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Dr Laura Eastlake
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James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · Nov 10
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/14 #Gothic
Edison phonograph machine Famous yellow cover of Dracula (1897)
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I’d forgotten what a banger of a kids movie is Small Soldiers (1998). But if it was freaky as a kid then it’s extra freaky in the age of AI.
Poster for small soldiers movie featuring a soldier action figure who is very clearly part-terminator and part buzz lightyear.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Apply!
uofglasgowasc.bsky.social UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 12d
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!

We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.

Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

📆Closing date: 5 January 2026

#UofGLibraryFellows
Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Dickensians, what are your academic plans for next Thursday?
qaqv.bsky.social From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Oct 24
📚 Join us on Nov 13, 2025 (7 PM CET, Zoom) for Dr. Adrianne Wojcik’s lecture:

“Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.”

Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature.

Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/

#QAQV #Dickens
Mud and Stars
FORTHCOMING Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act This lecture explores the legal symbolism of “mud” and “stars,” the two inextricably linked extr...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Some really great literary theory classes today. Our regularly scheduled class on Marxist theory and Sianne Ngai’s ‘cute’ commodities derailed wildly (but not irrelevantly) into a discussion of what Karl Marx would make of the Labubu that someone left on his grave.
Left: grave of Karl Marx Right: close up of a malevolently cute looking labubu doll on the grave among flowers
November 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Boiler’s borked. So I’m spending Halloween waiting on … “The Boiler Man!!” #BBCghosts
Mary from BBC Ghosts, in cap, mustard-coloured dress and blue kirtle, who lives in dread of ‘The Boiler Man’
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I’m currently writing about Sherlock Holmes and my autocorrect keeps changing ‘Lestrade’ to ‘Lestat’. But now I’m thinking that would be one wild shared universe?!
Left: Sidney Paget illustration of Inspector Lestrade in bowler hat. Right: Sam Reid as rock star lestat shirtless but wearing a smoulder.
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social!

Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
ehunineteen.bsky.social EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · Oct 17
Our second seminar is:

27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#EHU19SeminarSeries
A print called ‘A Private Theatrical of Jane Shore’ with a seated woman performing with book for variously involved seated guests, a cat and dog fighting in the middle of them
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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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...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Very excited for BAVS to come to Liverpool next year, and very pleased to see our CfP out! No specific theme, we are open to any exploration of the multifaceted nature of 'the Victorian' - have a look at the call here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
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October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A path lined with dark green plants, deep red Japanese maple and bright yellow trees. In the background the tower of glasgow university main building. A bicycle leans against a lamppost.
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
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October 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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The full line up for our 2025/2026 #EHU19SeminarSeries is available to book now in the thread below!

Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Weekend reading.
Cover for The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley featuring multi-layered and multi-coloured 3D font
October 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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📚🚨 SALE 📚🚨

We have 70% off in our new academic year sale!

Celebrate the start of a new term with some fantastic discounts ⤵️

www.uwp.co.uk/sel-sale/
New Academic Year SALE! 70% Discount Code: AC25 Offer ends: 31 October
October 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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every author in this video has had their books banned #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans

get involved to stop the attacks on our freedom to read: uniteagainstbookbans.org
fiercereads.bsky.social Fierce Reads @fiercereads.bsky.social · Oct 5
We have a very important message for you this #BannedBooksWeek: Get involved! All week long we'll be sharing tips on books to read and how to join the fight for the freedom to read. ⁣
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#FreedomToRead #BooksNotBans #BannedBooks #ReadBannedBooks
October 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Wilkie Collins did ‘slutty little glasses’ first.

I will not be taking questions at this time.
Photograph of Wilkie Collins with very large beard and very tiny glasses
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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They've lost the 9yos
JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Me and my insomnia ready to take on the day.
Bedraggled looking raccoon brandishing a coffee and a sword
September 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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This year is the year!
What a great lineup. Join @romgothsam.bsky.social and read along.
September 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Violet Hunt and her amazing cat. #caturday
The author Violet Hunt standing in a Victorian/Edwardian era drawing room. To her right is an upholstered chair with a floofy black cat sitting on it.
September 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I’m on TV tonight! Check out the first episode of Britain’s Railway Empire at 8pm on Channel 4.

It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
September 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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A few bonus covers. 🌷❤️⚽🏹
Woman with cropped ref hair in a black peplum pajama suit, waters a daisy from a watering can. April 1921 Woman with a short, fashionable black bob and insect antennae sits in a red heart which looks like it's rotten from the inside. Footballer, pictured in mid kick, the ball above her head. Woman in striped dress and red cloche hat that evokes Attic vase painting, firing an arrow, while a cupid-like boy stands nearby
September 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Your La Vie Parisienne cover by birth month.

Some silliness from the historical periodicals for your #Friday. #c19th
Your La vie Parisienne cover by birth month. On left is an image of a woman in a billowing shirt, breeches and striped stockings and a jaunty hat, holding an artists palette. On right in an Amazon, clad in helmet and Minoan style two-piece, brandishing spear and shield
September 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Same vibes, somehow?

(Piggy is chilly and is accepting warming hugs.) #cats
A maine coon with a ridiculous hair cut. Furry head and tail, shaven body. Next to woman in a fur coat which has similar proportions.
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM