iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Are you a PG research student based outside of London? Did you know that you may be eligible for a bursary of up to £500 to take one of our short courses in 2026? Find out more on our IHR Research Training and Short Courses page: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini... Applications open until 31 Jan 2026

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Research Training and Short Courses

The IHR offers a wide range of training courses for historians at all career stages, from digital research and oral history to archives and publishing.

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Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790-1830 by Jakub Lipski now open access for next two weeks in our Cambridge Elements in the Gothic series. Congratulations to Jakub, and hurrah! @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

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We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals

We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.

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The Ghoul Guides @ghoulguides.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Real ghouls match their bookmarks to their books. Did you check out our spooky season reading recommendations? We had weird and witchy reads (including CJ Cooke’s The Ghost Woods, pictured) as well as some culty and corrupt options. Listen: shorturl.at/f5yA9 (other podcast platforms available!)

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University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Professor Angela Wright is editing Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe. Discover how this groundbreaking Gothic novel shaped Radcliffe’s legacy and why it remains essential reading: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/editi... #GothicFiction

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I was expecting Born With Teeth to be good, but it was Really Very Good.

Signage outside Wyndham Theatre for Born With Teeth

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Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · 15/09/2025

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...

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IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History Seminar

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

$483k!! Can we get to half a million for PCRF?

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Last year we got a box of Lego to use @ntudoctoralschool.bsky.social for inductions and development workshops, so today I’m at the University of Birmingham for a whole day of training on using Lego for inclusive teaching & learning facilitated by the @britishacademy.bsky.social ECR network

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Current fiction TBR. Starting with The Year of the Witching, then maybe The Midnight Shift next? Finished Victorian Psycho yesterday, but didn’t find it as satisfying as Mrs March - the textual presentation and the engraving illustrations I did however really appreciate.

A selection of books including The Year of the Witching, Curandera, The Centre, Cursed Bunny, The Midnight Shift and Signs Preceding the End of the World

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The Ghoul Guides @ghoulguides.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

THEY’RE BURNING THE LABUBUS. The Association is in session and we’re discussing the Labubu craze, the people crying demon, and the Gothic history of moral panics. Guest starring Lauren’s Labubus, obviously. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/26fk...

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Spotted this yesterday at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield: a circular chronology of George III’s reign, including the National debt, prime minister, military engagements and the price of bread. I wish I’d discovered this when I was doing the PhD instead of hand drawing timelines! #AcademicChatter

A circular chronology of George the Thirds reign, with a portrait in the centre

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

An absolutely amazing night at the world premiere of Survivors: The Spectre Of Threads, here in #Sheffield where the film was shot 41 years ago. I can't stress enough how much I want @craigimann.bsky.social and Robert Nevitt's brilliant documentary to be seen as widely as possible. #FilmSky

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The Ghoul Guides @ghoulguides.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This evening’s meeting of the Ghoul Guides Association is Lauren’s thought on Wednesday season 2 so far, as well as some recommending reading if you’re looking for some more dark academia, mystery or weirdness. Spotify link (or find us on other platofrms!) open.spotify.com/episode/6IkC...

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Doh Ho Suh’s Walk the House at the Tate Modern. Nothing in the exhibition was made from the materials I thought they would be and this was maybe the first time I’ve had to consciously remind myself not to touch the artwork

An installation made by covering Doh’s traditional Korean childhood home in mulberry paper and taking rubbings to imprint the details, then carefully removed and placed over a metal frame to recreate the exterior of the home

Artwork representing Doh’s experience living around the world made with coloured thread

A pink recreation of a front door featuring a floral tree design, made using a traditional Korean fabric technique

Door handles, light switches and plug sockets made in different coloured fabrics

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

To whoever finds my the copy of JK Chukwu’s The Unfortunates that I have managed to loose somewhere in Seven Dials I wish you well

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Some favourites from the Yoshitomo Nara exhibition at the Hayward Gallery.

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The guy in Pop Mart tried to shake my confidence and said this box felt like the sweetcorn but OH HOW WRONG HE WAS.

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

A coworker said to me ‘you watch horror right’ and I explained that actually, I don’t, @mazgoing.bsky.social explains the plots to me on the Internet because I get too scared.

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Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The first episode of our podcast series for Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now is live! Join Michael Gamer discussing his editing of The Italian by Radcliffe with project research associate Rosie Whitcombe.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 06/08/2025

New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians

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The Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: new Camden volume published - RHS

The Society is very pleased to announced publication of its latest Camden series volume: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler. This vol...

