD. “Making HayleyWorld” bit.ly/MakingHW in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #elit #romanticism #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th Watch a video walkthrough of HayleyWorld at buff.ly/qmfNq2a

The Daily Mail’s front page there, celebrating a England footballer of Ghanaian descent while also telling migrants to get out of England. Truly, you couldn’t make their shit up.

190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my! We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏 www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

#KSAABlog: tracing celebrity culture from “Byronmania” to “Beatlemania,” John Webster's new book "The Closest Thing in History" compares The Beatles to Keats, Byron, Leigh Hunt and Shelley! Read the press release here: www.k-saa.org/blog/closest...