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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 08/10/2026

Trees, Rivers, & Stories: Walter Scott & the Land A talk by Prof Susan Oliver to the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club from 2016 #romanticism #C19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEy0...

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Dr. Susan Oliver - Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott and the Land

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/10/2026

‘Pope dextrously conjures a world of facts and experiences in which the rules of engagement are complex and exacting. Here, alliances are repeatedly tested and may suddenly dissolve, and one false move can result in expulsion from the charmed circle.’ Freya Johnston: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Freya Johnston · Wants, Frailties, Passions: Pope amuses himself

Alexander Pope’s works are full of the voices and characters of other people, friends and enemies, the living and the...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Join us Wednesday 7 October at 5:30 pm at the Institute of Historical Research, London or on Zoom, for Miles Ogborn's "Law, Violence and Empire: Understanding the Jamaican Uprising Trials of 1832". Free and welcoming to researchers, students & the public. Please register in advance. #Skystorians

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Miles Ogborn, ‘Law, violence and empire: Understanding the Jamaican uprising trials of 1832’

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BARS Digital Event: Returning to John Clare Join BARS for varied discussion focused around the poet, John Clare, including new archival discoveries, editing and class politics, global poetic legacy, and ideas of beauty in his poems. 19 October, 5pm UK Time www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6624

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Call for Papers: Hogg’s Worlds Now, University of Glasgow, July 2027 Submit your abstracts for this new conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. Deadline for submission 31 December 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6619

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/09/2026

‘On a pilgrimage to Ferney, Voltaire’s retreat outside Geneva, James Boswell reported that he still spoke English in the argot of Covent Garden in its rakish heyday: “He swore bloodily, as was the fashion when he was in England.”’ Thomas Keymer on Voltaire in London. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Thomas Keymer · Mangeons du jésuite: Voltaire in England

‘Almost everything is imitation,’ Voltaire wrote in one of the French editions of Lettres philosophiques. Books were...

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Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking forward to giving this delayed #Freedom250 lecture in US Consulate General tomorrow. It's a good time to dwell on the roots of the term 'Common Sense'. @sahavoice.bsky.social @uofgnews.bsky.social @ahallardyce.bsky.social @asls.org.uk

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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

QMCECS: Queen Mary Centre for 18th Century Studies, Seminar Programme for 2026/27. Monthly-ish, on Tuesdays from 5-7 pm, in-person in Mile End, London. Everyone is welcome.

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking forward to teaching Austen’s Teenage Writings for the first time this afternoon - and delighted to have a piece on Austen’s Scottish female contemporaries published in @uk.theconversation.com this morning! theconversation.com/the-two-scot... @uccresearch.bsky.social

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The two Scottish female novelists who outsold and inspired Jane Austen

They are practically unknown today ,but Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton gave Jane Austen a run for her money.

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Josh Smith @smithjj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited that my first monograph, The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, has been published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. The book examines the political, social and intellectual culture of late 18thC Britain through books and reading habits. brill.com/display/titl...

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The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832

"The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832" published on 08 Sep 2026 by Brill.

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS, my first monograph, is out today with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. It tells the story of how the state revolutionized its wartime communication networks in the Romantic period and how writers responded to - and resisted - this media revolution.

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Coinciding with the 180th anniversary of the publication of Dombey and Son in October 1846, this year's Dickens Day Conference will focus on how the concept of family informed Dickens’s life and works. ⏰ Saturday, 10 October 2026, 10am-5pm 📍 Senate House, London BOOK NOW 👇

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Dickens Day 2026 - ‘Dickens and Family’

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Circulating this news on the copyright to John Clare's works again, because it doesn't seem to be as well known among Romantic-period scholars, editors and anthologisers, as it should. The copyright claim is dead.

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New series announcement! Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History & Culture Series Editors: @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer Publisher: @dgb-mem.bsky.social brill.com/page/forthco... Feel free to DM me with questions, or email me at Erika.Gaffney@degruyterbrill.com

A series announcement designed to look like the front cover of a book. The featured image is a painting in which two storm-tossed ships appear (a small one at left, a larger one at right).

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/08/2026

Henry Raeburn’s portrait of Robert Burns had been missing for more than 200 years until it was discovered during a house clearance & sold at auction in 2025. It is on display in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway until 1 November – free, no booking required www.nts.org.uk/stories/burn...

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Burns portrait returns to poet’s birthplace

Henry Raeburn’s thought-to-be-lost portrait of Robert Burns has gone on display at Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway.

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

For an introduction to Scott's Lighthouse Tour, now transcribed by Abbotsford House, check out our animation of the Orkney and Shetland sections. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvss...

