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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 25/10/2025

Ludo, caught mid-existential crisis and between naps. He believes that meaning is a human construct. #Caturday, however, is real.

A white cat with gray dots and face markings lies on his playmat on the floor. Ludo is looking at the camera with his big yellow-green eyes as if caught mid-existential crisis, between naps.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Cats with jobs - Grandpa's helper: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

With @shaungunner.bsky.social, Brian Sibley, Jay Johnstone, and @aranelparmadil.bsky.social, making fools of ourselves in “Just a minute in Middle-earth” at #Oxonmoot! @tolkiensociety.org

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The heraldic Iguanodon on Maidstone's coat of arms seems to be drawn a bit differently each time. The designer of this version went to quite a lot of effort to make the dinosaur look as early modern as possible, including giving it mammalian ears. Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/kapta....

Arms: Or a Fesse wavy Azure between three Torteaux on a Chief Gules a Lion passant guardant Or.
Crest: Issuant from a Mural Crown Or a Horse's Head Argent gorged with a Chaplet of Hops fructed proper, Mantled Azure doubled Or.
Supporters: On the dexter side an Iguanodon proper collared Gules and on the sinister side a Lion Or collared Gules.

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 19/08/2025

On 19 August, T.A. 3019 in #Tolkien's Middle-earth: as part of their bond of friendship, Legolas goes with Gimli to see the Glittering Caves. Gimli later founds a Dwarven colony there and becomes the Lord of the Glittering Caves. Image: Ted Nasmith #BookSky

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

TL;DR De-transactionalize assessment. Stop making it about something they “turn in” and you “give back.” Start making it about shared experience.

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

It’s been a while since I presented at Oxonmoot on-site - looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and meeting new #Tolkien scholars and fans! Who’s coming? @tolkiensociety.org

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 15/08/2025

“The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.” —Pushkin A 🎂 🧵for Walter Scott. Born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771, he was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature #C19th #romanticism 💙📚 1/12 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/issue...

A portrait head of Walter Scott, painted by Sir Henry Raeburn, c.1822–23, oil on canvas. Walter Scott is clean shaven, with thinning fair hair brushed across a high forehead. His grey-blue eyes look out past the viewer, at something we cannot see.

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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 14/08/2025

Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 We're pleased to announce that our Seminar will take place online on 18th and 19th October. This free event will have the theme "Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments", and you can see the talks, and register, on our website! www.tolkiensociety.org/events/semin...

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Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 – Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments

The Tolkien Society Seminar is a short conference of both researcher-led and non-academic presentations on a specific theme pertaining to Tolkien scholarship. After the seminar, all paper recordings f...

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A (Disney+) alien egg outside the temporary space exhibition at the @nhm-london.bsky.social. I want to believe Alien: Earth will be good, as many claim, but the Alien franchise, live action at least, has a proud tradition of sucking for many decades now and it would be a shame to deviate.

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Lovely to read Dimitra's post on Tolkien's prehistoric beasts! In my forthcoming stupid book I declare that The Past Is A Fantasy World - Tolkien offers us some ways of understanding how that might work mechanically

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Do you read fanfiction? Can you help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student Khushi Shokeen with her research by completing her survey, please? (Please share!) forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Microsoft Forms

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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

At #SAGA2025, Yoav Tirosh @realmundiriki.bsky.social is giving a thought-provoking talk on #Trauma as an interpretative framework for #oldnorseliterature. @au.dk

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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Our author Ármann Jakobsson gave today’s keynote at #SAGA2025 at the auditorium maximum @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in #Krakow. If you want to know more about #oldnorse paranormal encounters, have a look at this volume: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @armannja.bsky.social

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Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Marrowbone (2017)

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Do you have opinions about book covers? (I know you do. ;-)) Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey? (Please share, too!)

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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I'm writing on Florence Marryat's 'Blood of the #Vampire' (1897-same year as #Dracula). It starts in the dining room of the Hotel du Lion d'Or in the Belgian seaside resort of Heyst (modern Heist-aan-Zee). I've just found a hotel postcard from c.1910 & dining room of similar hotel down the street!

