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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED to the 31 March 2026! Join our PGRs and ECRs in Montpellier this autumn to discuss the theme of 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #PGR #ECR #CFP

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications. Deadline: 1st April 2026 More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359

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Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online: Summer Internship Programme 2026 – BARS Blog

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Studies in Romanticism @studiesinrom.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf offers residency fellowships in Schloss Wiepersdorf (State of Brandenburg, Germany) to artists and scholars. Applications for 2027 are welcome until April 15. Details at the link below: www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de/en/individua...

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Individual and Collaborative Fellowships - Schloss Wiepersdorf (en)

The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf awards individual and collaborative fellowships to artists and writers in Schloss Wiepersdorf (State of Brandenburg, Fläming).

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Attention ABO readers! Issue 15.2 (2025) dropped earlier this month. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

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All Events - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

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Tiffany Kelly @tiffanykelly.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I just listened to this episode and it’s my favorite commentary on HR thus far (and I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts about the show!) Refreshing to hear people talk about it who GET IT and also understand its popularity

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Francesca @fbls.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My latest article is up! Published among briliant pieces within the special issue "Affective and Emotional Encounters in/with British Women's Writing, 1600–1800" eds. Anna-Rose Shack, Zoë Van Cauwenberg, and Fauve Vandenberghe by the @abojournal.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...

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The Gendered Duality of Coldness in the Portrayals of Eliza Hayley

In the eighteenth century, coldness was defined, on the one hand, in relation to the body and the senses (a body that is lacking in heat) and on the other, to emotion (an individual lacking in passion...

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Francesca @fbls.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Delighted to have had my abstract "Older women writers and intergenerational mentoring" accepted to the @bars.bsky.social conference in Birmingham later this year! I am very excited to see all of you there 🥰

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elcritic.cat @elcritic.cat · 02/12/2025

📖 Presentació del còmic ‘La SEAT: motor de llibertat’ a la llibreria Jaimes Dijous 4 amb la participació dels autors, Jordi de Miguel i Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López. #sentitcrític

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Presentació del còmic ‘La SEAT: motor de llibertat’ a la llibreria Jaimes

Amb la participació dels autors, el periodista Jordi de Miguel i la dibuixant Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 02/12/2025

To honor the winter break on the horizon, Letterboxd crew and contributors share twenty underseen holiday favorites: where Christmas and Hanukkah deep cuts and surprisingly festive noir and stop-motion delights all have a seat at the table. boxd.it/2QQ

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Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If it this sounds intriguing, sign up below! Can't wait to hear what my fellow PGRs talk about too ✨️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists! Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies. It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍

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Edinburgh University Press Journals - Journal Home - Victoriographies Home

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We have a cover

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize. ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

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Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize

The Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Founded in 2025, the prize is open to book-length wor…

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

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Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation

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Francesca @fbls.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

@facudiaz.net Hola Facu, estic corregint un TFG i el corrector em suggereix això.

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Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting

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Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Part 2 of the video shared in yesterday’s post re @fbls.bsky.social’s essay on on erased 18thC author Eliza Hayley bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays

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Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Incidentally, bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor wasn’t @fbls.bsky.social’s first piece on Eliza Hayley. She wrote a fantastic essay on Hayley’s 1780 book: a #translation of 𝙀𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙡𝙙-𝘼𝙜𝙚 by the Marchioness de Lambert. Read it at bit.ly/FBS-WTW #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory

Title page of Eliza Ball Hayley’s first book. Text reads

ESSAYS
ON
FRIENDSHIP AND OLD-AGE
BY THE
MARCHIONESS DE LAMBERT
Que tout ce qu’elle dit est grace ;
Tout ce qu’elle pense, raison. LA MOTTE

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
BY A LADY
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY LETTER
TO
WILLIAM MELMOTH, ESQ.

LONDON
PRINTED FOR J.DODSLEY, PALL-MALL.
M. DCC.LXXX.

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Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award! Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered. Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

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Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr, Award — K-SAA

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ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Call for Contributions. Conference: Language and literature across the lifespan. Location and dates: University of Namur, Belgium. 11-12 December 2025. Extended deadline for proposal submission: 5 October 2025. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11/09/2025

Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born #OTD, 11 Sep. Plays on the Passions, a series of female-led comedies & tragedies, brought Baillie fame during a period when serious drama was in decline. Her 256th birthday was commemorated by a Google doodle in 2018 #C18th 1/3 doodles.google/doodle/joann...

