Depressing - we need the arts now more than ever www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

Major yn Englisshe: • focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge • research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet • meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir • it ys awesome • books!

***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025*** Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week. Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️

The Royal Literary Fund are offering grants to writers facing financial difficulties. If you're currently experiencing difficulties, such as an illness or unexpected bill, you might be eligible to receive support.

#History #SkyStorians Writing a new course on social movements/political practices in 19th c. Britain & Ireland & struggling to find secondary sources on associations/civil society in general, as opposed to studies of specific societies, e.g. Catholic Assoc. Any suggestions?

The Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are very happy to take any queries, please just email us at [email protected].

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

🚨 JOB ALERT-The Curran Index is hiring! Editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social + Lars Atkin seek a Research Assistant to conduct archival research on /Fun/ housed at the Huntington Library. Stipend available, with applications accepted through Aug. 20! More details on our website: rs4vp.org/curran-index...

✨️Job Alert✨️ Research Associate, 21st Century Oxford Authors Edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Fixed-term, University of Sheffield, closing date 18 August. Please share with ECRs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

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

Fellow freelancers, a boring tax question: do you use any accounting software, and would you recommend it? I currently, & happily, use an Excel spreadsheet - but I see this whole ~making tax digital!~ thing looming, so am reluctantly in the market for recommendations of more complicated things 🙏

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Job alert! We're advertising for a full-time, permanent Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in 20thC American History at Edge Hill. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX206/l...

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

@drmarylshannon.bsky.social Billy Waters in the wild at #GlobalAusten250

Indiana Jones and the Last University (Too dark?)

Our amazing Centre for Contemporary Art - Baltic - are looking for a ‘Director of Development and Enterprise’ www.artsprofessional.co.uk/job/baltic-c...

Just over 2 weeks left to apply for the fully-funded PhD ‘the Northern Echo and the Politics of Place’ working with me @northumbriauni.bsky.social & @bethgaskell.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social please share with networks & anyone you think might be interested www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

PhD studentship in nineteenth century newspapers and the politics of place now up on ‘find a PhD’ as well - please share with anyone you think might be interested in the opportunity www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

3.5-year fully funded PhD studentship hosted by @northumbriauni.bsky.social and co-supervised by the @britishlibrary.bsky.social: ‘The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place’ - please share widely if you can! www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/pos...

Hi #Austen folks: I have a student who is writing a paper about Austen's uses of first-person narration (the brief moments where the narrator uses "I" or "we"). It seems to me that there MUST be an article or book chapter that discusses this at some length--can anyone point me to it? #c18 #c19

Can anyone help Sam? The work he’s doing is really vital!

@chuarchives.bsky.social today. If I learn nothing else I’ve found some great alt. email openers to ‘hope all’s well with you’: ‘alas for Deptford!’, ‘the Devil is raging in Basingstoke’, & my personal favourite ‘what a man you are-to talk of making a round of the theatres as if they were brothels!’

Not me, needing to cut 15,000 words from this manuscript, busily adding a new footnote on the invention of the telephone.

I took a Sociology elective in which the tutor divided us into teams and told us we had to get from A to B on campus without using stairs to demonstrate how ableist our campus was. It made me think properly for the first time as a young adult about the built environment as discriminatory.

Applications are now open for a fully funded PhD position at Northumbria University as part of my research project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. The studentship will focus on global musical instruments as tools for education in the primary classroom /1

@tomskinner.bsky.social can we expect the kinds of quality, angry-political-rants of the old Twitter days on here?

🎺JEPS has opened the call for its 10.2 Open Issue. Deadline 1 December 2025. Find everything you need to know about this diamond open access, peer-reviewed journal here: openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/site/ab...