Institute of English Studies

OIPA Symposium 2025 - University of London Press As a proud member of the Open Institutional Publishing Association, we are excited to join colleagues and collaborators at this year’s symposium. The event will be a great space for sharing ideas, cha...

As a proud member of @oipassoc.bsky.social we are excited to join colleagues and collaborators at this year’s symposium during #OpenAccessWeek2025!

There's still time to register, details here:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/oipa...

#OAWeek #UniversityPress #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess

Libraries and Delinquency: The Case of Charles Burney (1757-1817)

Don't miss the first talk in this year's series of the History Of Libraries Seminar, ✨ tonight ✨ online or in person @warburginstitute.bsky.social!

Libraries and delinquency: the case of Charles Burney (1757-1817)

Free of charge, but reservation is required: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The full Call For Papers can be accessed at the following link: https://shorturl.at/RiviU

Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid.

Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU

Deadline 16 Jan.

A blue term card with a manuscript banner at the top. It lists the times & dates of seminars for the winter term - includes link to register for them bit.ly/londonmedieval

Hello to our new followers! We are the LSMS: PGR & ECR-led since 1970, championing ✂️-edge research across the fields of medieval studies & the critical & creative possibilities of interdisciplinary work & learning

Our seminars are always free & open to all, register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval

Me, Laura and Caroline

I hugely enjoyed hosting a discussion with the brilliant @drlauravarnam.bsky.social & Caroline Bergvall today on creative engagement with #Chaucer and #medieval literature, including readings from their #poetry. Thank you @ies-sas.bsky.social & @englishassociation.bsky.social for an excellent day!

Professor Alfred Hiatt welcomes us to #Chaucer our Contemporary: Teaching, Reading and Rewriting #Medieval #Literature Today at @ies-sas.bsky.social with @englishassociation.bsky.social. Great to be sharing resources and expertise with academics and school teachers.

We'd love to be included in these starter packs, as a centre of research and study for the history of the book, and an institute promoting history and the humanities!

University English Funding

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Precisely the sort of scholarly enthusiasm we hope to inspire 😆

We're so excited to welcome our new cohort of History of the Book students! In Week 1, they will delve into artists' books, bookbinding, and textual scholarship

#historyofthebook #bookhistory

The Ridge Salon: Undisciplinary conversations at the house on chicken legs

The Out Of Practice Seminar has launched for 2025/26!

We are kicking things off with the first seminar on 22 October.

The Ridge Salon: Undisciplinary conversations at the house on chicken legs

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@ilcs.bsky.social

SAS and The London Archives: Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800

@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!

Woohoo congrats!

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

Chaucer our Contemporary: Teaching, Reading and Rewriting Medieval Literature Today

Still time to register for this fantastic free event!

📅4 October 🕑10.30-16.30 🏢Senate House

Chaucer our Contemporary: Teaching, Reading and Rewriting Medieval Literature Today

@englishassociation.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The 2025 Being Human Festival programme is now live! 💫 This year's festival runs from 6 - 15 November 2025. With over 220 events taking place in 46 towns and cities across the UK, there is a wide range of events to suit everyone's curiosities.
Programme highlights: bit.ly/3IsbVWI
#BeingHuman2025

Museum and art gallery unveils 'most ambitious' exhibition yet Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery has officially unveiled its brand-new exhibition.

Delighted to see Cynthia Johnston featuring in this wonderful piece from the Lancashire Telegraph about the exhibition she has co-curated at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery!

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/2548328...

Institute of English Studies and Institute of Historical Research announce collaboration with The London Archives on new public lecture series The Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Historical Research announce a new collaboration with The London Archives on a public lecture series starting this autumn.

Institute of English Studies and Institute of Historical Research (@ihr.bsky.social) announce collaboration with The London Archives on new public lecture series

Read more about these upcoming events here 👇

ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Still time to sign up for these fantastic events!

@ihr.bsky.social

Here's a treat for manuscript- and fragment-lovers everywhere: @manuelmunoz.bsky.social will speak at Senate House Library @ies-sas.bsky.social Tuesday, 30th September, 5:30pm on his research into fragments at Keio University. To attend in-person or online, register at ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

New exhibition explores history of decorative borders: from medieval manuscripts to William Morris The new show at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery covers the late medieval age to the Arts and Crafts Movement.

'A celebration of the verdant decorative frames which twist and turn through time, illuminating art of both the past and present'

Read more about 'The Nature of Gothic' exhibition (co-curated by Cynthia Johnston) in this piece in The Conversation:

theconversation.com/new-exhibiti...

There’s still time to submit your #bookhistory #bookstudies proposals!

See here for details of an upcoming symposium on Stefan Collini’s History of English Studies in Britain with @stuartjones.bsky.social and others @ies-sas.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social

The journeys of an incunable from the Jesuits of Fribourg and Sir Thomas Phillipps to Bryn Mawr College Earlier this spring, Eric Pumroy, formerly Head of the Special Collections Department at Bryn Mawr College Library, shared an enquiry about a copy of Speculum exemplorum

📣New on the blog📣

Read more about Angéline Rais' research into the antiquarian book trade in Switzerland and her forthcoming book!

ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium

📚Join us on 30 Oct 2025 at Senate House for The History of English Studies in Britain symposium

🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini

Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature

Chaucer our Contemporary: Teaching, Reading and Rewriting Medieval Literature Today

Are you a #school #teacher introducing students to #Chaucer? Come along to this amazing #free #event on Saturday 4 October, to discover resources & share expertise. From tackling the #medieval language to creative methods. I'll be there! ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Please share! Booking info 👇

Kicking off day 2 of #BuiltWithBooks with Ted Simonds and Sion College’s benefactions. Looking forward to seeing how Ted’s PhD research on Jesuit archives will develop @ies-sas.bsky.social

Had fun talking about @marshslibrary.bsky.social with my @ies-sas.bsky.social colleagues for #BuiltWithBooks

Afraid that it will not by hybrid or streamed, but we will look into the possibility of recording it!

My team will be talking about Narcissus Marsh and how medieval manuscripts ended up among the “best and most useful books for each faculty and science” in his public library for Dublin. @marshslibrary.bsky.social #BuiltWithBooks
Oh and we also have a mummy and some pirates 🏴‍☠️