Hotel Lion d'Or in Heist, Belgium. 4 or 5 motorcars parked in the street at the front. The hotel is a tall building with balconies

Postcard from Heyst sur la Mer showing the front of the Grand Hotel de L'Univers, with images of interior rooms - the salon, the salon d'ecriture, chambre a coucher, and the salle a manger. The latter, with rows of tables in white tablecloths and patterned wallpapered panels is presumably a close match to the one in Marryat's novel.

Detail of the salle a manger - a room with dark wainscoting and patterned wallpaper panels, rows of tables with white tablecloths and delicate white pillars holding up a ceiling with gilt or painted detailing.

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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Our conference has kicked off! We were welcomed by History Lab's Chair @thomascryer.bsky.social, Director of @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, and Professor Neil Forbes from Coventry University who is delivering his keynote speech 👨‍🏫 Don't forget that you can join us online! 💻

Photograph of Professor Neil Forbes delivering his keynote speech titled about the twentieth century after the First World War.

Photograph of History Lab conference programmes and Royal Historical Society bookmarks, leaflets and badges.

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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We are signatories to this important letter organised by @voice21oracy.bsky.social “calling on him to establish oracy as a core part of Labour’s revised national curriculum & make it the 4th ‘R’ in education, alongside reading,writing & arithmetic. “ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Keir Starmer urged to honour pledge to embed speaking skills in England’s schools

Alastair Campbell and children’s author Michael Rosen among advocates calling for oracy to be in curriculum

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Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

It me, an official teacher starting i dag… intro to film studies.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive:

Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

It was one day, twenty-three hours, fifty-two minutes btw

Asking a friend on WhatsApp how long it will be before judgemental pro-CEO columns emerge regarding the Coldplay kisscam scandal (timestamped 00:15 Sunday)

A judgemental pro-CEO column in the Guardian, written by Miski Omar (timestamped 00:07 Tuesday)

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Why would you want the next generation of scholars to shape the research questions of the future? This AHRC doesn't

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Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

My wonderful friend is doing this research and is still looking for more people to take part! Please share 😊

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 19/07/2025

She’s a solan, she’s a tramper, she’s a sea-shaker, she’s a hawk, she’s a hammer, she’s a big-sea-breaker… —from “Seeker, Reaper” by George Campbell Hay In the 1930s Hay saw the Loch Fyne skiff SIREADH – Gaelic for “seeker” – & was inspired #BookWormSat peggybawn.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/s...

from “Seeker, Reaper” by George Campbell Hay

She’s a solan, she’s a tramper, she’s a sea-shaker,
she’s a hawk, she’s a hammer, she’s a big-sea-breaker,
she’s a falcon, she’s a kestrel, she’s a wide-night-seeker,
she’s a river, she’s a render, she’s a foam-spray-waker.
She’s a stieve sea-strider, she’s a storm-course-keeper,
she’s a tide-scour-bucker, she’s a quick-light-leaper,
she’s a stem-teerer, keel-teerer, seeker, finder, reaper.
She’s Cast off! Anchor up! deid anchor-weary,
she’s a chain-snubber, moorin’-strainer, restless herbour peerie.
She’s a skyline-raiser, skyline-sinker, hulldown horizon-crosser,
she’s foreland, foreland, on and on, a high-heid-tosser.
She’s a glint, she’s a glimmer, she’s a glimpse, she’s a fleeter,
she’s an overhauler, leave-astern, a hale-fleet-beater;
she’s a kyle-coulter, knot-reeler, thrang-speed-spinner,
her mood is moulded on her and the mind that made her’s in her.
She’s a wake-plough, foam-plough, spray-hammer, roarer,
she’s a wind-anvil, crest-batterer, deep-trough-soarer,
she’s a dance-step-turner, she’s a broad-wake-scorer.
she’s a sound-threider, bight-stringer, her hert runs oot afore her.
When the big long seas come on lik walls, cold-white-heided,
she doesna flinch a point for them. Straight her wake is threided.

