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...

June 1976, KISS played their first ever concert in Switzerland. At the time, Charlie Chaplin had been living in Switzerland for over 20 years. There's no way to prove that an 87 year old Charlie Chaplin didn't see KISS on the Destroyer tour and was so invigorated that he went on to outlive Elvis.

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.

Question for Irish students: Have mature students been refused student Leap cards? This seems to be the case in TCD. Younger students seem to be just getting the under-25s one. #spéirghorm

It really is just relentless the constant dehumanisation in this country. Prove you deserve to be here. Prove you deserve to be cared for. Prove your gender. Prove you deserve to have human rights. Prove you deserve to stay after a whole decade. It just chisels away at your humanity

Or Option 4: 15 years post-PhD but still just a little bébé.

Life is short and at least half terrible. But this was joyful. The Wedding Present on a school night.

"I’ll claw my way to the back of my closet, past my Sensible Winter Snow Pants, my Sensible Spring Linen, and my Sensible Summer Hawaiian Shirt—for it is not yet their time. No, I am there to dress for the most elusive weather of all—uninterrupted high forties."

This might be the single nicest paragraph ever written about my scholarship. At a time when I’m feeling rather lacking in confidence about my work this is such an unexpected boost. Thank you to the Dickens Studies Annual and especially to Michael Harris-Peyton.

Jimmy Carr and Louis C.K. at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, a dark vortex of the worst vibes the world has to offer

Do you, or does someone you know, live with vertigo? Are you in, or near Edinburgh? If so, you might be interested in this @ustaresearchimpact.bsky.social funded puppetry workshop to explore life with dizziness and vertigo. For questions get in touch here or [email protected]

Hello good people of Bluesky, would anyone have access to a PDF of this pls: Victorian Crime Fiction in the Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay, 2015–2024 Available to Purchase Michael Harris-Peyton Dickens Studies Annual (2025) 56 (2): 311–358. doi.org/10.5325/dick...

www.charitycareersrecruitment.ie/vacancy/159 JOB!!