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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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19th Century Theatre Caucus @19ctheatrecaucus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello Bluesky! This is @lerikscline.bsky.social writing on behalf of the 19th Century Theatre Caucus. We're excited to share and repost publications, events, and news of interest to caucus members and other lovers of nineteenth century theatre and performance.

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Lee Kenny @leekenny.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If they had been wearing orange jackets with "Just Stop Oil" or (God forbid) holding a sign acknowledging the ongoing genocide in Gaza there would have been a very, very different response. But it's ok, they were just harassing and intimidating people, which is fine in the UK.

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026

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Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature

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Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

‘Under capitalism, “peace” is the maintenance of violence on the state’s terms. Organized efforts to disrupt those harms will always be characterized, by any necessary stretch of the imagination, as violent.’

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Hello, all. I'm writing this thread to ask for your help. I know it's a bit of a downer at the start of a sunny spring weekend, but please read to the end. (1/?)

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Exciting opportunity to collaborate with our own @interwarcrime.bsky.social and Lincoln Bishop University on the history of teacher training colleges, with an openness to alternative presentation formats

The early history of teacher training colleges in Britain, 1836-1918 - call for participants

deadline 8 May 2026

We are inviting participants to attend and contribute to a workshop day at the Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool, on 2 June 2026, organised by Edge Hill University, in collaboration with Lincoln Bishop University.

The intention is to orient most of the day around workshop sessions that contain introductory (c.8-10 minutes) presentations which enable us to collectively discuss and progress particular research questions relating to the early history of teacher training colleges across Britain.

Further aims of the day are to establish a national network to research the history of teacher training, unlock underused archival collections related to this field and to develop interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities for the future.

Please provide a 250-word (max) overview of your interest and background in this area to enable the organisers to construct a thematic and coherent programme. Please email to Professor Alyson Brown (browna@edgehill.ac.uk)

• If you have any suggestions or ideas for the best way to present/share your knowledge and research, please do indicate this. We are open to whatever works to advance collaboration and research and make the day as productive as possible

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Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Everyone please clap. Today I have successfully set one (1) boundary at work.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Not the key point, but all the 'Andrew Mountbatten Windsor' coverage shows how quickly and easily the entire UK media complex can switch to someone's new name/title, even after using their old one for decades, when it's an incredibly pampered white male deviant. So, you know, it's not *that* hard...

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Re-upping our PGR-organised ECR conference on Place - send us an abstract by 1st May for a (hopefully) sunny day in June 😎

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Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Bring on the additional paperwork! 🥰 And be prepared for the inevitable theatrical takeover…

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

TODAY!

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June CFP deadline: Friday 1st May We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩 Please share - and send us an abstract!

Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR conference
Friday 26th June 2026

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Edge Hill Nineteen research centre is excited to invite you to 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', a PGR/ECR conference focused on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literature and history.
London and the South have often been the heart of discussion about the nineteenth century. However, development in industry during the period brought popularity to cities such as Liverpool and Manchester, which led to a boom of industrial growth in the north of England. In the nineteenth century, the north of England developed like never before, both within cities and in more rural areas.

Following a recent EHU19 research symposium, PhD students from literature and history came together to discuss their emerging research and found a common theme - place. More specifically, the North (and North West) of England was a uniting thread, and so the idea for such a conference was born.

We invite proposals that engage with 'place' in the long nineteenth century, with particular attention to the North (West), broadly conceived. Papers may approach place as material, imagined, represented, contested, remembered, or speculative. We welcome MA/MRes students, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers whose research interests focus on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literary studies, history, art history and related disciplines, with suggested (but not limited to) topics such as:

• Fictional/fantastical representations of the North (West)
• The legacy of space in the North (West)
• Transnational and postcolonial links to the North (West): colonial, imperial, and transatlantic contexts (e.g, Liverpool as a global port)
• Museums, archives, and collections: regional museums and the afterlives of nineteenth-century places
• Gendered, racialised, and marginalised spaces: who belongs, who is excluded, and how space is policed
• Landscape across disciplines: historical, literary, artistic, and creative engagements with the natural and industrial landscapes of the North (West) in the long nineteenth century
• The North (West) in popular culture, periodicals, visual culture, and performance
• Queer histories and queer readings of place, including non-normative identities & relationships

Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words (including title) for 10-15 minute papers, along with a short biography to ehu 19place@outlook.com by 1st May 2026, including name, preferred pronouns, and academic institution.

We are excited to have Dr Claire O'Callaghan giving a keynote address on Top Withens, Wuthering Heights and the impact of literary scholarship. As Dr O'Callagham is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Brontë Studies journal, she has kindly agreed to also run a workshop on publishing in an academic journal.

