Heike Bauer

Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'.

19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London.

All welcome but please register:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'.

19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London.

All welcome but please register:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland

Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland

Vienna!

Vienna!

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...

Did you colour coordinate with Robyn? Looking good and great to see you out and about together, Martin!

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography now live! 🏳️‍🌈

Thank you to all of the collaborators who made this resource happen! And what a resource it is! Let us know if and when and how you use it!

Check it out!

#BookHistory #QueerBookHistory #LGBTQIABooks #Research

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A familiar London panorama looking particularly bright today

A familiar London panorama looking particularly bright today

Beautiful Gothic moon over the Surrey Hills

Beautiful Gothic moon over the Surrey Hills

Dramatic sunrise in the Surrey Hills

My paperback is being launched tomorrow at the Holloway bookshop in Norwich. Do come along!

Painterly morning view in the Surrey Hills

Painterly morning view in the Surrey Hills

Photo of a white cat sitting on a windowsill taken from outside the window. Her black head markings are merging into the clouds reflected in the window pane.

Head in the clouds

Photo of a white cat sitting on a windowsill taken from outside the window. Her black head markings are merging into the clouds reflected in the window pane.

Head in the clouds

I can't wait to speak at this year's Gloucester History Festival on Monday 15 September at 12pm.

Find out more and book your tickets:
www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/marga...

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A big red brown and white lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on a beach with a green slider in the foreground for scale

A lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on South Beach in Troon on the west coast of Scotland. One of the largest jellyfish, it is a beautiful if intimidating presence for those of us who swim off this beach or walk on the shore: the tentacles can reach 3m & will sting long after they’ve been stranded

A big red brown and white lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on a beach with a green slider in the foreground for scale

A lion’s mane jellyfish washed up on South Beach in Troon on the west coast of Scotland. One of the largest jellyfish, it is a beautiful if intimidating presence for those of us who swim off this beach or walk on the shore: the tentacles can reach 3m & will sting long after they’ve been stranded

My mother died today. Born in what was then East Prussia, her childhood was overshadowed by WWII. She spent several formative years in refugee camps before being moved to the Black Forest. She was devoted to her adopted home & even more so to my father whose death preceded hers by 14 years. Vale

My mother died today. Born in what was then East Prussia, her childhood was overshadowed by WWII. She spent several formative years in refugee camps before being moved to the Black Forest. She was devoted to her adopted home & even more so to my father whose death preceded hers by 14 years. Vale

Beautiful sunset in Troon on the West Coast of Scotland with the Isle of Arran a mirage-like shimmer in the far instance

So sorry, Bodie

So sorry, Liz. Such a brutal time in HE

How sad!