Sara Zadrozny
@drsarazadrozny.bsky.social
Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor, at Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford.
It's an old chair, but still …
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It's an old chair, but still …
Lucy has no idea how my chair got scratched.
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Lucy has no idea how my chair got scratched.
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For any Londoners with a winter coat to spare, you can take it to the Actors’ Church (St Paul’s in Covent Garden) to be given to someone who needs one.
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
For any Londoners with a winter coat to spare, you can take it to the Actors’ Church (St Paul’s in Covent Garden) to be given to someone who needs one.
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Can’t quite believe that the great Dickensian and kind, generous, thoughtful scholar Michael Slater has died. Happy memories of Dickens Days - his wonderful readings. I’m experiencing the creeping feeling that he sort of WAS Dickens - only in the best ways, of course. Dickensian and A Dickensian.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Can’t quite believe that the great Dickensian and kind, generous, thoughtful scholar Michael Slater has died. Happy memories of Dickens Days - his wonderful readings. I’m experiencing the creeping feeling that he sort of WAS Dickens - only in the best ways, of course. Dickensian and A Dickensian.
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Just in time for the final Stranger Things...revisit your favourite 80s media with 'Suburban Fantastic Cinema' cup.columbia.edu/book/suburba...
Suburban Fantastic Cinema | Columbia University Press
Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force ... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Just in time for the final Stranger Things...revisit your favourite 80s media with 'Suburban Fantastic Cinema' cup.columbia.edu/book/suburba...
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I'm thrilled to be co-organising this study day next year. Please consider submitting an abstract and joining us in this important and fascinating conversation about women's (peri-) menopause in Victorian literature
Another VPFA Study Day: 'The Critical Age in Victorian Popular Literature'
❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause
🌏 online
📅 19th May 2026
💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members
Send proposals (250) to
[email protected] and [email protected] by 19th February 2026
❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause
🌏 online
📅 19th May 2026
💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members
Send proposals (250) to
[email protected] and [email protected] by 19th February 2026
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I'm thrilled to be co-organising this study day next year. Please consider submitting an abstract and joining us in this important and fascinating conversation about women's (peri-) menopause in Victorian literature
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Dear #Academicsky: the RSS feeds to UPenn's CFP list doesn't seem to work anymore. Any technical advice on how to follow the list without constantly visiting the site manually? Much appreciated... #academic #upenn #academia
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Dear #Academicsky: the RSS feeds to UPenn's CFP list doesn't seem to work anymore. Any technical advice on how to follow the list without constantly visiting the site manually? Much appreciated... #academic #upenn #academia
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GO AND MAKE THESE CHANGES unless you are okay with gmail scanning all your emails and attached content.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
GO AND MAKE THESE CHANGES unless you are okay with gmail scanning all your emails and attached content.
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🍃 Considering applying for our Postgraduate Certificate in Ecological Survey Techniques?
Join us online on Thursday 4 December at 13:00 to find out more about the course, get to know the course team, meet our former students, and ask any questions you may have.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/CdqjObj
Join us online on Thursday 4 December at 13:00 to find out more about the course, get to know the course team, meet our former students, and ask any questions you may have.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/CdqjObj
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🍃 Considering applying for our Postgraduate Certificate in Ecological Survey Techniques?
Join us online on Thursday 4 December at 13:00 to find out more about the course, get to know the course team, meet our former students, and ask any questions you may have.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/CdqjObj
Join us online on Thursday 4 December at 13:00 to find out more about the course, get to know the course team, meet our former students, and ask any questions you may have.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/CdqjObj
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CFP: Special issue on Brontë adaptations—film, stage, screen, visual arts, digital media, transmedia, ALL the creative ways the Brontës keep being reimagined. The issue will be published in 2027, and the deadline for submissions is October 5, 2026
From Haworth to Eternity: Adapting the Brontës on Stage, Screen, and Beyond
Explore the Brontës and adaptation across film, screen, and the visual and performing arts—including digital, transmedia, and other emerging media forms.
