@ehunineteen.bsky.social @pgresearchhub.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @l-h-p-c.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @l-h-p-c.bsky.social @post-doc-club.bsky.social @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social
05.03.2026 12:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please see below for a fantastic funded PhD in 19c literature with Clara Dawson at the University of Manchester - deadline 18 March 2026:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... [findaphd.com]
📢 LAST CALL, BOOK GIVEAWAY ends this Thurs. Repost to win 1 free copy of *Women, 'Failure' and Academia*(Apr 2026) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai...
03.03.2026 09:49 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0More exciting VPR news!
03.03.2026 03:31 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-... get for tickets now for this fantastic day of visits and tours!
01.03.2026 08:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Follow the link for Matt’s Tales of Health bringing together Medical Humanities with Romantic literary studies - careful thinking about care 🖤
26.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY ends next week: Share this post to win 1 free copy of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#JaneAusten #WutheringHeights
@ncsascholars.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social
@vpfa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ehunineteen.bsky.social @ecrfrenchart.bsky.social @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @pgresearchhub.bsky.social @post-doc-club.bsky.social @l-h-p-c.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
20.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...
20.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
Join the VPFA for a workshop on publishing Victorian Popular Fiction!
✅ Turning your thesis into a monograph.
✅ Writing a winning book proposal.
✅ Insights from the VPFJ editorial committee.
✅ Handling peer review & rejection
📅 26th February at 6pm
🔗 See your emails for the registration link!
Today is your final opportunity to submit an abstract for the VPFA study day on the 'critical age". Get submitting!!
19.02.2026 07:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Reminder: If you are applying for a 2026 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, the deadline to submit your application is this Thursday 19 February, 4pm. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
16.02.2026 09:37 — 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Save the dates for our upcoming #RSVPDigiEvents! More details will be shared as dates approach (so watch this space!). Registration links for each of these events can be found by scanning the QR code or visiting our website: rs4vp.org/digital-even... Hope to "see" you there!
11.02.2026 23:08 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Need more #18thC in your life??
OF COURSE YOU DO!
Click below for an incredible programme of events from our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Newcastle's People's Theatre are putting on "Mary Shelley" by Helen Edmundson: 10-14th February 2026 1930pm.
More info and to book tickets:
www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/mar...
Photo: Paul Hood
Help University of Glasgow researchers celebrate 'The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ by completing the survey about your own Burns Supper.
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The British Association for Romantic Studies is pleased to invite Expressions of Interest in hosting its 2028 International Biennial Conference.
More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6294
Deadline: Tuesday 31 March 2026
Talk:
Deidre Shauna Lynch (English, Harvard)
"Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Thursday, March 26, 7.50pm GMT
In-person: UConn Humanities Institute
More info and register to join online below
uconn-cmr.webex.com/webappng/sit...
***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH***
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
Blue and grey text on white background. Major Research Fellowships. Three images and project titles in the arts and humanities and social sciences. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL media.leverhulme.ac.uk/features.
The Trust's Major Research Fellowships scheme enables experienced researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research. For more details and to apply, visit: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/major-resear... Deadline: 8 May 2026
03.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Today: join Saeed Taji Farouky for a timely talk on life-writing as a battleground for survival and cultural endurance amid genocide. Register by 14:30. 📅 Feb 3 | 17:30 📍 @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + Zoom🔗 buff.ly/Jr1gDyr@torc...
03.02.2026 10:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0don't forget to send in your abstracts for this VPFA study day. Women's bodily experiences are so often overlooked in fiction, so this study day is so important for bringing those to light.
02.02.2026 19:43 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Applications close midnight GMT, tonight 🚨
Call for a Co-Editor of our #OpenAcess journal @pdyearbook.bsky.social
If you have a strong research background in:
✅ Political parties
✅ Governments in Europe
✅ Advanced industrial democracies
👉 Apply by Sat 31 Jan
Last call! Colby Book Prize nominations are due TOMORROW, 31 January. This prize is awarded to a book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the #19thC British press. If you recently read a book that fits that description, we want to know!
30.01.2026 16:22 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
For those of you who need some mid-week inspiration, why not join us for our next virtual writing retreat? It is the perfect opportunity to get some work done in two solid writing blocks.
11 Feb 2-4pm (GMT)
Free for all VPFA members - check your emails for more information on how to register!
Did you know that we award SEVEN #fellowships, five of which have #deadlines of the ***1 FEBRUARY 2026***
#skystorians #18thC🗃️
Details can be found on our website or in the thread 🔽
www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
📢JOYCE YOUINGS LECTURE 2025-26 IS NEXT WEEK📢
Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England
🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception
📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom
🗃️ All welcome, register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...
The next special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal is “Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture” and will be guest-edited by Dr Bethany Dahlstrom & Dr Helena Esser. For full CFP and submission guidelines, please see: victorianpopularfiction.org/wp-content/u...
22.01.2026 16:08 — 👍 17 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Please do join me if you can for these events #IrishRomanticism @universitypress.cambridge.org
UCC 19 February 5.30pm Hub Atrium
Cambridge 2 March 5.30pm Emmanuel College
Boston College 11 March 5pm Connolly House
NYU 12 March 6pm Glucksman House
Royal Irish Academy 25 March 6pm Academy House
