Catherine Rose Maw

Sun shining through autumn trees in a cemetery.

Jesmond Old Cemetery in Newcastle upon Tyne was founded in 1834. The north's most notable architect, John Dobson, designed the cemetery, and he was later buried here.

Happy National Black Cat Day to my sleepy little shadow 🐈‍⬛❤️✨

library’s a bit cold; let’s just read in bed… might as well lie down… it’ll be cosier lying on my side… i’ll feel more awake if i just rest my eyes for ten seconds… a quick power nap will help me focus…

Front cover of the booklet created for the opening of the Percy Building.

Photograph of the front of the Percy Building facing onto the Quadrangle.

Group of attendees at the official opening of the Percy Building.

#OTD in 1958 @newcastleuni.bsky.social Percy Building was officially opened by Professor J. Dover Wilson, and named after the first Rector of Kings College, Lord Eustace Percy.

Browse the brochure for the opening event on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...

Great! Looking forward to it ✨

This looks great! Will it be recorded? 😊

Three Ravens Haunting Season is BACK! 🖤

Kicking off our annual celebration of all things spooky and weird, we have today released our Three Ravens Guide to Halloween!

Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!

How I love mornings like this 🍂❄️🥰

BSECS Annual Conference BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Little black cat on a black and white patterned blanket.

Just a spooky girl enjoying her spooky blanket 🖤✨

Congratulations Cleo! 🥳✨

Statue of Lord Byron in the Wren Library, Trinity College.

Gardens of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Latin bible inscribed “W. Wordsworth”, St. John’s College Library.

William Wordsworth’s life mask, St John’s College Library.

Had the most beautiful time in Cambridge for #BARS2025 last week. It was great to spend time with such lovely fellow Romanticists 💕 The days were filled with Romantic treasures, insightful panels, inspiring conversations and wonderful company! Thanks so much to everyone involved ✨ @bars.bsky.social

We even got to meet William Wordsworth! @19thcenturyem.bsky.social @realityandreverie.bsky.social

Sleepy black cat

Happy International Cat Day! ❤️🐾

“The Three Ravens Folk Tales” open to “The Fish and the Ring: A Northumberland Tale”, fairy lights and white mug that reads “Basic Witch” on a dark wood table.

Front cover of “The Three Ravens Folk Tales” by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux on William Morris Blackthorn background.

Trixie, a black cat, enjoying “The Three Ravens Folk Tales”.

“Gather round the campfire and listen in…” 🔥

Love love love this new book from @threeravenspod.bsky.social! My favourite source for all things weird, wonderful, wild and whimsical… ❤️💫🐦‍⬛

It certainly gets Trixie’s seal of approval 🖤✨

Color photo of a shorthaired black cat sitting by a window, looking outside at green foliage with its back to the camera with a leafy little houseplant next to it. The main light source is soft natural, indirect sunlight. It's a very calm and beautiful domestic scene.

💚 Photo from my collection, 1977.

Text source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35698/35698-h/35698-h.htm#LIII Image source (detail): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Keats_-_HH.jpg

I am now so depressed that I have not an idea to put to paper — my hand feels like lead — and yet it is an unpleasant numbness; it does not take away the pain of Existence. I don’t know what to write.

John Keats (letter B. Bailey, 28 May 1818)

View of the ocean from Seaham Beach. Sand, rocks, waves, and a bright blue sky.

“then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think…” - John Keats 🌊✨

📍Seaham Beach

BARS is delighted to announce that the 2026 International Biennial Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme is Romantic Retrospection.

Weds 29th- Fri 31st July 2026 (with additional online elements held around the in-person conference)

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5908

All things considered, however, today was lovely. Days like today, with wonderful academic staff and students, remind me exactly why I do the job I do. ✨

#stopthecuts #fundHE

View of bridges across the River Tyne from the High Level Bridge.

Well it was rather interesting trying to get home from work today…

the hardest part of living alone really is trying to finish a bag of spinach

Also BARS’ PGR and ECR account has arrived - give us a follow @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social !

Recording: Joanna Baillie's The Tryal

Please find below the link to a recording of a staged reading of Joanna Baillie's The Tryal that took place on 23 October, 2024, at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5853

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#STOPthecuts #ucu @ucu.org.uk

stopthecutspetition.org.uk

Black and white photo of a shorthaired light colored kitten sitting on a carpeted floor. She seems to be quietly prodding something with her paw.

Just a baby girl. 🥹 Photo from my collection, 1964.

Congratulations! 🥳 Also epic choice of gif 😂✨

Just some lovely tickets to 18th-century masquerade balls 😍🎭

www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #18c

Image source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Courbet_-_Autumn_Sea_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting Love;— then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

John Keats (letter to J. H. Reynolds, 31 Jan. 1818)

Now more than ever we need to expand and develop our societal relationship with anxiety, in all its forms and crucially how communication, relationships, and anxiety can go hand in hand #skystorians #emotions