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Screenshot of a website. The text reads: Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group Submit a Manuscript to the Journal Brontë Studies For a Special Issue on To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry Abstract deadline 01 April 2026 Manuscript deadline 15 December 2026

Call for Contributions: 'To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry', a special issue of Brontë Studies, edited by @drbeard79.bsky.social

500-word abstracts due by 1st April. More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6317

ICYMI our @ehunineteen.bsky.social PGRs are hosting a conference - check out our poster - please reskeet - share with your PGRs - and do come along and join us in June!

this is incredible and well worth a read

My amazing bestie and team are organising a conference! If you are interested in 19th Century Literature - send in an abstract!! #19thcentury

🔈 Calling all PhDs & ECRs working on 19thC places and spaces! Send your abstracts in for what is going to be a wonderful event! 👇

So excited for this! Please send in your abstracts!!

Plus our amazing poster - please share far and wide to all your PGR and ECR connections! We're all very friendly over at
@ehunineteen.bsky.social and can't wait for some amazing papers ✨️

Big up our brilliant @ehunineteen.bsky.social postgraduate researchers who are putting on a Placing the Nineteenth Century conference in June!

We have booked the garden room of the business school and are relying on that balmy North West summer weather 😎

Come to our inaugural @ehunineteen.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference!

Organising committee 😎😎😎😎

Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR conference Friday 26th June 2026 Image of Blackpool Edge Hill Nineteen research centre is excited to invite you to 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', a PGR/ECR conference focused on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literature and history. London and the South have often been the heart of discussion about the nineteenth century. However, development in industry during the period brought popularity to cities such as Liverpool and Manchester, which led to a boom of industrial growth in the north of England. In the nineteenth century, the north of England developed like never before, both within cities and in more rural areas.

Following a recent EHU19 research symposium, PhD students from literature and history came together to discuss their emerging research and found a common theme - place. More specifically, the North (and North West) of England was a uniting thread, and so the idea for such a conference was born. We invite proposals that engage with 'place' in the long nineteenth century, with particular attention to the North (West), broadly conceived. Papers may approach place as material, imagined, represented, contested, remembered, or speculative. We welcome MA/MRes students, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers whose research interests focus on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literary studies, history, art history and related disciplines, with suggested (but not limited to) topics such as:

• Fictional/fantastical representations of the North (West) • The legacy of space in the North (West) • Transnational and postcolonial links to the North (West): colonial, imperial, and transatlantic contexts (e.g, Liverpool as a global port) • Museums, archives, and collections: regional museums and the afterlives of nineteenth-century places • Gendered, racialised, and marginalised spaces: who belongs, who is excluded, and how space is policed • Landscape across disciplines: historical, literary, artistic, and creative engagements with the natural and industrial landscapes of the North (West) in the long nineteenth century • The North (West) in popular culture, periodicals, visual culture, and performance • Queer histories and queer readings of place, including non-normative identities & relationships

Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words (including title) for 10-15 minute papers, along with a short biography to ehu 19place@outlook.com by 1st May 2026, including name, preferred pronouns, and academic institution. We are excited to have Dr Claire O'Callaghan giving a keynote address on Top Withens, Wuthering Heights and the impact of literary scholarship. As Dr O'Callagham is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Brontë Studies journal, she has kindly agreed to also run a workshop on publishing in an academic journal. Given the conference's emphasis on 'place', we are excited to offer an in-person conference gathering in the North West and warmly welcome participants to join us here. However, we are also committed to accessibility needs and widening participation, so please indicate if you would prefer to present online in your application. Please also do let us know about any other access needs or adjustments that can make your experience easier.

Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June

CFP deadline: Friday 1st May

We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩

Please share - and send us an abstract!

Hello #skystorians.
Possibly a silly question, but is there an easy way to find out if our books are being used to teach? And if so, what is it?!
OR if any of you are using my book in your teaching, could you please let me know?
Thank you so much!
#18thC #ECR #publishing #teaching #research 🗃️

It's official! I've been 'doctored'. So many folks to thank - for now, fab supervisors @digivictorian.bsky.social, @bethgaskell.bsky.social, @drbeard79.bsky.social, @miaout.bsky.social, great examiners @jimmussell.bsky.social, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social and many friends/colleagues @rs4vp.org.

EVENT POSTPONED

Sadly we have had to cancel our seminar this week but will reschedule in future - keep your eyes peeled!

THIS WEEK!

THIS WEEK!

Coming up in a few weeks, our 25/26 seminar series continues with Katherine Watson on Law, Crime, and Medicine - hosted by @interwarcrime.bsky.social - join us! Free, online, all welcome - register in skeet below

New Year, New-ish Call for Papers

Calling all #Bronte scholars, #poetry specialists, #Romantic & #Victorian -ists: please consider submitting to our Brontës and Poetry special issue of Brontë Studies - #creative approaches encouraged 🖤

Abstracts: 1 April
Manuscripts: 15 December

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We @ehunineteen.bsky.social wish everyone a happy holiday - and we’re already looking forward to seeing you in January for our next seminar - BUT FIRST: rest!

Fanny Price is EVERYONE’s passive-aggressive queen 👸

For the Austen short course, I asked students to come up with a one-word review for the book we were reading - which was super fun! (Ranging from ‘dull’ 😱 to ‘passive-aggressive’ 🤣)

Yesterday, we finished the course and I asked for a one-word review of it and am *delighted* with ‘joyful’ 🥰🥰🥰

I can’t stop laughing at this video feed. We interrupt these interviews with ACTUAL WORLD FAMOUS celebrities to bring you a strange man talking about Victorian leg fetishes

Check out our own @digivictorian.bsky.social on WIRED talking about Victorian leg fetishes (and more on Victorian history!)

Birthday thread in honour of Jane Austen, 250 years young today! On what @drbeard79.bsky.social learned whilst teaching an evening class on Austen’s novels

*Foucault voice* Mansfield Park is a prison.

Thanks for coming!

Our #19thCFlashTalks felt *exactly* like this picture: a convivial gathering, an intellectual feast - lots of interesting thoughts and ideas from our postgraduate researchers on 19th-century studies in and on the north west, innovative methodologies, the significance of reputation, more 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Frontispiece of Lefroy’s Sanditon with black and white version of a portrait of Austen based on Cassandra’s sketch of her

Finally, Emma Butler’s #19thCFlashTalk thinks about Anna Austen Lefroy’s 1925 continuation of Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon and its representation of the seaside, presenting the fruits of her recent fellowship at Chawton

10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Historic photo of St George’s Hall, Liverpool (lots of columns with carriages outside)

Emily Hayes’ #19thCFlashTalk examines how female victims of sexual violence were represented in Victorian and Edwardian newspapers

10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Page from Bricklehurst’s scrapbook with images from Egypt including two big black statues against st a red and yellow sky and a page of neat handwriting

Laura Grande Mateu’s #19thCFlashTalk uses the case study of Marianne Brocklehurst, traveller, collector, and museum founder to explore what scrapbooks and other material can tell us about Egyptomania and cultural heritage

10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...