"A Peep at the Gas-lights in Pall Mall", a humorous caricature of reactions to the installation of the new invention of gas-burning street lighting on Pall-Mall, London (Engraved by Thomas Rowlandson in 1809 after a drawing by George M. Woodward).
Sci-fi and Satire! : In this week's blog post, Early Career Fellow at the John Rylands (2024-2025) @roseannakettle.bsky.social
writes about William Gifford's fascinating satirical work on the topic of gaslight technology in Georgian London.
Blog: ow.ly/Ln1850X2H0X
26.09.2025 15:02 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our Barbauld conferences is next week! Still time to register, in-person or online 🗣️🗣️🗣️
16.06.2025 16:05 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Writing the Industrial Revolution | New approaches to the Industrial Revolution in literature, art and history
It’s been so exciting to contribute to this research collective headed by Jeremy Davies and Mary-Ann Constantine re-examining Britain’s industrial period. Check it out if you have time for an insight into my current research and that of many other scholars in the field! writingindustry.leeds.ac.uk
13.05.2025 14:59 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
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an incredibly warm welcome from @lapasec.bsky.social - both literally and figuratively! thank you to the organisers for all your hard work & looking forward to everything to come ☀️
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reposting as if anyone has any further leads on this i’d be hugely grateful!! ☺️
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finished in the reading room for the year - but what a dream it’s been so far ❤️
20.12.2024 19:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
does anyone have any tips for attributing lines of out-of-context poetry to their proper author? have stumbled upon some very poorly referenced extracts and am dying to know where on earth this critic got them from but my usual methods aren’t working 🙃
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(posting on behalf of) Alana Blakers who is doing a PhD on queer museums as part of my ARC project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists. Any and all participation is appreciated
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absolutely - I’d recommend the fellowship wholeheartedly, such a friendly team (& a lovely privilege to get to wander about the grounds each morning!)
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Engagement Manager, The University of Manchester Library.
Loves all things libraries, especially mine, a good cuppa o'tea and running a very long way.
SGSAH PhD | marginalia studies | Glasgow
PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, Global Romanticism, University College London.
PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and antiquarianism in 18th century Ireland
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English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
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📚 Writer on William Blake & Allen Ginsberg
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Trans rights are human rights
PhD on early modern domestic service and skill from Birkbeck School of Arts, London. Sometime academic working on women's writing and non-elite writing in the 17th and 18th centuries. He/him
PhD student in History at Swansea University.
Doctoral researcher at the chair of British Literature and Culture at UDE (Essen, Germany). Avid reader of fantasy, amatory fiction, world literatures. Nothing to declare except that I’m a tad snobbish about wine and food.
Historian of 17th-18thc gender, medicine and sexuality at Newcastle University. Precarious ECR. Powered by tea, feminism and florid 18thc prose. Views mine.
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Studies working-class poetry and letters from 1650-1850, in context of empire and slavery, land politics, ecology, and the non-human world.
-- https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/adam-j-bridgen/
Reader, blogger and book hoarder | MA Literature of the Romantic Period 1775-1832 from @york.ac.uk 📚
Lives in #Manchester 🐝
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Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/
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PhD researcher at the University of Ghent. Translation theory, the long nineteenth century, and European Romanticisms.
British Association for Romantic Studies Early-Career & Postgraduate account. Posting news of interest to @bars.bsky.social members/followers. Admin: PGR/ECR Officers.
Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor, at Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford.
Director of Textual Studies @CMTaC | Author 'Musical Wordsworth' @LivUniPress | Forthcoming 'George Crabbe and Medicine' @CambridgeUP | PhD @durham_uni | Membership Secretary @BARS_official
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