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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Also some excellent acquisitions at The Book and Coffee shop (Kilkenny) on the way out West 📚

Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ah - so lovely to be back in the West (of Ireland). Throughout our redundancy consultations I’ve wished to be here. Now we finally are, it seems like it was all just a bad dream. Taking time to read, walk and to reflect (particularly on how to help our discipline in these terrible HE times).

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It's up! You can book! My new course with the University of Liverpool starts in May! 'Transformations of the Gothic' Online. Open to all. You can join from anywhere. No previous experience necessary. Just bring a love of the subject! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

A Queen of Spades by Pushkin
Mythic Delerium
The Old Nurse's Story
Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo
Wuthering Heights
Uncanny
An image of two women in a forest from Carmilla
Dark Matter magazine
Carnivorine by Lucy Hopkins
William Hodgson
Jamaica Inn
Dragonwyck
Sing, Unburied, Sing
A Rose for Emily
The Monster of Elendhaven
I am Stone by Robert Murray Gilchrist
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
The New Mother by Lucy Clifford

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Morning jog along the Tiber ❤️

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Siobhan-Michelle Smith @smdsmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Thrilled to be giving the keynote for Teesside University's MA English Literature Graduate Conference, what a great lineup! Message me for the Teams link if you'd like to join us. @janeford.bsky.social @drsallybd.bsky.social @scmc.bsky.social @robbhawkes.bsky.social @bradders953.bsky.social

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Statue of Emily Wilding Davison in Morpeth ❤️

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Pre-ordered @clarepaterson.bsky.social’s book on Annie Besant a while back. Lovely surprise on my doorstep this morning - can’t wait to read it!

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Check out this selection of John’s new poems from the Fortnightly Review ❤️

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Siobhan-Michelle Smith @smdsmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Please allow me to recommend some summer reading, followed with an invitation to join our book discussion. Everybody is welcome so please share widely (this poster has the correct start time of 5.30pm!) The text and audiobook are available on Internet Archive/Gutenberg. @vpfa.bsky.social

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Beautiful Connemara. I wish we didn’t have to leave!

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

On 22/6 I’m taking part in the Richmond Aquathlon to raise funds for My Sister’s Place—an amazing charity supporting people affected by domestic abuse. It’s not a long event but feels pretty epic to me 😅. If you can spare a few pennies I’d really appreciate it: justgiving.com/page/jane-fo...

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Jane's fundraiser for My Sisters Place

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A few images of, and comments about, our Community Curated exhibition at Preston Park. Please do take a look & leave a comment to let us know what you think! www.deliberateink.org/blog-deliber...

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Community Curated: Preston Park Exhibition — Deliberate Ink

On the 7th of April this year, we installed a small (but hopefully impactful!) exhibition featuring some of the protest posters created by our brilliant participants.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Just finished Rachel Holmes’s biography of Eleanor Marx—equal parts outrage (on M’s behalf) and awe at her brilliance. It’s a book that will stay with me for a long time.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Went to the Women in Revolt exhibition with my lovely mum and it was epic 🔥

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Lovely to receive the latest edition of @victstudies.bsky.social which features my review of Meg Dobbins’s excellent volume, “Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature”.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It was so great to have @drsallybd.bsky.social and @bradders953.bsky.social on campus for their amazing paper, “Do Androids Dream of Vernon Lee?” yesterday. There are still two speakers left in Teesside English and Creative Writing seminar series. All welcome!

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Delighted to be presenting a research paper as part of Anglia Ruskin’s Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Print Culture series. Please do come along if you can and check out the schedule here: nineteenthcenturystudiesanglia.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/s...

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Seminar series: Nineteenth Century Magazines and Print Culture’

This semester, we are continuing with our series of talks on the theme of ‘Nineteenth Century Magazines and Print Culture’. These talks will take place on MS TEAMS and a calendar invite will be sen…

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Siobhan-Michelle Smith @smdsmith.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A reminder of the great lineup for Teesside University's English & Creative Writing Research Seminar Series ... next up we have PhD student Georgia Dalton from Northumbria University presenting on grassroots theatre and the women's liberation movement. Wed 15th Jan at 2pm UK time on Teams

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My book, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, is out now with Oxford University Press! academic.oup.com/book/58989 It’s a book about page fillers, product placement, and strange hybrid fiction. It asks how the page of the magazine became a spur for new, odd genres.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Looking through some old family documents and found my great, great grandmother’s apprenticeship contract from 1876. She worked in enamelling at Minton pottery and earned 2 shillings per week.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Today was the first day of our Level 5 “Representation and Cultural Identity” student conference. We were blown away by their amazing papers and thoughtful discussion. Ridiculously proud of them ⭐️

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Final workshop of the first phase of our “Deliberate Ink” project. It’s been a privilege to work with such amazing women to produce these political messages. Still populating the website but you can find out a bit more at deliberateink.org

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Read Orbital with the ISS live feed on in the background & feel like I’ve had some sort of out of body experience. Incredibly sad that it’s over 😭 @samharveyauthor.bsky.social

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

At present, we are analyzing the manufactured funding crisis & austerity in the neoliberal British higher ed system. We will soon publish an open letter calling for robust & creative public alternatives to the current order. Stay tuned! 🙌

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Labour set to ditch pledge for free university tuition, Starmer says

Sir Keir Starmer said his party was "likely to move on" from its previous policy of scrapping fees.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Spent a really special hour exploring artefacts relating to the history of women’s suffrage on Teesside as part of Teesside Archives’ Sisterwood series. Thanks so much for organising this!

