🌟New prints today of "Roads go ever ever on"! Faithfully based on Professor Tolkien's own Hobbiton illustration but seen in reverse from The Hill. Bilbo remembers where the Road took him and where it might yet lead. More links in comments. #Tolkien #TolkienArt www.miriamellis.com/product-page...

Del Toro's 'Frankenstein' looks and sounds incredible! Cannot wait to see the whole thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aul...

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All prepped for this evening's free talk (6pm) with @memrn.bsky.social on 'Tolkien's Romantic Medievalism'! There's still time to get the link - contact MEMRN.

Working on a new cover painting for a science fiction novel and playing with the themes of geometric abstraction which helped build this piece for an anthology, Down These Dark Spaceways. Psychohistorical Crisis II 30" x 18" Oil on Panel 2005 collection of Edie Stern and Joe Siclari

THE BEACONS ARE LIT! Recorded at special request by a dear friend and fellow LotR nut. @tolkiensociety.org @uofgfantasy.bsky.social #Tolkien #Music #FilmMusic #Piano #LotR #LordOfTheRings

After 5 years in Scotland, we got to see, at last, red squirrels in action!!!

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"all Macpherson's craft as a philological impostor would have been nothing without his literary skill." --- W. P. Ker, Cambridge History of English Literature. James Macpherson (1736–1796) #Ossian #Scottish #Gaelic #Literature #Romanticism

The #AutumnEquinox reminds us that nature moves in cycles. As day and night find their #balance, take a moment to slow down, notice the turning leaves, and celebrate the balance of light and dark. 🍂 How will you be embracing the rhythms of nature today? ✨

OTD in 1840, the English diarist Anne Lister died. In this piece from the archive, Jill Liddington reflects on her own journey with Lister – from the heady days of initial discovery, to the phenomenal global success of Gentleman Jack.

Thrilled the Special Issue of Green Letters I edited with Alison Sharrock is now online if you have access to Taylor and Francis. Mostly on trees in epic from Homer to Nonnus

The large and long-lived tree: #Scots pine 🌲 A keystone species of the #CaledonianForest - watch to explore how this remarkable tree connects nature, history and heritage.

Join me for a workshop on archival research in the Environmental Humanities at The National Archives! We're seeking early career participants - apply to attend to hear from speakers, view original documents, and help test our research guidance. #envhum #envhist www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-r...

ASLE-UKI Online Seminar Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment 29 January 2026, 3:00-7:00pm GMT Convenors: Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University) and Tess Somervell (University of Oxford) Further details: asle.org.uk/events/semin... Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

THERE IS STILL TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER PROPOSAL FOR #BSECS2026! The deadline is MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER and there will be no more extensions! Come & share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026. It's a lovely way to start the new year! #skystorians #18thC #academicsky 🗃️

‘Tolkien’s Romantic Medievalism’ is going to be a lot of fun! It’s free to join and I’ll be sharing new research from my PhD! @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @tolkiensociety.org @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social

🌰 Have you noticed a LOT amount of acorns? It’s a #MastYear for #OakTrees! 🐿️ During a mast year, oak trees produce way more acorns than usual. It's nature’s version of a surprise harvest — unpredictable and impressive! Have you seen signs of the mast year? Share a pic or story below! 👇

With the 2026 Scottish elections just months away, this is a vital moment to call on political parties to include rewilding commitments in their manifestos. On 1 October, we’ll gather at Holyrood to call out the barriers holding rewilding back Will you stand with us? Sign up now👉 bit.ly/3GYBRs9

My book Illustrating The Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc is released into the wild today! Here's a quick peek at a few more pages, artwork here by Győző Vida, Yassen Panov, Alexander Korotich and Sergei Iukhimov #Tolkien www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustrat...

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“Time is kept and curated in different ways by trees, and so it is experienced in different ways when one is among them." - Robert MacFarlane #RobertMacFarlane #naturewriting #nature #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #stunday #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #trees #forest #midwest

Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels—Marriage, The Inheritance, & Destiny—are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary #JaneAusten, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious… A 🎂🧵 1/8 www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to...

