Dr Rhonda Mayne

A charming #Egyptian drawing of a #cat acting as a servant to a #mouse. Drawings of animals acting as people were meant as satire of the society and politics.
Dating 13th/12th century BC, probably from Deir el-Medina, #Egypt.

📷 Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels
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The market for medieval manuscripts in the age of Modernism, 1914-45

I’ll be talking about my recent research on the trade in medieval manuscripts on 25 March @ihr.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social
Https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/market-medieval-manuscripts-age-modernism-1914-45

The Importance Of Being Earnest (Full Show) | Take Your Seats | National Theatre at Home YouTube video by National Theatre

The National Theatre's production of The Importance of Being Earnest (with its first cast, including the irresistible Ncuti Gatwa and the divine Sharon D Clarke) is streaming for free for a week.

A reminder that resilience is tied to the courage to keep refining our work, knowing that each attempt is growth. #Resilience #Beckett

Kerouac's blazing passion reminds me of why we chase ideas so relentlessly. Here's to those who push boundaries and keep the spark of curiosity alive. #JackKerouac #LiteraryInspiration

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry VI Part 1 In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Henry VI Part 1 from Oxford World's Classics.

Our next #Shakespeare webinar will take place on 6 April at 6pm. This time we'll be exploring HENRY VI, PART 1 with Emma Smith and Amy Lidster.

They will discuss the play & how we might approach it in the 21st century, followed by a Q&A.

All welcome! #HenryVI #BookSky

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications.

Deadline: 1st April 2026

More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359

Patricia Forde: ‘People often ask me when I’ll write a proper book’ Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg reflects on her tenure and the mistaken notion that children’s books are merely a stepping stone

Patricia Forde: ‘People often ask me when I’ll write a proper book’
Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg reflects on her tenure and the mistaken notion that children’s books are merely a stepping stone
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Fossil collector & self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning's discoveries revolutionized our understanding of prehistoric life.

"The greatest fossilist the world ever knew," she made her finds in the Jurassic marine fossil beds along the cliffs of Lyme Regis (UK). She died #OTD in 1847. #WomenInSTEM

It’s really lovely to see erasure poetry used as a way of returning to Mrs Dalloway. Such a creative way of reading, letting Woolf’s words and rhythms surface in new and unexpected ways.

#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism

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
learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass...

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!

‘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.

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

by Sarah Gristwood

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what...

Women literature at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...

#books #literature #WomenHistoryMonth

~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.

JOB

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

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

'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.'

a woman is typing on a typewriter at a desk . ALT: a woman is typing on a typewriter at a desk .

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

a woman in a lab coat looks through a microscope with the nbc logo in the corner ALT: a woman in a lab coat looks through a microscope with the nbc logo in the corner

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

www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/arms...

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....