Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

Australia once enshrined white superiority. These 10 trailblazers helped shift our attitudes to race These ten change-makers, including Jessie Street and Charles Perkins, are just some of the key Australians who prodded the country to question its thinking on race.

»[T]he stories my father told me of his treatment, being kidnapped from the islands and working on the canefields as a slave, did influence my thinking […] I knew about the slave trade, and we always sang the slave songs in the evenings«, Faith Bandler #WhiteAustralia #WhiteSugar #AntiRacism

Die Universitätsbibliothek im KI-Zeitalter – Eine Nutzerperspektive Lluís Codina, Professor für Dokumentation und Informationssysteme an der Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), hat im Februar 2026 eine Präsentation veröffentlicht, die aus der Perspektive eines la…

Die #Universitätsbibliothek im KI-Zeitalter – Eine Nutzerperspektive

@lcodina.bsky.social (Univ. Pompeu Fabra) hat eine Präsentation veröffentlicht, die aus der Perspektive eines langjährigen Forschers wie sich UBs durch den Einsatz von #KI verändern – und was gleich bleibt.

Find both books in our online catalogue:

👑 "Dianaworld" opac.sub.uni-goettin...

👑 "Victoria's Secret" opac.sub.uni-goettin...

The book "Victoria's Secret" by Fern Riddell propped up on a green chair

"Victoria's Secret" is the tongue-in-cheek title of this new 2025 #QueenVictoria #biography by Dr Fern Riddell asking what we REALLY know about the relationship of Victoria & John Brown

#BritishRoyalty #BritishStudies #History

The book "Dianaworld - An Obsession" by Edward White propped up on a green chair

Edward White's "Dianaworld" describes the obsession many fans had & continue to have with "the people's princess", Diana - tracing the emotional aspects of her enduring appeal, giving the perspectives of the people who felt it themselves

#CelebrityCulture #FanStudies #Britishness #CulturalStudies

The books "Dianaworld - An Obsession" by Edward White and "Victoria's Secret" by Fern Riddell propped up on a green chair

Already binged the new #Bridgerton episodes & can't get enough of the British upper class?
May we suggest some further reading on #Diana & #QueenVictoria ? Details on each book in the replies! 👑

#BritishStudies #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #Anglistik

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

#EarlyModern media #history

Shawn Marshall in front of his presentation

Shawn Marshall in front of his presentation

Shawn Marshall in front of his presentation

Shawn Marshall's keynote at the #GKS #CanadianStudies #conference gave an overview on how the #ClimateCrisis especially extreme weather, wildfires & the decline in arctic ice affect #Canada - asking the question: who will stop this development when policies have run out?

#ClimateChange

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Florian Freitag

H.E. Jean-Paul Lemieux

View of one of the buildings of the castle in the snow

View of the ceiling of the castle incl a large gilt chandelier

This weekend is the 47th annual #conference of the Association for Canadian Studies, #GKS - 1st time at Tutzing Castle at Lake Starnberg.
GKS president Florian Freitag & Jean-Paul Lemieux, Ambassador of Canada to CH & Liechtenstein welcomed us to the conference on #ClimateChange, #ClimateCrisis

#OscarWilde #TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest

Adapting <i>Wuthering Heights</i> Explore the article collection: Adapting Wuthering Heights. Published in Brontë Studies.

To mark the release of Emerald Fennell’s #WutheringHeights, @drclaireocall.bsky.social, #BrontëStudies Editor, has curated a selection of archival essays exploring the novel’s incredible afterlife. Free to access & perfect pre-reading🍿 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ybs... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Disability and the Gothic Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic

Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

2 stacks of books on horses in our bookshelves, decorated with digital overlay of images of firehorses and two round symbols reading "Happy New Year" in red and yellow

Happy Lunar New Year of the Horse 🐴
Our collection houses many books on #horses - from #EnglishLiterature & #AmericanLiterature to the #History of horses in war, in racing, in the Wild West, in #Australia to horses in #Poetry & #Fiction - so many options to explore!

