A fascinating day at the College of Psychic Studies (the London Spiritualist Alliance in 1884). I met the current College president who is said to have been seen with the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle (the College’s president in 1926) surrounding her. So many incredible spiritualism books too! 👻

Looking forward to presenting on ‘Scriptotherapy and Spiritualism’ from my forthcoming CUP monograph at the ESHS/HSS History of Science conference in Edinburgh. We’re on at 9.15am tomorrow on a #ESHS spiritualism panel with @dreframss.bsky.social @emmamerkling.bsky.social @irmorus.bsky.social 👻 ✍️ 📚

Here’s my review essay for the BMJ Medical Humanities on the @psioxford.bsky.social International Pandemic Science Conference. Focusing on the power of memory, #literature & storytelling, I ask how #medhums can learn from historic diseases to prepare for future #pandemics: mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

A fun 2 months ahead as I’ll be teaching study skills lectures to the students on the LMH Oxford Summer Programme @ox.ac.uk 📚 ✍️ 👩🏻‍🏫

Join us today at 6pm BST for Irish Gothic! ☘️ 🦇 ⬇️

GOTHICA 🦇@gothicauob.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A week until our final session before the summer break! ✝️Irish Gothic 🗣️Lucy O'Hora 📅18th June 🕕 6pm BST ⚠️Trigger Warning Lucy will discuss how contemporary Irish Gothic fiction reconfigures the Gothic heroine through the historical legacy of the Magdalene Laundries. DM to join!

🎉I’ve submitted my monograph manuscript for the ‘Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture’ series! 🎉 Spiritualism and Maternal Grief in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature examines how maternal mourning was shaped by women’s literary responses to an era of séances & spirits #C19

Join us for Irish Gothic on the 18th June with Lucy O’Hora! ⬇️☘️🦇

GOTHICA 🦇@gothicauob.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We really enjoyed Animal Gothic 🐈 last week with @laurenicullen.bsky.social 🖤 thank you to our lovely speaker & all our attendees ✨️ Don't miss our last session before the summer break 👇 ✝️ Irish Gothic 🗣 Lucy O'Hora 📆 18th June 🕡 6pm BST 💻 Zoom DM to join!

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Join us online on Thursday - all are welcome and you can hear the fascinating work on Animal Gothic from the brilliant @laurenicullen.bsky.social 🦇🐺🐍

GOTHICA 🦇@gothicauob.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just a week until Animal Gothic with @laurenicullen.bsky.social🐺 🗣️ Dr Lauren Cullen 📅 Thurs 28th May 🕕6-7.30pm (GMT) Lauren is a Postdoctoral Fellow at University British Columbia, Canada. Her research looks at the intersection of 19th-century culture, animal studies & environmental humanities.

Last week I gave my first Seed Talk public lecture on ‘The History of Women in Spiritualism’ to a lovely audience in London & online. We explored female artists, authors & entrepreneurs who shaped séances, with a reading from my @blpublishing.bsky.social collection & Q&A. Thanks to all attendees! 👻

What a lovely audience and so many thoughtful questions about women in spiritualism during tonight’s Seed Talk! 👻

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary@peasoup.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Brilliant talk by @dremilyvincent.bsky.social on seances, mediums and women with some superb photos - the ectoplasm was tops!

Exciting ghostly news! 👻

Dr Jen Baker@jendeavour.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*Very* excited that vol.1 of New Directions in the Ghost Story, edited by myself, @henrybartholomew.bsky.social & @joanpassey.bsky.social is out! Well done to all the contributors, and thanks for bearing with us! :) Please recommend to your academic libraries! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

We can’t wait to host @laurenicullen.bsky.social next Thursday for @gothicauob.bsky.social 🐺 🦇 🐜 🕷️

GOTHICA 🦇@gothicauob.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just a week until Animal Gothic with @laurenicullen.bsky.social🐺 🗣️ Dr Lauren Cullen 📅 Thurs 28th May 🕕6-7.30pm (GMT) Lauren is a Postdoctoral Fellow at University British Columbia, Canada. Her research looks at the intersection of 19th-century culture, animal studies & environmental humanities.

Join me this Thursday from 7pm for my Seed Talk at 21 Soho in London (& online)! Though we won’t be summoning spirits…we will be talking about vibrant female spiritualist authors like Florence Marryat and artists like Anna Mary Howitt! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

Exciting news for @gothicauob.bsky.social and the Dark Arts Research Group at Copenhagen - what a brilliant collaboration opportunity! 🦇

Efram Sera-Shriar@dreframss.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A small bit of news, the Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is teaming up with @gothicauob.bsky.social. I am so excited about this collaboration and look forward to the future of working together 👻 🦇 🧌 uobgothica.wordpress.com/collaboratio...

