‘The Circulating Library’ personification illustration by George Spratt. Printed by Printed by G. E. Madeley and published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, London ca. 1830. #printhistory #bookhistory #CirculatingLibrary #historyofprint #botanicalart #romanceofbooks

Note to self for marking season en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Horrifying/funny/horrifying again to spot how many of these were definitely written by ChatGPT giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

🚨applications due this Friday!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

To object to Meta using your private DMs and WhatsApp messages… It doesn’t work in the app, you need do login through browser or desktop. Click the blue ‘object’ in middle of this text chunk www.facebook.com/privacy/genai

If you were to do write about a close reading to show undergrads how to do *one* thing well, what would you choose?

Our latest window display to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the Pollard Collection of Children’s Books to @tcddublin.bsky.social Library. And...the full-day symposium kicking off now @tlrhub.bsky.social Find out more about the Pollard Collection here: bit.ly/449AL54

What a treat to see my friend @amyfuller.bsky.social at the launch of the major new BBC Arts documentary series, 'Civilisations: Rise and Fall', which is coming to BBC2 later this month. It's all still thoroughly embargoed, but apparently we're now allowed to officially admit that we're in it!

Was an absolute dream to appear on this podcast and talk about the craft of writing history - give it a listen! draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

👇Brilliant discussion w/ @evepatt.bsky.social, @clareclarke.bsky.social, @murphgothic.bsky.social, @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social, & Una Mannion on the moral complexities of creating & consuming #truecrime for the 2025 Arts & Humanities Research Festival @tlrhub.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky 🗃️

"Billy Waters Is Dancing", a #biography by @drmarylshannon.bsky.social retraces the forgotten story of Black Regency sailor, who became London's most celebrated street performer & finds him & other figures of Black Regency Britain in #popularculture #BlackHistory #CulturalStudies #BlackHistoryMonth

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...

Obligatory photo of me and the Trinity big gold ball with added seagull!

Fuck off with this bullshit

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary "employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class." www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

A reminder that pg researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies in the UK are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award (valued up to £500) The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this #Romanticism www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

My fab colleague Sharon Ruston on the new Guillermo Del Toro Frankenstein: theconversation.com/guillermo-de...

BARS Independent Scholar bursary is now open: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189

Talented colleagues being amazing, once again. Congratulations Rosie and co.

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Hamilton Prize is Katharine Williams (CUNY Graduate Center) for the essay "Missing Members in Charlotte Yonge's The Clever Woman of the Family." Congratulations! The essay will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal.

Ok, does anyone know how to easily convert references and bib to MHRA? Word seems to have every style but that one!

🎉 Happy Birthday to #SSVanDine (Willard Huntington), #bornonthisday in 1888! He was a key figure in Golden Age detective fiction, creating detective Philo Vance in The Benson Murder Case (1926), which inspired films and radio dramas. A puzzle mystery master! #CrimeFiction

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

We have a cover! ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!

A must-have, for every home.

It's always striking seeing other academics talk about their academic parents and be reminded that close to a quarter of all tenure-line academics have at least one PhD parent. That's not a critique, but I always wonder how different it would be to have a parent who already understood academia.

Buying this for whenever one of our cats claims they're hungry

has anyone done research on how much mothers were separated from children under New Poor Law? a topic I know nothing about, but Strand Union rules say that, for under sevens, mothers should be 'permitted to have access to them at all reasonable times'. a lot hanging on 'reasonable' perhaps.

lifelangs.com?fbclid=IwY2x... JOB

Off to @tlrhub.bsky.social for what should be a fascinating conference on Ireland and the American Revolution organised by @joelherman.bsky.social and @timvrti.bsky.social with support from @historytcd.bsky.social and @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Happy October 3rd to all who celebrate.

*unearthly shrieking intensifies* TALES OF THE WEIRD MERCH IS GO @blpublishing.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird

This is going to be an excellent event with speakers including @maireadenright.bsky.social @conorkelly.bsky.social @dkennytcd.bsky.social @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social @aileenmcharg.bsky.social @danielwincott.bsky.social @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social 📢

Double deckers babies 🥰

Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize. The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social

One of the great uses of Michaelmas. And surely one of the best openings to a novel ever.

A reminder that today is Michaelmas, on which day in parts of Ireland rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.