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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Summer issue of Studies in Romanticism is here! ☀️ It was a pleasure to co-edit this special issue on 'Mediating the More-Than-Human' with Saeko Yoshikawa 🌿 Thread of essays below, all currently available open access @studiesinrom.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/57172

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Project MUSE - Studies in Romanticism-Volume 65, Number 2, Summer 2026

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If someone asks me if I've 'finished for the summer' one more time, I suspect I will turn into a banshee.

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Delighted to see my chapter within the newly published Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Really proud of how this piece came together with Lizzie and Rebecca's excellent guidance (it's not about trees, for once), & now looking forward to reading the other chapters in the collection.

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The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Great picket at the University of Derby today as they fight back against massive cuts outside their new £75m building in the centre of the city.

UCU picket line at the university of Derby's £75m Cavendish building.

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Cate Starsmith @catestarr.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The University of Derby is on Strike. Here's my story.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 01/12/2025

Derby University is in chaos and management caused it. 🔻 265 redundancies proposed 🔻 Nursing & early childhood studies at risk 🔻 Staff pushed through a rushed, unfair process Show your support for staff and students on strike from tomorrow. www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...

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Derby University is sleepwalking into a disaster - as the UCU has exposed

The Canary speaks to the UCU chair at Derby University - as staff prepare to take strike action over redundancies

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We all know that the UK could have a well-funded university system without heaping debt on the heads of students, if politicians wanted it to. That's the only thing to say, really. Every dysfunction is a choice. A choice made by politicians, not by lecturers or students.

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Taking refuge in an autumnal walk at Rydal and Grasmere at the weekend 🍂 'far advanced as the season was, the trees on the larger island of Rydal-mere retained a splendour which did not need the heightening of sunshine' (DW, 7 Nov, 1805)

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Happy to have my essay on P.B. Shelley and Wordsworth's 'woodland state' included in the 'Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities' special issue of @plantperspectives.bsky.social, ed. by @treeseeker.bsky.social & @planthums-uk.bsky.social 🌿🌳

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Excited to see my article on Beatrix Potter, timber, and arboreal stewardship published in Plant Perspectives (OA) 🪵🧚🏻‍♀️

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A surreal #FossilFriday: Liverpudlian artist Albert Richards's The Process of Time (1939), held by Williamson Art Gallery & Museum. The articulated skeleton of a flightless moa encounters the flimsier looking skeletal frames of two biplanes, one of which is just able to soar above the bluish trees.

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Post-doctoral fellowships available at Kew, closing 20 April. For proposals covering plant-people relationships, broadly defined, and using methods from the humanities, social sciences and life sciences see careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-... Informal enquiries: planthumanities@kew.org

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We are seeking applications from promising early-career scientists with interesting, innovative, and viable research ideas for the Kew Research Fellowship in Plant and Fungal Science. The Kew Research...

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In June, I'll be giving a talk at The Armitt on Elizabeth Gaskell's depictions of getting lost or 'wildered' on the Lakeland fells in her short fiction. For anyone Lakes based/interested, all are welcome: armitt-library-and-museum-centre.arttickets.org.uk/armitt-libra...

Frederick Walker's illustration, 'Love in Death' for the Good Words journal in 1862. Black and white image depicting a woman in a shawl walking through a snowy landscape.

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Struck by Väinö Blomstedt's painting, Sunset (1898) when reading Oliver Southall's wonderful book on the rowan tree this morning, in which he notes that the tree offers 'emblematic access' to the wildness of the Finnish lake-isle. Lovely, on both counts! #internationaldayofforests

Painting of an island of trees on a lake, with a rowan tree in the foreground.

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Had a fascinating (if, VERY soggy - thanks Bert) day at Kendal Mountain Festival yesterday, listening to talks on the history of the wolf in Britain, lost paths, slow adventuring, and bothies. Can't wait to get stuck into my book haul! Well done @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social!

