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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

On behalf of the organisers of the 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures (Nanjing, 17-20 June 2027), we are pleased to share a new dedicated page about the congress, including a list of keynote speakers, the call for papers, and a call for applications for PhD and ECR bursaries.

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5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Nanjing, 2027

The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027. Being China’s first city designated as a “UNESCO City of Literature…

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If you’re a @bavs-uk.bsky.social early career researcher join us for our next BAVS Tea Time tomorrow (Wednesday 14th October) on Zoom at 5pm-6pm (BST) for a chat about all things Victorian with me and @laurenicullen.bsky.social - DM us for the link 🫖 ☕️ 🍵

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Pouring Steaming Tea into a Teacup

ALT: Pouring Steaming Tea into a Teacup

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A Ghost Monk hassles the hero in an illustration from William Harrison Ainsworth's 'The Lancashire Witches'. I don't think it's me - he looks far too intelligent. The novel was first published in 1848; this is from an edition of 1854. #SpookySunday #31DaysOfHalloween #Victorian #Lancashire

A spooky monk looks down sternly at a young man sprawled on the ground. Behind them is a moonlit ruined tower.

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Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Check out this fantastic event being co-organised by my colleague @scottlyall.bsky.social

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12/10/2026

A gifted writer of #gothic & #horror fiction, Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) was born #OTD, 12 Oct. Haynes & her twin brother spent 4 years in Aberlour Orphanage, from 1929 to 1933: in 2023, we republished her long out-of-print childhood memoir, 𝘏𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘠𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 💙📚 #Booksky asls.org.uk/publications...

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Annual Volume 53 (2023)

Edited by Craig Lamont Paperback, 240 pages Association for Scottish Literature, March 2024 Price £14.95 ISBN: 9781906841591 Order from our bookshop First published in 1973, Haste Ye Back is a lively…

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#BookWormSat When melancholy Autumn comes to Wembley And electric trains are lighted after tea The poplars near the stadium are trembly With their tap and tap and whispering to me ..." John Betjeman - Harrow on the Hill 📷Fela Sanu

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 11/10/2026

The wood where I was gone for ages, on those Sunday afternoons: lost on purpose, looking for the lithe weasel in the grass, stopped in my tracks, the way you stop for echoes… —John Burnside, “Lost” from SELECTED POEMS (Cape, 2006) #poem #poetry www.penguin.co.uk/books/389400...

John Burnside
Lost

The wood where I was gone
for ages, on those Sunday afternoons:

lost on purpose, looking for the lithe
weasel in the grass,

stopped in my tracks, the way you stop
for echoes. Gone into the cool

of summer, passing the line
where sunlight snagged in the nettles,

I wanted the pink-toothed
killer, the casual

expert, the tribal memory of one
who slips into the chicken runs of mind

and works his way with something of my own
bright rage towards the folly of the damned.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/10/2026

O whence the leaves scuttering down Easter Road, sycamore and rowan desperate as refugees, crowding against the wheels of street-side dumpsters… —Kathleen Jamie, “Autumn” from THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...

Autumn
by Kathleen Jamie

O whence the leaves
scuttering down Easter Road,
sycamore and rowan
desperate as refugees,
crowding against the wheels of street-side dumpsters
– common leaves
with two-three crisp packets, like gaudy imposters
fleeing by outside the corner-shop
convenient for milk and pornography …

see the leaves hurry, Shy but Dirty –
past the Chinese nail-bar,
Mr Greg’s Tatoos –
they’re here, look:
blown into your stair
with the pizza delivery leaflets …
O whither the leaves?

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Call for Papers: Romanticism and the Sense of Place An International Conference | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan | 17–19 July 2027 For more information, see the blog post: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6636

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Call for Papers: Romanticism and the Sense of Place – BARS Blog

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 09/10/2026

Darkland Tales: Crafting Scottish Fiction from Historical Fact 10 Dec, Edinburgh, & online. Free. Join acclaimed writers from Polygon’s Darkland Tales series for a thought-provoking panel discussion on historical reimagining #Booksky #HistoricalFiction 💙📚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkland-t...

