Dr Rhonda Mayne

What good is an arts degree in the age of AI? The emergence of AI stands to make expertise in the arts and humanities even more valuable than they already are, writes Máiréad Moriarty

A great piece in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social today from UL’s Prof Máiréad Moriarty on the increased value of the critical skills gained during an Arts degree in the age of AI - expertise in human complexity will always be required! www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Women's Grassroots Activism Toolkit 100+ Helping to enhance the lives of women and girls for another 100+ years

On eve of #IWD2026 am delighted to share project webpage for #womensgrassrootsactivism & link to download #Activism100+ Toolkit ahead of launch on Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm via Zoom. Take a look to find out more. @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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The Modernist Review Issue #59 6 March 2026 As March and the promise of Spring arrives, we are pleased to bring you the latest issue of The Modernist Review. Our new issue contains an exciting range of research articles, book re…

We are pleased to share #TheModernistReview59 ! Check out our latest issue, exploring a wide range of topics in modernist studies: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6439 we hope you enjoy reading it!

I like this cartoon so much we paid the New Yorker the fee it requested to include it in my book.

We’ve not even had the vote 100 years. Let’s not let thing backslide.

Happy International Women’s Day, one and all.

‘Had she been a man, she would have been the leader of a party’: Harriet Grote (1792-1878), radicalism and Parliament, 1820-41 In the first of his blogs on Harriet Grote (1792-1878), our research fellow Dr Martin Spychal, explores Harriet’s early life, her emergence as a central figure among London’s intellectual radicals …

Finally, here’s one of our series on Harriet Grote, a prominent figure among London’s intellectual radicals, who ‘had she been a man, she would have been the leader of a party’: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/h... #IWD #WHM

Happy #InternationalWomensDay Founded to investigate science, literature and antiquities, @ria.ie encouraged debate between scholars of diverse background & interests so long as they were male. Our blog, 'Skirting the issue', looks at the first women of the Academy www.dib.ie/blog/skirtin...

getting comfortable with being uncomfortable Good academic writing means sitting with a discomfort that never entirely goes away. It’s not a discomfort that comes from having nothing to say. Most of us have more than enough ideas crowding the…

Academic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

A good reminder from this piece: in academic writing, if the argument feels unsettled, you may be close to figuring something out.

#AcademicWriting #WritingProcess

Hilda Matheson, Radio producer, and the BBC’s first Director of Talks. Unknown date.

85 years ago today, Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan, one of the most remarkable novelists of the generation that followed Virginia Woolf, died at her parents' home in Bath of injuries sustained when her flat was bombed during the Blitz. Died—and was utterly forgotten.

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Some of the women diarists featured in the new anthology. Top row, left to right: Ada Blackjack, Anne Clifford, Florence Nightingale, Fanny Burney and Anna Dostoyevskaya. Bottom row, left to right: Elizabeth Fry, Cynthia Asquith, Beatrice Webb, Charlotte Forten Grimké and Virginia Woolf A collage of portraits and photographs of ten women from different historical periods, arranged in overlapping layers against a muted purple-grey background. The images mix oil paintings, sepia photographs, and black-and-white photographs spanning roughly four centuries of dress and style. Top row includes a grainy photograph, a Renaissance-style portrait with a large gold ruff collar, a Victorian photograph, a painted portrait with a wide-brimmed hat, and a formal photographic portrait. Bottom row shows a soft painted portrait in a white cap, two Edwardian-era black-and-white photographs, a later Victorian photograph, and a young woman in profile in a white blouse. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Wikimedia Commons under public domain

What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?

by Sarah Gristwood

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Women literature at PG:
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#books #literature #WomenHistoryMonth

And are you in love? And are you happy? And do you sometimes write a poem? And have you had your hair cut? And have you met anybody of such beauty your eyes dance, as the waves danced, Virginia Woolf Letter to Quentin Bell 17th February 1930

~Virginia Woolf, letter to Quentin Bell
(February 17, 1930)

Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid

Come hear Sheilagh Ogilvie speak on the history of epidemics and institutions. In person at the Institute of Historical Research and online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. Monday 9 March at 5:30 pm.

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Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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'This process [of 'passive suppression'] includes moves by policymakers to steer research resources, precarious working conditions and frequent changes to academic systems, Maria Leptin explained in a speech at an event in London on 5 March, hosted by the Council for At-Risk Academics.'

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On #InternationalWomensDay I’m thinking about the women whose thinking, writing, and intellectual generosity continue to shape our scholarship.

Grateful for the scholars, editors, mentors, and friends who make this work possible.

#IWD2026 #WomenInAcademia #VirginiaWoolf #Modernism

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My review of Patrick Armstrong’s Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett is now out with the British Society for Literature and Science.

Delighted to contribute.

#BSLS #Modernism #VirginiaWoolf

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Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914* This article considers the political lecture tour, and particularly the travelling socialist caravan tours organised by Clarion socialists at the end of the 19th century, to argue that, for socialist...

I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period

New calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: opening in March 2026 - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following two schemes — open to postgraduate researchers and early career historians — with closing dates of 5 June 2026. For further information on ...

Money for UK-based historians engaged in research and/or public history. #Skystorians

📣Call for speakers! The PGR Reps for BAMS and MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social are chairing a graduate panel, ‘What’s Next - Life and Work After Submission’, at Weird Modernisms. See below for more details.

If you are interested in being one of our speakers, please email info@bams.ac.uk.

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

📢Lectureship in Politics and Public Administration
Shared with @livunipol.bsky.social
3-year fixed-term
£47,389 - £59,966 pa
Help teach + develop the new MA in Public Administration and Policy, teach UG + PG students + carry out high-quality research
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Heartbreak on the Colonial Front: Women’s Writing, the Seven Years War, and Humanity in the Archive By Thomas Lecaque This article is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Patrick Lecaque, 1/15/1949-10/11/2025, who taught his son the joy of history, of research, of discovery, and to find the individuals…

A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...

A selection of books form the Fagel Collection

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

Screenshot of the BARS Digital Events Youtube channel. The most recent 2 videos are titled Walking Forward with Annette von Droste Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth and Romantic Creativity Roundtable.

If you missed our digital events on 'Walking Forward with Annette von Droste Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth' and 'Romantic Creativity', you can catch up on the Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@barsdigital...

Virginia Woolf, 3 Guineas (1938): "He is called in German and Italian Führer or Duce; in our own language Tyrant or Dictator. And behind him lie ruined house and dead bodies--men, women and children...we are not passive spectators doomed to unresisting obedience but can ourselves change that figure"

Paid a visit to the fabulous Costume Couture exhibition at London’s Fashion & Textile Museum yesterday. For EM Forster fans, they exhibited these costumes from Merchant Ivory’s A Room with a View & Howards End, together with one of Peggy Ashcroft’s costumes from David Lean’s A Passage to India.

Dancing into the weekend here at BAMS, with an exciting general issue of The Modernist Review on the horizon, and another dedicated to the latest New Work in Modernist Studies conference hot on its heels 💃

Virginia Woolf podcast with Karina Jakubowicz. The most recent episode is a most interesting discussion with the great art historian and biographer, Frances Spalding. Free on our website.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/podcasts

Facade of 29, Fitzroy Square.

Memorial plaques to George Bernard Shaw & Virginia Woolf

"Who lives in a house like this?" 🤔 Some v intellectual types actually.

29, Fitzroy Square #London. #BookSky 📚