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Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CFP: Fiction in Victorian and Edwardian Socialist Periodicals (Abstract Deadline: 10/31/2026) navsa.org/News/13728410
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Arnold Anthony Schmidt @arnoldaschmidt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Join us for the latest episode of Varney the Vampyre on KCBP-FM radio or kcbpradio.org. Please enjoy, like, share, and subscribe!
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Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Born #OTD 1847, Annie Besant campaigned to end the terrible toxic working conditions and improve the poor pay of the Bryant and May factory Match Girls in the East End. Then moved to India to support home rule. Hear her story in our Women and Protest podcast: tinyurl.com/2p8fek9r #history
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Submissions are welcome for the London Topographical Society's Anne Saunders Prize: £1,000 for an original & unpublished research essay on the topography, development, or buildings of #London in any period. Details here: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann... #skystorians 🗃️
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Ann Saunders essay prize - London Topographical Society
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✨ 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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Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: JVC–BAVS Early Career Mentorship Scheme; a collaboration between the Journal of Victorian Culture (JVC) & British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) to support PhDs & early career scholars in developing their first peer-reviewed journal article. More here: jvc.oup.com/2026/09/28/j...
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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re so excited to see this pilot website go live and grateful for the opportunity to be involved with this ongoing project!
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join my students and I for a #BHM26 event exploring the life & writing of Ignatius Sancho, including his letters to Laurence Sterne. 12 October 2026, 6–7.15pm Free to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-hist... The first 20 to book get a free printed copy of our edition. #18c #18thCentury
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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are now recruiting two Book Review Editors! Together they will oversee the publication of circa 90 reviews each year, covering multiple languages, to ensure that First World War Studies keeps its readers up to date on all the important international scholarship
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
4 X Postdoctoral Fellowships #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 Doctoral degree granted between 30 September 2024 and 1 October 2026 🏫 Universität Konstanz ⌛ Monday 12 October 🔗 buff.ly/mRkXCDp #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
The 2026 Postdoctoral Fellowships call has been launched. Deadline: 12 October 2026, 11:00 am CET. Please find the call text and the link to the online application portal in the box on the right.
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23/09/2026
Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is on the horizon! Come feel some regional feels and get a sneak peak of the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) from some of its editors and contributors! Join us Friday, 16 October at the usual time: rs4vp.org/preview-edin...
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Off Centre: A Preview of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) – RSVP
Join us on 16 October for a sneak peak of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (forthcoming for Edinburgh UP, 2028)!
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're thrilled to be able to support six new early-career research Fellowships thanks to funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Applications open 21 October. Find out more: bit.ly/47fu2b0
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The British Academy and Wolfson Foundation launch new search for exceptional early-career researchers as funding confirmed for new Fellowships
The British Academy is delighted to announce another round of funding from the Wolfson Foundation for early career research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Registration is now open for Modernist Crossings, a series of free online events co-organised by seven international associations of modernists. More info here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/d...
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Digital Programming
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@bavs-uk.bsky.social Calling all BAVS members! This year's AGM is tomorrow (23rd Sept) at 1.30pm BST. You'll have received a meeting link via the BAVS Newsletter email. If you can, please do come along. As well as the formal business, there is an Open Forum to discuss future activities.
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BAVS Annual General Meeting (AGM) papers – BAVS
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Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Next Tuesday, 29 September at 5:30pm, I'm doing a paper at the Life-Cycles seminar at the IHR: "Children's shoes, material culture and the Georgian body" Info for in-person and online will be here (isn't up there yet): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Life-Cycles
This thematic seminar series addresses issues relating to the life-cycle
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join us THIS WEEK for our next Curran Symposium, which focuses on Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826)! 📆 September 24th & 25th 📍University of Notre Dame (some events available on Zoom) Visit our page below for more information and the link to register. www.k-saa.org/events/curra...
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2026 Curran Symposium: THE LAST MAN AT 200–Imagining the Future After Environmental Disaster — K-SAA
We are looking forward to our next Curran Symposium on the topic of Mary Shelley’s  The Last Man . The event will take place on September 24th and 25th 2026 at the University of Notr...