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
CFP: Special issue on Brontë adaptations—film, stage, screen, visual arts, digital media, transmedia, ALL the creative ways the Brontës keep being reimagined. The issue will be published in 2027, and the deadline for submissions is October 5, 2026
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Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on Science & the Modern World, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Email me by 25 November on [email protected] if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
Email me by 25 November on [email protected] if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on Science & the Modern World, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Email me by 25 November on [email protected] if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
Email me by 25 November on [email protected] if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
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Just a reminder that if you're attending our seminar in person rather than online this evening, we're in the Institute of Education rather than at the IHR (which is closed for Founders' Day). All welcome! #Skystorians
‘Such a silly fellow I fear his making some mistake’: The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England
www.history.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Just a reminder that if you're attending our seminar in person rather than online this evening, we're in the Institute of Education rather than at the IHR (which is closed for Founders' Day). All welcome! #Skystorians
Just 'reduced' a section of my introduction by somehow adding 1000 words. I'll revisit it tomorrow …
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Just 'reduced' a section of my introduction by somehow adding 1000 words. I'll revisit it tomorrow …
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Hello! I’m looking for scholarship on the management of artificial light in early modern workplace environments. Any suggestions most welcome! #earlymodern #bookhistory
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Hello! I’m looking for scholarship on the management of artificial light in early modern workplace environments. Any suggestions most welcome! #earlymodern #bookhistory
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November 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Currently (just about) functioning between 5-8
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Risley Moss was built on the site of a Royal Ordnance factory - some of the bunkers are still there. The workers were called the 'canary girls' because the chemicals turned their hair yellow. warringtonhistorysociety.uk/suicide-squa...
The Suicide Squad: Memories of Risley Munitions - Warrington History Society
The story of Mabel Dutton and her time spent working on "The Suicide Squad" at Risley Munitions, Warrington, during World War 2.
warringtonhistorysociety.uk
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Risley Moss was built on the site of a Royal Ordnance factory - some of the bunkers are still there. The workers were called the 'canary girls' because the chemicals turned their hair yellow. warringtonhistorysociety.uk/suicide-squa...
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I'm still looking for participants to interview about Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing co-ops and feminist architecture! Please share 💗
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I'm still looking for participants to interview about Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing co-ops and feminist architecture! Please share 💗
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @royalholloway.bsky.social
Founded in 1879 by Thomas Holloway, who had made his fortune selling patent medicines, it was one of @londonu.bsky.social's colleges for women
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Founded in 1879 by Thomas Holloway, who had made his fortune selling patent medicines, it was one of @londonu.bsky.social's colleges for women
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @royalholloway.bsky.social
Founded in 1879 by Thomas Holloway, who had made his fortune selling patent medicines, it was one of @londonu.bsky.social's colleges for women
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Founded in 1879 by Thomas Holloway, who had made his fortune selling patent medicines, it was one of @londonu.bsky.social's colleges for women
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
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Another new VPFA blog post from our very own Social Media Secrerary (yes, it is Rebecca shamelessly reposting this). Read about my experience as a Chawton House Visiting Fellow at the link below! Chawton offers so much to VPFA members, but particularly scholars of women's writing 🪶
I have written a Blog Post for @vpfa.bsky.social about my time at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social as a Visiting Fellow! To read about the value of organisations like Chawton House to scholarly associations like VPFA, and an amusing snippet from a woman's diary: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-i-s...
In Which…I Spent a Month at Chawton House!
A reflection by Rebecca HamiltonI spent the entire month of August feeling as though I were a character in a Jane Austen’s novel, in the very place Jane Austen wrote all her major novels: Chawton. …
victorianpopularfiction.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Another new VPFA blog post from our very own Social Media Secrerary (yes, it is Rebecca shamelessly reposting this). Read about my experience as a Chawton House Visiting Fellow at the link below! Chawton offers so much to VPFA members, but particularly scholars of women's writing 🪶
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A stream of blue humanities projects is flooding my desk (ok, done with the watery language now, I promise) for our new series. 1st manuscript is also now out with peer reviewers! Check out the series' overview and get in touch if working on anything relevant! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...
www.bloomsbury.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A stream of blue humanities projects is flooding my desk (ok, done with the watery language now, I promise) for our new series. 1st manuscript is also now out with peer reviewers! Check out the series' overview and get in touch if working on anything relevant! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...
Just got round to reading The Wrath to Come and it's 👏👏👏
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Just got round to reading The Wrath to Come and it's 👏👏👏
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The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
October 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
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Looks like we might have an update about CR from our SMT this Friday (Oct 24)
- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
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- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
chng.it
October 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Looks like we might have an update about CR from our SMT this Friday (Oct 24)
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My fab colleague Sharon Ruston on the new Guillermo Del Toro Frankenstein: theconversation.com/guillermo-de...
Guillermo de Toro’s Frankenstein: beguiling adaptation stays true to heart of Mary Shelley’s story
Guillermo del Toro’s retelling of the story about a scientist trying to create life is a visual treat and a rousing adaptation.
theconversation.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
My fab colleague Sharon Ruston on the new Guillermo Del Toro Frankenstein: theconversation.com/guillermo-de...
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Ok, does anyone know how to easily convert references and bib to MHRA? Word seems to have every style but that one!
October 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Ok, does anyone know how to easily convert references and bib to MHRA? Word seems to have every style but that one!