Given the conference's emphasis on 'place', we are excited to offer an in-person conference gathering in the North West and warmly welcome participants to join us here. However, we are also committed to accessibility needs and widening participation, so please indicate if you would prefer to present online in your application. Please also do let us know about any other access needs or adjustments that can make your experience easier.

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Morgan Lloyd Malcolm @mogster.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I think about it all the time too. It’s wild how everything just….got ignored (though not surprising). Wrote about it a bit on today’s substack open.substack.com/pub/morganll...

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An Honest Day In the Life Of A Writer...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Call for Contributions: 'To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry', a special issue of Brontë Studies, edited by @drbeard79.bsky.social 500-word abstracts due by 1st April. More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6317

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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We should not shy away from understanding the underlying message of all this, & so much else in the media: that it ought to be socially acceptable to be able to pick a marginalised group and hate them, to make yourself feel good. No. It ought not.

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Lee Kenny @leekenny.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If you need AI to do these things, I do not believe you are qualified to be a lecturer. This could have been an interesting article on the importance of honing aspects of our craft such as storytelling and performing, but instead is just another call to abandon our human creativity for efficiency.

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Papatango Theatre Company @papatangotc.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We see there's a new playwriting prize seeking to "counteract overtly political theatre". Just to be clear: We welcome woke plays. And viciously satirical plays. And plays about lettuces becoming political icons. We welcome all plays, and all plays are political. More soon 👀

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Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

“Who wrote this, Ibsen? Stop talking!” and other things I shout at the TV when I’ve clearly been spending too much time with work…

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Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

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Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

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Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Still a few days left to send in an abstract for what promises to be another brilliant BAVS conference! 👩‍💻

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Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I’m so tired. Must be all the taking I’ve done. Image: a Home Office X post saying “Britain welcomes migrants who contribute to our economy and society. High earners, entrepreneurs and skilled frontline workers like NHS staff will be fast-tracked to settlement - rewarding those who give, not take”

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

For our next seminar, the wonderful @digivictorian.bsky.social is hosting our just as wondrous PhD researchers, Liam Pope, Laura Grande Mateu, Emily Hayes, & Emma Butler, for our #19thCFlashTalks. Join us for a pre-Christmas treat on Wednesday 10th December from 6 pm. Free, online, all welcome!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EHU Nineteen Flash Talks from Postgraduate Researchers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join us for a Christmassy treat for the latest research from EHU Nineteen's postgraduate researchers!

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Dickens is going to Denmark! Will you go too? CFP deadline: 4 January Conference: 13-16 July in Aarhus on ‘Thinking Dickens’ dickenssociety.org/home

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Symposium – The Dickens Society

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Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Thread of all HE threads 👇 Super depressing, but sort of nice in the midst of it all to know that you’re not alone in this experience…

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

TOMORROW - join us!!!

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Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Never thought I’d be boycotting a work Christmas Carol concert, and yet here we are. UK HE really needs to sort out its priorities 🙄

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

THIS WEEK - join us on Thursday for some amateur theatricals and at least semi-professional zooming 😉

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

NEXT WEEK - join us!

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Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Call for paper for a special issue on the Brontës and poetry - on their work as poets - on poetry in the novels - on poetic influences and legacies - hoping for creative responses too! Abstracts due April 26 Articles due December 26 #Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic Please share!

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To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry

Seeking original, high-quality analysis of Brontë poems, especially those with little to no critical attention

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AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Preorder for The Theatre Artist's Guide to Consent-Based Pedagogy begins in ten days! I am so grateful to my dear friend and collaborator Kim Shively for researching, writing, and revising with me along the way to this resource for theatre educators! #theatre #education #theatresky

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

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Early Career Rescue Fellowship

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Join us at the end of the month for David Coates’ paper on Amateur Theatricals 🖤🖤🖤 Hosted by @catherinequirk.bsky.social Free, online, all welcome!

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters. gofund.me/09619a41e

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Donate to Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa, organized by Sudean Peters

My name is Sudean Peters, and I am the Executive Director of … Sudean Peters needs your support for Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

“This revocation is part of Trump and his hogmen’s reworking of America’s immigration and visa system….This move also seems clearly to be part of a wider, authoritarian attack on things the government considers un-American: people of color, literary culture, and those it considers critics.”

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The U.S. has revoked the visa of Nobel winner Wole Soyinka.

The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, according to Al Jazeera. The writer received what he called a “rather c…

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social! Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov. There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This #OAWeek, have a read of open access books in drama & performance studies, available via Bloomsbury Collections: bit.ly/4hmSM5A

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Our @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar series starts next week with @drreznicek.bsky.social talking to me about care in Romantic novels - register in skeet below! Free, online, all welcome!

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