The next IHR Transport & Mobility History seminar is this Thursday (15 Jan) at 17:30. We'll be hearing from Peter Mayo-Smith about the language and rhetoric used to oppose branch line closures. Register to join the seminar on Zoom. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Reminder that the next @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR Tea Time will take place tomorrow at 5pm - 6pm on Zoom! DM me or @laurenicullen.bsky.social for the Zoom link and join us for an informal chat about all things early career and nineteenth century 🫖 ☕️

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My article, 'Railing through reality: Trains and mobility in Victorian ghost stories' is available open-access in this collection, along with many other excellent articles on various aspects of railway history spanning 200 years!

The Journal of Transport History@jtransporthist.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Dear Followers, ‼️JTH created an open-access collection of papers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first railway journey in Britain‼️ Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

Exciting news! @bavs-uk.bsky.social are hiring an ECR/Postgrad Rep to work alongside me to develop early career professional development and networking opportunities. 10th Sept deadline, details below ⬇️ DM me with any queries 🎉

BAVS@bavs-uk.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

The #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference kicked off with the ECR/PGR Professionalisation Day @engfac.bsky.social - an insightful pedagogy & careers panel, a fun Victorian Parlour Games session, productive peer review workshops & a fantastic séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 📚👻

Call for Papers: 'Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire' bit.ly/3Ye0Pco Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians

The @bavs-uk.bsky.social Conference PGR/ECR day at the Uni of Oxford will be held on the afternoon of 22 July. No papers are required to attend but there is an option to get feedback on articles, monograph proposals, postdoc apps etc. To submit something, email Christy Wensley: bavs@ell.ox.ac.uk 📝

We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open! Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

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We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open! Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025. We look forward to hearing from you!

📣Calling all #ECRs who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic post - the @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Matters fellowship at the Uni of Edinburgh is now live! See below for details ⬇️ victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/n...

Nineteenth-Century Matters 2025 – University of Edinburgh

OutlineNineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its ninth year, it is aimed …

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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July. Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

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Join us to awaken from our academic slumber for 2 exciting online events next week: - Part 2 of our funding workshop for BAVS ECRs on Monday 20th at 5.30pm (GMT) - Coastal Gothic with Dr Emily Alder for @gothicauob.bsky.social on Thursday 23rd at 5pm (GMT)