Introducing ‘The Blether’ 💬 The Blether is a developing idea from 4 Scot Lit PGRs @uofglasgow.bsky.social designed to highlight the work and research being carried out in Scottish Literature. Follow us to get involved!📚✍🏼💬 #scottishliterature #theblether #thebletherpgr

New #CFP International #WomensWriting online conference

Really excited to be on the judging panel for the 2026 BARS First Book Prize - details of eligibility, nomination, and submission can be found on @bars.bsky.social’s blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174 Do share widely!

Registration for @rrrjournal.bsky.social's annual conference is now open! Please join us for what will be an intellectually stimulating and rewarding day for PGRs, ECRs, and academics to connect and discuss 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century'! www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-in-the...

An inspiring day last Friday in Perth for the Intangible Cultural Heritage Scotland conference, hearing about living heritage in Scotland today and attitudes to safeguarding. Looking forward to reviewing how @glasgowburns.bsky.social’s research into the Burns Supper will feed into these discussions!

Sincere congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social on her receipt of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society. Leith is a committed and prolific scholar who continues to make major contributions to numerous fields within Scottish Studies. www.sfu.ca/scottishstud...

Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833). Please follow and repost for updates!

Come visit our excellent Archives & Special Collections! Especially strong in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period books due to the copyright privilege. Awards cover costs up to £2500.

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries! UCC 19 February Boston College 11 March NYU Glucksman House 12 March Royal Irish Academy 25 March www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

📢Funding announcement! Applications for our bursary are now open (deadline 15 December 2025). £750 for ECRs, indie scholars or PhD students working on any aspect of women's studies in the period 1558 to 1837. Full details available on our website: womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/ #funding #ECR #PhD

TODAY 🍂 Join us at 6pm (UK time) to celebrate the latest volume of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including The Cenci, The Mask of Anarchy, & Julian and Maddalo, to name a few! Free tickets are available below through @bars.bsky.social 🎟

Let's talk libraries! 🔍 Join authors Louise Welsh & Damian Barr TONIGHT for a free in-conversation event at Kelvin Hall about the libraries that shaped them. 📅 6:30-7:30pm, Wednesday, 12 November 📌 Kelvin Hall 🎟️ Free Book your tickets now > www.nls.uk/whats-on/lib...

Call for Papers for 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures is out:pleased to be giving keynote,'Burns along the New Silk Road' @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social @sahavoice.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social scotlit-iassl.org/2025/11/11/c...

Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...

From finding a space from which to travel to distant lands through reading books as children, to using their university libraries as undergrads, @louisewelsh00.bsky.social & @damianbarr.bsky.social will reminisce about how libraries helped shape their careers. 📅Wed, Nov 12th |📍Kelvin Hall 🎫👇

My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!

Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk sites.google.com/view/irsconf...

TODAY!😊😊This webinar celebrates the different ways in which reading fiction books can support wellbeing across the lifespan englishassociation.ac.uk/reading-and-...

Deadline extended to 16 November! @asle-us.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @advancesjournal.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social

Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November. Details below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon! open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...

Are you a current or recently completed doctoral reseacher, PhD supervisor or examiner, or do you work in professional services or student services in the PG sector? If so, we would love to hear your thoughts about #EDI and #PhD assessment. standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We’re delighted to shared details of this free, 1-day symposium, organised by our friends and colleagues @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social and Dr Lois Burke, on 12 Dec 2025. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat.... More info here: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/investigatin.... Do share widely!

Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history! The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory

On #Reading - free online event! englishassociation.ac.uk/reading-and-...

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!

Excited to be stepping into a new role today as Research Associate at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at @uofgartshums.bsky.social. Very grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to getting stuck into a new project over the coming months - Scot Lit updates to follow soon!

There's lots of brilliant research internships & artist residencies here from @sgsah.bsky.social (nb only for current PhD researchers in Arts & Hums in Scotland, due to our funding source), but I'll highlight some of the publishing & literary ones, nb deadline 31 Oct ... 1/ bsky.app/profile/sgsa...

Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!

A wonderful afternoon spent yesterday for our annual SWINC Autumn Round-Up. Thanks to each of our fantastic speakers @drcleoocy.bsky.social, Dr Hilary Clydesdale, Dr Désha Osborne, and @mckeever.bsky.social for 4 wonderful papers - and to all those who came along for stimulating discussions!

A fun afternoon spent yesterday at the annual @swinc-edi.bsky.social autumn roundup - many thanks to all those who came!

Reminder: BARS 2026 CFP can be found here: Deadline Sunday 30 November. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101

This #InternationalPodcastDay tune into ‘Confessions of an Early Career Researcher’ – a new guide to the world of academia post-PhD. The first three episodes of the podcast are available now. Subscribe for our next episodes, live on 15 October: https://bit.ly/4pNaTp1

Dept of History, University of Liverpool - Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships Interested candidates should identify a potential mentor in the dept & submit an Expression of Interest by 3 Nov. Come & work with me &/or my colleagues! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #skystorians 🗃️

This week’s weekend eats 🍽️ (credit to the v. talented @drcleoocy.bsky.social for the first one! 🍅 🧀)

People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.

140 hours of paid work for anyone on an Arts and Humanities doctoral programme at a Scottish HEI, co-ordinating the incredible @sgsah.bsky.social Earth Scholarship programmes 2026 Symposium. Closes 16/10/25. Go go go! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-ea...

#CFP 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual and political disputes today' Paris, 10-12 June 2026 Please send proposals to [email protected] by the 26 October Link to the full CFP here: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ @isecs-sieds.bsky.social

Delighted to share the Future of Books and Reading paper, which combines research insights, professional expertise, and readers' voices to highlight the enjoyable, engaging, empowering and enriching effects of reading across the lifespan. Access here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/

Volume IV of the OUP edition of William Godwin’s letters, now at press, includes an extensive description of his 1816 visit to Abbotsford, together with four letters to Sir Walter Scott (d. OTD 1832), all written in 1824, the same year that Edwin Landseer painted this portrait of Scott at home.

Postdoctoral Researcher – ‘STEMMA'-School of English, Media, and Creative Arts Starts Jan 2026 University of Galway universityvacancies.com/university-g...

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Recorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels” #C19th #romanticism www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...

💜Grateful to be part of #BARS2025 Romantic (Un)Consciousness at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social 💜Inspiring panels both in person & online—deep gratitude to the amazing organizers: @drcleoocy.bsky.social @zooeyziller.bsky.social @womanofclouds.bsky.social

The British Association for Romantic Studies Biennal International Conference 2026 - Romantic Retrospection In-person: Wednesday 29th–Friday 31st July 2026 Online Conference: Thursday 6th August 2026 Updates & CfP announced: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-... [Image: Birmingham Museums Trust]

Remember that the online day of the BARS PGR & ECR conference is tomorrow! Find the full programme here: barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home (and in your email inbox if you’ve registered).