Eleanor
@eleanor-19thc.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth researching women botanists in the long nineteenth century
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📣 CFP: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians
🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social
Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media — film, games, theatre, comics, VR & more.
🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026
Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social
Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media — film, games, theatre, comics, VR & more.
🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026
Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
WLM 14
In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different ...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
📣 CFP: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians
🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social
Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media — film, games, theatre, comics, VR & more.
🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026
Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social
Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media — film, games, theatre, comics, VR & more.
🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026
Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
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🎉 Happy 250th Birthday Jane Austen!
🎂 Today marks Jane Austen’s birthday and the 250th anniversary of her birth, #onthisday in 1775.
📖 Today we are celebrating her life and incredible contribution to English literature.
🎂 Today marks Jane Austen’s birthday and the 250th anniversary of her birth, #onthisday in 1775.
📖 Today we are celebrating her life and incredible contribution to English literature.
December 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🎉 Happy 250th Birthday Jane Austen!
🎂 Today marks Jane Austen’s birthday and the 250th anniversary of her birth, #onthisday in 1775.
📖 Today we are celebrating her life and incredible contribution to English literature.
🎂 Today marks Jane Austen’s birthday and the 250th anniversary of her birth, #onthisday in 1775.
📖 Today we are celebrating her life and incredible contribution to English literature.
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📢 Calling WHS members! For our last social of 2025, we are delighted to host @womenof1000.bsky.social who will be sharing research on music and dance among itinerant herring gutters in British and Irish fisheries
🗓️ Wed 17 Dec, 7pm
Sign up here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
🗓️ Wed 17 Dec, 7pm
Sign up here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
Select tickets – Women's History Scotland December Social - Guest Speaker Meg Hyland – Zoom
Women's History Scotland December Social - Guest Speaker Meg Hyland – Zoom, Wed 17 Dec 2025 - Women's History Scotland deliver online socials for members throughout the year. These socials are a fanta...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📢 Calling WHS members! For our last social of 2025, we are delighted to host @womenof1000.bsky.social who will be sharing research on music and dance among itinerant herring gutters in British and Irish fisheries
🗓️ Wed 17 Dec, 7pm
Sign up here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
🗓️ Wed 17 Dec, 7pm
Sign up here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
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History UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z
The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians
The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
History UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z
The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians
The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians
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⏰ Time is running out! Submit your 8–10k word essay for the Leah Leneman Prize by 22 Dec 2025. Open to students & independent scholars working on women’s or gender history.
Share widely 🔗
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Share widely 🔗
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
womenshistoryscotland.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
⏰ Time is running out! Submit your 8–10k word essay for the Leah Leneman Prize by 22 Dec 2025. Open to students & independent scholars working on women’s or gender history.
Share widely 🔗
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Share widely 🔗
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
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📢 Call for Papers! 📢
We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻
We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...
We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻
We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...
September 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📢 Call for Papers! 📢
We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻
We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...
We're excited to announce that in 2026 we will again be hosting an Early Career Researcher Symposium, and that this time it will be a partnership with @linneansociety.bsky.social!🙌🏻
We'd love to hear from all ECRs, so find how to submit a proposal 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/news/cfp-ear...
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The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
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Women's History Today, the journal of the Women's History Network, is looking for new editorial team members.
Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]
Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]
September 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Women's History Today, the journal of the Women's History Network, is looking for new editorial team members.
Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]
Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]
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We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
Thoroughly enjoyed attending @curioustravellers.bsky.social ECR Day yesterday. Enjoyed listening to some amazing and thought provoking papers and presenting on Maria Graham’s South American travel writing
September 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed attending @curioustravellers.bsky.social ECR Day yesterday. Enjoyed listening to some amazing and thought provoking papers and presenting on Maria Graham’s South American travel writing
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📢 Happy September and welcome to the start of a new academic year! What better way to start off 2025/26 as a history PGR than to apply for our bi-weekly seminar series? 💻👩🏫
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September 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
📢 Happy September and welcome to the start of a new academic year! What better way to start off 2025/26 as a history PGR than to apply for our bi-weekly seminar series? 💻👩🏫
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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 ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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...
