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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Had fun Sense and Sensibility with Gillian Dow, Muireann O'Cinneide and Mary O'Connell on 'Talking History' last night. May have got onto one of my favourite topics: how Alan Rickman's casting is one of the deftest pieces of casting in cinematic history. www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/jan...

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Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

This episode, marking the release of the new adaptation, features: Dr Gillian Dow, Associate Professor in English at the University of Southampton, Prof Jennie Batchelor, Head of the Department of Eng...

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Though the researcher in me lives in the 18th/19th centuries, I have had the extraordinary pleasure of reading all of Nicoletta Asciuto's completely illuminating (pun intended), Brilliant Modernism. I am so happy that it has been recognised by ESSE as winner of their 2026 first book award.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This pattern has been following me. I own 3 versions of it across the Lady’s Magazine and New Lady’s Magazine (all 1790s). Then one day I found some cards and a plain cotton handkerchief. And voila. Well, not quite voila. It took a while not least because my unladylike hands and silk are not pals

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

One of my favourite places. Sounds like you have had a great time!

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Lela’s stunning portrait of Miss Lambe makes an important intervention into this continuing conversation by quite literally surfacing the complex and brutal colonial foundations of Jane Austen’s world”. - Jennie Batchelor 4/4

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“Increasingly, our sense of those legacies have been enriched and complicated by a deepening understanding of what Austen’s novels reveal or conceal about the world in which she lived”. 3/

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“Lela’s magnificent portrait of Jane Austen’s most enigmatic character comes back to Harewood at a significant moment as we take stock of Austen’s enduring legacies following the 250th anniversary of her birth” 2/

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I am beyond thrilled that Miss Lambe, the stunning portrait of Jane Austen’s only character of African descent, by the brilliant Lela Harris has found a permanent home at Harewood Hpuse. Miss Lambe was created for Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter in 2025: harewood.org/stories/a-ye... 1/

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A Year On, Harewood Acquires Lela Harris's Portrait of Miss Lambe - Harewood House

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For me, sewing is about connection, the connection of thread to fabric, of present to past and of maker to make across time and place. Happy World Embroidery Day. What are you making? #WorldEmbroideryDay 2/2

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For #WorldEmbroideryDay a few things from the last year. I will forever be grateful that my Nan taught me to sew as a child and that decades later my love of the Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and years searching for its 100s of embroidery patterns got me to pick up my needle again. 1/

An unfinished fancy pattern of stylised red outlined flowers in chain and slanted satin stitch.

A square work bag with a bouquet of flowers stitched in ribbon, chain and satin stitch.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I preface this by saying this is a lovely farm and museum but this sight literally gave me nightmares….

Two mannequins. A nurse in 1910s clothing stands above a black haired, moustache clad man in a hospital bed. She holds a very large syringe and a vacant/sinister expression.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ah. You cracked it. Thanks so much!

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

iPhone and official app. Not changed anything to my knowledge…

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

For a few weeks now I can’t upload any images from my phone to BlueSky? I haven’t had a problem before. Is it just he? Am I doing something wrong?

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think you will really like it if you liked Ill Feelings.

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We're running a short online survey to inform development of the Curran Index. If you're interested in Victorian periodicals, whether or not you've used the Curran recently, please complete the survey! Survey closes 10th August. Please retweet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Curran Index User Survey

Thanks for being willing to complete this short survey. Whether or not you have used the Curran Index recently (or at all) we are looking for opinions on how the Curran can best be improved and develo...

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’ve just finished Alice Hattrick’s Fancy Work, a gift from a colleague. A book about embroidery and identity, about May Morris and her partner, MF, about work, domesticity, play and illness, about the archive and our future, it is an enthralling read. I have also been sewing. Not fancy but working.

A book with a white cover and the title Fancy Work and Alice Hattrick in blue caps. This is next to an unfinished embroidery (red silks on a white handkerchief) of a stylised floral design or “fancy pattern”.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Maria, I LOVE your book and have learned so much from it. I gave an excerpt to students to read on my recent RBS course!

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It was genuinely thrilling to see close-up just how vibrant the field of periodical studies is. Congratulations to the two other wonderful shortlisted authors and books Maria Damkjær, Fiction on the Page(OUP) and Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Lecturing Women (Routledge). 2/2

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Congratulations to Stephen Donovan and Matthew Rubery on their riveting and rigorously researched page turner of a book, Undercover: Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction (CUP) which has won the RSVP 2026 Colby Scholarly Book Prize, for which I had the privilege to serve as Chair 1/

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The single issue #C18 periodicals I shared on my @rarebookschool.bsky.social course were highlights for the majority who had never seen one before. I couldn’t use this May 1763 London Magazine as it arrived today, but the Magazine and its rivalry with the Gentleman’s got many mentions. Next time.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ha! Yes. I guess we should be even more worried when they stop asking us….