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Here's a preview of the cover and contents of 'Plant Perspectives' 1.2, forthcoming in October. 'Plant Perspectives' is a new #openaccess peer reviewed journal; more information here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/about #plants #envhum

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Excited to see my article on Wordsworth's tree plantings published (open access) today! 🌳 'Planting for “posterity”: Wordsworthian tree planting in the English Lake District' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Planting for “posterity”: Wordsworthian tree planting in the English Lake District

Published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Absolutely thrilled to announce I have an article in the new edition of the Swift Studies journal! It's been 7 years in the making, but worth it: my finished essay explores the history of the frontispiece to Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, with some exciting new discoveries! 🐋

Photo of journal article first page with cuddly whale. Article title 'The Tale of a Whale: A Digression Upon Frontispieces in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub (1704)' in Swift Studies, 39 (2024), 8-56

Photo of illustration in journal article depicting frontispiece to the 5th edn of Swift's A Tale of a Tub

Photo of two illustrations accompanying the article, depicting engravings that were used in the construction of the famous frontispiece.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

It's coming towards the end of my contract and, as the academic job market is a mess, I'm starting to look elsewhere. If you know any leads or have advice on pivoting from academia to heritage, research, publishing, charity, or media roles please get in touch!

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

Lovely to be back in a very sunny Dorchester today ☀️ I gave a keynote for @hardysociety conference on 'Reading Trees in The Woodlanders'. 8 years since I was last here as a PhD student. Time flies, but Hardy's still here!🍃

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

I'm excited to be sharing some new research on John Ruskin's and Beatrix Potter's (actual and literary) tree cultivations in the Lakes, at The Armitt on 27 August. See the link here for tickets if you're in/around Ambleside then! 🌱 armitt-library-and-museum-centre.arttickets.org.uk/armitt-libra...

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

There are limited tickets remaining for 'Tree Cultures at Kew', in just over two weeks! 🌳✨ If spending a day at Kew talking trees is your thing, do sign up and join us! www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...

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Tree Cultures at Kew

Tree Cultures at Kew will bring together researchers and professionals from the arboreal humanities to explore how we understand and regard the value of trees in the cultural imagination.

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Looking forward to 'Tree Cultures at Kew' in a month's time, a day of arboreal humanities research talks & guided tours of Kew's trees, co-organised with @drannaburton.bsky.social and Kew Gardens 💚🌳 Book your place to join us on 9 July (it's free!) 🍃 www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

@abdavis.bsky.social and I are co-running a series of tree-related public (and free) events, online, in London, and in the Lakes, this summer. All are welcome to join these events, so please do sign up and spread the word! 🌳 See links below!

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

This was such a thought provoking and reorienting discussion of flat landscapes with @overleaf.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social, and Amelia Hodsdon. Looking forward to talking trees, in a similar format, next month! 🌳

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

A Ruskinian research trip to Coniston today, featuring moss covered orchard trees and a very shouty Chaffinch 🐦

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Call for Chapters 🍃 Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum, 1740-1840 🍃 @drannaburton.bsky.social and I are seeking a few more chapters for our edited collection, especially chapters with a global or conceptual focus: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5170 Please share! 🌳

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Call for Chapters – Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum, 1740-1840 – BARS Blog

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Our new journal ‘Plant Perspectives’ is looking for a Creative Submissions Editor – a key role in a very exciting new publication (with issue 1.1 forthcoming in April!). More details here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/CallsForP... #envhum #plantHumanities #plants

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Call for Chapters: Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum, 1740-1840 For any Romanticism, 19thC, and Arboreal Humanities scholars out there, please see and share the CFP below for a forthcoming collection edited by @abdavis.bsky.social and me! 🌲🌳

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Ta DAH! It’s our 2024 seminar series! Join us in conversation with some brilliant scholars, incl our own postgraduates! Free, online, & all welcome! Thursdays, 6-7 pm. @SMCoulombeau & @TinoOudesluijs kick us off on 29/2. More details & sign ups here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/

Our ‘In Conversation’ poster featuring King George III and his Queen at tea with some worried looking girls (who we’ve used as the image of our postgrads) and advertising the first talk on Mary Hamilton, Patricia Pulham on Decadent Moods (Tuesday 19th March), those postgrads doing flash talks (11th April), and Kayla Probeyahn on Wollstonecraft’s Breasts (25th April)

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Really excited to be continuing Tree Talks with @abdavis.bsky.social and Wordsworth Grasmere in 2024. See the details for our first online event below! 🌳

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Muppets Christmas Carol remains the best adaptation of Victorian fiction, maybe of nineteenth century fiction, full stop.

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Dr. Shelby Judge @shelbyjudge.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Friends in the midlands! If you’re free on 26th October, why not come to the Erasmus Darwin house in Litchfield to see me give a public lecture on toxic masculinity in Greek myth? 🤩 Get your tickets here ⤵️ www.erasmusdarwin.org/event/5399

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Ancient Myths, Modern Masculinities: Toxic Masculinity in Greek Myth Retellings – Erasmus Darwin...

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Hints of amber in the Lakes, this weekend 🍂🍁

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