All fiction titles from the English Catalogue, Volume 4 have now been added! That means 1862–1889 are complete. Next up: the 1890s... • 27,471 title entries • 6,770 author entries (most with bios) Big thank you to my students from last semester who assisted me to this milestone.

And #RSVP2027 will be hosted next year at…the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre of Carleton University in downtown Ottawa! 🇨🇦

How is it already the final day of #RSVP2026? 😢 Get ready for more panels, the AGM at 12:30 pm in the Davis Theatre (tune in for our Colby Prize reveal!) + our Farewell Reception at 5:30 pm in the Museum Building, where we’ll announce next year’s conference host. 👀 Watch this space!

Conference Program – RSVP

We aim to provide program information to our many international travelers and busy attendees as early as possible. The conference program for Dublin appears below, though please note that it is still…

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We’re delighted to announce that Professor Leah Price has been appointed to the Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History.

Professor Leah Price appointed as Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History

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JOBS! We’re currently looking for two people to join us in the School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: Lecturer in Creative Writing jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086; Lecturer in English Language (with interests in DH) jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Both are FT ongoing appointments

We’re looking to appoint two lecturers in School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: 1) Lecturer in Creative Writing: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086 2) Lecturer in English Language (with expertise in DH): jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Happy to provide more info if you're interested

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lectureship in Creative Writing

Ranked 29th in the world (QS 2026), the School of English at the University of Leeds operates at the leading edge of recent developments in literary studies and creative practice. Located within the F...

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Please join the network and our friends on the Punch's Pocket Book Archive team for our upcoming symposium "Global circulations – annuals and pocket books on the move", 26–27 November 2026, U of Caen Normandy. Deadline for proposals = 31 August 2026 caesar-project.unicaen.fr/event/call-f...

Call for papers for the CaeSAR ‘Punch’s Pocket Book’ project: ‘Global circulations - annuals and pocket books on the move’, 26–27 November 2026, University of Caen Normandy - CaeSAR

Caen, Strategy for Accelerating Research

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Victorian poetry stans! Excited to say that my article on Toru Dutt and Paradise Lost is now out in Victorian Poetry, and available open access for your reading pleasure and/or heckling. 🌳🐍🌱 @victorianpoetry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1353/vp.2...

Coming soon: the game-changing, years-in-the-making new biography of M.R. James written my most excellent colleague, Darryl Jones! @profdarryljones.bsky.social @irishgothichorror.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

I feel like digital humanities was this great 15 year moment of techno-optimism that created solid resources and showed how old media connected to new media. Whereas AI is going to introduce a period of techno-cannibalism designed to devour digital humanities labor and anyone else in its proximity.

I'm giving a public talk in Manchester on 15 June! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-shoul...

I'm delighted to have a chapter in this wonderful new book with Edinburgh University Press Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory (Eds Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard, Annabel Williams) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-telepoe... Open access: www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...

Telepoetics

Telepoetics

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🎞️ We are delighted that Manual, the first film by our project filmmaker Lily Ford, is available to watch! Blending Victorian self-help culture with contemporary digital media, the film explores ideas of labour, self-improvement, class, gender and creativity through the hand. youtu.be/LhDyk5G02BY

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YouTube video by The Victorian Hand

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📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...

Lecturer in English Literature at The Open University

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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I'm looking forward to talking at Leeds Public Library next week about their copy of William Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise, recently returned after a 50-year absence. "Who Read Our Overdue Book? A Geological Bestseller at the Dawn of the Victorian Age." libraries.leeds.gov.uk/events/who-r...

Library reading room, Bolton, April 1938, photo by Humphrey Spender.

I am reminded of Elmer the elephant by the Birmingham political map of 2026 though the quite positive patchwork of harmony message of that storybook may be challenging to emulate in city local politics

Just published! What an honor to be included alongside so many superb critics in this volume, which was so expertly conceived & edited by @denisoff.bsky.social. One funny thing abt collections is that sometimes you don’t get to read the other essays til it’s out—I can’t wait to learn from these. 🌿

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social recently delivered a talk on Joshua Hobson, his radical publishing, and work on the Northern Star newspaper for the annual Luddite Memorial Lecture in Huddersfield. Find out more about the event and their future plans here: sslh.org.uk/2026/05/01/j...

Joshua Hobson: His radical publishing and work on the Northern Star

Portrait of Joshua Hobson (Kirklees Museums and Galleries) [click to enlarge] Earlier this week, Dr Vic Clarke delivered a lively talk on Joshua Hobson, his radical publishing, and his work on the …

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Honestly this is one of the most radical proposals I've ever seen (having been told stuff like this at anoother UoB is impossible) - it is INCREDIBLE for equality and access. Guaranteed fixed days of the week for on-campus & one-night-a-week accom contract - part time job? carer? they go to uni too!

University in Birmingham launches two-days-a-week degree courses

The study model is designed to help those who may struggle to fit commitments into irregular timetables.

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Local journalism: still alive. www.expressandstar.com/news/wolverh...

University axing English courses and half of English department staff face redundancy

Jobs at risk and concern as English courses dropped as university looks to cut costs

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Centre CHoP are hosting the latest in their series of lightning talks on print culture and the book arts on Wednesday 6 May, 4-5pm BST in Leeds and online. Get in touch if you want the link

Our online book history festival is all about connecting with bookish compatriots! Join us for three, action-packed social events: a bookish craft session, a book recommendation hour, and an early-career mentorship session (spots limited, pre-registration required!) events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Come and get up close with Baskerville's 60pt B. sketchfab.com/3d-models/ba...

Baskerville Punch Pt.60 Roman Uppercase B - 3D model by Cambridge Digital Library (@CamDigLib)

3D cross polarisation photogrammetry model of Baskerville Punch Pt.60 Roman Uppercase B One of the more than 3000 steel punches made for John Baskerville in the mid-eighteenth century and used to cre...

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For folks who also dig mobile printing press setups: pink midcentury trolley w/integrated type* drawers & foldout drying rack, designed by John Conway to let folks in palliative care record feelings at the ends of their lives +

John Conway designs mobile printing press to record people's feelings at the end of their lives

As part of a residency focused on palliative care, Irish artist John Conway has developed a mobile printing press that can be wheeled to a patient's bedside to produce prints capturing their thoughts ...

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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.

In Cincinnati for the annual conference of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association. Great talks, great city

NEW ISSUE ALERT! We're so excited about the latest issue of VPR, which features essays on women's photography, Reynolds's Newspaper, and Walter Scott's transatlantic influence on women's magazines, along with the massive RSVP Bibliography 2020-24. ToC here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56615 @rs4vp.org

Cover reveal! Thanks to the fabulous @sarahcoomer.bsky.social, we have a cover for our facsimile manuscript edition of 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.' The Kickstarter pre-launch page is going live in the next few days. Stay tuned! #MRJames #Ghoststories #manuscripts

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...