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Darkland Tales: Crafting Scottish Fiction from Historical Fact

This panel event will include Val McDermid, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Jo Sharp and Jamie Crawford.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/10/2026

Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel, you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule (we don’t do Simmer)… —WN Herbert, “TO PORRIDGE” Happy #WorldPorridgeDay to all who celebrate! 🥣 #poem #poetry #porridge poetryinternationalweb.org/pi/site/poem...

WN Herbert
TO PORRIDGE
'Auld claes and parritch...'

Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel,
you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel
fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule
(we don’t do Simmer):
oan ilka morn ye bring renewal,
thi stomach’s zimmer.

Ye greet us lyk a fu-fissed mune
and guarantee tae fill wir spune
wi fushion – see, ye’re cratert roond
wi seas o bubbles –
tranquillity is aa yir tune,
and ease fae troubles.

Grey revolutionary fur guts,
jump-starter fur thi slo-mo slutz
that sends us loupin fae wir cots
intae wir sarks
(a dram in you gets slob and klutz
back tae thir wark).

When snaa faas owre thi Border’s pale
and Southron bairns can plunk aff skail
then even English journos hail
wir Northern mannah –
are sudden experts oan oatmeal
tapped wi a sultana.

Ye’re like a clood-occludit sun
that casts grey licht oan ivrywun;
thi siller ash on grieshoch; grun
ablow thi slush
that derns oat-germs that sune will wun
thru Winter’s crush.

Tho Doctir Johnson caaed ye food
fur foals – mair fulmar him – ye’ve plooed
thru Scotia’s lard-imprisoned bluid
and freed oor veins:
dae mealie puddins dae us good?
Great Oat, explain!

Hoo dae we luve ye? Some wi cream,
wi hinny, spice or jeely reamed,
while Calvin’s crew hae sauty dreams
o fare of auld,
powred in a draaer fur bothy teams
tae slice oot cauld.

‘Auld claes an parritch’ gaes thi creh
wance we hae drunk thi Daft Deys dreh
and neath a sober, saft grey skeh
we view thi year –
we’re nae whit bettir, but we’ll treh
wi sic guid gear!

Editor's Note: Fushion—wholesomeness, strength; slutz—a leap in skating; sark—shirt; grieshoch—red-hot embers; dern–hide.

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Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Friends of Edinburgh University Library AGM and a talk by Dr Richard Oosterhoff, 'Printing Euclid: The Renaissance Making of Proof' - 18 November, 15:00/15:30, Centre for Research Collections, U of Edinburgh: friendsofeul.co.uk/2026/10/10/a...

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AGM and Printing Euclid – 18 November 2026

The Friends of the Edinburgh University Library AGM will take place at the Centre for Research Collections, 6th Floor, the University of Edinburgh Library, on Wednesday, 18 November 2026 at 15:00. …

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

⏰️ Two weeks to go until our annual Sue Innes memorial lecture in Perth with guest speaker Professor Marjory Harper! 🎟 Tickets are free and there is availability left! Book through Ticket Tailor: www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Join Scotland's leading historians, writers and performers on 21 November, at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, for the Centenary Conference of Hugh MacDiarmid's A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE. Opened by Sir Tom Devine, presented by Sally Magnusson. Tickets here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/a-dr...

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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle: Hugh MacDiarmid and a Hundred Years of the Scottish Renaissance - Glasgow Life

The Centenary Conference 1926 - 2026

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/10/2026

“I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood” —in “The Wife of Usher’s Well”, a #ballad first collected in Walter Scott’s 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 (1802), a woman is visited by her three dead sons #WyrdWednesday

There lived a wife at Usher’s Well,
And a wealthy wife was she;
She had three stout and stalwart sons,
And sent them o’er the sea.

They hadna been a week from her,
A week but barely ane,
Whan word came to the carline wife
That her three sons were gane.

They hadna been a week from her,
A week but barely three,
Whan word came to the carlin wife
That her sons she’d never see.

—“I wish the wind may never cease,
Nor fishes in the flood,
Till my three sons come hame to me,
In earthly flesh and blood.”—

It fell about the Martinmas,
When nights are lang and mirk,
The carline wife’s three sons came hame,
And their hats were o’ the birk.

It neither grew in syke nor ditch,
Nor yet in ony sheugh;
But at the gates o’ Paradise,
That birk grew fair eneugh.

