From today, Gaelic and Scots are recognised as official languages. A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thank you to all the speakers for your fascinating papers!

Currently listening to Nat Reeve talking about fungi as narrators in historical fictions.

Fascinating talk by Elena Ippendorf on 'The Rush'. Another item to add to the reading list.

Thank you to Maliha Iqbal, Jacob Mettin and Ashish Kumar Pandey for starting us off with three great talks.

The 2025 Winter Online Workshop is now live!

Quick reminder: The registration for the HFRN Annual Conference 2026 at Erlangen closes soon.

Just a quick reminder that our Online Winter workshop on historical fictions and the climate crisis is this Saturday!

2 days at the annual #BritCult2025 conference. There was a sense of urgency among those of us who practice queer studies not only but perhaps especially as queer individuals in times where our fellows‘ mere being is perceived as a threat (to what exactly, though?) in many parts of the world.

Please find here another CfP for a conference entitled "À nous l’homme et ses passions ! Pour une réhabilitation de l’élan romanesque du roman historique." You can find the link here: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Just a quick reminder: HFRN is offering 10 fee waivers to MA- and PhD-students to take part in the HFRN Conference 2026 at Erlangen. Send us an informal email to apply. (Deadline: 15 November).

The University of Salzburg is orgainising a conference on “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past | SEC26” in early July 2026. Please find here the call for papers: www.plus.ac.at/anglistik-un...

The preliminary programme for the HFRN Winter workshop is out now on our website.

Thank you to Kelly, Catherine and Stephanie for a wonderful talk on Austrialian historical fiction!

Don't forget to join us for Friday's online lecture. Catherine Padmore, Stephanie Downes and Kelly Gardiner (University of La Trobe) will be talking about historical novels in Australia. You can register here: historicalfictionsresearch.org/online-lectu...

Thank you to Emi for last night's fascinating lecture!

Don't forget to join us for the HFRN Online Lecture on Japanese historical novels. The Zoom room opens in 40 minutes.

On 7 November 2025, Catherine Padmore, Stephanie Downes and Kelly Gardiner (University of La Trobe) will be talking about the historical novel in Australia. We start at 9:30 am (GMT), online in Zoom. Guests welcome!

If you would like to know more about Japanese historical novels and Samuraim join us on 29 October at 4 pm (GMT) for Emi Tozawa's HFRN talk. Registration is free.

Registration for our Online Workshop on Historical Fictions in / and the Anthropocen is now open: www.tickettailor.com/events/histo... The programme will be available soon. Please note that if you have already paid the membership levy for this year, you can join for free. Just drop us a line.

Good morning! Registration for the #HFRN2026 Conference at Erlangen is now open. historicalfictionsresearch.org/hfrn-confere...

JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY

The the call for the ESSE Book Awards 2026 has been published. 👇 essenglish.org/book-awards/

Call for Contributions. Conference and workshops: History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past. Location and dates: University of Salzburg. 12 July 2026. Deadline for proposal submissions: 2nd February 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

The call for papers for the HFRN Online Winter Workshop is now closed. We are currently reviewing the very interesting submissions and will be in touch.

Last chance to submit a proposal to our 2025 Online Workshop on Historical Fictions and the Anthropocene. The CfP closes tomorrow. historicalfictionsresearch.org/online-works...

"Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten" Edited by Ben Fletcher-Watson, Jo Shaw edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...

A big 'thank you' to Yolanda Rodriguez Perez for her fascinating talk on the Spanish historical novel!

To learn more about the Network and our activities, do sign up for our Newsletter if you haven't done so yet. newsletter.historicalfictionsresearch.org/subscri...

Don't forget to join us for tonight's lecture on Spanish historical fictions!

Acceptances for the 2026 HFRN Annual Conference have gone out. There'll be many exciting papers to look forward to. Registration will start in October.

Our next online lecture on "In Search of ‘usable pasts’: The Historical Novel in Spain" by Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez is next week. historicalfictionsresearch.org/online-lectu...

The CfP for the HFRN Winter Workshop is currently open. We'll be discussing "Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene". For details, please visit our website.

There have been more than 80 submissions to the HFRN Annual Conference at Erlangen. Happy reviewing!

The HFRN October lecture will feature Emi Tozawa: 29 October 4 pm BST (UTC+1) / 5 pm CEST: : Emi Tozawa, University of Manchester, ‘Samurai Tales and Scholars’ Frowns? Historical Novels in Japan’ For details on registration (it's free!) please visit out webpage.

Please find here the dates for the next HFRN online lecture: 24 September 4 pm BST (UTC+1) / 5 pm CEST: Yolanda Rodriguez Perez, University of Amsterdam, In Search of ‘usable pasts’: The Historical Novel in Spain

We have received more than 60 submissions for the HFRN Annual Conference 2026 so far. Still counting ...

Happy weekend, everyone! Do make use of the time to send in a proposal for HFRC2026. 🙂 The call is open until Monday.

One more week to submit the proposals to the HFRN Annual Conference 2026!

Congratulations and a big 'Thank you' to Stephanie Russo for getting out the next issue of the 'Journal of Historical Fictions'!

Don't forget to submit your proposal for our 2026 Annual Conference. You can find the details here: historicalfictionsresearch.org/hfrn-confere... The deadline is on 1 September.

The CfP for our 2025 Online Winter Workshop is out now: historicalfictionsresearch.org/online-works... We will be looking at "Historical Fiction in / and the Anthropocene" on 29 November.

Our 3rd Online Lecture on the Historical Novel in national traditions will take place on 24 September 4 pm BST (UTC+1) / 5 pm CEST. Yolanda Rodriguez Perez, University of Amsterdam, will be talking about "In Search of ‘usable pasts’: The Historical Novel in Spain."

Good morning! Unfortunately, we will have to postpone next week's Online lecture on Japanese historical fiction. Apologies! We will be in touch with a new date asap.

Thank you to the speakers at the #HFRNWorkshop2025 for a great event!

Good morning! The HFRN Online Summer Workshop on #transhistoricalfictions is live now!

A taste of last week’s wonderful Neo-Historical Fiction conference at @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social - I came away with so many new ideas, and in awe of all of the important work being done. Thank you @carolinekoegler.bsky.social et al for your fabulous hospitality!

One more week until our online workshop on Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions. Looking forward to many exciting talks.🙂

The preliminary programme for our Online Summer Workshop on Trans- and Postnational Historical Fictions is out now: historicalfictionsresearch.org/online-works...

Call for Papers. Conference: Historical Fictions Research. Location and dates: Erlangen (Germany), 19-20 February 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...