5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️

"Why had the character of the professional Victorian female detective suddenly materialised, then vanished?" Read an extract from Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective'.⬇️ bit.ly/4oJC6rr

"History has never been more important than it is in the current moment." 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' by @victoriandetective.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @yalebooks.bsky.social

Publication day today 11 September 2025 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/ros-...

Great to see 'When Summer Meant Sea Serpents' published in September's issue of @historytoday.com - www.historytoday.com/archive/hist... For more on the history of sea serpents see my new book, The Perilous Deep reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-per... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

As usual forgot to take photos, but here's a couple from @catherinespooner.bsky.social's and @coffinboffin.bsky.social's wonderful keynotes 🩵

So grateful to @ogomproject.bsky.social for bringing us together for the dream mermaid conference. A brilliant three days thinking about submarine fantasies 💦🧜‍♀️🩵

Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō

Great day 2 at the Sea Changes conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social! #seachanges

A is for AMBOINA MERMAID Writers recorded the capture of a mermaid on the island of Amboina 1712. Said to be 5 feet long, it screeched like a mouse & would not eat fish. The mermaid appears in 'Fishes, Crayfish & Crabs', a collection of the region's sea-life (1712) #SeaChanges

KEYNOTE 'The luck of the Ningyō: Hybridity and the rise of the fake museum mermaid'. Looking forward to sharing my research with all the wonderful attendees at #SeaChanges @britishlibrary.bsky.social #GothicMermaids

Still some online tickets available for Saturday if you fancy a mermaid-y weekend (in-person tickets are sold out) www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-... 🧜‍♀️💧🦭

Congratulations to Dr Kiron Ward on the publication of Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction (published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) The ebook is out today & it's available in hardback from 6th February: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/encyclopa...

Yesterday, Emeritus Professor Susan Sellers appeared on BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books talking to Australian novelist Michelle de Ketser about Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith. Catch up on BBC Sounds - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Congratulations to Dr Asha Hornsby on the publication of her new book titled 'Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture' It's available from @cambridgeup.bsky.social More info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/news... Order here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

🖤🦋 Angela Carter's Pasts🦋🖤is here! thrilled to be included in this stellar line up - and I really enjoyed my time in Bristol Uni archives with Basil Cottle's lecture notes (he taught Carter as an undergrad).

Just published online: Emma McEvoy’s important new book on the Music of the Gothic in our ‘Elements in the Gothic’ series. Contains great musical recordings. Free to download for the next month www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/...

Job Opportunity: Want to run a famous Tennyson Archive (includes proofs of images below by Hunt, Rossetti and Millais), please repost... jobs.lincolnshire.gov.uk/vacancy/seni... @thevicsoc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @lincolnshirecc.bsky.social @medievalfemina.bsky.social

Some people may be interested in this new article on the representation of partition in SFF television - principally "Doctor Who" and "Ms Marvel". With thanks to Avishek Parui for editing the issue it will be part of. Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Superb news. news.stv.tv/scotland/poe...

PHD FUNDING: a fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of St Andrews (incl. fees, either home or international rate). Milinda Bannerjee and I are seeking a student to study intellectual/scholarly connections between St Andrews and India, c1780-1900. See www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Lovely discussion today over Zoom of this Open Access special issue, "Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms," ronjournal.org Anna Pilz' formulation that we could take a closer look at “the prepositional ways of being on, of, by and with the coast” is so handy, wish I'd thought to express it that way. 🗃️📚

"Those calm bank-shaded eyes [watched] her lessening westward quietly. Then, as she neared the bend, her funnel screamed. And that long lamentation made him wise How unto Avalon, in agony, Kings passed in the dark barge, which Merlin dreamed." - Wilfred Owen, "Hospital Barge at Cerisy" #BookWormSat

Ah, this is the nicest welcome! 🧜‍♀️ Thank you so much @drbeard79.bsky.social! Great to be here 😊