Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

Whether for work or play, find each book in our catalogue:

Precarious Labour ... opac.sub.uni-goettin...

Plays in Utopian & Dystopian Fiction opac.sub.uni-goettin...

Video Games ... opac.sub.uni-goettin...

Radical Play opac.sub.uni-goettin...

Holding the book "Radical Play" in front of a row of wooden lockers

"Radical Play" by Rob Goldberg traces the revolution in the 1960s and 70s toystore, a time in #AmericanHistory when social movements (#CivilRights M. & #BlackPanther #feminism & anti-Vietnam war movement) were mirrored in #toys

#MaterialCulture #CulturalStudies #AmericanStudies #ChildhoodStudies

Holding the book "Video Games and Environmental Humanities" in front of a row of wooden lockers

This essay collection, ed. by Kelly I. Aliano & @dradamcrowley.bsky.social analyses a great variety of #videogames through an #EnvironmentalHumanities / #Ecocriticism lens. How do games shape environment(s) & our perception of it outside of the game?

#GamesStudies

Holding the book "Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction" in front of a row of wooden lockers

"Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction" by @matthewleggatt.bsky.social looks at playfulness and labour, boredom & the future of play in literature, films & TV series, from #ThomasMore to #SquidGame

#Utopia #Dystopia #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryStudies #TVStudies #FilmStudies

Holding the book "Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel" in front of a row of wooden lockers

All work and no play ... not with us! Find 4 new books on play & work in #culture & #literature in our collection!
Liam Connell's study "Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel" examines work depictions in novels from India, USA & the UK, incl 2025 Booker winner #DavidSzalay

#LiteraryStudies

Followers! If you don't know #KitWilliams "Masquerade" and the scandal around it, you should change this now. It was a hare-raising (pun intended) mystery

#childrensliterature #LiteraryHistory #MaterialCulture #BritishStudies #BritishCulture #riddles

#ScottishHistory

"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"

*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*

and the fact that it's a cardigan, too!!

#Libsky #Librarians

"Beteiligt [am #graduiertenkolleg] sind d Anglistik, Germanistik, Romanistik, Slawistik, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Psycholinguistik u d Human-Centered Data Science-Gruppe. ... Spracherwerb, kognitive Verarbeitung, historische Entwicklung u Variation v Sprachen u Gebärdensprachen"

#Linguistics

Also relevant for @juedstudien.bsky.social

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... such a significant collection of materials for Victorianists and Lee scholars.

Picture of Leeds' skyline at dusk.

#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage

Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025

Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism

Screenshot: Job Ad 25/E17 University of Greifswald Department British and North American Studies, Teaching Associate, starting April 1, 2016. part-time, permanent position, focus on "primary education"

Come work with us!
#JobPosting #HigherEd #Anglistik #Amerikanistik
part-time, permanent

The medusa headpiece and the way @greta-olson.org highlighted putting it on at the beginning of the talk was indeed great!! It's time to bite back! 🐍🐍

Colby Gordon in front of his presentation, title Nonsecular

Colby Gordon in front of his presentation showing 2 Bible illustrations with Eve emerging from Adam's body's side

Yesterday's keynote at #BritCult2025 #conference was really impactful, with @badinfinity2.bsky.social highlighting the queer & trans elements in #Medieval & #EarlyModern Christian iconography & texts, from Genesis to Jesus Christ & the Last Judgment

#TransStudies #QueerStudies #Theology #ArtHistory

#Frankenstein #ichbinhanna (look at this reposted thread for more #ichbinvictor gallows humour)

Check these slides if you are interested in comic collections & #ComicsStudies / #ComicStudies

Also hooray for #Fachinformationsdienste cooperations! We enjoyed our collab with our colleagues @fidromanistik.bsky.social 🫶

#comics #graphicnovels #LibSky #LibrarianSky #Librarians #FIDAAC

Photograph of a tree in front of some rooftops and a cloudy sunset sky

Photograph from a bridge onto a bank of south German houses.

Photograph of a bridge with locks on the bannister with a river and houses in the background.

Photograph of a church with a white sandstone front.

Some pretty Bamberg sights on the first day of the #BritCult2025 conference…

@susannegruss.bsky.social @jennyleetsch.bsky.social

Elisabeth Lechner & Greta Olson in front of their PowerPoint slides on the topic of Feminism

Elisabeth Lechner & Greta Olson in front of their PowerPoint slides, showcasing the books mentioned in their talk

This year's #BritCult was off to a great start today with the 1st joint keynote by @femsista.bsky.social & @greta-olson.org on current questions & issues of #Feminism - incl how to avoid getting sucked into anti-feminists' toxic discourses 🧛🦇

#BritCult25 #BritCult2025 #GenderStudies

A rainbow coloured arrow reads BritCult 25

A rainbow coloured square guiding us to the entrance to, as it reads, BritCult 25

At #BritCult2025 #conference in Bamberg: impressive 🌈🏳️‍🌈 -coloured signs guided us to the university rooms, where the Postgraduate Forum took place.
#BritCult25 #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CulturalStudies

Keeping our fingers crossed 🤞🤞

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Holding the Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants in front of a wall overgrown with large green leaves

Green with envy 🌵, because our collection now houses this new 2025 "Cambridge Handbook of Literature & Plants"? No reason! Order the book, ed. by @bonnielj.bsky.social today from our library and explore the essays on #LiteraryStudies & #Ecocriticism & #EnvironmentalHumanities & #CulturalStudies

We are already excited for the conference!!

Guides: What's currently available: Introduction This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.

What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library

https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available

Neurodiversity in libraries, a free event from the Library Association of Ireland Career Development Group. The event will take place online via Zoom on Tuesday, December 9th at 6:30pm with the group's annual general meeting (AGM) following at 8pm.

📢 Registration now open for our next event: Neurodiversity in Libraries featuring speakers Jo @jofitz.bsky.social & Andrew @playbrarian.uk, co-chairs of @nlisn.bsky.social and Elaine Chapman from TU Dublin

📅 Tuesday, December 9, 6:30pm (AGM 8pm)
📍 Online
🎟️ Free

🔗 www.eventbrite.ie/e/neurodiver...

Thank you for the link to the project's website! So great that they share some glimpses inside the book.

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