Inspired today by visits to 'elective affinities' at @swedenborghouse.bsky.social and 'black atlas' at @warburginstitute.bsky.social, both *free* shows focusing on the art and politics of worldviews. I think 'black atlas' closes tomorrow - but absolutely worth the time (if you have it to spare!)

“One reason we keep coming back to zines is because zines, by their very nature, are kind of uncensorable,” [citizen archivist Milo] Miller says. ​... No robot is going to go through and scan the material and say, ​‘You can’t publish this.’" @qzap.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

IMPORTANT REMINDER - order my new book to your library before the holidays if you want to put it on your reading lists next term 😉

Giving @noreenmasud.bsky.social's 'A Flat Place' a second read & am enthralled again

Finished off my Friday reading the final pages of Robert Poole's groundbreaking study 'Earthrise.' Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃

Happy birthday, William Blake! 🌻 Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz). The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.

Chartist Lives fresh out of the box #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

My intro to Blake turns 1 today! 🥳

Can't stop thinking about Olafur Eliasson's glacial ice watercolour - at once worldly and otherworldly - on show in 'Nordic Noir' in the BM's prints and drawings galleries

Hello, I work at the @fitzmuseum.bsky.social now 😊 @ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!

Autumn is always twin peaks rewatch season I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

All that is solid... found these immortal words inscribed in a weird little nook round the back of SOAS a few years ago and just rediscovered it yesterday, just a little more melted. Photo 1: 21 May 2021. Photo 2: 2 October 2025.

📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor! www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

Happy Monday ✨ I am pleased to announce the publication of my article 'London Blakeans' in vol. 89 of 'Publishing History'! Thank you to all who contributed ❤️❤️ www.proquest.com/scholarly-jo...

Living on the fringes of globe town couldn't feel more appropriate as I start my research on global imagining...

Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade). ncgsjournal.com/issue211/ind...

Read about the conference I recently organised at @engfac.bsky.social here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/befo...

Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!

When in #Oxford, attend an amazing conference on "Earthrise" & #Global Imagining @ox.ac.uk 's English Department - ‪@engfac.bsky.social‬ - and give a paper on global #oceans. sites.google.com/view/before-... organiser: #CarolineAnjaliRitchie #GlobalLiterature #AcademicChatter #TeamEnglish

I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨

Remember to sign up before the end of Saturday!

I'm speaking about @layersoflondon.bsky.social, partnership working, and supporting research with historical mapping at this event "Unlocking Your Archives with GIS" organized by @rgsibg.bsky.social and ESRI UK on 12th June - for anyone interested in historical GIS, maps, and public engagement!

Still thinking about Brenda Hillman’s ‘Styrofoam Cup’ I kinda want it on a cup

New article out today! Focusing on the Dutt family album and its early reception in London - a brave new world for this Blakean. Would love to hear people's thoughts www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Just a couple more weeks left to register for 'before earthrise'! Join us for an exciting programme of talks at Oxford's English faculty. Pls share widely 🌍 🌏 🌎

Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...

Conference programme now up here! Stay tuned for registration details sites.google.com/view/before-...

Friday afternoon delivery!

Warmest congratulations to our PhD graduate Caroline Ritchie on the publication of her brilliant monograph "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination", published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Congratulations @carolineanjali.bsky.social ! ✨

It's out ❤️🗺️📍🌎 My book William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination surveys Blake's visionary mapping alongside forerunners, contemporaries, and followers. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Just heard that my latest article has been published in Blake Quarterly - alongside exciting-looking contributions from @luisacale.bsky.social @urthonaunbound.bsky.social & Mark Crosby. I discuss artworks by Sokari Douglas Camp, Hew Locke, and Jazzmen-Lee Johnson blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...

It has a cover 😱 and soon to be an Actual Thing... books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

Thanks to everyone who has sent their proposals - keep them coming! Deadline is on Friday. Pls share

CFP reminder! Get your proposals in by the end of the month 🙃

Reminder to get your abstract in - just under 2 months until the deadline 🌐 🙃

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

Help me grow our little utopian studies community on bsky! Which other utopian scholars do you know? Who else should I add? go.bsky.app/G8j8ZNQ

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Perfect chaser to my teaching this afternoon - the final seminar in a course on 18th-century "globe-gazing"

Simple test. 🇵🇸

This year the theme for these fellowships is Science, Politics, and Justice and they'd be held in partnership with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Deadline to apply is Feb 24th 2025 #histsci #philsci #histmed #sts

Come along to my conference! 🌐🪐🌏 Call for papers addressing global imagining before the Earthrise photos of 1968 tide.web.ox.ac.uk/event/earthr...

Ok, this is a start at least! Starter pack for the long eighteenth century and Romantic period - reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/JMDQj4n

What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here: go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.

✨Breaking Blakean news!✨ My little intro to William Blake is pretty in pink and out next Thursday! Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...

Sunday reading: fascinating book from Bellerby Globes

Big fan of this fragmented earth from the Sheldon Tapestry map (on display at the weston lib in oxford)