Though they come from the world’s rim
along wi’ a livin’ gale,
she’ll gap and batter through them
and teer her chosen trail.
She’s stieve, thrawn, light, quick,
fast, wild, gay;
she’ll curtain the world wi hammered seas,
she’ll drench the stars wi spray.
They can tower atween her and the sky –
she never felt their awe;
she’ll walk them aa, thon trampin’ boat,
she’ll rise and walk them aa.
She’s a solan’s hert, a solan’s look;
she canna thole a lee.
I’ll coil her ropes and redd her nets,
and ease her through a sea.
She’s a seeker, she’s a hawk, boys.
Thon’s the boat for me.

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James Machin @jfmachin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

My copies have arrived and they are beautiful! Holographic foil! Thistle motif endpapers! Not to mention crammed with Buchan's superbly unsettling tales.

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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The excellent @anzamems.bsky.social "Documenting Medieval and Early Modern Women: Accessing and Analysing Historical Sources" two days workshop has just wrapped up. Portrait of the Social Media guy attached:

A cartoon of a man, whose shirt is emblazoned with the word "Sickos", and is saying "Yes...ha ha ha...YES!", with the legend "Me when the conference got a paper on early medieval hagiography"

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Our leading article is Carolyn Oulton's "polemical" piece 'Call that Reading? Creative Approaches to Literary Studies and Literary Heritage'. She talks about 'literary visiting', shared reading practices, and how literature, creative writing, and heritage can benefit one another

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 presents our new partner publication Marginalia! Our aim is to craft public-facing, somewhat informal meditations on the work of studying literature writ large. 📖 Book Reviews 🎙️ Interviews 📜 Archive Meditations 📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds Link in bio!

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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

American Gothic Studies issue 1.1 came out Friday and today we transmitted the content for issue 1.2, which will be out near the end of the year. Please send us your scholarship! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art...

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Carrie at 50

Abstract. Fifty years after its publication as a novel, Carrie still manages to remind us of not only Stephen King’s importance as a novelist but also the value of reading the text and the film it ins...

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Scattered Flock Journal @scatteredflock.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Are you a Fantasy Lit Alumni? Would you like to help shape the future of Scattered Flock? We’re building this magazine from the ground up and are looking for volunteers to join our close-knit, creative team. Let us know you are interested by sending us an email at Info@ScatteredFlockJournal.com!

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Christopher Gilson @cgilson75.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

"Parma Eldalamberon 17: Words, Phrases & Passages in _The Lord of the Rings_" is available again on demand at: The Great British Bookshop: www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/par... and at: Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/parma-elda...

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes We have our final speaker of the 'Gender and Empire' panel; Chimi Woo is speaking on 'Religion and Otherness in the Victorian Novel'

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes Up next we have Sophie Gwilt's talk on Indigeneity in Henry Kingsley's 'The Hillyars and the Burtons: A Story of Two Families' (1863)

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Heading into the final panel of the day with a fascinating talk by Sydney Wildman on 'Imperial Anxieties in Rider Haggard's "She: A History of Adventurr" (1887)'

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Today’s piece is on the rare #Tolkien volume featuring in Tim Sullivan’s latest DC George Cross book series, The Bookseller. Any comments welcome, especially by those of you who know your Tolkien rare copies! dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/a-rare-tol...

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Excited to hear the key note from Richard Fallon on 'Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction' at #VPFAExtremes

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Anna Shane @annas1891.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Victorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes Final speaker in our panel is Emilie Laurent speaking on gender, desire and monstrous nonconformity in Vernon Lee's 'A Wicked Voice'. Love me a bit of monster theory!

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Anna @annaulrika75.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Victorian belief was that men were better at managing their emotions as they had greater wills and mental faculties, and women were unstable and unpredictable because of their reproductive systems. Also, women were expected to suppress their emotions and men to actively regulate theirs #VPFAExtremes

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Anna Shane @annas1891.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Next we have Lucy Ella Rose discussing the decadent transformations of protagonists in Netta Syrett’s novels as they come to epitomise the transgressive extremes of the 'New Movement' #VPFAExtremes

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

@vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAExtremes Fascinating paper by Lucy Ella Rose on often overlooked Female Decadent Literature and its power to provide women with personal fulfilment

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