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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

⚠️ 2027 CONFERENCES UPDATE! ⚠️ #RSVP2027 Ottawa🇨🇦 24–26 June “Structures” ⏰ 1 Nov 2026 #ESPRit2027 Utrecht🇳🇱 30 June–2 July “Periodicals and Personae” ⏰ 18 Dec 2026 #SHARP2027 Pretoria🇿🇦 7–9 July “Opening (up) the Book” ⏰ 30 Jan 2027 @bavs-uk.bsky.social are still looking for a host, it seems?

espr-it.eu

2027 ESPRit Conference: "Periodicals and Personae" - ESPRit

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hello again #DH #DigitalHumanities Bluesky hivemind! Since you're reactive, another question... When converting my spreadsheet to CSV, do I still need to replace the spaces in my field names by "_", or is it now fine to leave them in there?

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dear #DH #DigitalHumanities Bluesky hivemind, I'm soon going to deposit datasets to accompany an article in Zenodo, @datadryad.bsky.social, @figshare.com, and HCommons. Which license should I select? I just want the normal scholarship etiquette of citation when reusing...

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) —Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB) in German— @sortingpeople.bsky.social responded to my question about how collaborative research actually works on the ground in Germany! It sounds like proper multidisciplinarity, maybe even interdisciplinarity! Nice to see!

en.wikipedia.org

Collaborative Research Centres - Wikipedia

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh, looky looky there! The #RSVP2027 CFP is out! Deadline: 1 Nov 2026 #ESPRit2027 CFP will come out soon—Utrecht, I forget the exact dates, but straight after RSVP Still waiting for CFPs👇 @sharpweb.org—South Africa, dates @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social? @bavs-uk.bsky.social—@vicmanch.bsky.social?

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm intrigued by this set-up with a "Sonderforschungsbereich"—DeepL tells me it means "collaborative research centre"—affiliated to both a university & a research institute Looks really good on "paper"—❤️ the classification of projects on the "Research" page—but is it as collaborative as it sounds?

humandifferenzierung.uni-mainz.de

Aktuell Übersicht

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Had a 💥 at #ESPRit2026! Thanks to Julien Schuh, I met Bianca da Luz, who told me the *Deutsche Zeitungsportal* is where the digitized German newspapers live Why wasn't I able to find that using Google? Now—in the interest of closing tabs—I'll finish 2 threads for which I still have links to share😛

deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de

Making sure you're not a bot!

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kenyan-born Christopher Ouma closes #ESPRit2026 w/ 1950s and 1960s African small magazines and civil rights & anti-Apartheid imagination He opens his keynote with a personal archival vignette: he found a letter to a friend's father in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Archive in @bostonu.bsky.social😲

bu.edu

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Archive | Libraries

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nice discussion in the Q&A following Gary Kelly's declared political opposition to the *Chester Life* @drewhobbs.bsky.social points out that we should study the techniques of all print, inc. fascist magazines The actual editors' views don't necessarily align with those in the magazines #ESPRit2026

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We're closing with a deep-dive into the *Cheshire Life* Loving how Matt Davies is situating us (and his own life trajectory) on a map of Cheshire! He hesitates to say he's from Cheshire because people will tend to this of 👇 TV show, which premiered in 2015 & is into its 19th season... #ESPRit2026

Source: Prime Video https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/pv-target-images/bd3edfad194fa3b507ddf58e99e746a0b8c75104ad05efbaa80b06e0dc0eeb5b.jpg

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Next up is @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social about Beatrice Tunstall (1889-1966): "Born and grew up in in Grappenhall. As a best selling novelist she based herself in Cheshire. Her subject matters were Cheshire customs, local histories and the countryside." —Warrington Women: An Historical A-Z #ESPRit2026

Local author Beatrice Tunstall described the village of Marbury near Nantwich in 1948 as "far from the madding crow", and praised the "ancient lanes, deep trodden by the feet of endless generation, flower fringed amid the woodlands, with great hedges where honeysuckle and wild roses riot". (Latham, 1999)

Source: @clha.bsky.social https://x.com/LocalCheshire/status/1922563174647177480

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh, I didn't realize this project had its own Bluesky handle! Follow at @placeperiodical.bsky.social 🥳 For more information about the upcoming *Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine* (2027) the 3 panelists are editing, you can read their call for chapters 👇 (deadline past) #ESPRit2026

chester.ac.uk

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've been looking forward to this panel! "Provincialising the World: How Twentieth-Century English County Magazines Constructed Their Worldview" @drewhobbs.bsky.social has really taken the theme at heart and shows how the world is represented in *Chester Life*, *Sussex Life Magazine* #ESPRit2026

Cover of the first issue (left), published by Cheshire publicity and industrial development council, and (right) the more stylish March 1937 issue, produced by a commercial publisher (used by permission of Cheshire Life).

