Bluesky Lit Crit pals, some inspiration please! Most interesting scenes set in book-shops or in circulating libraries in #18thc and #19thc British literature?

‘Books Open – for you to read and enjoy’ at the Wanlockhead Miners’ Subscription Library, the Museum of Lead Mining 3rd Friday at 13.00 and 3rd Sat 11:15 in April, May, Sept. 2026 / 3rd Friday at 13.15 and 3rd Sat at 10:15 in June, July, Aug. 2026. Details: www.leadminingmuseum.co.uk/events/books...

Books Open Days! | Museum of Lead Mining

To celebrate the 270th Anniversary of the Wanlockhead Miners’ Subscription Library, the Museum of Lead Mining invites you to –  ‘Books Open – for you to read and enjoy’  Our Library books are historic...

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'Mining for Knowledge' - a study day to celebrate the 270th anniversay of the Wanlockhead Miners' Subscription Library - 4 June 2026 in Edinburgh. Programme and details here: www.leadminingmuseum.co.uk/events/minin...

'Mining for Knowledge' | Museum of Lead Mining

A one-day celebration for the 270th anniversary of the Wanlockhead Miners’ Library to be held in Edinburgh. Nine talks related to the library between 09-45 and 17-30 on 4th June 2026 Timeline for the ...

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New Friends of Edinburgh University Library Event - David Laing Book Collecting Prize 2026: Highlights from the Finalists - 27 May, 15:00: Details here: friendsofeul.co.uk/2026/05/10/d...

David Laing Book Collecting Prize 2026: Highlights from the Finalists

15:00 Wednesday, 27 May 2026, CRC, 6th Floor, Main Library The David Laing Book Collecting Prize (patron, and Friend, Dr Bill Zachs) aims to encourage collecting by recognising a collection formed …

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📚 🥳 All welcome at our hybrid book launch for Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824), edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Rachel Feldberg and Jane Rendall (Boydell Press: 2026) 📚🥳 🗓️ Wednesday 13 May, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 🎟️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me. Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships.... Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.

BARS Research and Innovation Event: Applying for Funding Reminder: THIS MONDAY 20 April 2026, 10am-1pm UK time via Zoom Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I just registered AND YOU SHOULD TOO!! Excited to be talking about my diss research on Thomas Bakewell (and Robert Bloomfield and Robert Burns)

British Association for Romantic Studies@bars.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BARS 2026 Conference Registration now OPEN! We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.

WE NEED YOU! Would you like to write an article for the BARS Blog? We've got some ideas for April below! If you'd like to write a blog on one of these subjects, please do get in touch! Alternatively, if you'd like to pitch your own idea, don't be afraid to drop us a message!!

A reminder that the deadline for Expressions of Interest in hosting BARS 2028 is coming up - if you're potentially interested, but have questions or concerns, please feel free to drop me an email. It's a big responsibility, but a very rewarding one, and crucial for the health of the Association.

British Association for Romantic Studies@bars.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The British Association for Romantic Studies is pleased to invite Expressions of Interest in hosting its 2028 International Biennial Conference. More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6294 Deadline: Tuesday 31 March 2026

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

I enjoyed this unusually literary bit of marketing from my university with @mckeever.bsky.social

Edinburgh good reads: a modern Scottish literature bookshelf - Edinburgh Impact

Discover Dr Gerard McKeever’s favourite Scottish classics, inspiring quotations, and what he’s reading now for pure enjoyment.

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Publication Boxing Day! Shoutout to @books-borrowing.bsky.social in Feminist Librarianship, and thanks to @cilipscotland.bsky.social for a wonderful launch event at @natlibscot.bsky.social yesterday. If you’re interested in women’s reading, circulating libraries, and library history give it a read!

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic. www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/rese... #skystorians 🗃️

What a fantastic day of Scottish History awaits! Join us on 28th March for our conference, AGM and presidential lecture. Free to members, £6 non-members Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/scott... Please share!

Select tickets – Scottish History Society 2026 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM – Old College, University of Edinburgh

Scottish History Society 2026 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM – Old College, University of Edinburgh, Sat 28 Mar 2026 - SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY Conference, Presidential Lecture & Annua...

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Radcliffe's 'The Italian' was very popular with the borrowers of the Selkirk Library in the early 19th century borrowing.stir.ac.uk/search/0/0/0... - here's a chance to find out why!

Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now@radcliffecup.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's official 🎉🎈 Professor Michael Gamer's fantastic edition of Radcliffe's 'The Italian' is out now. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe is off to a roaring start! Be sure to request a copy for your library now - and use the code GAMER26 for 20% off www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

EXCITING TALK ANNOUNCEMENT: @romgothsam.bsky.social will be speaking on Byron's Legacy, Newstead Abbey and Thomas Wildman for the Byron Society. Get your free tickets below ⤵️

Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just a little reminder to anyone interested! I'm going to be doing a talk about Byron's Legacy, Newstead Abbey and Thomas Wildman's stretching of the truth... Online and open to all! www.thebyronsociety.com/events/lies-...

Call for Papers: 'Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference', @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, 28-30 June 2027, organised by @mckeever.bsky.social & team. Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2026. Details of financial support for PGRs to follow. tinyurl.com/yt2vj4x7

Now online! Our research review 🔬📜 We have more than 50 research projects under way at any given time at the Library. For a taste of what we do, check out our Research Review 2024–25.

📢Find out about the history of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh at next Tuesday's lunchtime talk at 1.15 pm @surgeonshall.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-time...

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte... @bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social

EMCO Internship Programme

A digital edition of the complete letters of Elizabeth Montagu 1718-1800 - ISSN 2753-9091

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🚨 Next BARS Digital Event: 'Reviving "The Liberal": Literature and Politics between Britain and Italy, 1821-23', 11th March, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET 🗞️📰 Register for free: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

If you missed our digital events on 'Walking Forward with Annette von Droste Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth' and 'Romantic Creativity', you can catch up on the Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...

Call for Contributors! Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830. We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

Call for Papers: 'Scotland and the In-Between', the annual Société française d’études écossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) conference (Université de Lorraine, 12-14 Nov 2026). Proposals for papers in French or English are due 28th April. More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6338

This week on the podcast: @drcleoocy.bsky.social and @kateferrier.bsky.social on why Susan Edmonstone Ferrier is more than just "the Scottish Jane Austen" Listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...

New Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog: @jodielmarley.bsky.social on William Blake's Mysticism: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6309.

My interview with @mjrsangster.bsky.social on my new book, William Blake's Mysticism, has just been published on the @bars.bsky.social blog. Thank you for your insightful questions, Matt 💫 www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6309