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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 2d

The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

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Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social · 2d

Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

cfp | call for papers

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 2d

We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.

Free! Online! All welcome!

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · 4d

If your business model relies upon using stolen property then it’s not a viable business

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Mar 21

The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.

To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · 5d

Not exactly: Swift is focusing on Ophelia’s own experience rather than the reactions of her male relations, just as Millais’ painting does. From Ophelia’s perspective, the man she loved destroyed her mental health by obsessing on his own drama: to my mind, Fate of Ophelia is very much a woman’s song

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · 12d

How thrilling! Have read of such things in books, but never seen one in the wild before

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Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to see my article on Beatrix Potter, timber, and arboreal stewardship published in Plant Perspectives (OA) 🪵🧚🏻‍♀️

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · 12d

Ah, no that sucks! Sorry, wish I could be more help

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · 12d

Long shot, but it seems to be available here and if you sign up for a free trial you can download 3 pages before it asks you to subscribe: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/resul...
(would love to help, but have already used my 3 free pages 😕)

Your results: 1 issues filtered by: Newspaper title: Westminster Gazette County: London, England Date from: 20th Apr 1912 - Date to: 20th Apr 1912

www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 13d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social · 13d

📖 In “Paratextual Mediation and Narrative Reconstruction: An Analysis of Footnotes in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl,” Jingxuan Yi explores how Owenson redefined Anglo-centric colonial narratives in her epistolary novel, tracing paratextual elements as subversive tools. Check out the article👇:

Paratextual Mediation and Narrative Reconstruction: An Analysis of Footnotes in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl

The 1801 Act of Union united Ireland with Britain, significantly altering Ireland’s political and cultural identity. While some Irish supported the Union, Anglo-Irish writers such as Sydney Owenson...

www.tandfonline.com

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · 25d

The miscommunication led to introduction of mandatory 24-hr radio monitoring, a measure which would probably have ensured the Californian would have known about the incident sooner (distress flares were also standardised after Titanic, to prioritise safety)

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · 25d

As I understand it, the Californian is now believed to have been 17-20 miles away from Titanic at time of sinking, & recent research/documentaries suggest it was most likely not the mystery ship seen from Titanic’s deck sailing away (it was locked in ice & misinterpreted the distress flares)

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 26d

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Naming and Classifying cfp final

CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

docs.google.com

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patersonjoseph.bsky.social @patersonjoseph.bsky.social · Sep 11

⭐️Happy Launch Day: TEN CHILDREN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD!⭐️ #Waterstones #HachetteChildrensGroup #ChildrensLiterature #History

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Great start for @sophiasgaler.bsky.social 's 'Universities Challenged' with its 'Tuition Impossible' episode. A primer for the uninitiated on university finance and economic impacts.

Hoping research too gets attention in the next episode, when culture wars are under view. Well worth listening to.

BBC Radio 4 - Universities Challenged, Tuition Impossible

Is a major university at risk of going bust, and what happens if it does?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · Sep 9

There are only 4 Reform MPs in Parliament (which has 650 seats in total). At the moment, with approx 0.6% of the Commons they are a statistical non-entity. Other parties that saw a rise in popularity at the last election aren't getting nearly this much extra BBC news coverage.

@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · Sep 9

He’s been doing that nicely for several years hasn’t he?

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · Sep 9

It’s not the Bodleian, but my brother sent me a link for this set a while ago & I feel like it would still be in your area of interest: www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...

Tribute to Jane Austen's Books 40766 | Other | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop GB

Jane Austen historical figure for International Women’s Day

www.lego.com

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · Sep 9

My brother (a particle physicist & Lego enthusiast) designed three different sizes of Lego model of the ATLAS detector at CERN (the project he works on), including a 3-foot-long model for his university‘s physics dept ☺️

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · Sep 6

Pope Pius IV famously had nudity covered up in the Sistine Chapel (Alexander Pope later references it in one of his Ethic Epistles), perhaps the person who annotated this text was following his teachings/approach?

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · Sep 6

What a nasty little man he is.
He should try reading Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

Sky News @news.sky.com · Sep 6

Farage confirms he wants to deport women back to Taliban in Afghanistan

Nigel Farage has confirmed he wants to deport women asylum seekers back to the Taliban in Afghanistan if he becomes prime minister.

news.sky.com

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · Sep 6

And probably with a slight scouse accent (as he was found on the streets of Liverpool)

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Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s really not just you: I will never not be disappointed that they keep getting the casting of Heathcliff so completely wrong. The new trailer is sadly unoriginal & uninspired as well as ahistorical (that wedding dress🤦‍♀️)

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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · Sep 3

On Anna May Wong for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

‘I was killed in virtually every film’: how trailblazing Chinese-American star Anna May Wong upended cinema

A retrospective at the BFI celebrates how Wong – whether typecast in orientalist fantasies or breaking taboos with a kiss – could always steal the show

www.theguardian.com

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