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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16d

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.

Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe

On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 24d

Publishing today!

Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social

The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts #GothicStudies

Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 24d

I’m delighted to be part of this term’s London 19th Century Studies Seminar line up, and on a periodicals panel with @andrewkingc19.bsky.social no less! Join us at Senate House on Tues 14 Oct - all welcome!

Hark! The wild west wind rattles yonder casement, and autumn's own breath chills the under-insulated pedestrian trudging the pavement outside. These things betoken the return of hats and overcoats, umbrellas and germs, and of course students... but also the London 19th Century Studies Seminar! Please find the programme below, lovingly curated by myself, Mary Shannon and Briony Wickes. All events will be held from 6pm to 8pm in Room 243 at Senate House.
14th October: Andrew King (Greenwich),
"Periodicals and the Materiality of Marketing", and Clare Stainthorp (Royal College of Art),
"The British Freethought Movement and
Periodical Form".
25th November: Kate Hext (Exeter) and Catherine Maxwell (QMUL) on Decadent
Flowers and Gardens.
9th December: Peter Bryden (Exeter) and Robert Hampson (RHUL) on New Perspectives on Late Victorian Art.

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Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is a brilliant opportunity. Happy to answer any questions if anyone is interested in applying!

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 4

💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP

RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 1

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP

The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin:
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 1

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP

The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

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Mercedes Sheldon @mercedessheldon.bsky.social · 25d

What a fabulous resource! Wedgwood's intellectual work occupied such a fascinating space within #C19 debates about religion, science, and women's work. What a treasure, to have #OpenAccess to her writings. {I also highly recommend Sue Brown's biography, which is cited in Stone's bibliography.}

Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was an intellectual icon of the Victorian era ✍️
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · 25d

RSVP generously supports Periodicals research through several grants competitions. Maybe one fits your project!

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25d

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · Sep 7

Incredible but true - I have just had a tour of #Ouida’s house in Florence by a wonderful nun, sorella Rosa.
I am very moved, of course, but learnt more.
A bit of a change from where she was born in Bury St Edmunds.

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Verna Kale @vernakale.bsky.social · Aug 26

CFP: The Hemingway Letters Project: Emerging Research (Toronto, July 20-25, 2026). Please share with students/colleagues/friends who might be interested. Happy to answer questions about the panel in particular and the conference in general. Funding opportunities available.

The Hemingway Letters Project invites proposals for a panel at the 21st Biennial Hemingway Conference, July 20-25, 2026 in Toronto. 6 vols of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway have been published to date. This edition has allowed access to the author's correspondence, approximately 85% of which is previously unpublished. In its first 6 vols the project has made available 2000+ letters from 100+ repositories & collections. The editors invite proposals from scholars who have made significant use of the Letters in their work in order to highlight emerging research that the Project has facilitated.

We are esp. interested in interdisciplinary engagement w/ the vols & welcome proposals from a range of fields & subfields, including but not limited to, bibliography & history of the book, biography & life writing, creative writing, digital humanities & humanities computing, literary criticism, modernist studies, pedagogy, periodical studies & print culture, textual & documentary editing, & popular culture &fandom.

To be considered for the panel, please submit to the panel organizers a short (500-1000 words) description of your project as well as a short professional bio. Your project description should describe your work as a whole, how the Letters have facilitated your research, and what topic or approach your conference presentation will explore. Please indicate if your work is a finished project or a work in progress. In your bio, please include your professional affiliation and, if applicable, your student status or academic rank. We especially welcome proposals from graduate students, postdocs, and early-career scholars, as well as researchers outside the academy whose work reaches a wide general audience.

Deadline Oct. 1, 2025.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · Aug 31

Reflections on leaving salaried academia: lessons I've learned.

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Reflections on Leaving Salaried Academia

My tenure as full-time Professor of English at the University of Greenwich ends today (31 August 2025). Inevitably, I find myself reflecting on what the institution and I have given each other. Wha…

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Aug 1

Lecturer in Ancient History
Newcastle University - School of History, Classics and Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC475/l...

Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Ancient History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Aug 1

Teaching Fellowship in Twentieth-Century British History- University of Oxford - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC497/t...

Teaching Fellowship in Twentieth-Century British History at University of Oxford

An academic position as a Teaching Fellowship in Twentieth-Century British History is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · Jul 26

Reflections by a retiree on a career in #academia.
#retirement #work
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Although my contract ends 31 August, my years at Greenwich effectively end today as I give in my laptop, keys and ID. | Andrew King

Although my contract ends 31 August, my years at Greenwich effectively end today as I give in my laptop, keys and ID. Inevitably I find myself reflecting on what the institution and I have given each ...

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Jul 26

PhD Studentship: (ECOMEDS: Economic and Cultural Connections Within Mediterranean Ecosystems, c.1250-1550)
King's College London - #History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ935/p...

PhD Studentship: (ECOMEDS: Economic and Cultural Connections Within Mediterranean Ecosystems, c.1250-1550) at King's College London

Apply for a PhD Studentship: (ECOMEDS: Economic and Cultural Connections Within Mediterranean Ecosystems, c.1250-1550). Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · Jul 17

After an amazing three days in Birmingham at the @vpfa.bsky.social annual conference, it's graduation of my last undergraduate cohort at the University of Greenwich - a truly talented year.

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hear hear!

It's the @vpfa's deeply rooted refusal of hierarchy in the interest of welcome and joy combined with serious intellectual ambition, isn't it?

It's proof renewed every year that fun and rigour make a great alloy!

Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social · Jul 16

Well, #VPFAExtremes has been wonderful - the height of my summer so far, as ever! I am deeply grateful to be part such a fantastic, extremely warm and collegiate association. Thoroughly enjoyed the last few days - diolch pawb!

Conference programme: 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association. Heights, Depths, and Extremes. The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK. Victorian picture of a group of people confronted by a sea monster

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Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social · Jul 16

Well, #VPFAExtremes has been wonderful - the height of my summer so far, as ever! I am deeply grateful to be part such a fantastic, extremely warm and collegiate association. Thoroughly enjoyed the last few days - diolch pawb!

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Jul 16

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term

[writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · Jul 16

Very excited but also sorry its the last day of @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAExtremes! The panel I'm in is kicking off with Alison Dingle on Victorian depictions of the Holy Land, esp. Disraeli's Tancred and Tonna's Judah's Lion. Horribly topical.

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · Jul 11

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · Jul 11

Writing a keynote paper for @vpfa.bsky.social's annual conference about encounters with prehistoric animals in nineteenth-century fiction, and as I write Colossal Biosciences can't stop announcing that they're resurrecting extinct creatures. I prefer Jules Verne.

Illustration by Édouard Riou for Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth. An engraving depicting a host of prehistoric animals, including Megatherium, moa, and Pleiosaurus, called 'Axel's Dream'.

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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · Jul 11

THRILLED to share that my book has won the VPFA Second Book Prize! 🎉

Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · Jul 11

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.

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Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social · Jul 11

Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it.
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
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Helena Esser, Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 248 pp. HB £85.00. ISBN: 9781350433908 Reviewed by Emma Butler-Way Downlo…

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Finn Humphris @finnhumphris.bsky.social · Jul 14

First keynote, The Submarine Gothic beginning now in the Charles Dickens room 🦈🦈🦈 #VPFAExtremes

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