A few more days to get your proposals to us!

Looking for something to do on the spookiest day of the year? @cncsi.bsky.social is running our annual online Halloween workshop tomorrow with the theme of ‘Gothic Afterlives’ — looking at media receptions of c19 gothic themes in tv, film, video games, & radio 👻 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory

We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!

"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another thought… the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts" - Lynn Hunt

everything in this thread.

somebody speak to a single historian challenge! “Religiosity tends to decline across generations.” what an extraordinary untethered statement to make based on recent polling data. and yes i know i know its Nature *again* but (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🗃️

I saw a job posting for a heritage project focused on Romany history. I wasn't sure how visible it would be so wanted to share so that the job gets seen by the people whose history it is focusing on. Give it a share, perhaps? museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/learning...

The recording of my @gothicauob.bsky.social talk on nature, horror, occultism, beauty, gender and Victorian art has been uploaded to YouTube! youtu.be/cRWhEOjMfMc?... watch along for more on these themes and for my recent work on Annie Swynnerton’s magnum opus “Oreads” (1907)

Help! Seeking readings for a 'British art and the environment in the c19' course that bring together botany, classification, colonial collecting, and visual culture for undergrads. Ideally linking this to museums / collections like Kew. Nothing I've found quite seems to bring all three together...!

🏛️Today - guided tour of @morethanadodo.bsky.social with John Holmes & Birmingham’s 19CC 🦠Weds - Disease and Narrative workshop I’m hosting @unibirmingham.bsky.social with @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & the 19CC 🎨Thurs - Occult Art @gothicauob.bsky.social with @emmamerkling.bsky.social

Any Hans Christian Andersen experts following me? Came across an issue of The Spiritualist for which he seems to have written as a correspondent... including on William Crookes and the psychic force. Was this really him? iapsop.com/archive/mate...

Don't miss 'Occult Art Gothic' with @emmamerkling.bsky.social next month! As an art historian, Emma will be focusing on Gothic British art 🖼️🖤 DM @gothicauob.bsky.social to join 👇 📅Thurs 19th June 🕐6pm - 7.30pm 📍Zoom

I have preordered this incredible book and I suggest you do too!

My book _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_ is available for pre-order! You can snag the paperback for $37/£25, and there's 40% off if you sign up for the @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social newsletter. Am so proud of this weird little interdisciplinary book! boydellandbrewer.com/978164825120...

Is anyone still doing Zoom writing groups these days (UK or EU time zone)? Have a lot to do this summer and would love the accountability

There are still tickets for this online talk I’m giving next Tuesday. As I like to say, ‘come for the #Tarot, stay for the cartomancy’. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tarot-and-...?

An incredible resource!

It’s the end of another term teaching gender &sexuality in Victorian art which means that despite my best efforts I’m getting lots of Kestneresque essays on femmes fatales /the male gaze / Victorian art as misogynist. I am desperate to move students beyond these 1980s talking points #19thcentury 1/2

Victorian and #19thcentury scholars: pls help! I have a student wanting to write about race / athleticism / masculinity in Victorian art. She wanted to focus on Etty’s Wrestlers but it’s too early for the course (1848-1901) so I’m trying to come up with some later visual exemplars… any ideas?

My new article is out! "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Covering of Patients' Eyes and a Microethics of Medical Photography" This article is really the first foray into my second book project: a history of anonymity in medical photography. Let me know if you'd like a PDF! mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

Extremely excited for this event, the brainchild of the brilliant @dremilyvincent.bsky.social! Lots of excellent speakers & plenty to learn about all things contagion, contamination, & the c19 worldwide 🦠🤧💉 #histsci #histmed

Oh for new (and old) followers, if you're interested in histories of visual culture, science & medicine, and the macabre, you should follow @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social ! In the Drawing Blood pod, @emmamerkling.bsky.social & I chat about all of the sciency / spooky / beautiful things that we love.

Happy faces one cesanese & a huge plate of pasta later

Assistant Professor in History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900- University of Cambridge - Department of History of Art #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKZ204/a...