Source: Figure 1 of "Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39" by @drewhobbs.bsky.social p. 679-699, Published online: 21 Oct 2025, https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2025.2558067

Cover of *Sussex Life Magazine*, May 2026

Source: https://www.uniquemagazines.co.uk/Sussex-Life-Magazine-Subscription-p356130?srsltid=AfmBOoqu4b1VBidw95IIXe93xDiQlM4X_WHMOhsnxK_QB32SG1vqHMPX#productissuedesktop-5

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh, Andrew's back live-posting! Sabina Fazli's research is rooted in Indiemags + Zines Mainz (IZM). "Das IZM ist weniger eine Bibliothek als eine Arbeitsplattform für Nutzer:innen, die zu zeitgenössischen angloamerikanischen Zeitschriften forschen oder an Magazinen interessiert sind." #ESPRit2026

transnationalperiodicalcultures.net

Zeitschriftenarchiv – Transnational Periodical Cultures

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What a wonderful project, this *Index of Modernist Magazines*! It's described in: “The Digital Database: a Model of Student, Staff, and Faculty Collaboration” Case study #5 in *Making the Connection: Six Studies of Technology and Collaboration in Liberal Arts Institutions* (2014) #ESPRit2026

scholarslab.net

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's a funny feeling to be hearing about the Toronto-based *Exile: A Literary Quarterly* (1972-today) in Brussels from German scholar Jutta Ernst! 👇 First issue exilequarterly.com #ESPRit2026

Cover of *Exile: a literary quarterly* Volume 1 Number 1.
Toronto: Atkinson College, York University, 1972.

Source: Karol Krysik Books, https://www.krysikbooks.com/pages/books/12468/barry-montague-callaghan-john-morley-callaghan-margaret-atwood-jerzy-kosinski-ed/exile-a-literary-quarterly-volume-1-number-1

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

To close the day, art historian Samuel Bibby discusses cut-outs in British feminist periodicals in the 1970s-80s. He coined the term "paracodical objects" as an analogy to Gérard Genette's "paratextual", but he centres the material nature and physical (visual) qualities. #ESPRit2026

doi.org

Fanning the Flames of Feminism: Activist Periodicals, Paracodical Objects, and the Politics of Participation

A magazine is often seen to be something perishable or ephemeral, superseded, for example, by the next issue: discardable, or at least much less likely to be kept than a book. In many instances, howev...

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've had a hard time finding digitizations or photos of Alice Morin's materials: photography magazines. 👇 U.S. Camera #ESPRit2026

camera-wiki.org

U.S. Camera - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Translation of the title by DeepL: *A Separate Library, or Sufficient Information and Impartial Reviews of Several, for the Most Part, New Books and Other Scholarly Matters* (1718) Nora is interested in the supplement being "abgesonderte", or "separate" #ESPRit2026

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nora Ramtke discusses periodical supplements from the 1710s to the 1830s in the German states. 👇 the fronspiece of the *Abgesonderte Bibliothec oder zulängliche Nachrichten und unpartheyische Gutachten von einigen mehrenteils neuen Büchern und andern gelehrten Materien* (1718) #ESPRit2026

Frontispiece of *Abgesonderte Bibliothec oder zulängliche Nachrichten und unpartheyische Gutachten von einigen mehrenteils neuen Büchern und andern gelehrten Materien* (1718)

Source: Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum, http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN555473759_0001

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

💥 Blast from the past! 💥 Gary Kelly is closing the panel by talking about George Berger (1796-1868)! My bibliographic database of penny weekly numbers *Price One Penny* contains 6 works that he published. #ESPRit2026

priceonepenny.info

Publisher Information in Price One Penny - Cheap Literature 1837-1860

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Helen Craske studied the recirculation of texts and images of the saucy Parisian magazine *Fin de siècle* (1890-1910) and its spin-offs, i.e. almanachs and albums. She found that the albums are almost entirely constituted of recycled material whereas the almanachs are half original. #ESPRit2026

fr.wikipedia.org

Fin de siècle (journal) — Wikipédia

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Starting the afternoon of #ESPRit2026 Day 2 is Stephen Donovan presenting his work with Matthew Rubery (on this year's short list for RSVP's Colby Prize) on undercover journalism. He discusses the reporting series ‘In Queer Places’ which ran in the Dublin penny newspaper *Sport* in 1888.