—“Blow up the fire, my maidens,
Bring water from the well:
For a’ my house shall feast this night,
Since my three sons are well.”—

And she has made to them a bed,
She’s made it large and wide;
And she’s ta’en her mantle her about,
Sat down at the bed-side.

Up then crew the red red cock,
And up and crew the gray;
The eldest to the youngest said,
—“’Tis time we were away.”—

The cock he hadna craw’d but once,
And clapp’d his wings at a’,
When the youngest to the eldest said,
—“Brother, we must awa.

“The cock doth craw, the day doth daw,
The channerin’ worm doth chide;
Gin we be miss’d out o’ our place,
A sair pain we maun bide.

“Fare ye weel, my mother dear!
Fareweel to barn and byre!
And fare ye weel, the bonny lass
That kindles my mother’s fire!”—

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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good to have the latest book on Hugh MacDiarmid through the post. Published by Brill, with my chapter on MacDiarmid's religious poetry.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

REMINDER: the deadline for proposals is 4 September. We have some additional guidelines added to the call below: teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... #histSTM #envhist

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Mine & @brucealexb.bsky.social book 'Race and the Scottish Enlightement: A Colonial History' is reviewed in the recent nr of The William and Mary Quarterly. Thanks to C. D. E. Willoughby for his close engagement with our book yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168 #skystorians

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Race and the Scottish Enlightenment

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/08/2026

#OTD, 7 Aug, 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson set sail in the SS 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 from Greenock to New York in pursuit of love. In THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT he gives a vivid, sharp, & engaging account of his (impoverished) travels to & in America – read the first 5 chapters free 👇 1/3 #C19 asls.org.uk/publications...

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The Amateur Emigrant

by Robert Louis Stevenson Introduction by Julia Reid Published in: PDF “In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I…

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CARAA Center @caraacenter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Louvre to lend Islamic art treasures to the Smithsonian. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/05/l...

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

🥳 Happy to report our co-ed collection, me + @ruthdav.bsky.social & @evecolpus.bsky.social, now has 40k+ hits & is being cited a lot 🥳. Fully #OA & incl: @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social @chrismillard83.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social @jennycrane.bsky.social ++. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Friends of Edinburgh University Library event with the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall - ‘A Concord of Sweet Sounds’ - The Dolmetsch Lute Book in Context and Performance: Eric Thomas - 7 September 2026, 18:00 at St Cecilia's Hall: friendsofeul.co.uk/2026/08/02/a... #LuteConcert #Edinburgh 🎶

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‘A Concord of Sweet Sounds’ -The Dolmetsch Lute Book in Context and Performance: Eric Thomas

A Joint event with the Friends of the Edinburgh University Library and the Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall To be held at St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, Monday, 7 September 2026 at 18:00…

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

24/7/26 French artist Jean Béraud, chronicler of life in late 19th century Paris, depicts a fashionable woman in black pausing ambiguously on a street corner (‘The Wait, Rue de Chateaubriand’, c1900). But is the man in the distance her lover, her client, or just a pedestrian?

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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The hardback of my first book, Living as an Author in the Romantic Period, appears to be deeply but mysteriously discounted at the moment (to £23.99): link.springer.com/book/10.1007.... If you've been waiting on purchasing a Palgrave book, might be worth a check to see if this discount applies.

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Living as an Author in the Romantic Period

To allow for a greater understanding of Romantic-period culture, this work explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the ...

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British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

New primary source collection coming soon—The Strand Magazine, 1891–1930. Associated, famously, with Sherlock Holmes, The Strand became a British cultural institution, blending literary sophistication with broad, popular appeal. Learn more at buff.ly/99WFqyn.

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The Strand Magazine, 1891–1930 - Overview

The Strand Magazine was one of the most influential and popular illustrated monthly periodicals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Founded by George Newnes in 1890, the first issue…

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Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📣CfP Alert📣 We are delighted to announce that our CfP for the 2027 RRR conference is now open! The deadline for abstracts is the 25th of October. The focus will be on ecosystems of the long nineteenth century 🌱 We can’t wait to read your submissions!

