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...

This promises to be an excellent conference.

Currently prepping these wooden beauties for a new display on Richard Owen’s science, art and legacy going into the NHM’s Images of Nature gallery tomorrow! #woodengraving #megatherium #bones #specialcollections

Did you publish your first book in Victorian studies in 2024? If so, submit it for consideration for the Rudikoff Prize. More information here: nvsa.org/rudikoff-pri...

Anyone located near the Huntington Library in Southern California interested in a pd research project? 150 hrs for $5500 USD stipend to double check a periodical to include in the Curran Index. Due: 8/20 Pls fwd! #job #periodicals #victorian #bookhistory

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Nice to come home from a short break and find my copy of the Nineteenth-Century Present. I had fun teasing out the generational preoccupations of the Edwardian 'greats'. I encourage you to check out the whole collection - there's a lot of interesting work here!

The Victorian Society's latest Newsletter is out now, you can read it here: bit.ly/4l3Wktt Sign up to get our free newsletter in your inbox every month: bit.ly/3jbU9ue Image: The Kursaal, Southend-on-Sea Photo: Morgan-Ellis Leah #freenewsletter

Litester, rebel dyer in the 1381 uprising.

John Tyndall, Irish physicist, mountaineer & science popularizer, was born #OTD c. 1820. We've published 13 vols. of his letters thus far, 14 this fall & 15-21 in the works: bit.ly/4fluhVd @upittpress.bsky.social @rolandjackson.bsky.social @ri-science.bsky.social @royalsociety.org #HPS #histsci

Now that the federal government is severely curtailing investments in science and education, state governments will need to step up. This announcement from @massgovernor.bsky.social is a great development. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Exciting news for fans of Victorian science! @ransomcenter.bsky.social recently digitized a photo album featuring members of Maull & Polyblank's Literary & Scientific Portrait Club, including Richard Owen & Michael Faraday (seen here). ransom.center/maull-polybl... #histSTM #histsci #photosky 🗃️📜📷

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

Mushrooms, a scientist who wasn’t really known in her day but managed to root herself in the field, and debating metaphors… It was inevitable that I would want to write about this fascinating little exhibit now up at the NY State Museum in Albany. Up @hyperallergic.com

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

‘Curtis’s Botanical Magazine’, the world's longest-running, continuously published botanical periodical, bringing gardening to the masses, on display at ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ events.bl.uk/exhibitions/... until 10 August @rs4vp.org

Here's an excellent opportunity for anyone working on Margaret Oliphant! Please help spread the word. This special issue is looking for more contributors.

Fantastic role for somebody! #histsci #museumjobs

Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.

Probably about 35%+ of all university Humanities posts will be closed. Those subjects will be taught in far fewer universities. There will be a lot less modular choice within those degrees that remain. A large-scale but unannounced policy change from central govt, with far-reaching implications.

Salary: £41,655 pa, full-time (35 hours per week). Deadline is 25 July.

'The report estimates that while 8,900 people are being, or have recently been, affected by compulsory redundancies across the sector’s 165 institutions, a further 11,500 people have been affected by “back-door” redundancies, such as voluntary severance'. zenodo.org/records/1563... 3/3

When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering. It wasn’t quite 90%. This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships. Next year they’re giving us 3. So 89% then.

Check out our new publication. This one is an intersensory and intermaterial approach to popular militarism. It's Open Access too!!

Such a joy to see the magisterial “Gustave Caillebotte:Painting his World” exh @artinstitutechi.bsky.social on Sat with 2 beloved former grad students. The show is full of clever juxtapositions that inspire new thoughts. But I’ll never tire of the grids and veils that structure many of his works.

POSTDOC: Mellon Fellowship, Wolf Humanities Center, Penn, 2026-27 Topic: Practice wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/...

Researchers! Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications. Deadline is July 31. beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

Editorial fellowship klaxon: ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Two #photography jobs at the V&A London, 3-yr full-time posts to work on the Royal Photographic Society collection. Deadline July 18th. Project Archivist in link below, Project Cataloguer in the next post. 📜🗃️📷📸 Not great pay for London - but fantastic opportunities otherwise!

Our next DACH Victorianists workshop will happen in December (see below). Yay! Consider submitting a proposal and spread the word!

My new article on protest marches and processions in London,1780-1915, has just been published online! Thanks to the editors and reviewers of Historical Research for making it such a smooth process. academic.oup.com/histres/adva...