From Gutenburg to Morris. A detail of the facade of Everard's printing works, Broad Street, Bristol for #TilesOnTuesday. It was by William James Neatby, chief designer for Doulton & Co, 1901.

Did anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Join me on Wed 26 Nov at David Parr House, for an evening talk about 'The Beauty of the Earth' and the art of May and William Morris. More info & tickets here davidparrhouse.org/whats-on/the...

Tickets now online for Curator tours of 'Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May, Jane and William Morris' - 3 & 4 Dec at The Arc, Winchester. Book here - spaces are limited! www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

November Lecture Alert: ‘The Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May and William Morris’ Given by @suzannefagence.bsky.social 13:00, Saturday 22nd November The Birmingham and Midland Institute. Follow the link to our website in our bio, and click the events page to book.

I just love the poster for our exhibition opening next month at The Arc, Winchester. One of William Morris’s most complex textile designs, 'Windrush' required 17 printing blocks. To see this, & many other Arts and Crafts treasures, tickets available here : www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

Looking forward to this later today

Happy #WorldEmbroideryDay! This panel, held at the V&A, is a great example of how Morris & Co. sold much of its embroidery: not as finished pieces, but as kits. The piece would be started by a Morris & Co. worker, demonstrating the recommended techniques, then sold with all necessary supplies.

We are delighted to announce that the plenary speakers for our upcoming conference are Dr Sarah Jackson, Professor Peter J. Capuano and Caroline Seymour! Visit our website for more information: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference

@emmamerkling.bsky.social will have been marking the anniversary

Noticing the branch cutting across the inner frame and the entrancing shadow. Not standard botanical illustration.

This is what happened at Coventry; I did not apply to their fire and rehire scheme because I couldn't stomach the changes they were making to our contracts - not only getting us off the pension but totally changing our academic contracts.

'The University of Derby has reported itself to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after sending letters that revealed which staff members were at risk of redundancy.' Adding insult to injury.

Hard to not feel like we are living amid the death of the U.S. research university — for all its problems, a truly important institution. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Hope to see you there!

Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory

The British Academy will run a webinar on 24 Nov for UK-based, humanities and social sciences researchers interested in applying for the ERC Consolidator Grants call. Find out more and register your interest: https://bit.ly/46RDnVV

If any of your postdocs have research that overlaps with history of science and/or technology, the Linda Hall Library has a variety of grants including even "virtual" fellowships for remote use of materials, as well as a bibliography fellowship: www.lindahall.org/research/lin... #HistSTM

Good to have insights from Thomas Cooper.

Author is Lynn Hulse

📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰 PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶 #MedHum #19Century #Victorian shorturl.at/ePhU5

Tomorrow I’ll be sharing some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk research, discussing ‘The British Freethought Movement and Periodical Form’ and the affordances of periodicals for Victorian radicals. Join us at Senate House at 6pm!

“Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident” is out in JVC! I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️ doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...

Stellar new issue of Oxford Art Journal in honour of @carscott.bsky.social feat. essays by Alex Potts, Thomas Hughes, Steve Edwards, Katie Scott, Clare Pettitt, Jeremy Melius, Susan Siegfried, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, T.J.Clark…and of course Caroline herself! academic.oup.com/oaj/issue/48/1

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

#CallforPapers #CfP on #VictorianLiterature #SensationFiction & the #HealthHumanities

Quick response from the DNB; they are convinced. The previously unknown author of *Woman's Mission* (1839), key text of Victorian 'separate spheres' ideologies, was Sarah Lewis (1807-1878), who conducted a high class boarding school for girls in Putney, apparently from the later 1830s to the 1860s.

Our first Research Forum will come from the Network's own Dr. Allison Perelman. She will present on her recently defened thesis on The Domestic Salon-Studios of Berthe Morisot and Odilon Redon. Join us on Thursday 20 November here: www.ecrfrenchart.com/research-for...

We are currently inviting submissions for sessions for the conference. This invitation is open to both members and non-members - more information on our website. Deadline for submissions: 2 November 2025 Submit your proposal: forarthistory.org.uk/events/cfp-a...

We will have a stall at the Mannington Book Bash this Saturday and Sunday. Come along and print a keepsake on one of our Jabez Francis parlour presses ... www.manningtonbookbash.co.uk

If you need a good spot for a field trip or your students want internships we would be delighted to hear from you at the Art Gallery & Museum in Leamington! Lots of exciting and relevant work coming up in our programme over the next few years.

Always useful to get a reminder or a notice of a new scheme.

AAH Key Event, part of Art History Festival 2025, happening today: 🌎Art Nouveau and International Naturalism 📆Mon 15 Sept, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Leading art nouveau expert, Paul Greenhalgh, examines the relationship between Art Nouveau and nature – a key theme in his new book ⬇️

Some of Julia Wedgwood’s key interests were: ✒️ relationship between science and religion ✒️ morality and world civilisations ✒️ ways of understanding nature, free will, and spirit ✒️ how fiction illuminates historical upheavals in thought ✒️ feminism ✒️ animal welfare www.juliawedgwood.org

This is a brilliant opportunity. Happy to answer any questions if anyone is interested in applying!

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon! 💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history 🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal... ✨Apply today!

Exposition «John Singer Sargent. Éblouir Paris» à partir du mardi 23 septembre au musée d'Orsay. 🎟️ Réservez dès maintenant votre billet 👉 bit.ly/SargentParis

🏛️ a global competition to design a new wing will be launched tomorrow the project — expected to cost £400m — has already secured £375m in donations, including two single £150m gifts these are some of the biggest donations ever given to an art museum anywhere in the world

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open for applications. This opportunity allows postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for funding to support their research projects. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA

Spotted for PhD students: Skills training at the London archives, and music/ sound at the BL. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/skills-tra... events.bl.uk/events/docto...

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? If so, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

1/8 Excited to share my review of Rosalind Blakesley’s "Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great" in the latest issue of Slavonic & East European Review. Link - muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...

Deadline tomorrow (1 Sept)!

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My department at Hunter College, which combines studio art & art history, has just posted a job listing for an assistant professor of ceramics. Please share widely, thanks! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

We've just sent out our summer newsletter, a special issue on all things Cezanne as part of the wealth of exhibitions, publications and conferences taking place. You can read it here: mailchi.mp/3415135f429d...

Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...

This is definitely about stopping antisemitism.

HEPI estimates that if 6% international student levy goes forward, it will cost UCL £42 million per annum, University of Manchester £27 million and KCL £22 million. Great way to support the sector in a crisis (45.2% of HEIs now forecasting a deficit). Not. HEPI link: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/08/08/t...