DEADLINE EXTENDED to the 31 March 2026! Join our PGRs and ECRs in Montpellier this autumn to discuss the theme of 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #PGR #ECR #CFP

BSECS@bsecs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

Great new blog post from HHRN committee member, Dr Suzi Richer! Learn more about Elizabeth Birkett of Townend, Cumbria and the herbal remedies in her commonplace book (1699) #herbalhistory #histherb #herbalmedicine #C17th #bookhistory #recipes #cumbria #Townend herbalhistory.org/home/experie...

Experience or expectation? Elizabeth Birkett’s remedies from her 17th century commonplace book

Explorations of a 17th century commonplace book by Suzi Richer, PhD, medical herbalist and environmental archaeologist.

herbalhistory.org

First, I was really pleased that the essay collection I co-edited with @maddypelling.bsky.social was published by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social back in December. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/18th-cent...

The 18th Century Today

Exploring how 18th-century forms and narrative are taken-up, recycled and re-visioned in contemporary media, this book asks which histories are told and by whom…

bloomsbury.com

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications. Deadline: 1st April 2026 More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359

The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf offers residency fellowships in Schloss Wiepersdorf (State of Brandenburg, Germany) to artists and scholars. Applications for 2027 are welcome until April 15. Details at the link below: www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de/en/individua...

Attention ABO readers! Issue 15.2 (2025) dropped earlier this month. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities

📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

I just listened to this episode and it’s my favorite commentary on HR thus far (and I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts about the show!) Refreshing to hear people talk about it who GET IT and also understand its popularity

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw@gavia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Out now on Overinvested, our long-awaited episode on HEATED RIVALRY, covering the show's brilliantly paced romantic storytelling, its depiction of hockey culture, and much more. www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/202...

My latest article is up! Published among briliant pieces within the special issue "Affective and Emotional Encounters in/with British Women's Writing, 1600–1800" eds. Anna-Rose Shack, Zoë Van Cauwenberg, and Fauve Vandenberghe by the @abojournal.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...

Delighted to have had my abstract "Older women writers and intergenerational mentoring" accepted to the @bars.bsky.social conference in Birmingham later this year! I am very excited to see all of you there 🥰

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Excellent news

UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme

Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money

theguardian.com

📖 Presentació del còmic ‘La SEAT: motor de llibertat’ a la llibreria Jaimes Dijous 4 amb la participació dels autors, Jordi de Miguel i Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López. #sentitcrític  

Presentació del còmic ‘La SEAT: motor de llibertat’ a la llibreria Jaimes

Amb la participació dels autors, el periodista Jordi de Miguel i la dibuixant Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López

f.mtr.cool

To honor the winter break on the horizon, Letterboxd crew and contributors share twenty underseen holiday favorites: where Christmas and Hanukkah deep cuts and surprisingly festive noir and stop-motion delights all have a seat at the table. boxd.it/2QQ

If it this sounds intriguing, sign up below! Can't wait to hear what my fellow PGRs talk about too ✨️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

EHUNineteen@ehunineteen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Finally, Emma Butler’s #19thCFlashTalk thinks about Anna Austen Lefroy’s 1925 continuation of Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon and its representation of the seaside, presenting the fruits of her recent fellowship at Chawton 10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists! Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies. It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Journal Home - Victoriographies Home

euppublishing.com

We have a cover

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize. ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize

The Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Founded in 2025, the prize is open to book-length wor…

ucsl-scotland.com

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation

@facudiaz.net Hola Facu, estic corregint un TFG i el corrector em suggereix això.

@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting

Part 2 of the video shared in yesterday’s post re @fbls.bsky.social’s essay on on erased 18thC author Eliza Hayley bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays

Incidentally, bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor wasn’t @fbls.bsky.social’s first piece on Eliza Hayley. She wrote a fantastic essay on Hayley’s 1780 book: a #translation of 𝙀𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙡𝙙-𝘼𝙜𝙚 by the Marchioness de Lambert. Read it at bit.ly/FBS-WTW #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory

@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation

Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award! Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered. Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

Call for Contributions. Conference: Language and literature across the lifespan. Location and dates: University of Namur, Belgium. 11-12 December 2025. Extended deadline for proposal submission: 5 October 2025. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

Wonderful article on Miss Lambe in Jane Austen’s Sanditon in The Conversation by our brilliant colleague, Olivia Carpenter! theconversation.com/jane-austens...

Jane Austen’s real and literary worlds weren’t exclusively white – just read her last book, Sanditon

While her inclusion of Miss Lambe, a Black character, is great, we should be wary of seeing it as representative of Austen having ‘radical politics’

theconversation.com

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born #OTD, 11 Sep. Plays on the Passions, a series of female-led comedies & tragedies, brought Baillie fame during a period when serious drama was in decline. Her 256th birthday was commemorated by a Google doodle in 2018 #C18th 1/3 doodles.google/doodle/joann...

Joanna Baillie’s 256th Birthday Doodle - Google Doodles

Learn more about the creation of Joanna Baillie’s 256th Birthday Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.

doodles.google