A new article on our website libaac.de highlights our collections of #comics & #graphicnovels 💥in Göttingen & Berlin with each location's different focus. 🦸‍♀️💬 Plus: how to access & use our new Zotero group for alle researchers of #ComicsStudies Link: libaac.de/search/sea...

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.” 🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 3 August 1955, the first English-language production of #SamuelBeckett's "Waiting for Godot" premiered at the Arts Theatre in London, directed by Peter Hall.

Delighted to announce the Summer 2026 update to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive, with poems by Thomas Paine and five of his American contemporaries and a new interactive metres database: www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/about/#latest #C18th #poetry #Revolution250 #DigitalHumanities #ECPA #metre

🌐 On World Wide Web Day, we’re celebrating the Wayback Machine’s milestone of archiving more than 1 trillion web pages, preserving decades of the web we’ve built. Explore decades of web history with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org #Wayback1T #WorldWideWebDay @mark.bsky.social

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

Between the latest PMLA on Victorian Studies & Its Others and the recent issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social I’m not sure any Anglophone lit subfield is as full of critical self-reflection (complimentary!!) as Victorian studies right now. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Morning all. Blackpool, England, 1994. Photograph by Martin Parr.

“Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.” 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 27 July 1928, #RadclyffeHall's trailblazing #lesbian novel THE WELL OF LONELINESS was first published by Jonathan Cape in 🇬🇧

‍In our lates diversity allies blog, Philip Milnes-Smith struggles to hear the silenced voices of lower class, disabled inmates in an early Victorian workhouse. www.archives.org.uk/diversity-allies-blog/accessibility-and-archives-now-you-are-of-a-mind-to-kill-me

Accessibility and Archives: “Now you are [of] a mind to kill me” — Archives & Records Association

‍ In this blog, Philip Milnes-Smith struggles to hear the silenced voices of lower class, disabled inmates in an early Victorian workhouse. Reflecting on a couple of recently published books, and the ...

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Derry Trade Unionist who fought for women workers to be honoured with a Blue Plaque www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sarah Doherty: The campaigner who gave shirt factory women a voice

Trade unionist Sarah Doherty, who fought for Derry's women workers, is being honoured with a blue plaque.

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Today at NC @histofsex.bsky.social reviews “Abortion Stories.” This collection “provides historical context and unsurprising echoes of how illegality does not stop abortion, but limits access to safe methods and drives seekers toward unsafe ones.” nursingclio.org/2026/07/22/r...

Review of Abortion Stories: American Literature before Roe v. Wade, ed. Karen Weingarten (Penguin Classics, 2025)

Abortion Stories: 9780143138204 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022 (597 U.S. 215 [2022)] was a watershed mom…

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Did you know that July is #DisabilityPrideMonth ? Check out these 2 new books in our collection combining #DisabilityStudies & #LiteraryStudies Christie Collins & Saul Lemerond edited this collection of 19 own-voices essays on writing w #neurodivergence & #chronicillness & #disabilities

Voting for Jimothy to be Disability Pride Month mascot!!

Ethan M. Aldridge@ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 3w ago

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This is amazing-- a page of Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs or gomgwejui'gasit, with their meanings in Mi'kmaq and some in English; these were written by a Naskapi-Innu man named Gabriel in the 1790s.

Today starts the joint #conference "Concepts of Freedom and the Development in Democracy in Great Britain in Historical Comparison" by the German Association for #BritishStudies #AGF & the Institute for Social Movements in Bochum - w rep.s N. Fabian, S. Berger & M. Guderjan welcoming us #History

British #Euroscepticism in 8 #dystopian novels by British authors, published in the wake of the #Brexit referendum is the focus of Lisa Bischoff's 2023 monograph "British Novels and the European Union - DisEUtopia" #EnglishLiterature #BritishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #EuropeanUnion

How can we protect academic freedom against growing attacks? A new position paper issued by a DFG Senate working group outlines how the resilience of research and the research ecosystem can be strengthened – and how policymakers, industry and society at large can contribute: sohub.io/aziq