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🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025.
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
September 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025.
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...
» BAVS Executive Committee VacanciesBAVSBAVS Executive Committee Vacancies | BAVS
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August 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...
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Registration is open for the @WomensHistScot Annual Conference 2025! Exploring new directions in women’s & gender history in Scotland.
Sat 13 Sept, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.
Learn more: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderHist #ScottishHistory
Sat 13 Sept, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.
Learn more: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderHist #ScottishHistory
August 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Registration is open for the @WomensHistScot Annual Conference 2025! Exploring new directions in women’s & gender history in Scotland.
Sat 13 Sept, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.
Learn more: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderHist #ScottishHistory
Sat 13 Sept, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.
Learn more: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
#WomensHistory #GenderHist #ScottishHistory
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🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history?
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
July 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history?
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
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📢 Our annual conference is less than a week away!
💻Did you know you can sign up to attend online? Use the link below to virtually attend our conference, and carry on reading for the event's programme! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
💻Did you know you can sign up to attend online? Use the link below to virtually attend our conference, and carry on reading for the event's programme! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
HistoryLab Annual Conference | Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time
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July 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
📢 Our annual conference is less than a week away!
💻Did you know you can sign up to attend online? Use the link below to virtually attend our conference, and carry on reading for the event's programme! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
💻Did you know you can sign up to attend online? Use the link below to virtually attend our conference, and carry on reading for the event's programme! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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📣 Call for Papers!
Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive.
📝 Deadline 1 July 2025
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Share widely!
Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive.
📝 Deadline 1 July 2025
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
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WHS Conference 2025 – Women's History Scotland
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June 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
📣 Call for Papers!
Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive.
📝 Deadline 1 July 2025
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Share widely!
Join us in Glasgow for New Directions in Women’s & Gender History in Scotland. We welcome papers on all aspects of women’s, gender, queer & trans history in/of Scotland. Interdisciplinary & inclusive.
📝 Deadline 1 July 2025
womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
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Our official journal for @incsa.bsky.social is open for submissions. As the editor responsible for themed issues I'm seeking innovative proposals connected to any aspect of the 19thC. If interested, get in touch with me directly.
Journal info: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
Journal info: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research
Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.
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June 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Our official journal for @incsa.bsky.social is open for submissions. As the editor responsible for themed issues I'm seeking innovative proposals connected to any aspect of the 19thC. If interested, get in touch with me directly.
Journal info: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
Journal info: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
Amazing cyanotypes produced by Anna Atkins
This #WorldOceansDay join us in admiring Anna Atkins' amazing algae #Cyanotypes from 1854. 🌊
June 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Amazing cyanotypes produced by Anna Atkins
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📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
WHS Conference 2025 – Women's History Scotland
womenshistoryscotland.org
May 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
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The Society welcomes applications for two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26, to support PhD students in completing a doctorate in #history.
Fellowships are held in association with
@ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians
Fellowships are held in association with
@ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians
May 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Society welcomes applications for two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26, to support PhD students in completing a doctorate in #history.
Fellowships are held in association with
@ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians
Fellowships are held in association with
@ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians
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It's #BiodiversityDay today! Bask in this bloom of beautiful botanicals illustrated by Dorothy Fernando in 'Wildflowers of Ceylon' 1954.
May 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's #BiodiversityDay today! Bask in this bloom of beautiful botanicals illustrated by Dorothy Fernando in 'Wildflowers of Ceylon' 1954.
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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For National Garden Day, take a read of our Women’s History Magazine special issue on gardening.
womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
Women’s History Summer 2019 – Special Issue: Gardening
Special Issue: Gardening The Summer 2019 special gardening issue of Women’s History is available now. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below. Conte…
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April 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
For National Garden Day, take a read of our Women’s History Magazine special issue on gardening.
womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...