CFP: Dickens on Screen – Dickens Society Online Event, Saturday June 6th (Deadline: May 11th 2026) victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/c...

CFP: Dickens on Screen – Dickens Society Online Event

We are delighted to announce a new online event to mark Dickens’s passing. On this occasion, our theme does not dwell on the Inimitable’s death, but focuses instead on his ever-expanding life on th…

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📖Each month we run a free book giveaway! It's open to all, either by form on our website, or subscribing for free to our patreon feed. The book is a random edition of a play, generously supplied by our sponsors The Malone Society. The next draw closes on the 5th May! www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Booked for our symposium with @hbap1924.bsky.social & @heritagenetwork.bsky.social yet? Here are our first 3 speakers to tempt you - @seasideferry.bsky.social @allanbrodie.bsky.social and Samantha Richardson will talk on what #seasideheritage is, its potential as world heritage & its economic value

Our next online seminar is all about amusement parks and funfairs - we'll be looking at their origins, surviving heritage and the current challenges they face. Book your *free* place here: seasideheritage.org.uk/events/upcom...

Have you signed up for our June Symposium about Valuing Seaside Heritage? We're thrilled to be partnering again with @hbap1924.bsky.social and also have support from @heritagenetwork.bsky.social this year. Full details here: hbap.org.uk/valuing-seas...

My next online talk celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. I'll be looking at how the #seaside was represented at the South Bank and how design there, in its turn, influenced the look of resorts in the 1950s and 60s Book your ticket at www.ticketsource.com/kathryn-ferry

EVENT: Join us for an online talk with Eric Parry Architects on 5 May at 6pm. 'Faith, Creativity and Crafting' explores the renewal of St John’s Waterloo — how thoughtful design can revitalise a historic church while strengthening its connection to the community. 🔗

Online Talk: Faith, Creativity and Crafting - Historic Buildings & Places

About the Talk Eric Parry will share the story of the renewal of St John’s Waterloo, a project that demonstrates ...

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The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants is now open for applications, supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

20 years on the @theguardian.com's @markffisher.bsky.social spoke with Black Watch creators about the enduring legacy of one of the most-celebrated productions in Scottish theatre history. With Vicky Featherstone, Gregory Burke, John Tiffany, Brian Ferguson, Emun Elliott and Laura Hopkins.

Valuing Seaside Heritage Symposium Hosted in partnership with @seasidenetwork.bsky.social, @hbap1924.bsky.social, and @heritagenetwork.bsky.social. @seasideferry.bsky.social opens the day with 'What is Seaside Heritage?'. Register: hbap.org.uk/valuing-seas...

I’m thrilled to join the Carena Institute @bbkhistorical.bsky.social team, which will develop my teaching, build on my research, and also means @drclaireharris.bsky.social and I get to work with @lesleymcf.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social and Esther Breithoff! ✨💚

Lesley McFadyen@lesleymcf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨Spring News✨ Claire Harris and Sadie Watson - MOLA - have joined the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies at Birkbeck as Honorary Research Fellows! They will teach a new BA module Sustainable Futures for Archaeology and co-supervise PhD research on London-based community archaeology!!

COVENT GARDEN is DONE. Will be PUBLISHED by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS in SPRING 2027, if everything lines up. Blow me, that was some work. 140,000 words (may well not be allowed to leave it that long tbh). If you want 400 years of London social history, this will probably tickle your fancy.

Out now from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Professor Kate McLoughlin has written in @uk.theconversation.com about #silence, and how noticing silences in literature can make us better readers. "We come to recognise that some things are better left unsaid – indeed, that some things can’t be said." #booksky #reading #literature

Silence: a brief literary history

Without silences, we wouldn’t have the exquisite hush of medieval lullabies, the suspenseful secrets of the realist novel, or jagged modernist poetry.

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Punk masks, Walkmans and Choppers: Museum of Youth Culture to open in London. Opening in May, Camden museum has 100,000-item archive telling story of British youth subcultures, from mods and rockers, to ravers and emo. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... via @theguardian.com

Punk masks, Walkmans and Choppers: Museum of Youth Culture to open in London

Opening in May, Camden museum has 100,000-item archive telling story of British youth subcultures, from mods and rockers, to ravers and emo

theguardian.com

Thank you again for the lovely biro (everyone admires it.)

Proofs! Forthcoming chapter in *The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel* amongst stellar company & excellently steered by Prof Chris Morash. I’ll be doing these with some Easter chocolate to power me through #IrishLiterature #Novels #speirgorm #GulliversTravels

“I hope that identifying the existence of LGBTQ+ people... will encourage us to think more deeply” A Queer Inheritance explores the LGBTQ+ histories and identities behind @nationaltrust.org.uk properties. Read our interview with author Michael Hall ⬇️ www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Michael Hall A Queer Inheritance | National Trust LGBTQ+ histories | LGBTQ+ History Month books

Within A Queer Inheritance, LGBTQ+ histories and identities come out of the National Trust's properties in these touching, poignant and revealing stories from author, Michael Hall.

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Breaking news: we've just signed a once-in-a-lifetime loan agreement to bring rural England's most iconic artwork home for the first time in 1,000 years. Introducing our 2027 major exhibition - Bayewe Tapestry: the Fight to Wool England.

Applications for the BAVS/BARS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship hosted at LJMU are now open! You can find out more about this prestigious scheme and how to apply here: bavs.ac.uk/bavs-bars-ni... Deadline for applications: 11th May 2026

Signed all these today, beautiful special editions for @waterstones.bsky.social Out a week from Tuesday!

A new eight-part podcast, The Rise and Fall of Madchester, is now on BBC Sounds. From Factory Records and the Haçienda, to the emergence of Happy Mondays and New Order, with new interviews with artists and DJs, including Mike Pickering. Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... #podcast

BBC Sounds - The Rise and Fall of ... - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of The Rise and Fall of ... on BBC Sounds.

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Prof Kate McLoughlin has written for The Guardian about #silence and how it has 'inspired, daunted, comforted and terrified writers throughout the long course of English literature'.

Daunting, inspiring, comforting, terrifying: the writers who can make silence as eloquent as words

From the hush of medieval lullabies to striking poems about Grenfell, great authors know how to deploy the power of silence

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Hear about the range of careers you can launch into after pursuing postgraduate study at the Institute of Historical Research. Learn more about our PhD programme: sas.ac.uk/phd-ihr

Thanks to our speakers this afternoon who provided lots of examples of care and restoration of #seasidegardens at #southport and #scarborough as well as some lovely floral clocks. If you missed the seminar it will be available to watch online via our website soon

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Voices from the Margins - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS

Voices from the Margins - 22 June, The John Rylands Library, Manchester Call for papers deadline - 25 May Narratives of British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century often centre on key charact...

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Deckchair hire excellent value - Chris has hired one & is charging the rest of us 45 pence an hour.

We do hope KINKY IS BEHAVING.

Do give 40 minutes of your life to watch this fascinating 1988 documentary on the permanent & elderly residents of Eastbourne’s decaying seaside hotels. Mrs Bloom is especially glorious. youtu.be/zgpK5YxqmDo?...

1988: Last Days on Grand Parade | Forty Minutes | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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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 🗃️