Wanna hear me talk about Tolkien? I have some new hits from my PhD that I’ll be premiering NEW material from my PhD 🥳 Contact @memrn.bsky.social for free access.

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📣Announcing another fantastic event taking place ONLINE at the BARS Conference this September! The Alt-Ac Careers Plenary Roundtable brings together a range of experienced speakers to explore career paths beyond traditional academia. Where could your research take you? Join us to discover more!

It lives! Copies of my book Illustrating The Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc have arrived! So happy to finally see it in print after all this time. Artwork here by Yassen Panov, Jerzy Czerniawski, Alexander Korotich and Sergei Iukhimov. Available from 18 Sept www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustrat...

Join us Mon 1 Sept 2025 for @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk with @richardfallon.bsky.social on Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture 1860-1935: Believers & Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology & Palaeontology (Oxford UP 2025). newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #histsci

Me and Melissa Dickson will be co-presenting research from our forthcoming @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social book to the Sydney Uni Interdisciplinary 19C Study Group on Thursday 21st on Zoom. I’ll be looking at how influenza epidemics were represented in spiritualist fiction and periodicals 📰 📖 👻

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I'm delighted to be working with @clarelmoore.bsky.social and Journee Cotton on this seminar! @tolkiensociety.org is partnering with @uofgfantasy.bsky.social and Medical Humanities Research Centre from @uofglasgow.bsky.social. See the papers and register here: www.tolkiensociety.org/events/semin...

🥳 NEW BLOG POST 🥳 'Romantic Transformations, Part 1: Romantic Authorship in Ex Machina (2015)' In a new series, I'm turning my attention to the ways c20/21 media engage with and transform Romantic ideas. will-sherwood.com/2025/08/12/r...

Romantic Transformations, Part 1: Romantic Authorship in Ex Machina (2015) During a recent flight I had the opportunity to reacquaint myself with Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2015). What struck me within the opening minutes was how the film sets itself up to explore Romantic-period ideas on…

I can't wait for this to be introduced! Would love to teach it! 🌱🌿🐍🐦‍⬛🦉🦡🦔🦫🐝🦋🐟🐋 Wonder if bats will be on the syllabus? They should be! 🦇🖤🦇 #nature #naturalhistory #connectwithnature #lovebats #britishbats nbn.org.uk/news/gcse-na...

📢Excited to reveal the lovely poster for our Sea Changes event at the @britishlibrary Knowledge Centre & online 6-8 Sept booking now! opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-20

'Stoer Lighthouse' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart

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A balanced and thought-provoking review of my recent co-edited volume 'The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien' by Paula Lobato Díez in 'Fafnir - Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research'. Check it out here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

Responding to @bankofengland.bsky.social's consultation, The Tolkien Society calls for world-renowned author J.R.R. #Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, to feature on new bank notes. @birminghamlive.bsky.social #Booksky www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/07/soci...

The journey to Middle-earth and understanding J. R. R. Tolkien begins inside Marquette University's archives, which has more than 11,000 pages of drafts for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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It's #Stunday. This image was made in complete darkness. The light is from the city of St. Marks just a few miles away. The exposure is 20 seconds which softens the clouds and makes it look like a painting. #Photography #landscape #clouds #astrophotography #EastCoastKin #longexposure

✨️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...

coming soon from Cambridge. www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

RRR Journal is now accepting abstracts for our 2026 Conference! I’m thrilled to be hosting at my home institution as the journal's incoming Editor in Chief. With generous BAVS funding, we’re also offering travel bursaries up to £100 for eligible PGR & ECR delegates. 📅 Abstract Deadline: 22 Sept

A wildlife photographer joked that his wife managed to capture an extraordinary photo that outdid him: a European eagle owl, one of the world's largest, perched on his camera lens.

A little bit of eco-gothic for your summer evening.🌱 Poem by Sarah Roberts Boyle about grass in 'Peace Lyrics'(1850). On the one hand - a lovely, eerie celebration of summer grass; on the other, grass can be a site of unsettling power dynamics going back to 18thC colonial fashion for lawns! #C19th

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