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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why is AI so obsessed with saying what something isn’t? It’s definitely a stylistic tic I’ve noticed. ‘Not this or this or this, but this…’

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My book comes out next month and I'd love to talk to your research group/seminar series/PGRs about it! Potential talk topics: Why do we think natural history museums are for kids? How public are our public museums? Truth and fiction in the museum Looting: empire in the museum...

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📚 The Politics of Rare Books: Colonial legacies, libraries, provenances 21 September Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4gcpiXM This event aims to advance conversations on how historical connections to the slave trade within library collections can be communicated to the public

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Coinciding with the 180th anniversary of the publication of Dombey and Son in October 1846, this year's Dickens Day Conference will focus on how the concept of family informed Dickens’s life and works. ⏰ Saturday, 10 October 2026, 10am-5pm 📍 Senate House, London BOOK NOW 👇

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Dickens Day 2026 - ‘Dickens and Family’

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Me when I have a book @yale.edu University Art Gallery

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nineteenth-century houses in Philadelphia, in the neighbourhood of the @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social

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Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We held a fantastic @rhul-cvs.bsky.social colloquium yesterday, led by Bonnie Liu. Our keynote from Jacob Jewusiak considered how a lens of 'generational warfare' can illuminate the debates on age of consent in colonial India. Such a rich joining together of ideas and arenas!

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Thank you so much to @helenkingstone.bsky.social and Bonnie Liu for organising! 3/3

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A public engagement session asked us to consider what stories we might draw out of @royalholloway.bsky.social’s rich Special Colls - including original newspaper coverage of the #Wilde trial, Wilde in velvet & fur, & this 1870s theatrical blusher to be ‘Appl(ied) to the face with a hare’s foot’ 2/3

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Could not have been a more beautiful day for the @rhul-cvs.bsky.social 19thC Studies Colloquium yesterday! Loved sharing my research on the transatlantic repatriation of Brontë and ‘Alice in Wonderland’ #manuscripts, hearing the panel on global and decolonial pedagogy, & exploring RHUL archives! 1/3

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

‘This has always been an outward-facing city’. Amazing welcome from reps of #Glasgow City Council, to the beautiful Glasgow City Chambers, for the first evening reception of #BAAS2026! @officialbaas.bsky.social conference committee: wow - and thank you, for this and a great first day of papers!

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

En route to @officialbaas.bsky.social conference 2026 @glasgow.ac.uk! Looking forward to presenting my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded research on how the US repatriation of 19thC literary #manuscripts to Britain intersects with 20thC political histories #BAAS2026

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Loved designing a seminar around the resources of the Roy Waters Theatre Collection @royalholloway.bsky.social - historic programmes and newspaper cuttings, including from the very first production of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ in 1895! #Wilde #archives

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Teaching ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ might actually be the best thing in the world. Loved students’ close-reading of Lady Bracknell’s interrogation of Jack

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Please signal boost 🙏 Neurodivergent PhD students: What reasonable adjustments and accommodations do you have for your studies? My PhD is in English Literature, I have ADHD (combined type), and I’m struggling. I would like to make changes, but I don’t know what might help.

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a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer asking for advice

ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer asking for advice

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Items in the ‘Extra/Ordinary Women’ exhib @ Charles #Dickens Museum work to make their female subjects vivid beyond his shadow. I found the audio reel especially effective - also Katey’s curatorial poem about her mother’s calling card case, and Mamey as Clara Benham in ‘The Frozen Deep’.

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Loving these twentieth-century Nelson’s Classics Dickenses in the window of Save the Children Woodstock

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 25/02/2026

Who is ‘really’ British? @rachelkbright.bsky.social's project @keeleuniversity.bsky.social is the first meta-analysis of the peoples, places, and processes of how legal Britons were identified, made, or denied across Britain and its empire. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/rbri...

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From empire to citizenship: a Digital Archive of British Nationality, 1844–1948 (DABN)

Exploring over 300,000 records, Rachel Bright’s project is the first meta-analysis of the peoples, places, and processes of how legal Britons were identified, made, or denied across Britain and its em...