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Day 2 starts with Barbara Mittler and a look back to her keynote at the keynote of ESPRit's very first conference in 2011. It dealt with the satirical press of the 19th century in China and Europe. Two years later, a collection of essays she co-edited appeared. #ESPRit2026

*Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair* (2013)
Editors: Hans Harder, Barbara Mittler
Publisher: @springer.springernature.com

Source: Amazon via Google Images
Publisher's website: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-28607-0

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anyone at #ESPRit2026 into karaoké 🎤 ? If you are, add me on here and send a private message with the best way to contact you (WhatsApp? Signal? Bluesky DMs?)

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh, cool, Maria Paganpoulou presented her research in a 2-minute video on YouTube! *Πόλη γυναικών*—the title of this Greek feminist magazine—translates to "City of Women". Part of the way feminist magazines were interconnected was through reviewing one another's issues... #ESPRit2026

youtube.com

Poli Gynaikon (1982-85): Introducing a Greek Feminist Magazine. Maria Paganpoulou introduces her PhD

YouTube video by Think Brighton

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Lena Sophie Voß proposes ‘close aisthesis‘ as an embodied approach analogous to close reading. The Greek word "αἴσθησις" refers to the perception from all the senses Her research concentrates on small illustrated German-language Jewish magazines in the Interwar Period in Berlin & Vienna #ESPRit2026

Cover of *Das Jüdische Magazin*, vol. 1, no 2 (August 1929), special issue on Max Liebermann

Image: Reproduction of a painting by Max Liebermann

Source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Leipzig, http://digital.slub-dresden.de/id360600972-19290200

See https://www.arthistoricum.net/themen/textquellen/illustrierte-magazine-der-klassischen-moderne/die-zeitschriften/das-juedische-magazin

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Her name is Anita-Apollónia Nagy! She was scheduled this morning... #ESPRit2026

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm discovering new digitized newspapers and periodicals databases at #ESPRit2026 (BelgicaPress, Arcanum Newspapers), and according to Google, the only place they appear together is the "Databases" tab in this guide by the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 👇

libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Newspapers - Oxford LibGuides at Oxford University

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Walked in late and the presenter is talking about the Hungarian Catholic youth magazine *Zaszlónk* (1902-48)—"Our Flag"—but can't find it in on the programme, so I can't tell you her name🫣 It has been digitized by Arcanum Newspapers, Eastern Europe's largest digital periodical database #ESPRit2026

adt.arcanum.com

Zászlónk 1902-1941 | Arcanum Újságok

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In answer to my question about her publishing her dataset (it's currently just a table in her dissertation), I learned about the existence of the Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive (SODHA), the Belgian federal data archive for social sciences and the digital humanities!

sodha.be

Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA

Welcome to SODHA, the Belgian federal data archive for social sciences and the digital humanities! Here you can find and deposit social science and digital humanities data in reusable form. Published ...

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Martina Mecco presents on the *Rozpravy Aventina* (1925-1934) review founded & directed by Czech journalist and publisher Otokar Štorch-Marien 👇 In the cartoon from the front page of the first issue, he introduces two men to one another: Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic and František Xaver Šalda #ESPRit2026

Cartoon from the front page of the first issue of *Rozpravy Aventina*, September 1925

"AVENTINUM
Nakladatel: Pánové se dosud neznají — pan Karásek ze Lvovic — pan F. X. Šalda — —
Oba pánové unisono: Těší mne velice."

Translation by DeepL (I corrected "Karásek of Lvovice" to "Karásek ze Lvovice"):
"Publisher: The gentlemen have not yet met—Mr. Karásek ze Lvovice—Mr. F. X. Šalda— —
Both gentlemen in unison: It is a great pleasure to meet you"

The man in the middle introducing them is Otakara Štorcha-Mariena.

Source: @wikicommons.bsky.social https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brunner_Aventinum_1925.png, originally from the Czech Literary Bibliography, https://archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=RozAvn/1.1925-1926/1/1.png

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's worth pointing out that all abstracts are available on the #ESPRit2026 conference website. I will therefore aim to grab your interest by posting visual content more than share the presenter's argument, which you should be able to find in their abstract.

events.vub.be

Periodicals and the World

Since their inception, periodicals have travelled across regions, reporting on local and global events and developments, and shaping public discourse on wh...