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

PhD candidate Niamh MacKenzie, UHI Institute for Northern Studies, chairs an event to celebrate the book 'Craftland' by James Fox at The Portobello Bookshop, Edinburgh. September 3rd, 2026, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Live stream available tinyurl.com/mymtrs98

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James Fox - Craftland at The Portobello Bookshop

Please come and join us for James Fox - Craftland on 3rd September, at The Portobello Bookshop

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suchichoudhury.bsky.social @suchichoudhury.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Oh no Hope you recover and feel better soon

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Jamie Fairbairn @drfairbairn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Delighted that my interview was successful and I have been offered the position of the next Director of the Scots Language Centre. Me an Robert F in Aul Reekie.

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École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) @efeo-paris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#EFEO - DiPiKA Project 📣 Attend the lecture: "Faces of Tradition : The Essence of Kerala Mural Painting" by M. Nalinbabu Thursday, July 16, at 3 p.m. IST (11:30 a.m. CET) On site and online Learn more: swll.to/JL16zq

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

New publications by our members: the essay 'Scottish Travellers, National Character, and Cross-border Storytelling' by Angela Esterhammer has been published in the latest issue of @litterariaprag.bsky.social. The essay is available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2026-71-3/

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And... I have a conference paper draft for #BARS2026! As always, it is the framing that takes the most time.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Publication News! You can now pre-order the Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Weird, edited by me and @jasonhaslam.ca Look at that cover!! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Weird

Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Weird

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

New publications by our members: the article 'Patrick Geddes’s Influence on France and Beyond' by Murdo Macdonald has appeared in the latest issue of 'Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens: on 'Inspirations et modèles écossais'. 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Available in open access: journals.openedition.org/cve/18477 🔓

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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Totally outside my research expertise, but I've just discovered that @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social has the House of Fraser archive dating from 1849. It's a gorgeous peek into changes in fashion, culture & consumerism. Call your fashion historian pals! #c19th housefraserarchive.ac.uk

Pencil sketch of a woman skiing in winter hat and scarf. Back cover of Dickins & Jones Ltd Winter Sports catalogue. Image Source: The House of Fraser Archive at the University of Glasgow

A bride stands in front of a mirror in a fashionable early-Victorian boudoir. An older woman stands by the mirror in a blue gown. Three bridesmaids stand nearby with flowers in their hair. Image: 'The wedding morning' (1839). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909. Image Source: The House of Fraser Archive at the University of Glasgow

Image: Front cover of McDonalds Ltd, Christmas gifts catalogue, 1916 showing a christmas tree adorned with candles and gifts. Gifts include lamps, scarves, cushions and among the regular festive decorations there are national flags of Britain, France, Belgium and other allied from WW1. Image Source: The House of Fraser Archive at the University of Glasgow

Image: Photograph of the interior of the House of Fraser store in Buchanan Steet, Glasgow, decorated for Christmas, 1981. Several floors of sumptuously garlanded staircases around the central hall. Chandeliers decorated in green and red hang overhead. Image Source: The House of Fraser Archive at the University of Glasgow

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Nominations open for Linnean Medal for research! Awarded for significant and sustained advances in the understanding of nature, including academic research into any relevant branch, including science, history and the humanities. Deadline Sept 30. For more details and past winners 👇️ buff.ly/X52reM9

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The Linnean Medal (for research)

An awarded to scientists for an outstanding contribution to the natural sciences.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 01/07/2026

“John Bull is ignorant of the States; he is probably ignorant of India; but, considering his opportunities, he is far more ignorant of countries nearer his own door…” —Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Foreigner at Home” in MEMORIES & PORTRAITS via @gutenberg.org #C19 www.gutenberg.org/files/30598/...

It is so, perhaps, in all countries; perhaps in all, men are most ignorant of the foreigners at home. John Bull is ignorant of the States; he is probably ignorant of India, but, considering his opportunities, he is far more ignorant of countries nearer his own door. There is one country, for instance—its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials with the English—of which I will go bail he knows nothing. His ignorance of the sister kingdom cannot be described; it can only be illustrated by anecdote. I once travelled with a man of plausible manners and good intelligence—a University man, as the phrase goes—a man, besides, who had taken his degree in life and knew a thing or two about the age we live in. We were deep in talk, whirling between Peterborough and London; among other things, he began to describe some piece of legal injustice he had recently encountered, and I observed in my innocence that things were not so in Scotland. “I beg your pardon,” said he, “this is a matter of law.” He had never heard of the Scots law; nor did he choose to be informed. The law was the same for the whole country, he told me roundly; every child knew that. At last, to settle matters, I explained to him that I was a member of a Scottish legal body, and had stood the brunt of an examination in the very law in question. Thereupon he looked me for a moment full in the face and dropped the conversation. This is a monstrous instance, if you like, but it does not stand alone in the experience of Scots.