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walter scott travels to orkney and shetland animation

YouTube video by Abbotsford - The Home of Sir Walter Scott

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/08/2026

On the podcast: in a free episode from our Close Readings subscription series, Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow look at 𝘋𝘰𝘯 𝘑𝘶𝘢𝘯, Byron’s grand satire on human vanity. Is there more to it than an attention-seeking poet sustaining a deliberately difficult verse form? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Travel with Close Readings: Byron’s ‘Don Juan’

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 16 August · 1hr 54min

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Volume IV of the OUP edition of William Godwin’s letters, now at press, includes an extensive description of his 1816 visit to Abbotsford, together with four letters to Sir Walter Scott (b. OTD 1771), all written in 1824, the same year that Edwin Landseer painted this portrait of Scott at home.

Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt, by Sir Edwin Landseer, c.1824. This oil painting depicts Scott seated at his desk, looking up from the act of writing. He is surrounded by books and papers. The sword of Montrose, one of his most treasured historical relics, is lying over the manuscript sheets in the foreground.

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📣New publication: The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and World Literature Edited by Emily Sun and Orrin N. C. Wang This book reveals how Romanticism contributed to the historical formation and contemporary study of World Literature. (Continued in thread) www.k-saa.org/blog/romanti...

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New Publication: The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and World Literature — K-SAA

Edited by Emily Sun, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Orrin N. C. Wang, University of Maryland, College Park

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My favourite reading of a John Clare poem:- "Remembrances" read by Toby Jones (we recorded these at Oxford Brookes, 2019). open.spotify.com/episode/45Ib...

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Remembrances

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

magnificent work by Felicity James, which quite literally gets to the heart and lifeblood of the point of writing off the heels of #Bars2026, proves again that Romanticists are bringing brilliant new commentary to the issue of gen ai in the arts & humanities www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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The Wild Essay, Or, the Essayist responds to the University Policy on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Learning, Teaching and Assessment

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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The 2026 Curran Symposium is coming soon! This year's theme explores Mary Shelley’s genre-defining post-apocalyptic pandemic novel & its legacies. Register 2 weeks in advance in order to attend events. 📆 September 24th and 25th 📍University of Notre Dame #Curran2026 www.k-saa.org/blog/curran2...

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2026 Curran Symposium: THE LAST MAN AT 200–Imagining the Future After Environmental Disaster — K-SAA

Consider joining us for our next Curran Symposium on the topic of Mary Shelley’s  The Last Man (1826)!  The event will take place on September 24th and 25th 2026 at the University ...

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Tim Milnes @tmilnes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's always lovely to see an old student publish their first book: Glynnis Cox's monograph on Victorian humour looks like a great debut, with plenty of chuckles sprinkled amid the insights.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 10/08/2026

@miladaskalova.bsky.social writes to share that her open-access book, The Nineteenth-Century Asylum Periodical: Britain, America and Beyond, has physical copies now available from Cambridge UP. Congrats, Mila, and thanks for #SharingYourNews! We're so excited to read it! tinyurl.com/2nwyr3w6

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The Nineteenth-Century Asylum Periodical

Cambridge Core - Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology - The Nineteenth-Century Asylum Periodical

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Godwin & Curran at Glendalough, 7-8 Aug. 1800: 'We arrived at the Seven Churches about 5 o'clock, where we found neither Inn, nor alehouse, but a camp, the officers of which generously spying our distress, & hearing the name of counsellor Curran, supplied us...with dinner, tea, supper & beds.'

Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, engraved by George Virtue after William Henry Bartlett (1860s). Private Collection/Ken Welsh/Bridgeman Images

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

On this date 269 years ago, Odes by Mr. Gray (The Progress of Poesy and The Bard) published by Horace Walpole at his new Strawberry Hill press in 1757. Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive: www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/pri… #c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #Odes #OTD

Odes by Mr. Gray (The Progress of Poesy and The Bard) (1757)

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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Very pleased to have just received the final MS for 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Romanticism in Britain and Asia', from volume editors Rosinka Chaudhuri, Peter J. Kitson, and Alex Watson. Spanning 28 chapters, it'll be a landmark text on the topic. Sneak peak at the ToC below...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/08/2026

‘Alfred Tennyson sought continuity more than transformation, restoration more than resurrection’s change of ownership, which is perhaps the reason Young Tennyson was ready to become Old Tennyson.’ Peter Howarth on Tennyson’s science. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Howarth · Types and Typology: Tennyson’s Scientific Imagination

Richard Holmes’s scientific biography sets the reading in geology and biology that upended Alfred Tennyson’s picture...

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

March 2027: Oxford World's Classics edition of Pierce Egan's "Life in London" (1821) will be published. First modern, annotated edition of a novel that defined the age. In this plate by the Cruikshank brothers, the chums get in a fight & Egan has his notebook nicked. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Are you interested in developing genuinely interdisciplinary piece of research? Applications for the International Interdisciplinary Research Projects, focused on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ are now open. Apply now: bit.ly/4y9wiwJ

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Removed some silly words and condensed a few things. This is a clearer picture of the topics / names that dominated proceedings.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you would like to attend the online conference tomorrow, there's still time to book here: shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-... (4/5)

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Online British Association of Romantic Studies conference 2026 | University of Birmingham Online Shop

Online Conference: Thursday 6th August 2026

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