Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below... jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Had a FAB day at @stockportnoir.bsky.social ‬⁩🤩🕵️‍♀️🔎 Thanks to our host ⁦‪lovely @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social ‬⁩and to @clmillerauthor.bsky.social @oskarjensen.bsky.social ‬⁩and @tomhindle.bsky.social for being amazing panel mates 🙏 Finally a big 😘 to all the readers who turned up and made our day ❤️

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Planning a monograph or collection essays on some aspect of #C18th #history & culture? If so, get in touch with @deborahsimonton.bsky.social or me about publishing in our series, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies. #skystorians 🗃️www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

'Another entertaining whodunnit from the author of Helle and Death' #HellesHound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social has been selected by the iPaper as a best new paperback to read this October 🐾 inews.co.uk/culture/book...

Today! In paperback! With this joyous new cover! The most fun I've ever had with writing! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hell...

Some news! Also known as fourth time lucky; I've wanted to do this for the best part of a decade... www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

I'm very much in love with this paperback cover... out in October!

BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers shorts New Generation Thinker, historian Oskar Jensen, explores the history of lullabies, in search of the power and the know-how that makes Hush-a-bye Baby do what it says in the title.

That rarest of things – happy news from America! Hurrah for the Foreword

I have book news! www.thebookseller.com/rights/harvi... Deputy publishing director Katie Ellis-Brown has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two new novels from Veronique Baxter at David Higham. The first in the series, The Drowning Place, will be published in April 2026.

Feel for @oskarjensen.bsky.social, who came along to a scholarly day to talk about his excellent special issue plans & suffered the indignity of being forced to sign a copy of his second detective fiction book to Mummy Willie (a fan)

Please do join us on May 24th in Cambridge to celebrate the work of Bruce R, Smith, and explore the future of early modern sound studies. We would love to meet you! www.tickettailor.com/events/sound...

For anyone in London or Bradford: www.coma.org/whats-on/tak... A really great looking musical endeavour by the brilliant @uriagnon.bsky.social. Maybe of interest to @electricvoice.bsky.social? Spread the word...

Win this book! Helle's Hound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social up for grabs: www.facebook.com/CrimeFiction... Today only!

His old mentor is dead and Torben Helle is on the case in Helle's Hound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social 🇩🇰 If you like a cosy crime story with a few bonkers twists and a sprinkling of Nordic noir, then this is it! crimefictionlover.com/2025/04/hell...

Ain't it gorgeous? And, somehow, potent? Our new book on the (very long) history of protest songs, the culmination (or is it?) of www.oursubversivevoice.com – available for a jolly reasonable £25.99 or, you know, get your library to get it... www.mqup.ca/our-subversi...

🎉 Today we're celebrating as 12 of our subjects have been ranked within the world's top 100 in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. Congratulations to all our colleagues and teams involved in this fantastic achievement👏 #WeAreNCL #QS

What a lineup at this Cambridge event on the future of sound studies, in memory of the great Bruce R. Smith. There's @jennyrichards.bsky.social, Tiffany Stern, Richard Wistreich, @oskarjensen.bsky.social, Katherine Hunt, @racheljwillie.bsky.social — not to be missed if you're in the area!

Join Oskar Jensen at Waterstones Newcastle, talking all things #HellesHound with Howard Linskey 🐾 www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @oskarjensen.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to the lovely and stylish @oskarjensen.bsky.social for the delectable #HellesHound 🐾 and thank you ⁦ @viperbooks.bsky.social ‬for inviting me to @dauntbooks.bsky.social ‬⁩ Holland Park for this wonderful launch 💕

📢 Diary Date 📢 Super excited for the Viper panel on 1 March at 11am 😱 @guymorpuss.bsky.social @tariqashkanani.bsky.social @oskarjensen.bsky.social and I are in the firm hands of @emmaflint.bsky.social 🕵️ It's gonna be a BIG @baytales.bsky.social BLAST! Details below 👇 baytales.com/product/tick...

It felt SO good to be reunited with Torben Helle! 💚 A complex, witty and thoroughly entertaining mystery with brilliant characters and a baffling new murder to solve. Another triumph, @oskarjensen.bsky.social! Brilliantly done! 😊 Helle's Hound is out NOW! 🐾 @viperbooks.bsky.social

💙📚⚡️ #BookSky OUT TODAY: Helle’s Hound by @oskarjensen.bsky.social Torben Helle returns today in a new mystery as his mentor is found dead, and he’s off to upset the great and powerful to find out who and how! thecosymoose.com/helles-hound...

Plus proof, as if it were needed, of having the best publisher – thank you @viperbooks.bsky.social !

For my first actual post, it seems in the spirit of this place to share* these miniature biscuit simulacra of my book Helle's Hound, out today, courtesy of my wonderful agent Joanna... *share visually, that is. Hands off!

Yay!! 🎉 Happiest of happy publication days to the lovely @oskarjensen.bsky.social ‬⁩for the wonderful second book in his delightfully ‘golden age’ Helle Torben murder mystery series 🥂🥳 #HellesHound is out now from @viperbooks.bsky.social 🐾🦴