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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🏛️ The Metropolitan Museum Journal invites articles &  research notes that contain original research on works of art in The Met’s collection. The deadline for submissions for the December Volume is 15th September.

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☀️ Your Summer Writing Inspiration: Submit to the Metropolitan Museum Journal - British Association for American Studies

Submit to the Metropolitan Museum Journal (vol. 62, published December 2027)

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Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Reposting again for the algorithm ✨️Still time to email to attend if you'd like (I can't promise it'll be any cooler than outside, but it will be fun!!)

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our next digital event will be an interactive workshop on making TikToks about your research! Run by yours truly, Chloe (@sadpphicstanza.bsky.social) and Amy (@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social). Join us on 30th June at 5pm BST. Meeting link on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6502

Poster for 'BARS Digital: TikTok, Short-form Content Creation, and Romantic Research', which reads: 'BARS’s TikTok account provides a platform for sharing tidbits of Romanticism with a wider audience. All of our members are welcome to contribute to the TikTok page to share their expertise, but we understand that short-form video is a confusing format for many people to work in. In this lunchtime workshop run by the BARS communications team (Amy Wilcockson and Chloe Wilcox), we will provide practical information of how to make TikToks for us, showing you:
- How TikTok works;
- How to choose a topic to speak about and tailor it to the time limit;
- How to film and edit videos.
The workshop will include a breakout session in which you’ll have the opportunity to draft a script for your own video.
We hope that attending will make the prospect of making a TikTok for us less intimidating, and allow us to feature a wider range of expertise on our account (from people like you!). It’ll also help you with other academic and Romantic social media work by getting you familiar with the mysterious but ever-growing world of short-form vertical video.'

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

One thing I like to do in public talks: mention relevant work @ the host institution. Even just a quick shout out — I see you! — is not only rhetorically advantageous in building pathos; it also highlights projects that are often invisible internally + lets local leaders know abt external validation

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Dr Johnson's House @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Join the Team! We are recruiting for a Learning Officer and Collections Engagement and Access Officer, two new roles at an exciting time in the development of this Grade I listed, literary house museum in the historic heart of London. www.drjohnsonshouse.org/jobs

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Newly finished PhDs: @mathieubokestael.bsky.social has defended his dissertation, ‘Reading Immunofiction: The Immunitary Unconscious in Contemporary Scottish Writing (1981-2023)’ at @ucddublin.bsky.social. The viva was passed with no corrections. tinyurl.com/yu82cy9p Congratulations!

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A lot of people are confused by the concept of “cat years" so here's a little guide: 0-1 years - just a little baby 1-3 years - just a little baby 4-9 years - just a little baby 10+ years - just a little baby

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Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

📢New article in JBS! 📗"'Captured at Sea': Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain" by Rebecca Earle Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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“Captured at Sea”: Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain - Volume 65

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"When scholars from historically excluded groups entered the academy in significant numbers they did not simply add new faces to existing conversations. They expanded the conversations themselves. They introduced new questions new archives new methods and new frameworks for understanding the world."

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New publications by our members: the latest issue of 'Studies in Hogg & His World' 33-34 (2024-25), edited by Holly Faith Nelson. Available from the James Hogg Society. tinyurl.com/yeybzf2j Holly Faith Nelson & Sharon Alker on Hogg, ecology, and class; Patrick Scott on Hogg and Francis Jeffrey.

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We are thrilled to announce the winner of VPFA's First Book Prize 2025: Rebecca Nesvet, James Malcom Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family! Honourable mentions were Riley McGuire, Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability & Nineteenth-Century Literature and Jay Sullivan, Egyptian Gothic: 1884-1920.

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