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Joanna Baillie’s 256th Birthday Doodle - Google Doodles

Learn more about the creation of Joanna Baillie’s 256th Birthday Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Slightly diminish a poem: We Are Six

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

✨ Fast facts about the Pforzheimer awards! - Who can apply: Grad students, untenured faculty, & independent scholars - Purpose: Expenses related to research in Romantic-era literature & culture - Award amount: $3,000 - Deadline: Nov. 1 Find more info & apply today! www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

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Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr, Award — K-SAA

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

After a brilliant day of papers and a monograph workshop at our PGR & ECR conference, Trinity College let us see some of their collection in the Wren Library, including PB Shelley’s famous register entry from the Hotel de Villes de Londres!

A group of people walking into the Wren Library, with a statue of Lord Byron at the back.

The hotel register in which Shelley declared he was going to “L’Enfer”, and was a lover of humanity, democrat, and atheist.

1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads, the former with Coleridge’s own annotations.

A letter claiming to be Lord Byron’s first. The postscript reads, “I hope you will excuse all blunders as it is the first I ever wrote.”

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998.
The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

📣 Calling all grad students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars! 📚 Apply for a Pforzheimer Grant by Nov. 1st to help fund your research expenses for projects relating to Romantic-era literature and culture. 🔗 More info here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...

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Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr, Award — K-SAA

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We’ve long known Samuel Pepys was a sleazebag, but Guy de la Bedoyere’s new edition of his journal reveals it was way worse than that — he was a relentless sexual predator www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator

Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser

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Simone @monalunasimone.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The sartorial details in this (probably) self portrait of Adèle Romany c. 1799 are breathtaking. See the clocked stockings, blue slipper tied with ribbons at the ankle and the neoclassical decorations at the hem of the robe à la grecque. From the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen. #dresshistory #18thc

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

BBCRadio4 is re-running a series that I was involved in recording a few years ago. If you are interested hearing me talk about doors & visits in Jane Austen's time, do have a listen: The Hidden History of the Front Door - 13 Aug 15.30 GST. #skystorians 🗃️#c18th www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - The Hidden History of the Front Door

Rachel Hurdley discovers what front doors reveal about security, sociability and status.

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Ooh Whitby Town FC new kit draws on Dracula for inspiration 🦇 🧛‍♀️ But, fellow Dracula enthusiasts, what should they have renamed the team?! Give me your best Goth/vampire football puns plssss! www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-n...

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Whitby Town FC Launch New Locally Inspired Kits

The Blues are using the famous ammonites, abbey and even Dracula to inspire the new kits for the coming season.

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Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...

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ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Applications are invited for 2026-2027 Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Fellowships (four weeks) and Travel Grants (two weeks). walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11/08/2025

The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies is offering a PhD scholarship on “Robert Burns & the Environment” – part of a new research strand on Burns, the Environment & Sustainable Cultural Heritage DEADLINE 18 AUGUST #C18th #Romanticism www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - Robert Burns and the Environment Scholarship

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Tara 🐢 @4jinxremoving.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Hector reposting Mo Salah.

From Hector Bellerin's Facebook Reels, a repost of Mo Salah saying, "Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?" in regards to UEFA's post about the killing of Palestinian footballer Suleiman al-Obeid.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary.

Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize. First Book: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire Main award: Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth Judging panel: Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

The Polari prize first book Longlist with crosses over books by
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire to show they've withdrawn

The polar prize award Longlist with crosses over books by
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth to show they've withdrawn

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne. Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.

Polari first book prize Longlist with Sacha coward, Jason okundaye, Amy twigg, and Mae diansangu's books crossed out to show they've withdrawn

The Polari book prize Longlist, with no books withdrawn by authors.

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Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

“Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” Meet erased 18thC author bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays @fbls.bsky.social #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #romanticism #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This is a fantastic post about a fantastic research project by @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social — it could be an episode in AS Byatt’s Possession! It also highlights the importance of serendipity in research and also how online research will only get us so far. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

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Finding Two Missing Thornton Manuscripts

Blog article - 23 June 2022

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