Smuts Research Fellow (Fixed Term) University of Cambridge - Centre of African Studies #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKY682/s...

Slowly thinking thru a BA lecture on “materiality” as an art historical tool/lens. My focus will prob be on Victorian painting & the many “materialities” & “materialisms” of the #c19th. Soliciting recs for a good set text on art history and materiality to accompany it 👀👀 #arthistory #c19th

Whenever I think about how thinking and writing go together, I think of Paul Klee's famous quip about a drawing being “a line going for a walk” – you've just got to start writing and gradually thoughts emerge. Working out what you want to say (and even what you think) comes out of (re)writing.

hello: im looking for anyone working on histories of queer #folklore or queer magic, or perhaps queer rural histories/histories of queer rural lives @tomhulme.bsky.social is already on my list! 🗃️

I’ve always loved this woodcut which translates ‘Memento Mori’ as ‘Remember to Die.’

Okay, expert MS readers, I'd be really grateful for a second opinion on this Christina #Rossetti fragment. Do these final lines say: To own, in humble thankfulness, His Lord's, the perfect plan #amediting #poetry #victorians #c19th

Announcing the Vcologies Working Group’s 2025 Early Career Prize! Such a great opportunity—see the CFP below for more details.

#C19th art historians — don’t forget the exceptional Whistler holdings.

Alright, we already capped out at the 150 allowed, so I've made a Nineteenth-Century British Part 2. HMU again if you'd like to be added to this list. If you've already responded and I liked your comment, you're on the list! go.bsky.app/TNbKfRv

Here is the starter post of my #trans studies resources thread, featuring books. Up next, papers. TransReads is a good site for finding free resources for difficult-to-find books, but as always I would recommend supporting the authors if you can. #AcademicSky

Today’s classroom for my c19th gender module was a digital IT suite. Using the Queer Glamorgan glossary students looked in newspaper databases & turned dectective. We might not use the same language now, but trans and queer stories can found anywhere if you try. glamarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/u...

Another day, another design for a ballet costume for a vegetable. This time, a spring onion (pen & ink and watercolour over pencil, V&A)

Wow! We've had such a warm welcome to Bluesky 💙 We better introduce ourselves, we're an art education charity – the online home for the UK's public art collections. Explore over 300,000 artworks, plus stories, learning resources and more at artuk.org 📷 National Galleries of Scotland

my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

Asking this question in all seriousness, recently had a discussion with @lizmiller.bsky.social and others on this subject and have been thinking about it off and on ever since.

Long before the modern disabled people’s movement, people with impairments were claiming disability as a social and political identity. @profdavidturner.bsky.social investigates the development of disabled people’s activism in Victorian Britain.

A reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social publishes lists of books and articles produced by contingent historians at the end of each year. If you wrote something, or know someone who did, submit the info here so I know to included it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Hi BlueSky! I’m a Research Fellow (Uni of Birmingham) for the international interdisciplinary Media & Epidemics project. I’m researching representations of influenza in C19/20th fiction (detective & Gothic) & periodicals! I have lots of spooky research interests in spiritualism & ghost stories🦠✍️👻

VERY exciting news! I’m joining the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird series this December with ‘Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil’!👻 Join hands around the séance table for 14 classics & lost gems of fiction inspired by the spiritualism movement🕯️

Folks in Manchester & surrounds: anyone know of any jobs going (or soon to be posted) in conservation? A v talented conservator friend is relocating and looking for work, has worked at the British Museum, NHM, & also freelance… pls share!

Hello, Bluesky! We want to fund your research! Check out our grants and fellowships! Here: www.hagley.org/research/gra...

🎩 Interesting essay by Andrew Hui on private studies via @publicdomainrev.bsky.social "For four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death." 🗃️ #AcademicSky #literature #earlymodern publicdomainreview.org/essay/machia...

Reposting again. Want to be better X? then be accessible from the outset. Use this setting to prompt you to alt text. I won't be reposting your stuff if you don't. Simple is fine: what is it? What is it doing? What does it say? What does it look like?