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The Ghoul Guides @ghoulguides.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Have you read Asako Yuzuki’s ‘Butter’ yet? This week at the Ghoul Guides Association, @laurenjnixon.bsky.social reviews the global bestseller and recommends some more reading! #GothsAssemble

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Last we set up a network for PGR doing emotionally demanding & ‘difficult’ research: what troubled me was realising how many of us don’t realise or feel able to acknowledge we’re in that category. My works all about war but because it’s historical it took supporting others to see I needed it too

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/07/2025

Huge thanks and love to everyone who's shared this post and others like it. We can't fix everything by ourselves. But there's ALWAYS something we can do. And there are SO MANY people who care. Here's a thread of some more more places I've sent money to help Gazans during this horrific time...

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The Ghoul Guides @ghoulguides.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Ghouls, what does the sublime, the British Empire and custard creams all have in common? Pteridomania, baby! On this meeting of The Ghoul Guides Association, Lauren deep dives the Victorian cult of the fern - and its Gothic influences. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/30WD... #GothsAssemble

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Gwenthalyn Engélibert @gweneng.cpesr.fr · 16/07/2025

Well, when I'm done with my lesson prep on the National Park System, I know what to do. 🤩 @laurenjnixon.bsky.social @uniwalespress.bsky.social

The books I received today from University of Wales Press: Stephen King and American Politics, House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction and The Gothic at War: Masculinity in Conflict, 1760-1818.

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Oh, to be a war scholar in an art museum. Finally went to the National Gallery and saw the Reynolds portrait I use constantly. Being a pleb I didn’t know Raphael’s The Dream of a Knight existed so I will be adding that to my chivalry explainer folder, too. #AcademicChatter

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Favourite creepy Christ Childs (children? @emarlow.bsky.social what’s the plural?) at the National Gallery so far

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I sometimes get raised eyebrows when we run ‘how to chair’ workshops for PGR, but it’s so important to a good panel! As someone with a terrible internal clock I always appreciate a good timekeeper, too.

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Fun activities for a British heatwave: - taking a nice drive down the M25 - getting the tube into central - going to a gig at Brixton academy

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

One thing you can count on is I will buy pretty editions of texts I already own, especially if they fit in a Uniqlo crescent bag

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Closing out #GlobalJaneAusten at the Empire panel, with explorations of Austen in the colonial and post colonial world, including the curriculums on Sub Saharan Africa and decolonisation reframing in Indian television.

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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Really interesting to follow this hashtag and catch a glimpse of this really interesting conference! Great to see conference presentations and ideas being shared on Bluesky!

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Fandom panel now: first is Rita Jones looking into how Austen memorabilia and merchandise furthers readership and fandom. I started my career in the JAC gift shop and have always been fascinated by what was and wasn’t popular with visitors so I’m very intrigued to learn more #GlobalAusten250

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Chaired my last panel on the final day of #GlobalAusten250 (sob - it’s been a thing of beauty & a joy forever). Great papers from Danielle Dempsey on Intermezzo as gender-swapped S&S, @sinsleyh.bsky.social on adapting free indirect discourse, and Hironori Furukawa on Persuasion as detective fiction

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

This morning @friede.bsky.social and @emnk.bsky.social are demonstrating the many ways we can bring adaptation, play and exploration to the classroom, our research and our living rooms at ‘Playing Austen: An Alternative Workshop’ #GlobalAusten250

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This evening’s conference entertainment: a performance taken from the Austen families collection of printed scores, books and handwritten music books, exploring Austen’s experience of music thinking about art, time and place #GlobalAusten250

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Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

@historyworkshop.org.uk is looking for new editorial fellows! For early career historians with an interest in radical, public and digital histories: paid, part-time work commissioning and editing on our digital history magazine. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Hannah Moss on the Jane Austen and Art panel unravelling the discourse around the proposed statue of Jane Austen at Winchester and the complex (and often emotional) narratives around statues of historical women, and how place plays a part in responses to art #GlobalAusten250

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Overview of my paper: In Austen, particularly Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey, war appears at once distant and near, the losses and gains never actively discussed but always influencing and shaping the societies depicted in her novels #GlobalAusten250

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Last on our panel is Ula Lukszo Klein on The Queer Economics of Persuasion, exploring alternative models of successful relationships with a focus on the British Navy and its potential for facilitating non heteronormative relationship models #GlobalAusten250

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Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

First up on Austen, War and Imperialism is @junghsinhsieh.bsky.social, who is charting the engagement of 20th century author Katherine Mansfield with Austen’s novels. The young Mansfield saw writing as an act of imitation and faciliation of vicarious experience #GlobalAusten250

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