Megan Peiser

Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Job: Humanities Librarian at Oakland University jobs.oakland.edu/postings/35510
(where you'd be able to collaborate with the excellent @meganpeiser.bsky.social)

Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit, private companies (ie Geo Group and CoreCivic).

www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n...

🔴 1669 Citing poor eyesight, English civil servant Samuel Pepys records the last entry in his famous diary

#OnThisDay
#ThisDayinHistory
#OTD
#May31
#SamuelPepys

Honestly… it would. I used to joke that I knew more about Charles II’s mistresses than his foreign policy… but I actually just learned foreign policy through his mistresses.

It’s AMAZING

ZOMG

I love this idea. I have no idea what I would do, but I love this. It really embraces that learning could be about joy.

I second this.

This thread on biscuits made my morning, especially the bookish biscuits. #bookhistory #bibliography

Starting the Charlotte Smith chapter of Rebecca Romney’s new book feels like a treat today.

Hey ASECS members in Michigan (adjacent states too!). Interested in gathering in the center of the state for a dinner on one of the virtual ASECS weekends? I'll organize if I know who to invite. #ASECS2025 #ASECS25

It’s so easy to vote in the @asecsoffice.bsky.social elections for the Executive Board! Let’s break some voter turnout records!

On Wonder Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - On Wonder

Good news!

My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social !

Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025.

Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world!

#C18L #18thcentury

DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

yes! it looks like the BL 19th Century is down rn. <sigh> Thanks for checking for me!

I need something c. 19th century that my ECCO access doesn't reach to. I can see via WorldCat that "historical texts" has it...

Anyone have access to Historical Texts database and could look up something for me?

I get that for Christians it's important to see Christianity as good. but none of the rest of us fucking care if it's "real" Christians or "fake" Christians robbing us of healthcare or destroying our democracy.

@cignahealthcare.bsky.social ??

Unacceptable. @cignahealthcare.bsky.social

Wtf Cigna. Cancer patients are your patients—where is the care they deserve?

Please advise: which book have you started with?

Sold some eggs to our neighbor yesterday & am thinking we should upcharge for folks who voted for this nonsense 👀

Fascinating!

4) Do not normalize proving your citizenship status on demand. You are not required to do that. Refuse. White American citizens are safest in refusing because they're the hardest to fuck with and they should use it.

Folks are about to get a hard lesson in food sovereignty. If you don’t have control over your food sources, they can make you do anything.

I don’t have a tidy answer, but I wanted to say this so it has been said, at least somewhere. These photos should go home to their tribes. These images of ancestors are sacred.

Confrontation runs the risk of violence, or of driving these kinds of materials underground, which further entrenches their status as fetishized objects & keeps them from the tribes. Could our professional orgs make a path for confronting this atrocity? 6/

Sometimes I am able to confront a seller. Sometimes that is beyond my bandwidth or safety. But I see entire rooms of ppl saying nothing. Worse, shopping these “wares” 5/

What responsibilities do bookish societies have to intervening here? To saying “this is not ok”? To writing policies or offering themselves up to help repatriate these items from private collectors? 4/