For all fans of #spiritualism and #occult history 👻 you can join my public Seed Talk at 21 Soho, London (& online) on Thursday 21st May 7pm. We will focus on how powerful female mediums, authors & artists were foundational in forming the séance movement. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

Today was my first day teaching the ‘Ghosts Across Time’ course I’ve designed for the wonderful Astrophoria Foundation Year students at Oxford @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk 👻 We looked at Early Spectres and the ghosts in Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Castle of Otranto 📚 👩🏻‍🏫 👻

Don't miss our upcoming Gothica events🦇⬇️ This Thursday: 🎬Cinematic Indigenous Gothic 🗣 James Rose 📅30th April May: 🐺Animal Gothic 🗣️ Dr Lauren Cullen 📅28th May June: ✝️Irish Gothic 🗣️Lucy O'Hora 📅18th June DM to join, sessions are online & all welcome! Please share 🖤

Spiritualism talk! If you like all things #spiritualism and #occult you can join my public Seed Talk at 21 Soho, London (& online) on Thursday 21st May 7pm. We will uncover the powerful women whose contact with the dead stirred a new way of living. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

Join us next Thursday 30th April for a @gothicauob.bsky.social session on Cinematic Indigenous Gothic with James Rose! DM Gothica to join 🎬

GOTHICA 🦇@gothicauob.bsky.social · 4mo ago

2 weeks to go! 🎬Cinematic Indigenous Gothic 🗣 James Rose 📅Thurs 30th April ⏰6–7:30PM BST 💻Zoom James discusses Indigenous Gothic, in response & in reaction to colonial literatures, the Gothic, American Literature, the American Gothic & Indian Captivity narratives. DM to join!

Exciting news! If you like all things #spiritualism and #occult you can join my public Seed Talk at 21 Soho, London (& online) on Thursday 21st May 7pm. We will uncover the powerful women whose contact with the dead stirred a new way of living. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

Take a look at our latest project output about influenza epidemics and alternative healing from @dremilyvincent.bsky.social

Dr Emily Vincent@dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Exciting! 🎉My latest article is now live in ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ @incsa.bsky.social. You can read all about influenza epidemics, alternative healing, and occult periodicals in the late 19C as part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting! 🎉My latest article is now live in ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ @incsa.bsky.social. You can read all about influenza epidemics, alternative healing, and occult periodicals in the late 19C as part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The brand new journal ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ from @incsa.bsky.social is now LIVE! See here for my editorial which introduces the Forums section, for which I’m the section editor: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Advances in Nineteenth Century Research: Forums

This brief editorial article introduces the aims, form, and anticipated content of the Forums section of Advances in Nineteenth Century Research. Guided by its section editor, the Forums section of...

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I'm delighted to share my latest article: 'A Spirited Challenge Accepted.' If you're interested in spirit photos and print media, this is the article for you! Special thanks to @emmamerkling.bsky.social who digitized so much of the archival material for me. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Spirited Challenge Accepted: William Marriott, the Crisis of Evidence, and the Sunday Express Photographic Test from 1921

During the opening decades of the twentieth century, William Hope was championed by British spiritualists as a leading psychic photographer within their community. He was said to be able to capture...

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Hi everyone, here's a little thing I wrote about ghost tours as a tool for historical research (?). If you don't have access but would like to read, let me know! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ghost Tours and Occult Experience: A Historical Experiment

What, if anything, can contemporary ghost tours tell historians about people’s experiences with the occult, the supernatural and the sacred in the nineteenth century? This forum contribution uses g...

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Monday was my last set of 1:1 tutorials teaching on the 8-week ‘Gothic Nature' course I designed for the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program in association with @kebleoxford.bsky.social!

Join me and @laurenicullen.bsky.social tomorrow at 5pm (GMT) tomorrow for our monthly ECR BAVS Tea Time! A chance for @bavs-uk.bsky.social Early Career Researchers to chat and connect over tea and Zoom - DM for the link ☕️

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ALT: a cup of tea is being poured from a teapot on a saucer

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A semi-regular reminder that @incsa.bsky.social's journal is open to receiving proposals for special issues. If you have an idea for a topic connected to 19thC studies in the broadest sense, do get in touch. Please share! Details 👇 in-csa.com/themed-speci...

Call for Proposals: Special / Themed Issues - International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Call for Proposals Special / Themed Issues Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, the journal of the International-Nineteenth Century Studies Association Follow on BlueSky Call for Book Reviews Adva...

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Join us this Thursday at 6pm GMT with @monicagermana.bsky.social for a @gothicauob.bsky.social session on ‘The Other Winter Wonderland: The Gothic ‘Fairy-Tale’ of the Arctic and the Far North’ #Gothic #Gothicstudies - all are welcome, DM me or Gothica for the link!

GOTHICA 🦇@gothicauob.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We've been summoned from the dead 💀 Join us next week for Gothic wintery delights ❄️ 🗣 Dr Monica Germanà 📅 Thurs 12th March ⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT 💻 Zoom Dr Monica Germanà is a Reader in Humanities at the University of Westminster with an expertise in Scottish women's Gothic. DM to join!