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Next up is Christina Bezari presents her project that has just won an @erc.europa.eu grant 🥳 Taking on a huge geographic area, she will trace 20th-century literary women's networks, aiming to: - recover women's voices - map connections - decolonize the canon (and I missed the 4th goal) #ESPRit2026

*Geographical Scope of the Project: Southern Europe and the Maghreb*

A transnational multilingual research space connected by circulation, exchange and translation

Figure from Christina Bezari

Source: Linkedin, https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christina-bezari-278782b7_european-research-council-ugcPost-7501533924930646016-XQUT/

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Elizaveta Berquin presents on a Russian émigré publishing outside of the big "centres" —Berlin in the 1920s; Paris, 1930s— Brussels-based Dmitry Shakhovskoy (1902-89) She has been doing incredible recovery work digging into the Shakhovskoy Family Papers held at @umassamherst.bsky.social #ESPRit2026

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm in this panel, but Johannes Makar has been swapped out for Christina Bezari on the representations of Maghrebi women writers in the Spanish press. #ESPRit2026

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Je feel francophone ce matin... Pour la première conférence plénière, on commence avec Stefano Evangelista sur les périodiques en espéranto au XXe siècle: "At Home in the World: Translation and the Idea of World Literature in Esperanto Periodicals at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" #ESPRit2026

fr.wikipedia.org

Espéranto — Wikipédia

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Goedemorgen #ESPRit2026! Bon matin! (non, ce n'est pas un anglicisme, c'est un québécisme) We'll see in which language I decide to post at this conference... ESPRit has a new website, but it looks like it's down... www.espr-it.eu

espr-it.eu

European Society for Periodical Research - ESPRit

The European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) is an international network for scholars since 2009. Become a member to support the Society, attend inspiring annual conferences, and enjoy exclus...

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📣 #DH #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies & other humanists using @nisoinfo.bsky.social's Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT)! Do you agree? close reading ➡️ formal analysis finding most relevant historical framework ➡️ methodology literature review ➡️ investigation 👇 useful recap of how CRediT came to be

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@kb.nl ik ken de STCN wel, maar ik ben gespecialiseerd in de 19e eeuw... Is er voor Nederland niet iets vergelijkbaars met *Dansk Forfatterleksikon. Skønlitteratur 1500-1975* (voor schrijvers, maar ook boekhandelaren) en *Boghandlere i Danmark* (alle boekhandels in Denemarken sinds de middeleeuwen)?

data.cerl.org

STCN

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Thanks—again!—@sarahebull.bsky.social for your feedback on my dataset of editions (inc. translations) of 7 Luise Mülbach novels! The books in my dataset had either multiple records or none at all in @oclc.org, but I remembered the 2021 solution to all of my problems: @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social!

popnewseries.hypotheses.org

Wikidata, la solution à tous mes problèmes

Wikidata, c'est une base de données secondaire, c'est-à-dire qu'en plus de contenir des données, elle est conçue pour enregistrer aussi la source desdites données. On encourage ainsi leur vérifiabilit...

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@vpreditors.bsky.social circulated a "Movements and Migration" special issue CFP on paper at #RSVP2026 (400/500-word abstracts due September 1)... Is it also available online? Can I leave my copy in the recycling at @emilyjlm.bsky.social's house?

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thanks indeed to @bavs-uk.bsky.social President @vicmanch.bsky.social (left) and conference organizer @drhorrocks.bsky.social (right)! A special thanks, Clare, for reaching out on Bluesky to say that I should attend #BAVS2026 if I was attending #RSVP2026 — it was not at all on my radar!

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for the Best PhD Student Conference Paper goes to Kirara Akashi 👏 #BAVS2026

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The 2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph goes to @sorourke25.bsky.social! 👏 The monograph started as a book about time so—don't worry—you can change topics midway through a project! Also, if the book you wanna cite doesn't exist, maybe 🫵 should ✍️ it! #BAVS2026

bavs.ac.uk

Book Prize – BAVS

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My last paper at #BAVS2026 was Lizzie Ludlow and Amanda Vernon discussing their successful experience producing a 5-episode podcast about Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), crafting an argument while interviewing fellow scholars. (It was also announced with great fanfare by @bavs-uk.bsky.social👇)

bavs.ac.uk

Podcast: Adelaide Anne Procter – Victorian Poetry, Faith and Fundraising – BAVS

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

First up in our two-paper graveyard shift: Elise Garritzen on Victorian historians as contemporaneous celebrities. She published *Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England: Books, the Literary Marketplace, and the Scholarly Persona* (2023) #BAVS2026

link.springer.com

Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England

This book comprehensively traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

For the third and last #BAVS2026 keynote, @amymatthewson.bsky.social discusses theatrical scenery and sets, the theatre as an emotional space, and China on stage. Below is a theatre programme for an 1885 *Aladdin* pantomime at the Drury Lane written by Edward Litt Leman Blanchard (1820–1889).

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