#YearOfTheHorse #LunarNewYear

I'm reposting this one day late, but it's always nice to think of a *good* adaptation of #WutheringHeights, isn't it

Sleeping or Dead? and other hilarious “practical books for librarians” in pulp classic form. This week, I stumbled across a hidden internet gem: a seemingly endless collection of fake pulp novel covers for, about, and presumably by, librarians. The series, “Professional Library Liter…

Tremendously enjoyable collection of fake #pulp book covers to express the daily woes of #librarians from @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

lithub.com/sleeping-or-...

#LibSky #LibrarianSky #Booksky #LoveLibraries #pulpart

A stack of books on the theme of Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights", placed on 2 velvet scarves in red and black

The Greatest Love Story of All Time for #ValentinesDay ?! A white #Heathcliff ?!
Absolutely not! ❌
But we got the real deal in our collection: the full #Gothic force of #EmilyBrontë 's #WutheringHeights - plus lots of resources for your research🖤

#GothicStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies

The 2026 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist is here💜

Which book will you be picking up first?

#WomensPrizeforNonFiction

To mark #valentinesday & the theatrical release this week of the highly anticipated “Wuthering Heights”, here is the scrapbook we hold of William Wyler’s 1939 adaptation.

Which screen adaptation of Bronte's classic novel is your favourite?

#wutheringheights #filmsky #cinemasky

Find both of them here in our catalogue:

"Victorian Nightshades" opac.sub.uni-goettin...

"Plowswords" opac.sub.uni-goettin...

Holding the book "Plowswords" in front of a snowy meadow

Agriculture - just a trap? Cates Baldridge analyses narratives of the agriculturalist ideology in a variety of canonical #EnglishLiterature texts from 16th c to the present, incl. #Frankenstein #Shakespeare #WutheringHeights #Coetzee & more

#FoodStudies #CulturalStudies #LiteraryStudies

Holding the book "Victorian Nightshades" in front of a snowy landscape

2 new books on #plants & the #nonhuman in #Literature & #Culture
Elizabeth A. Campbell explores the #Solanaceae (belladonna, potato, tobacco, pepper, tomato etc) in diverse texts such as poetry & fiction but also botanical treatises, newspaper reports & medical ads

#CulturalStudies #FoodStudies

Holding the book "Nordic Terrors" by Robert W. Rix in a snowy landscape

New book alert! 🚨
How did #EnglishLiterature writers of the 18th & 19th c depict Nordic traditions such as #folklore or pagan religion in their #GothicLiterature ? Find out in "Nordic Terrors" by Robert W. Rix - now in our collection: s.gwdg.de/5xgTYQ

#Gothic #LiteraryStudies #Scandinavia

Call for Reviews – German Association for Australian Studies German Association for Australian Studies

CALL FOR REVIEWS | Calling all experts! Our journal needs your expertise: The open-access Zeitschrift für Australienstudien | Australian Studies Journal (ZfA|ASJ, ISSN 1864-3957) is looking for dedicated reviewers. Have a look at the recent publications #AustralianStudies

Workshop for ECRs 2026 – German Association for Australian Studies German Association for Australian Studies

CONFERENCE ›Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian Studies‹ | Second International Emerging Research in Australian Studies Workshop | 12 & 13 March 2026 #Conference #Australia

Ugh no. Aargh. Google Books has stopped working.

Logo of the Internet Archive WayBack Machine, in black and red text on a white background.

Journalists don’t just report from the web anymore—they report on it 🕵️‍♀️

Learn 9 Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations on how reporters track deleted pages, uncover hidden connections, document edits & follow what vanishes,

Read FOLLOW THE CHANGES ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/f...

Dies ist eine Liste von Fachinformationsdiensten auf Bluesky. Die FIDs werden gefördert von der @dfg.de. Das Starter Pack wurde zusammengestellt von der @stabihh.bsky.social. Hinzukommende FIDs gerne melden.

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A Bridgerton themed bookstack on adaptation, colourblind casting, Black Neo-Victoriana, politeness and class and the British royals, decorated on a wooden table in SUB library's main building with a blue ribbon and a black feather mask

Dearest Gentle Readers, it has come to this author's attention that a new season is upon us. It is that scandalous #Bridgerton family again! We are consulting our collection on them - for knowledge, dear reader, is power - and it looks rather good in one's hands 🪶📖

#BridgertonSeason4 @netflix.com