Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )

So excited for the launch of Encounters with Jane Austen on 2 October. Join Cheryl Robson (and me!) for a wonderful evening with April de Angelis, Katie Lumsden, Mary Hamer, Jen Francis, Caitlin Grills,Karenjit Sandhu and Kim Bailey. Tickets can be booked here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

Wonderful article on Miss Lambe in Jane Austen’s Sanditon in The Conversation by our brilliant colleague, Olivia Carpenter! theconversation.com/jane-austens...

Thanks so much for your fab introduction @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Looking forward to our upcoming event too! Thanks also to contributors @juliamiller.bsky.social @aprildeangelis.bsky.social @zitaholbourne.bsky.social @marcellenewbold.bsky.social #janeausten #englishliterature bit.ly/42vsQyk

It was so lovely to be at the launch of Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible by the incomparable Ros Ballaster at Chawton House last night. Always a pleasure to hear Ros talk about Austen and the book is sumptuous #JaneAusten #Austen250

Book selfie! So pleased to have been part of Encounters with Jane Austen which out in just a few days from @aurorametro.bsky.social . It had been terrific to work with the brilliant Cheryl Robson and to be in such stellar contributor company. Find out more here: www.aurorametro.com/product/enco...

Today was the last session of the Jane Austen Book Club at Harewood House. led by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social and me to run alongside Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition. Today, we spent a lot of time talking (amongst other things) about silence. #AustenandTurner #Austen250

I had the best morning ever earlier this week at the fabulous Quilt Museum in York conducting research for my book The Writer’s Craft. The collection is extraordinary and the generosity and expertise of Curator, Heather Audin, equal to it. #quilting #needlework #craft #writing #sewing #18c

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Tomorrow is the Netflix premiere of a film by Richard Osman and ‘How do you like my trimming: Accessories, Making and Jane Austen’s Novels' by me. Shot in the Drawing Room at Jane Austen’s House, the talk examines Austen's needlework: www.youtube.com/user/janeaus... 1/

Congrats to all receiving A-level results. We look forward to welcoming students in Sept. I joined York as Head of English in 2003 but was an undergrad here in the mid-1990s. As a 1st-gen Uni student, I had no idea what to expect. All I knew was books lit me up. Going to York changed my life. 1/

Looking forward to the publication, of Encounters With Jane Austen, a book masterminded by the wonderful Cheryl Robson at Aurora Metro. I was honoured to be asked to write the introduction to this collection which covers Austen’s life and work and what her writing means to me. 1/

Totally missed #WorldEmbroideryDay due to busy-ness at work. Anyway, here’s two of the current projects. Trying #goldwork for the 1st time with Hand and Lock kit and working on recreating Jane Austen’s handkerchief for Cassandra.

TV adaptations of C18 and C19 novels which cast black actors, to the ire of certain newspapers, would not have been that surprising to contemporaries. (Thinking too of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair)

Thrilled that the story of Lela Harris’s stunning portrait of Miss Lambe from #Sanditon has made it to the BBC news. You can read more about her incredible work and how my research on the Lady’s Magazine, fashion plates and Austen intersect with it here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

HANNAH GLASSE 1796 ART COOKERY Preserving RECIPES Baking WINE Puddings CAKES #books #antiquarian #18thcentury #cookery #food #recipes #history #baking #wine #puudings #cakes #preserving #sweets #pickling #bookauction bit.ly/4l7IuX9

/2 Lela Harris’s portrait is part of the exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter and like Austen’s novel, is unfinished. Harris pieces together found writing paper from Harewood, seaming the edges together into a whole. Miss Lambe is a reader and a powerful viewer.

I could not be happier for the brilliant Nicole Wilson for securing much-deserved funding for this vital project.

It was such a joy this morning to see Lela Harris’s extraordinary portrait of Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s only character explicitly of African heritage, from the last novel she worked on. She died at age 41 without being able to finish Miss Lambe’s story. 1/

Congratulations to the CECS curatorial team who contributed to Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter at Harewood House until 19 Oct. Today Lela Harris’s portrait of #JaneAusten ‘s Miss Lambe was unveiled, which draws on @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social ‘s research: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Incredible to be at the installation today of Lela Harris’s breathtaking new portrait of Miss Lambe, from #Sanditon. Lela undertook the commission as Artist in Residence from our exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter at Harewood House. 1/

It was an enormous pleasure to attend the Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference (organised by Rachel Cowgill) at the University of York last night and introduce Austen scholar and music historian Dr Gillian Dooley who gave a keynote talk about music in Northanger Abbey.

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS*** Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Lecturer in Early Medieval History (c.400-1100)- University of Kent - #History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOB288/l...

