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Caroline Anjali Ritchie

@carolineanjali.bsky.social
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Academic and curator. Globes, maps, zines, William Blake. Author: "William Blake" (Tate Publishing, 2024), "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination" (Palgrave, 2025). Views my own.

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Been chatting about globes for aaages so I'm excited to have something down in writing... See my recently published article '"Where is Earth?": Reading Global Vision and the View from Nowhere in Edward Young's Night Thoughts and William Blake's The Four Zoas' 🌐 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Announcing the publication of BLAKEAN SMALL-PRESS PUBLISHING IN LONDON, 1969-2021: AN INTERVIEW ARCHIVE The archive appears in the latest issue of 'Publishing History' (vol 90). Infinite thanks to all the blakeans who generously contributed ✨ www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/7bf39c...
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BLAKEAN SMALL-PRESS PUBLISHING IN LONDON, 1969-2021: AN INTERVIEW ARCHIVE
In a review article that appeared in Publishing History in 1977, the late Morris Eaves wrote that William Blake’s ‘artistic decision to become an independent publisher’ was ‘a landmark in the history ...
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Inspired today by visits to 'elective affinities' at @swedenborghouse.bsky.social and 'black atlas' at @warburginstitute.bsky.social, both *free* shows focusing on the art and politics of worldviews. I think 'black atlas' closes tomorrow - but absolutely worth the time (if you have it to spare!)
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
“One reason we keep coming back to zines is because zines, by their very nature, are kind of uncensorable,” [citizen archivist Milo] Miller says. ​... No robot is going to go through and scan the material and say, ​‘You can’t publish this.’" @qzap.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com
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Fighting Anti-Queer Backlash with Citizen Archivists
Queer archivist groups like Invisible Histories and the Queer Zine Archive Project are preserving queer history and making it accessible in the face of the federal government's erasure. You can do the...
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
IMPORTANT REMINDER - order my new book to your library before the holidays if you want to put it on your reading lists next term 😉
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Giving @noreenmasud.bsky.social's 'A Flat Place' a second read & am enthralled again
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Finished off my Friday reading the final pages of Robert Poole's groundbreaking study 'Earthrise.' Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Happy birthday, William Blake! 🌻 Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz). The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.
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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Chartist Lives fresh out of the box #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
Two books titled Chartist Lives inside an opened cardboard box.
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
My intro to Blake turns 1 today! 🥳
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Can't stop thinking about Olafur Eliasson's glacial ice watercolour - at once worldly and otherworldly - on show in 'Nordic Noir' in the BM's prints and drawings galleries
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Hello, I work at the @fitzmuseum.bsky.social now 😊 @ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Autumn is always twin peaks rewatch season I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy
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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
All that is solid... found these immortal words inscribed in a weird little nook round the back of SOAS a few years ago and just rediscovered it yesterday, just a little more melted. Photo 1: 21 May 2021. Photo 2: 2 October 2025.
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor! www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...
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Vol. 61 (2025) | The BARS Review
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy Monday ✨ I am pleased to announce the publication of my article 'London Blakeans' in vol. 89 of 'Publishing History'! Thank you to all who contributed ❤️❤️ www.proquest.com/scholarly-jo...
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Living on the fringes of globe town couldn't feel more appropriate as I start my research on global imagining...
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Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller @nicolekeller.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade). ncgsjournal.com/issue211/ind...
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Issue 21.1 • Special Issue: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy and Gender • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Read about the conference I recently organised at @engfac.bsky.social here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/befo...
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Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!
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Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
When in #Oxford, attend an amazing conference on "Earthrise" & #Global Imagining @ox.ac.uk 's English Department - ‪@engfac.bsky.social‬ - and give a paper on global #oceans. sites.google.com/view/before-... organiser: #CarolineAnjaliRitchie #GlobalLiterature #AcademicChatter #TeamEnglish
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Before Earthrise
A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Location: English Faculty, Oxford
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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Remember to sign up before the end of Saturday!
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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I'm speaking about @layersoflondon.bsky.social, partnership working, and supporting research with historical mapping at this event "Unlocking Your Archives with GIS" organized by @rgsibg.bsky.social and ESRI UK on 12th June - for anyone interested in historical GIS, maps, and public engagement!
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Unlocking your archives with GIS workshop
Join us on 12 June and find out how location can help unlock your archives and build powerful interactive experiences for the public to explore.
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Still thinking about Brenda Hillman’s ‘Styrofoam Cup’ I kinda want it on a cup
STYROFOAM CUP
thou still unravished        thou
thou,       thou bride
thou unstill, 
thou unravished        unbride
unthou            unbride
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New article out today! Focusing on the Dutt family album and its early reception in London - a brave new world for this Blakean. Would love to hear people's thoughts www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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‘An album, a miscellany, a sort of patchwork’: ‘Curiosity’, Genre, and Literary Quality in Early British Reviews of The Dutt Family Album (1870) | Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
This article focuses on the little-explored British reviews of the nineteenth-century Indo-Anglian poetry collection The Dutt Family Album (1870). I argue that these reviews take their cue in important ways from the Album’s paratextual and generic ...
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Just a couple more weeks left to register for 'before earthrise'! Join us for an exciting programme of talks at Oxford's English faculty. Pls share widely 🌍 🌏 🌎
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...
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Before Earthrise
A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Location: English Faculty, Oxford
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Conference programme now up here! Stay tuned for registration details sites.google.com/view/before-...
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Before Earthrise - Programme
24 June 2025, 9am-5pm Location: English Faculty, Oxford
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Friday afternoon delivery!
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Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Warmest congratulations to our PhD graduate Caroline Ritchie on the publication of her brilliant monograph "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination", published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Congratulations @carolineanjali.bsky.social ! ✨
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It's out ❤️🗺️📍🌎 My book William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination surveys Blake's visionary mapping alongside forerunners, contemporaries, and followers. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Just heard that my latest article has been published in Blake Quarterly - alongside exciting-looking contributions from @luisacale.bsky.social @urthonaunbound.bsky.social & Mark Crosby. I discuss artworks by Sokari Douglas Camp, Hew Locke, and Jazzmen-Lee Johnson blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
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Vol. 58 no. 3: Winter 2024–25 | Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It has a cover 😱 and soon to be an Actual Thing... books.google.co.uk/books/about/...
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thanks to everyone who has sent their proposals - keep them coming! Deadline is on Friday. Pls share
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
CFP reminder! Get your proposals in by the end of the month 🙃
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Reminder to get your abstract in - just under 2 months until the deadline 🌐 🙃
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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Manuel Sousa Oliveira @msousaoliveira.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Help me grow our little utopian studies community on bsky! Which other utopian scholars do you know? Who else should I add? go.bsky.app/G8j8ZNQ
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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Fellowships and Grants
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Perfect chaser to my teaching this afternoon - the final seminar in a course on 18th-century "globe-gazing"
Girl on train holding up copy of Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital'
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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Simple test. 🇵🇸
Verify that you're human.

I stand with Palestine.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This year the theme for these fellowships is Science, Politics, and Justice and they'd be held in partnership with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Deadline to apply is Feb 24th 2025 #histsci #philsci #histmed #sts
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Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South - CRASSH
A new programme of funded Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Come along to my conference! 🌐🪐🌏 Call for papers addressing global imagining before the Earthrise photos of 1968 tide.web.ox.ac.uk/event/earthr...
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Ok, this is a start at least! Starter pack for the long eighteenth century and Romantic period - reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/JMDQj4n
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here: go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.
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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
✨Breaking Blakean news!✨ My little intro to William Blake is pretty in pink and out next Thursday! Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...
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