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Dr Laura Eastlake

@victorianmasc.bsky.social

James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th

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Simon Kővesi@kovesi.bsky.social · 7d ago

Ronald Blythe Fellowship 2026 The John Clare Society runs an annual bursary scheme, providing £1,000 for PhD researchers in the field of John Clare studies. Closing date: 30 October. @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social johnclaresociety.org/2026/10/01/r...

Apply for John Clare Society Bursary by 30 October 2026

Apply for the Ronald Blythe Fellowship bursary for John Clare studies! Deadline: 30 October 2026. Fund your research projects

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Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · last wk.

Hungry, hungry hippophagists!? My grim little article about the time the Victorians tried to make horse-eating fashionable is in this month’s issue of History Today and is free online for seven days. #c19th #foodhistory

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History Today@historytoday.com · last wk.

With the price of meat soaring, a new source offered a cheap solution – if only the Victorian public could be convinced of the benefits of hippophagy. 🔓 This article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · last mo.

Supermarket product: “NEW IMPROVED RECIPE! EVEN BETTER TASTE!!” Everyone: “Did you just add palm oil tho? It’s palm oil, isn’t it?” Supermarket product: “Shhhhhh. ITS BURSTING WITH FLAVOUR!” Everyone: …

Crop of a product label. Text: NEW RECIPE — BURSTING WITH FLAVOUR.
Charlotte Garden@charlottegarden.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's the paper - the abstract suggests that students who outsource their homework to AI later do worse on exams (which makes sense!) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine

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Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 2mo ago

Woah.

Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A spin-off to the📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" series…Covers that actually work in a deep-cut kinda way! This one is a nice ref to Heathcliff’s dogs, but also captures the malevolent centrality of H himself. Remember folks, there r no bad dogs, only bad Heathcliffs!

Withering Heights cover. Blue background with a graphic silhouette of a dog with docked ears and patterned with green swirls and thorns. #c19th #wutheringheights
Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 5: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. “Get in, loser. We’re going rowing on the Thames in a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance. Also on Wednesdays we wear arsenic green.” #c19th

Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As a child this one sentence, with its misleading context clues, from M.R. James's 'Number 13' led me to believe that 'stuepige' was a (frankly glorious, and much-needed) noun for the person who had committed an act of stupidity. I am to this day still sad that it means 'housemaid'. #19thC #stupid

'Such things rarely happen in Denmark, but some piece of stupidity had certainly been performed (which is not so uncommon), and the stuepige must be severely spoken to'Clothbound cover of M R James's Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The font in an old Gothic style.
Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 5: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. “Get in, loser. We’re going rowing on the Thames in a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance. Also on Wednesdays we wear arsenic green.” #c19th

Cover of Our Mutual Friend featuring two young women, at school judging by their backpack and casual dress, and wearing jewellery and low rise jeans of c. 2002
Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 4: The Great Gatsby. “They say he killed a man, and bought that big-ass palace with the money he made from his Magic Mike themed speakeasy”

British Online Archives (BOA)@boapublishing.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New primary source collection coming soon—The Strand Magazine, 1891–1930. Associated, famously, with Sherlock Holmes, The Strand became a British cultural institution, blending literary sophistication with broad, popular appeal. Learn more at buff.ly/99WFqyn.

The Strand Magazine, 1891–1930 - Overview

The Strand Magazine was one of the most influential and popular illustrated monthly periodicals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Founded by George Newnes in 1890, the first issue…

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Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 4: The Great Gatsby. “They say he killed a man, and bought that big-ass palace with the money he made from his Magic Mike themed speakeasy”

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Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 3: Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” (1901). Colonial adventure novel about an orphaned Irish boy who meets a Tibetan lama in Lahore and together they are drawn into the “great game” of imperial espionage. Nice shoes, babe.

Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 3: Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” (1901). Colonial adventure novel about an orphaned Irish boy who meets a Tibetan lama in Lahore and together they are drawn into the “great game” of imperial espionage. Nice shoes, babe.

Book cover featuring only the torso and legs of a person in khaki short-shorts and very pretty red heels with green and red tattoos.
Dr Laura Eastlake@victorianmasc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 2: Henry James, 'The Turn of the Screw' (1898) The novel is a #C19th gothic tale of a governess caring for 2 cherubic children who may or may not be in league with ghosts. Also...that's a nut.