The Childers Professorship of Irish History University of Cambridge - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC329/t...

I am absolutely bowled over by what @ejjmitchellwrites.bsky.social has done with this pocket pattern from the Lady’s Magazine in an “an act of restitution (of private space in proximity to the body) and empathy, through making, as a way into story”.

Today at #BAVS2025 I accepted the BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph and got to speak about my book, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines. Thank you to @drmarylshannon.bsky.social (whose own book was highly commended) for taking these pictures ❤️

Might this be the best present I have ever received? Yes! Crazy workload and Austen 250th means I am only just about to start season 3 of my bid to (re)watch every #MurderSheWrote episode in order. Now I can continue caffeinated!

Huge and thoroughly deserved congratulations to @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social whose incredible book has been shortlisted for the Susanne M Glasscock book prize.

Huge congratulations to the English and Related Literature Class of 2025, who graduated on Saturday. It was such an honour to read out the around 300 students who were able to walk the stage to receive their undergraduate, masters and DPhil degrees.

In the year that marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, today is the anniversary of her death on 18 July 1817. She was 41 and had had to put aside the last novel she was working on. We call it 'Sanditon'. She almost certainly knew she would not finish it (Photo credit: Tom Arber) 1/

An idle thought. I have always loved The Spectator article about the times of the day and the people who inhabit London in those chunks of time. An observation. Dress history BlueSky seem to be the 6 o’clock BST people and I am here for that!

20-30% off Shaping Femininity and other great fashion history books until 20 July on the @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social website! 📚 www.bloomsbury.com/au/shaping-f...

Thrilled to have an article on The Art of Georgian Embroidery Design in the Fall 2025 issue of #Piecework. In the article I focus on the getting, making and enduring appeal of Georgian embroidery designs and and showcase the work of some of the incredible people who have made them for the #StitchOff

Klaxon: please spread wifey details of these two artist’s residencies at Thin Ice Press as part of their fabulous Print Matters project.

Now on the BARS Blog: Registration is Open for Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print, 1750-1870 A one-day conference at the University of Sussex, Tuesday 16 September, 2025 See the blog and full details/registration link here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6056 Please repost/share!

So excited by the #StudentSalon project led by @laurenworking.bsky.social and @susannah-lw.bsky.social. A brilliant research project between academic colleagues and our brilliant students!

We are delighted with the positive feedback from our students in NSS 2025, which is testament to the intellectual passion and ambition of our staff and the inclusive and supportive academic community we pride ourselves on creating. Best wishes to our brilliant class of 2025!

#EnglishCreates English, History, all the arts and humanities subjects are critical for all of our futures universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Tonight I gave a drawing room talk at Jane Austen’s House for the 250 celebrations on accessories and stitched objects in Austen’s life and works. This is the room in which Pride and Prejudice was first read aloud. Such a lovely audience of people from the UK, US, Germany and Australia.

Ros Ballaster exploring Jane Austen’s ‘fashion bible’, La Belle Assemblée, the iconic women’s fashion magazine of the era. While there’s no record of their readership of the magazine, we know from Austen’s letters she and Cass were nonetheless interested in fashion #GlobalAusten250

Overview of my paper: In Austen, particularly Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey, war appears at once distant and near, the losses and gains never actively discussed but always influencing and shaping the societies depicted in her novels #GlobalAusten250

Hannah Moss on the Jane Austen and Art panel unravelling the discourse around the proposed statue of Jane Austen at Winchester and the complex (and often emotional) narratives around statues of historical women, and how place plays a part in responses to art #GlobalAusten250

Back home after a fantastic #GlobalAusten250: an intelligence of Austenians brought together by the brilliant Gillian Dow & Katie Halsey! Everything ran to time! Papers were great! Q&As bustled with ideas and collegial provocations! HOT stuff literally and academically!!

Flyer from PGWells bookstore, Winchester www.pgwells.co.uk who supplied a magnificent book stall at Global Jane Austen Conference #c18th #Austen250 #janeausten250

I had the best time at The Global Austen Conference at the University of Southampton though I was terrible at taking photos. Brilliantly organised by the fabulous Gillian Dow and Katie Halsey this was a three-day treat of Austen intellectual riches.

Huge congratulations to our very own Dr Daniel Matore, whose first monograph, The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry (OUP, 2023), has won the @englishassociation.bsky.social 2023 Book Prize: universityenglish.ac.uk/announced-un...

As someone lucky enough to have had a sneak preview of this marvellous book by our colleague, Emilie Morin, her groundbreaking biography of Suzanne Beckett comes HIGHLY recommended!

I got a £50 book voucher for my birthday yesterday. I am thrilled but the agony of choice. Hit me up with your recommendations.