Wishing everyone attending a very fun weekend! Wish I was there! π¦
01.11.2025 22:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0@victorianmasc.bsky.social
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Wishing everyone attending a very fun weekend! Wish I was there! π¦
01.11.2025 22:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Thank you. Temporary fix + hot water bottle is tiding us over.
31.10.2025 22:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mary from BBC Ghosts, in cap, mustard-coloured dress and blue kirtle, who lives in dread of βThe Boiler Manβ
Boilerβs borked. So Iβm spending Halloween waiting on β¦ βThe Boiler Man!!β #BBCghosts
31.10.2025 18:51 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Left: Sidney Paget illustration of Inspector Lestrade in bowler hat. Right: Sam Reid as rock star lestat shirtless but wearing a smoulder.
Iβm currently writing about Sherlock Holmes and my autocorrect keeps changing βLestradeβ to βLestatβ. But now Iβm thinking that would be one wild shared universe?!
30.10.2025 22:34 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - donβt miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social!
Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
I would love to read that thread!
24.10.2025 22:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Very excited for BAVS to come to Liverpool next year, and very pleased to see our CfP out! No specific theme, we are open to any exploration of the multifaceted nature of 'the Victorian' - have a look at the call here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
21.10.2025 16:47 β π 12 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0A path lined with dark green plants, deep red Japanese maple and bright yellow trees. In the background the tower of glasgow university main building. A bicycle leans against a lamppost.
22.10.2025 16:59 β π 227 π 18 π¬ 6 π 1The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!
The full line up for our 2025/2026 #EHU19SeminarSeries is available to book now in the thread below!
Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
Thank you! Very much enjoying it so far. I feel like I want to ask everyone what colour cover they chose. Like some sort of whimsical Rorschach test.
11.10.2025 19:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cover for The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley featuring multi-layered and multi-coloured 3D font
Weekend reading.
11.10.2025 17:13 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New Academic Year SALE! 70% Discount Code: AC25 Offer ends: 31 October
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We have 70% off in our new academic year sale!
Celebrate the start of a new term with some fantastic discounts ‡οΈ
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every author in this video has had their books banned #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans
get involved to stop the attacks on our freedom to read: uniteagainstbookbans.org
Photograph of Wilkie Collins with very large beard and very tiny glasses
Wilkie Collins did βslutty little glassesβ first.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using βthatβs AIβ to mean βI donβt believe you.β Me: weβre having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: thatβs AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM
They've lost the 9yos
24.09.2025 16:03 β π 10943 π 2928 π¬ 107 π 366Bedraggled looking raccoon brandishing a coffee and a sword
Me and my insomnia ready to take on the day.
23.09.2025 08:24 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0This year is the year!
What a great lineup. Join @romgothsam.bsky.social and read along.
The author Violet Hunt standing in a Victorian/Edwardian era drawing room. To her right is an upholstered chair with a floofy black cat sitting on it.
Violet Hunt and her amazing cat. #caturday
20.09.2025 12:34 β π 47 π 9 π¬ 1 π 1Iβm on TV tonight! Check out the first episode of Britainβs Railway Empire at 8pm on Channel 4.
Itβs a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. Itβs not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
A few bonus covers. π·β€οΈβ½πΉ
12.09.2025 16:22 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Woman in white dances before a fire, twirling an enormous chain of sausages. In the foreground, a turkey looks on, bemused and concerned by its impending fate.
December: infernal sausage dancer π₯
12.09.2025 09:54 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Woman sits in a gloriously art deco armchair with lamp and side table, reading a book
November: art deco introvert
12.09.2025 09:52 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Woman in a black and grey ensemble trying on a new hat in a military style
October: WW1β¦but make it sexy?!
12.09.2025 09:51 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0A couple sit in the late summer sun in the countryside. A shadow falls over them in the shape of a devil, but itβs only the shadow of a goat on the ledge above
September: demon goat
12.09.2025 09:50 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Woman in a black bathing suit and red shoes sits on a bath tub with a parasol
August: heat wave survivor
12.09.2025 09:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Woman in black tights, a red hood and wings brandishes an enormous key
July: fairy who knows all your secrets π§
12.09.2025 09:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A woman in a fashionable bob holds a red heart while riding a fish
June: inter-species romance?!
12.09.2025 09:47 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0