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Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Died #OTD in 1933 Annie Besant campaigned to end deadly working conditions and improve the pay of the Bryant and May factory Match Girls in London’s East End. Then moved to India to support home rule. Hear her story in our Women and Protest podcast: tinyurl.com/2p8fek9r #history #london
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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
📢 Please share widely! Our speaker for the annual Sue Innes Memorial Lecture is historian of Scottish emigration, Professor Marjory Harper! 📅 Saturday 24 October 🕑 2.00–3.30pm 📍 AK Bell Library, Perth 🎟️ Book via Ticket Tailor: www.tickettailor.com/events/women... Non-WHS members welcome!
Poster for the Women’s History Scotland annual Sue Innes Memorial Lecture. It advertises a lecture by Professor Marjory Harper titled “Testimonies of Transition and Transformation: Female Voices from the Scottish Diaspora.” The event takes place on Saturday 24 October, 2–3:30pm, at Soutar Theatre, AK Bell Library, York Place, Perth, PH2 8EP. Admission is free, with tickets available via a QR code. The poster includes a photograph of Professor Harper and an image of a historical Canadian immigration poster showing a woman standing in a rural landscape.
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica on Thomas Lovell Beddoes Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes’s career. Info and to submit abstracts: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6447
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Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica on Thomas Lovell Beddoes – BARS Blog
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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An important new resource: Africans in Ireland, 1578 - 1921. africansinireland.com #History #IrishHistory #BlackHistory
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Africans in Ireland, 1578-1921 – An ongoing research project by W. A. Hart, Jonathan Wright, Nik Ribianszky, and Mark Doyle.
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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...
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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website
Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
**The Georgian Group Dunscombe-Colt Bursary** #BSECS & the Georgian Group are offering a NEW bursary for #PGR & #ECR speaking on the architecture or material culture of the long #18thC at the BSECS annual conference. #skystorians 🗃️ Details can be found at: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
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Prizes and awards Archive - BSECS
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Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social
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Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
***BREAKING NEWS*** We have extended the deadline on our #CFP by 5 days to give those of you that missed our early deadline another chance! New deadline: 20 September 2026 Get writing! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📣 PT 1-year #archives job: Project Archivist for collections relating to fashion designer Jean Muir @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social 📍 Edinburgh 🕰️ Apply by 24 September Full details 👇 @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @scotsarchives.bsky.social @sodesignhistory.bsky.social @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
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Project Archivist - closing deadline 24th September 2026 — Archives & Records Association
Contract – 12 Months Fixed-Term - Part time Hours – 21 hours per week Full Time Salary: £39,754 to £43,188 per annum. Actual Salary (Pro-rata): £23,852 to £25,913 per annum Location – N...
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The deadline has been extended until the 16th Sept (this Wednesday!) Please send us an application if you're interested in assisting with the BARS social media and Blog. Stipend paid! More info ⤵️
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW JOB! We are pleased to share news from our friends at VCH Hampshire who are advertising for a contributing editor to edit, research, and write work towards the county's first #BigRedBook for over a century. Applications close 1 October. #Skystorians #LocalHistory
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Contributing Editor at Victoria County History Hampshire
Recruiting now: Contributing Editor on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chartism Day 2026 is just ten days away. This year's event is held at the Friends Meeting House in Warwick on the 19 September. All are welcome, but numbers are limited. A must for all interested in the Chartist movement! Book here now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
Chartism Day 2026 programme.
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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards
Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.
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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Position: Associate or Full Professor, Victorian Literature (Application Deadline: 10/22/2026) navsa.org/News/13688824
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NAVSA - Position: Associate or Full Professor, Victorian Literature (Application Deadline: 10/22/2026)
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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Position: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Victorian Literature (Application Deadline: 10/22/2026) navsa.org/News/13688833
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NAVSA - Position: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Victorian Literature (Application Deadline: 10/22/2026)
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Plese repost & share! Teachinge or studyinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level? Heere ys a free, open access, scholar-creatid resource: #OA #OER opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
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The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Where do we post #dh jobs these days (other than the MLA)? We've got one coming up in the Dept of Humanities in my college this year #digitalhumanities @ach.bsky.social @adho-org.bsky.social
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#18thc and Novel people, what work of secondary criticism or work of novel theory would you pair with Eliza Haywood's Fantomina? (this for a hastily pulled together grad seminar, not necessarily populated by people with an interest in the period, but definitely interested in the genre). Thank you!