Wie finden Forscher*innen passende wissenschaftliche Informationsinfrastrukturen für ihre Arbeit? Die DFG möchte dazu eine Kartierung entwickeln - gemeinsam mit der Community. 📋 Hier geht es zu unserer Vorabfrage zur Vorbereitung eines Workshops Anfang 2027: dfg-umfrage.limequery.org/588681?lang=de

#BOTD (or possibly tomorrow - but Pankhurst chose 14th of July #BastilleDay as her birthday) #EmmelinePankhurstDay #EmmelinePankhurst

misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound@misheleneous.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And the colour version 🐝 👑 Emmeline Pankhurst by Mancsy #WeekQforQueens #AlphabetChallenge #Mancsy #TagTuesday #Bees #StreetArt #Photography #EmmelinePankhurst #Suffragette #Manchester #Artist #WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography

Man könnte doch die Chatbots direkt mit KI-Agenten verbinden, dann könnten die sich gegenseitig beleidigen und die Menschen gehen wieder mehr die frische Luft. Endlich eine sinnvolle Anwendung für KI. the-decoder.de/linkedin-ist...

LinkedIn ist laut Analyse die KI-Slop-Schleuder unter den Social-Media-Plattformen

Laut einer Pangram-Analyse ist jeder vierte längere Social-Media-Beitrag vollständig KI-generiert. LinkedIn führt mit 41 Prozent bei Langform-Posts. Obwohl die Plattform nur ein Drittel der gescannten...

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Cover and three interior illustrations by Lívia Rusz for a 1976 Romanian edition of Tolkien’s THE HOBBIT.

📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland

42 - obviously the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", as readers of #speculativefiction are well aware - and also the number of the new #Inklings Yearbook! Read our blogpost & download the Yearbook from our repository, free & #openaccess

Read the New Inklings Yearbook 42 in Open Access!

The newest volume of the annual publication can now be downloaded for free from our repository, The Stacks.

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#OTD in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne was born. He was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathani... Hawthorne at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

Red, White and Gree-... um, #AmericanFlagBlue are the colours of the Stars & Stripes, the American flag. For the semiquincentennial of the foundation of the United States of America, find a selection of books from our collection, here at our very own #reflectingpool at the SUB Göttingen #America250

We are at the #Inklings #conference at TU Braunschweig on "Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic"! Yesterday, organisers Aylin Dilek Walder & Carsten Kullmann as well as Inklings Society president Armin Wallau welcomed us warmly to nicely air-conditioned rooms #FantasyLiterature #LiteraryStudies

"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." ✒ #AmbroseBierce, American short story writer, essayist, satirist (The Devil's Dictionary), and journalist, was #BOTD 24 June 1842. #Literature

How warm is it where you are? Here in Göttingen, (the middle of) Germany we're expecting 33 degrees today 🫠

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As many of you are aware, it's toasty here in Oxford. What's your recommended reading for cooling down? 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' for mysteries and icebreaker ships? 'The Living Mountain' for high altitude nature? 'The Wind in the Willows' for rowing boats on the river?

A new addition to our #openaccess repository The Stacks - Vol. 42 of the Inklings Yearbook - on children in #fantasy literature & on fantasy for children! 📖 Follow the link to read & download for free s.gwdg.de/kzWLox #childrensliterature #EnglishLiterature #FilmStudies #GamesStudies #RPG

Siblings – can't live with them, can't live without them. Still, it could be worse. It could be like the relationships in these Booker-nominated novels. 😬 Tap the link below to discover the most complicated sibling relationships in the Booker Library. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

10 Booker Prize-nominated books featuring complicated sibling relationships | The Booker Prizes

Whether you have none or several, brothers and sisters can be fascinating to read about. If you enjoy fiction that explores knotty sibling relationships, you’ll love these Booker-nominated novels

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