ICYMI our @ehunineteen.bsky.social PGRs are hosting a conference - check out our poster - please reskeet - share with your PGRs - and do come along and join us in June!

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy publication day to "Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century"! So many thanks to Bloomsbury and all of the contributing authors who worked with Mark, Ian, and me to bring this volume together! We could not have done it without you! #dancehistory #18thcentury

***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH*** We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March. £400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city @unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

AI is killing the arts, academia, literature, music, photography, film and the internet. I wholeheartedly detest it.

The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

We have made the decision to formally close our X social media account. Once a vibrant platform to promote the interests of authors, we feel X is no longer a trusted place for balance, community support, and reliable information.

I just chaired a discussion for BBC radio on The Last of the Mohicans, Indigenous futurities, and US settler colonialism with some awesome people, including academics and Indigenous authors, that should drop soon. Stay tuned! Related to this adaptation, which I advised in its early development.

We're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range. Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

New in the Cambridge Elements series, and free to read and download until 15 January: The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity Recovering the Digital Archive by Hilary E. Wyss. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #History #DigitalHistory

In our last blogpost of 2025, Maddock Research Fellow Dr Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social sheds light on some of the women authors and illustrators among the book owned by Benjamin Guinness, now part of our Benjamin Iveagh collection marshlibrary.ie/between-the-...

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)

The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)

Do any Gothic people have access to a digital copy of the following text? Anon, _Phantoms of the cloister, or, The mysterious manuscript : a novel : in three volumes_, 1795. I'd be so grateful if anyone had this, and could email digital copies of the volumes to me.

Oh heeeey. I've just seen that my two research articles on Mary Hamilton in this volume are now available via open access (pre-print versions) on @uoyopenres.bsky.social research repository! At time of initial skeeting, they were still embargoed. Go get 'em! (or, as ever, message me for PDFs). (1/3)

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

it’s St Lucy’s day, so you know what that means — time for the best John Donne poem

Strong contender here for world’s stupidest, most offensive and poorly considered definition of womanhood. Anyone this ridiculously uneducated and thoughtless has no place being a fellow of the Royal Society.

This is appalling. If it doesn’t include trans women then it’s not including all women.

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

We’ve grouped our primary source collections under historical themes! “Slavery and Abolition” contains 19 collections, totalling over 695,000 images. They document Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery and opposition to it. Explore this theme at britishonlinearchives.com/themes/11/sl...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I saw something say that AI was making undergrad degrees useless and I can't ignore the fact that tech bros and billionaires want everyone else to not attend college to ensure the populace loses critical thinking skills and push them out of the ability to overtake them.

Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲

All welcome to Dr Marian Kelsey's book launch this Friday! #theology #bible #biblicalstudies #book

"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?" A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro -> www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...

Get set! Our #StAndrewsDay sale is days away! Browse our books and top-up your shopping lists... https://edin.ac/32O7hNr

This is appalling: the jury system is a fundamental aspect of the British approach to justice, ensuring that individuals are judged by their peers & not just by a legal professional. Essentially, it keeps justice in the hands of the people

Can anyone remember a time when there wasn't an ongoing “crackdown on benefit fraud”? The entire basis of the benefit application system is that you, as a claimant, are probably lying.

I’m looking forward to delivering the plenary lecture at this multidisciplinary conference, which marks the tercentenary of the first publication of the world’s greatest prose satire, in 2026: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Vaccines don't cause autism Pass it on

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

Does anyone have any good recommendations for scholarship summarising popular perceptions of the British East India Company & nabobs in Britain in the 1780s/90s? It’s not my specialism but I’m stuck on a paragraph in my research project until I can find a balanced & reliable appraisal

It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!

You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This government has not taken a single meaningful step to tackle the causes of the horrendous inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, instead rushing to dismantle trial by jury. Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog. Ministers are not listening.

Kind of feel like this kind of removal to a fundamental right should be getting more attention. The whole foundation of the justice system in this country is that people are judged by their peers

Thrilled to announce the completion of phase II of the #ElegyInTranslation project: 55 early #19thC #translations in Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, and Welsh: www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/... #ThomasGrayArchive #c18th #DH #TEI

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Really great thread here on why film producers should stop casting Heathcliff as white (because he isn't white in the book)

This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!

It's so stupid for me to get pissed about this, but I still remember the radical shift when Advil went over-the-counter, when I was a freshman in college— I was wrecked by cramps, non-functional, & suddenly, this cheap miracle fixed it all in 20 min

Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same. Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...

So, uh, I'm quoted in the @nytimes.com today in an article about C. S. Lewis and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Cool! 🦁 🧙 🚪 . . www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b... . . #lionwitchwardrobe #CSLewis #NYTimes #fantasy