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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
CfP: BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium 'Occult Science: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and the Persistence of Wonder' 29 January 2027 - Online More Info: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/09/bsls...
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BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium Call for Papers – The British Society for Literature and Science
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Modernism/modernity @mmodernity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Attention: Call for Co-editor of Modernism/modernity Due Date: November 16, 2026. Please see attached image for further details.
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19th Century Theatre Caucus @19ctheatrecaucus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hello Bluesky! This is @lerikscline.bsky.social writing on behalf of the 19th Century Theatre Caucus. We're excited to share and repost publications, events, and news of interest to caucus members and other lovers of nineteenth century theatre and performance.
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Researcher in Public Administration / Political Science #ECPRMemberJobs 📅 Fixed-term position for 3 years 🏫 Leibniz University Hannover ⌛ Tuesday 15 September 🔗 buff.ly/rZhjGeJ #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
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Researcher in Public Administration / Political Science – Leibniz University Hannover
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We are very excited to share yet another addition to the Key Popular Women Writers Series: congratulations to Susan Civale on the publication of Mary Shelley! 🎉 This study reveals previously unseen continuities in Shelley's work and affinities with other women writers!
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Scottish Society for Northern Studies @northernstudies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We have reopened funding schemes, supporting scholars and students in their research, training, travel, and conference organisation - with an emphasis on PGRs and ECRs! Research Grant Deadline: 1 December 2026! All Other Grants Deadline: 2 November 2026! For details, see ssns.org.uk/funding/
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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As spooky season approaches, I’ll be giving a very fitting online talk on ‘Séances, Spectres & Ghost Stories’ for the equally fitting College of Psychic Studies on Tuesday 20th October 2026: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (UK) Tickets here: www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/talks/esoter... #occult #psychic #lit👻
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The College of Psychic Studies : Talks : Esoteric : Seances spectres ghost stories
Join Dr Emily Vincent for an online livestream talk exploring Victorian Spiritualism, séances and the ghost stories they inspired. Spaces limited – book now.
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Still time to submit your applications for Comms Fellow. If you're a PGR or ECR who would like to help with the social media and blog, then check out the post below!!
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Call for Applications: The BARS President's Fellowship 2027 Open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Closes: Fri 6 Nov 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6597
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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#Skystorians, I need some help for a friend. What is a good journal for publishing about archival finds and unstudied collections, particularly those that might be #WWII related? Many thanks for any suggestions!
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Call For Papers: Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Conference, 18-20 November 2027 Romanticism and Property For more info and the full CfP, please see the link below: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6595
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Call For Papers: Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Conference, 18-20 November 2027 – BARS Blog
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Call for Applications: The BARS Open Fellowship 2027 The Open Fellowship is available to scholars at any career stage undertaking exceptional work at the forefront of Romantic studies to support research expenses of up to £2000. Closes: Friday 6 November 2026. Info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6598
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🔥 Last chance to nominate your 2026 Rising Star #ECPRPrizes Candidates are: ✔️Academically involved ✔️Socially engaged ✔️Pre-PhD or within 5 years of receiving it ⭐️ #ECPRMemberPerks: Must wok or study at a Member institution buff.ly/mnrVHbn
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Nominate by midnight, UK time, TONIGHT!
ECPR Rising Star Award
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Tooting IS a very important academic skill 🎺
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Academic Skills Tutor (Tooting) X2 at City St George's, University of London (Tooting)
Discover Academic Skills Tutor (Tooting) X2 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Publications Committee is pleased to announce the Book Support Award, a three-year pilot program meant to encourage and prepare for publication new book projects in the field of bibliography! Learn more, including application instructions, at the link below. 🔗https://bit.ly/bsa-book-support
White text on a copper background promoting the Publications Committee Book Support Award, with details on the application deadline of October 31 and information about the award's purpose and benefits.Copper text on a white background outlining application criteria for an award, emphasizing active membership, project definitions, and encouraging diverse submissions.
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just 10 days to submit to this amazing ECR roundtable @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar, convened by MC Loureiro, which aims to open space for new ways of understanding & challenging practices and theories of belonging, rights & protections. Details here: le.ac.uk/law/news/law...
Poster outlining the key points of the call for papers - available online at the website address linked in the post
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