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Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social · 28d

Publication day today 11 September 2025 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/ros-...

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Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great to see 'When Summer Meant Sea Serpents' published in September's issue of @historytoday.com - www.historytoday.com/archive/hist... For more on the history of sea serpents see my new book, The Perilous Deep reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-per... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

When Summer Meant Sea Serpents

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Sep 9

As usual forgot to take photos, but here's a couple from @catherinespooner.bsky.social's and @coffinboffin.bsky.social's wonderful keynotes 🩵

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Sep 9

So grateful to @ogomproject.bsky.social for bringing us together for the dream mermaid conference. A brilliant three days thinking about submarine fantasies 💦🧜‍♀️🩵

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Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social · Sep 7

Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Sep 7

Great day 2 at the Sea Changes conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social! #seachanges

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OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social · Aug 9

A is for AMBOINA MERMAID
Writers recorded the capture of a mermaid on the island of Amboina 1712. Said to be 5 feet long, it screeched like a mouse & would not eat fish. The mermaid appears in 'Fishes, Crayfish & Crabs', a collection of the region's sea-life (1712) #SeaChanges

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · Aug 20

KEYNOTE 'The luck of the Ningyō: Hybridity and the rise of the fake museum mermaid'. Looking forward to sharing my research with all the wonderful attendees at #SeaChanges
@britishlibrary.bsky.social #GothicMermaids

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Sep 2

Still some online tickets available for Saturday if you fancy a mermaid-y weekend (in-person tickets are sold out) www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-... 🧜‍♀️💧🦭

Sea Changes Mermaid Conference 2025

Sea Changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and on line) Date: 6–8 September 2025 (6th on line…

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Jul 19

Congratulations Rhys! 🎉

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Jul 10

Brilliant! Have a wonderful time.The programme looks out of this world. Just spectacular.

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Mar 26

Congratulations, Jennie, and all involved!

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St Andrews School of English @standrewsenglish.bsky.social · Jan 9

Congratulations to Dr Kiron Ward on the publication of Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction (published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social)

The ebook is out today & it's available in hardback from 6th February:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/encyclopa...

Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction book cover

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St Andrews School of English @standrewsenglish.bsky.social · Jan 27

Yesterday, Emeritus Professor Susan Sellers appeared on BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books talking to Australian novelist Michelle de Ketser about Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith.

Catch up on BBC Sounds -
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Michelle de Kretser

Take Four Books speaks to Michelle de Kretser about her new novel and its three influences

www.bbc.co.uk

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St Andrews School of English @standrewsenglish.bsky.social · Feb 3

Congratulations to Dr Asha Hornsby on the publication of her new book titled 'Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture' It's available from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

More info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/news...
Order here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Feb 13

And a massive thank you to the hard working editors, @annawatz.bsky.social and Sarah Gamble

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Feb 13

🖤🦋 Angela Carter's Pasts🦋🖤is here! thrilled to be included in this stellar line up - and I really enjoyed my time in Bristol Uni archives with Basil Cottle's lecture notes (he taught Carter as an undergrad).

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · Dec 11

Just published online: Emma McEvoy’s important new book on the Music of the Gothic in our ‘Elements in the Gothic’ series. Contains great musical recordings. Free to download for the next month www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/...

The Music of the Gothic:1789–1820 | English literature 1700-1830

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Jim Cheshire @jimchesh.bsky.social · Dec 10

Job Opportunity: Want to run a famous Tennyson Archive (includes proofs of images below by Hunt, Rossetti and Millais), please repost... jobs.lincolnshire.gov.uk/vacancy/seni... @thevicsoc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @lincolnshirecc.bsky.social @medievalfemina.bsky.social

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Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social · Dec 6

Woohoo! 🎉

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Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him) @dranindyar.bsky.social · Dec 6

Some people may be interested in this new article on the representation of partition in SFF television - principally "Doctor Who" and "Ms Marvel". With thanks to Avishek Parui for editing the issue it will be part of.

Available open access here:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“It’s sort of everything”: The thingness of diasporic memory in “Demons of the Punjab” (2018) and Ms Marvel (2022)

This article focuses on two representations of the 1947 India–Pakistan partition in contemporary, 21st-century science fiction and fantasy – the Doctor Who episode “Demons of the Punjab” (2018) pro...

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Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him) @dranindyar.bsky.social · Dec 3

Superb news.

news.stv.tv/scotland/poe...

Poet and author Dr Peter Mackay appointed Scotland’s next Makar

Dr Mackay is the fifth person to hold the role since it was established by the Scottish Parliament in 2004.

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Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social · Feb 19

PHD FUNDING: a fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of St Andrews (incl. fees, either home or international rate). Milinda Bannerjee and I are seeking a student to study intellectual/scholarly connections between St Andrews and India, c1780-1900. See www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

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Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social · Feb 19

Lovely discussion today over Zoom of this Open Access special issue, "Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms," ronjournal.org Anna Pilz' formulation that we could take a closer look at “the prepositional ways of being on, of, by and with the coast” is so handy, wish I'd thought to express it that way. 🗃️📚

Romanticism on the Net | An open access journal devoted to British Romanticism since 1996

An open access journal devoted to British Romanticism since 1996

ronjournal.org

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · Nov 11

"Those calm bank-shaded eyes
[watched] her lessening westward quietly.
Then, as she neared the bend, her funnel screamed.
And that long lamentation made him wise
How unto Avalon, in agony,
Kings passed in the dark barge, which Merlin dreamed."
- Wilfred Owen, "Hospital Barge at Cerisy"
#BookWormSat

A picture by Dalziel Brothers. The dying King Arthur is carried away to Avalon on a magical ship.

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