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I could only bear to watch that one once (though I’m open to counter-arguments…)

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Most of it is 1995 redux, but the roof-sitting is kind of Brideshead (albeit no naked sunbathing)

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I’m sorry Lee. He did indeed look fluffy and magnificent.

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Tally Ho on an 1830s stage coach @ Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

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Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Our call for papers closes on 13 Feb. Theme is Authenticity: When archives are used within other systems of governance and authority, what does this mean for authentic narratives of major events? Full info openingdoors-ara2026.eventsair.site/call-for-pap...

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Call for Papers

2026 Annual Conference of the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland)

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Great talk this eve by Bridget Bennett @raioxford.bsky.social on 'The Dissenting Atlantic: Archives and Unquiet Libraries, 1776-1865'. Discussing items incl samplers & handmade dolls that can make the archive speak even in the face of huge absences (appropriately, an audience member was knitting...)

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

'just before twelve and had a hellish morning'... morning here lasting 3 minutes?

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Nice to see this research, supported by my @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Research Fellowship, reach the most read spot in arts this week #AChristmasCarol #Dickens

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It's such an interesting movie, but maybe because of the portrayal of Lee, I was finding it ropier the second time around. I was also less keen on the romcom beats (which apparently the author of the original story didn't like)

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I recently re-watched this, and I thought James Spader was so great, but on a second watch I felt like Maggie Gyllenhaal didn't really understand/inhabit the character? She's fine with the confident/slinky bits, but the initial attempts to convey Lee's awkwardness felt like caricature to me.

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

#AChristmasCarol by #Dickens was first published #OTD in 1843. I wrote about my archival finding at the Houghton Library @harvard.edu which casts new light on the meanings Dickens may have seen in the story: theconversation.com/did-charles-...

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Did Charles Dickens see A Christmas Carol as an anti-slavery story?

Dickens’s views of slavery were shaped by a journey he made around the US.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The 2026 Sandars Lectures on 'What will survive of us', by Joan Winterkorn MBE are now available to watch online ▶️https://loom.ly/5bkd50k

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Cambridge University Library (the UL)

Billions of words, millions of books, thousands of years of human thought and discovery. We are one of the world's great libraries.

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

One of my highlights of 2025 was a two-week trip to the Brontë Parsonage Museum to research the role of American collecting in shaping the Brontë archive - kindly funded by a @officialbaas.bsky.social Research Assistance Award. Would definitely recommend applying for these!

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Today seems like a good day to post a picture of this beautifully-bound edition of 'Pride and Prejudice' I spotted in @blackwellrare.bsky.social a few months back. I wonder who it was reserved for - I imagine they are now enjoying it! #JaneAusten #JaneAusten250

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Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Gathered in London tonight with John Drew and assorted Dickensians to do a private reading of a never-performed play of Great Expectations, commissioned by Dickens himself to thwart the would-be pirates who made full use of the lax copyright laws of the time. Geek heaven!

Cast list for Great Expectations, a play commissioned by Dickens himself

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

So interesting - I'd heard about this archive, held privately, and wondered which institution would acquire it. Congratulations @uniofcam.bsky.social!

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Some of our Reading Rooms will be closed between 27 October and 9 November due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site, and there may be other short notice disruption. To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...

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Planned strike action in St Pancras

We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 27 October and Sunday 9 November 2025.

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (bonus if you can tell me who these two are and who drawn by…)

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I'm really proud of this: the latest issue of #VictorianStudies has an article of mine in it! It's on #ageing and #generations, & the insightful ways that Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant approaches these issues, with takeaways for us now. doi.org/10.2979/vic.... 1/

Cover of Victorian Studies journal, with lithograph of fairies!

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Really enjoyed this - thank you @britishacademy.bsky.social #ECR Network for organising it! Loved hearing about everyone’s writing projects across a range of disciplines.

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

well so long as there is propriety of colouring

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

When you get really excited about an archival holding, and then realise that access is restricted until 2095

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Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I’m on TV tonight! Check out the first episode of Britain’s Railway Empire at 8pm on Channel 4. It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.

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Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

As a bit of a toy collector myself this one has extra appeal. Thanks Julia. mainlymuseums.com/post/695//po... #museums #museumfromhome #toys #london

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Pollock's Toy Museum

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