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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 4h

Looking forward to next Tuesday’s talk for the College of Psychic Studies on my favourite topics for the #halloween #spookyseason 👻 - séances, spectres, and ghost stories: www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/talks/esoter...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 23h

If you’re a @bavs-uk.bsky.social early career researcher join us for our next BAVS Tea Time tomorrow (Wednesday 14th October) on Zoom at 5pm-6pm (BST) for a chat about all things Victorian with me and @laurenicullen.bsky.social - DM us for the link 🫖 ☕️ 🍵

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Pouring Steaming Tea into a Teacup

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cholera ‘demons’, anti-spiritualist magic tricks, a threatening advertisement, and a mouse as medicine: more archival gems from the @uoscollections.bsky.social ✨

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A fascinating first research seminar @uos-artshumanities.bsky.social from the brilliant @angelawright1794.bsky.social on ‘lifting the veil’ on Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 🕯️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In two weeks, I’ll be giving a #Halloween themed talk for The College Of #Psychic Studies on Tuesday 20th October 2026: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (UK) on ‘Séances, Spectres, and Ghost Stories’. Tickets for the online talk here: www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/talks/esoter... 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Really enjoyed Friday’s Conan Doyle’s Orient event @ies-sas.bsky.social with 6 great papers which explored Conan Doyle’s representations of Asia and Africa, empire, race, Orientalism, health, travel and tourism @jfmachin.bsky.social @profdarryljones.bsky.social 🌎🌏

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just under three weeks until our first session of the season! 🦇 ⚖️Criminal Gothic 🗣️Dr Barbara Hughes-Moore 📅October 22nd 🕧6:30–7:00 PM BST ⚠️Trigger Warning Barbara will discuss how the law constructs and condemns defendants at trial through the idea of ‘the criminal’. DM or e-mail to join!

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Gothica presents CRIMINAL GOTHIC
Guest Speaker Dr Barbara Hughes-Moore
Zoom
Thursday 22nd October (6:00 PM - 7:30 PM BST)
Email/dm for link
@gothicauob.bsky.social / @gothicauob
Uobgothica@gmail.com

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October 22nd, save the date, we’re back!! 👻 ⬇️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Register below in time for #spookyseason to hear me talk about authors who took literary inspiration from the ghostly world of séances 👻 ⬇️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited for my ECR Fellowship to be announced in the @leverhulme.ac.uk September newsletter alongside so many fascinating projects! 🎉 www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

5 other similar arcane scrapbooks to get through too!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘Dragon’s blood’ love potions 💕🧪and upside down witches 🧙 - an eclectic folkloric start to my archival endeavours @sheffielduni.bsky.social

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Recent Victorianist posts — a thread 🧵 🔔 Want to receive updates to your inbox when new posts go live? Subscribe via our homepage: buff.ly/brgMsbz

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The Victorianist: BAVS Pages

British Association for Victorian Studies Pages, hosted by Marijke Valk (University of Birmingham) and Lilyemma Whalley (Queen Mary University)

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As spooky season approaches, I’ll be giving a very fitting online talk on ‘Séances, Spectres & Ghost Stories’ for the equally fitting College of Psychic Studies on Tuesday 20th October 2026: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (UK) Tickets here: www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/talks/esoter... #occult #psychic #lit👻

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The College of Psychic Studies : Talks : Esoteric : Seances spectres ghost stories

Join Dr Emily Vincent for an online livestream talk exploring Victorian Spiritualism, séances and the ghost stories they inspired. Spaces limited – book now.

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First week @sheffielduni.bsky.social for my @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Research Fellowship featuring inductions, mentor meeting, a tour of the School of English, and a very jazzy office chair 🎉

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you!! Hopefully we can collaborate on some things! 🎉😃

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks Will, I’m so pleased! 😀

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks Charlotte, I’m really looking forward to it! 🎉

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks Islay, I’m sure we can collaborate on some influenza-related things at some point! 😃

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks Jen! Hopefully we can collab on some things along the way 🎉👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thank you my favourite cheerleader! 🎉

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm really looking forward to working with Dr John Miller as my mentor and being part of @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social School of English for three years of research with lots of exciting publication, archival research, events, conferences, and public engagement plans! 🎉

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It has been a huge journey to get here through MANY research proposal drafts and re-drafts so thank you to everyone who has supported me and provided feedback along the way! ✍️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

By examining how literary, medical, and media sources concerning invisible phenomena fuelled ‘infodemics’ of misinformation, this project will ask why people turned to occult medicine in times of epidemic crises 📰🗞️📖📝

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have VERY exciting news! In September I will start as a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Research Fellow at @sheffielduni.bsky.social leading on a three-year interdisciplinary archival research project entitled 'Infodemics and Invisible Healing: Epidemics, Mesmerism, and Mediums, 1830–1920'🦠✨

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I would love to do another, I have a couple of ideas in mind I might pitch to them! Mike Ashley’s are great!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A fascinating day at the College of Psychic Studies (the London Spiritualist Alliance in 1884). I met the current College president who is said to have been seen with the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle (the College’s president in 1926) surrounding her. So many incredible spiritualism books too! 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thank you for your curiosity, it’s considered as working through or “writing” through loss

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Looking forward to presenting on ‘Scriptotherapy and Spiritualism’ from my forthcoming CUP monograph at the ESHS/HSS History of Science conference in Edinburgh. We’re on at 9.15am tomorrow on a #ESHS spiritualism panel with @dreframss.bsky.social @emmamerkling.bsky.social @irmorus.bsky.social 👻 ✍️ 📚

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Here’s my review essay for the BMJ Medical Humanities on the @psioxford.bsky.social International Pandemic Science Conference. Focusing on the power of memory, #literature & storytelling, I ask how #medhums can learn from historic diseases to prepare for future #pandemics: mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Horrifyingly excited for you! 😃🎉

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A fun 2 months ahead as I’ll be teaching study skills lectures to the students on the LMH Oxford Summer Programme @ox.ac.uk 📚 ✍️ 👩🏻‍🏫

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Join us today at 6pm BST for Irish Gothic! ☘️ 🦇 ⬇️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🎉I’ve submitted my monograph manuscript for the ‘Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture’ series! 🎉 Spiritualism and Maternal Grief in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature examines how maternal mourning was shaped by women’s literary responses to an era of séances & spirits #C19

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Join us for Irish Gothic on the 18th June with Lucy O’Hora! ⬇️☘️🦇

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join us online on Thursday - all are welcome and you can hear the fascinating work on Animal Gothic from the brilliant @laurenicullen.bsky.social 🦇🐺🐍

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Last week I gave my first Seed Talk public lecture on ‘The History of Women in Spiritualism’ to a lovely audience in London & online. We explored female artists, authors & entrepreneurs who shaped séances, with a reading from my @blpublishing.bsky.social collection & Q&A. Thanks to all attendees! 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

What a lovely audience and so many thoughtful questions about women in spiritualism during tonight’s Seed Talk! 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thanks so much and I’m really glad you enjoyed it! The Harry Price library collection at Senate House has lots more great ectoplasm images 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Huge news and I can’t wait to read! I’m in Volume II too! 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Join me this Thursday from 7pm for my Seed Talk at 21 Soho in London (& online)! Though we won’t be summoning spirits…we will be talking about vibrant female spiritualist authors like Florence Marryat and artists like Anna Mary Howitt! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

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