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Our very talented PhD students @smdsmith.bsky.social & Liv Bird are organising TU’s English & Creative Writing Research seminar series. Check out this fabulous line-up & msg j.ford@tees.ac.uk to be added to any of the Teams invites. @drsallybd.bsky.social @bradders953.bsky.social @scmc.bsky.social

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Still buzzing after y’days being human workshop on Memorialising Middlesbrough’s Women. The participants had loads of amazing ideas and co-produced this stunning visualisation capturing their discussion on gender bias in public art. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @drsallybd.bsky.social

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

If you’re interested in @RachelReevesMP decision to replace a portrait of Nigel Lawson with one of Ellen Wilkinson, do sign up for our Being Human fest event. It’s about the memorialisation of women like Wilkinson in Middlesbrough beinghumanfestival.org/events/memoria… @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

North East people, I’m running this event as part of Teesside’s Being Human festival hub. Please do share - it’s totally free and should be a fun and interesting: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/memor...

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Memorialising Middlesbrough’s Women

Ellen Wilkinson was elected Labour MP for Middlesbrough in 1924, the only woman voted in during the general election that year. Throughout her life ‘Red Ellen’ was active in securing the rights of wom...

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

Delighted to say my book, Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, is officially released today! 🧛Book reviews editors, I’d be delighted to arrange review copies. Also 20% discount code for anyone considering asking their academic library to purchase.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Author copies of my book have arrived! Many mixed emotions but delighted to see it in print, finally!

Photograph of book cover: Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I’m doing a little aquathlon on Sunday to raise money for My Sister’s Place, a wonderful charity who help people in Middlesbrough rebuild their lives after domestic abuse. Do consider sponsoring me: www.justgiving.com/page/jane-fo...

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Jane's fundraiser for My Sisters Place

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Stunning glass house at Bishop Auckland Castle gardens.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

What is more soothing than clearing your workspace after a period of frantic activity?

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Lucy Cogan @lucycogan.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Delighted to announce the CFP for the first special issue of Women’s writing devoted to Irish women writers that I’m editing with Amy Prendergast (TCD)!! Please share far and wide and consider submitting! think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Irish Women’s Writing

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

If you work in research, higher education or the cultural heritage sector, I would be very grateful if you could spare 10-15 mins to complete this survey of ‘Attitudes towards Generative AI in research, cultural heritage and education’ forms.office.com/e/MjvHAUBTAG. Thank you very much in advance!

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Microsoft Forms

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

My continuing obsession with open access to sources for exploring the 19th century has resulted in a new edition of this guide to free, searchable full texts of magazines www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe...

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VRW: Open Access Periodicals

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

I am absolutely THRILLED to be able to confirm that Teesside English have two students that have been successful in obtaining doctoral funding via the Northern Bridge DTP. Huge congratulations to @scmc.bsky.social @smdsmith.bsky.social! I’m so proud of you both!

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

I had one of my favourite work days ever on Monday. It involved working with some AMAZING women to produce feminist posters using a 19th C printing press. Thank you so much to Preston Park Museum!

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Delighted to be interviewed by our amazing students for their first “The Word’s Nest” podcast! They’ve developed the podcast for their “Words Matter” module, which explores the value of the humanities. They have characteristically gone above and beyond - so proud!

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

One of John’s new poems, “Friday, in the evening”: www.badlilies.uk/john-redmond @badlilies.bsky.social

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Our wonderful PhD students @scmc.bsky.social and Hayley McNally have organised and are chairing Teesside’s English and Creating Writing research seminar series. Share widely and do sign up via the Eventbrite link below!

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

After working on my book for more years than I care to admit, I finally sent it off to the publisher! Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 should hopefully come out with Routledge this year!

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Pulling materials together for the first session of our impact project on women and political participation and just absolutely love the way these pages from Justice look printed on A3.

Photograph of a 1911 edition of Justice, The Organ of the Social-Democracy.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

This stunning volume (which includes my chapter on eugenic feminism) arrived on my doorstop this morning! Many congratulations to the editors, Rachel Carroll and Fiona Tolan.

A picture of the cover of the recently published Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism, edited by Rachel Carroll and Fiona Tolan.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Ferdia has been practising reading aloud ‘Ozymandias’ as a little complement to his pyramid homework. Obviously, no parental hand 😬

Homemade pyramid covered in sand, with the words “look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” below it.

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Tomorrow, my PhD student, Suzy Corrigan, will be presenting her paper “Madness, Creativity and Female Genius in Stanley V. Makower’s The Mirror of Music (1895)” @ Teesside’s English & Creative Writing Research Seminar. 3-4pm via MS Teams. Pls let me know if you would like to be added to the invite.

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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Please share: 4 year PhD scholarship working with National Trust (@HelenAntrobus and me! and Laura Schwartz!) on an interwar British women’s history & suffrage centenary 2028 project DEADLINE 10 Jan 2024, lots of public engagement opps. More details here www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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