Carl Thompson
@carlethompson.bsky.social
Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
New IIPP paper published today as part of our Public Value of Arts and Culture research, ahead of tomorrow's International Seminar on Culture and Climate Change at Somerset House, hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil during London Climate Action Week. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
#ThePathlessLand is out in early September, but if you want to preorder, there's a 20% discount on bookshop.org until the end of the weekend, discount code PREORDER20: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Absolutely lovely Job! Senior Research Associate to join the School of Literature, Drama & Creative Writing from 1 September 2026 until 30 April 2029, to work on the AHRC-funded project Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/s...
Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Senior Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!
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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.
Could anyone recommend good, recent(ish) scholarship on oral traditions of travel narration? Whether Inuit, African, Aboriginal, 'Indigenous' more broadly - any suggestions very welcome! TIA!
Call for Papers: Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference The University of Edinburgh, Scotland 28 to 30 June 2027, with an optional trip to Scott’s home, Abbotsford House, on 1 July More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395
The programme is now available for the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference in April at Southampton. Full details and booking here: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...
New Researchers in Maritime History Conference
A conference to support emerging scholars who wish to share their work in a supportive environment and build relations with other maritime historians
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It’s been out a while now, but Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thcentury British travel to Spain and Portugal that is free to download here! uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...
No Country for Travellers?
No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...
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An army of help accompanied wealthy British sightseers on their #18thcentury sojourns across the Continent. What was it like to travel as a servant on the Grand Tour? 🔒 Richard Ansell’s cover feature is now in the archive www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
Servants on the Grand Tour
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Looking forward to presenting my paper “Bound Together at Sea: Convict Sociability and Life Aboard HMS Calcutta, 1803” at the the GIS Sociabilités Workshop at The National Archives, UK, this week. What forms of sociability did convicts experience during the voyage? #earlymodern #history
We’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research) “Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS
We are getting excited - proof-reading the MS for The Wreck of the Gloucester: A 17th-Century Warship Through Time! Finally! It should go to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for publication next week! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I are now discussing the cover image ... tempted by this artefact (!?)😉
Upcoming in-person lecture (and wine reception!) at QMUL (London): 'Slow Reading in an Age of Speed: Wordsworth and the Practice of Criticism' by Jonathan Sachs 2 April, 5:15-7:15pm. More details and book tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slow-readi...
Slow Reading in an Age of Speed: Wordsworth and the Practice of Criticism
This talk reflects on the practice of literary criticism in a moment shaped by media acceleration, distraction and shrinking attention span.
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Global historians! The European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) has a Bluesky account. Please share and follow: @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius. #Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork
One for the #TravelWriting scholars. Samia Ounoughi and I seem to have been working on this book forever, but it's out at last! It features a great range of contributions. If you have access to an academic library and an interest in travel writing scholarship, please request a copy!
Arthur Adams's (1820-1878) drawings range from pen and ink scientific sketches to charismatic watercolours of fish species observed during his voyage to the Malay Archipelago. Angling to see more? ⬆️ Use the link in our bio to explore this collection and many others.
📚 New publication! 📚 On the move: mobility and Early Modern translation 👉 buff.ly/9rFFBQ5 Co-edited by our own Giancarlo Casale and Ann Thomson The volume investigates the translators' role as agents of encounter in a world in which ideas, texts and people circulated as never before
Looking forward to this! @sussexpast.bsky.social #SussexCoast sussexpast.co.uk/event/spring...
Spring Talk: Dr Cathryn Pearce - Salvaging Stories of Shipwreck: The Loss of HMS Brazen, 1800, and the Coastal Communities of Brighton and Newhaven - Sussex Past
Caught in a winter gale on her maiden voyage for the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary War, HMS Brazen met an untimely end in January - a dramatic story explored in an online evening talk wit...
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Work begins today on the 3rd iteration of the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Critical Editions project, which this year sees students from our English Literature degree and MA in Publishing editing a new full accessible digital edition of the correspondence between Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne #18c
Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant. c.org/N2cycpKrpB
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Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
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Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.
#EnglishCreates: Futures Today, Dr Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds) shows how English can help us to think about climate change: 'Literature of the first fossil-fuelled society can help us to imagine alternative futures...' universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism
#EnglishCreates: Futures Today, Dr David Cooper & Prof Kate Pahl (MMU) discuss 'Teaching on treescapes': 'By listening to and being attentive to children’s meaning making practices, a social poetics of treescapes engagement emerged...' universityenglish.ac.uk/voices-of-th... #Ecocriticism
We are supporting this conference on Charles Ignatius Sancho, the late-18thC Black British polymath. A recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries makes it timely to bring together international scholars and practitioners for the first time in over 25 years! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
Charles Ignatius Sancho: a Black British man of letters and his world
Charles Ignatius Sancho, late-18th-century Black British polymath, is a foundational figure in Black British history; a recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries of his life has occurred in parallel wit...
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Congratulations to @claireconnolly.bsky.social on the publication of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" @universitypress.cambridge.org ❗We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm ⬇️⬇️⬇️ as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Behind the scenes project work: demounting and repackaging original artwork from the Shepard Trust collection of art by illustrator E. H. Shepard. #archiveconservation #ehshepard #archives