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's a @bsecs.bsky.social take over at the York Georgian Festival this year, with events featuring @historymatt.bsky.social & @brycchancarey.bsky.social 🎉 Book your tickets: www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia... #18C #18thC #18thCentury #YorkGeorgianFest

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

How is this being normalised? (Screams into void…)

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I don't know what we would have done without you, Kate! Thank you so much.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We spent Friday looking at #17th and #18th century newsbooks and newspapers, with a focus on the women behind the #York press. #rarebooks 2/

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🧵The class of 2026 for H-210: The Rise of Periodical Print Culture, 1700-1830 at the University of #York for #rarebookschool. Our final day was at the Minster Library at the Old Palace, looking at the York Press (Credit: RBS/Stephanie Gross) 1/

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So happy to share the wonderful news that Elizabeth Tyler (Professor of Medieval Literature and Deputy Head: Research of English and Related Literature) has been made Fellow of the British Academy!

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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Microsoft is planning to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire & be the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

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Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Crikey, Andy. Take care and rest up!

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

*** Lectureship in Creative Writing *** School of English, University of Leeds Salary £41,064 to £59,966 p.a. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Today, a friend sent me a photo of an anthology of work on Jane Austen for which I was invited to write the introduction on the shelves of Toppings in York (my favourite bookshop). What a thrill! Also today, in 1817, #JaneAusten died aged 41.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We had a great week on The Rise of Periodical Print Culture for @rarebookschool.bsky.social at the University of York. I have 300 photos to sort through, but for now, I am thinking about all I have learned from the booksellers, librarians and cataloguers, academic and grad students on this course.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Great session looking at periodical serialisations of Cook’s Voyages yesterday, including their illustrations, for H-210 The Rise of Periodical Print Culture for @rarebookschool.bsky.social here in York.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Huge thanks to recently completed @cecs-york.bsky.social PhD, Rachel Feldberg) for her brilliant walking tour of Georgian York, following in the steps of Jane Ewbank, for @rarebookschool.bsky.social here in York.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A busy day on my @rarebookschool.bsky.social course “The Rise of Periodical Print Culture, 1700-1830” yesterday in York, including sessions on topics including illustrations and reading practices. We also enjoyed typesetting and printing a charade at Thin Ice Press with @wordsmith.bsky.social

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Day 2 of The Rise of Periodical Print Culture, 1700-1830 for @rarebookschool.bsky.social is a wrap. We had sessions on who's who in the periodical trade, on seriality and dedicated sessions on both the reading of periodicals in the eighteenth century and on reading periodicals in digital formats.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Was doing prep for my RBS coursewhen I realised I have a bunch of embroidery patterns in my New Lady's Magazine collection (this from Sept 1788) that I haven't digitised. Isn't it lovely? When things quieten down I will upload it to Patterns of Perfection. #needlepainting

An engraving for needlework showing a basket of fruit including a pineapple, peaches loose and on a stem, a bunch of grapes, with a butterfly on the far left on a grape.

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We're pleased to offer courses in York, UK, for the first time, including @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social's The Rise of Periodical Print Culture, 1700–1830! There's still space in our other York course, The Culture & Craft of Wood Type w/ Nick Gill & Helen Smith: rarebookschool.org/courses/details/t65

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Delighted to be working with Dave Harper (@mischiefepress.bsky.social) and Sarah Griffin who are offering two sessions on York newspapers on the final day of the course. 2/2

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thrilled to be putting the final touches on the course work book for my @rarebookschool.bsky.social course. It’s going to be a full and I hope fabulous week at the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social and York Minster. 1/2

An image showing the masthead of Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser for 15 June 1771 and cropped images from the Lady’s Magazine and Gentleman’s Magazine

Some cropped text from a course booklet indicating topics including formats and paratexts.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It was so great to be part of this. My own contributions were talking about Jane Austen, Her Writing and Her Craft and co-running this craft workshop with @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Huge congratulations to Lauren Working whose fascinating, important and beautiful book, A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England (Faber), was launched a week ago at Daunt Books in Holland Park.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Brill time today at York Festival of Ideas where I talked abtJane Austen, Her Writing and her Craft to a lovely audience before co-running with @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social an 18th century craft workshop (embroidery, shell work etc.) An incredible day with incredible bibliophiles and crafters.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What a privilege it was to hear the fabulous @katewilliamsme.bsky.social talk about her new book #Regina at #YorkFestivalofIdeas tonight!

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Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Absolutely thrilled that English and Related Literature at York has been ranked 6th in the Complete University Guide for 2026. The ranking speaks to the strength and depth of our vibrant, diverse and inclusive curriculum, our research expertise and ambition and our wonderful community of students.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So sorry, Claire. Been off here for a fe days. I think, but don't quote me, its a barbed comment about their hair...

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