@suchichoudhury.bsky.social
“Scholars and students across fields will find in Choudhury’s work new insights into the sensibilities and preoccupations of texts we thought we knew…” Many thanks to Madeleine Seys for her kind review of "Textile Orientalisms" in the Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
Suchitra Choudhury. Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture Victorian Studies. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2023. Pp. 226. $80.00 (cloth). | Journal of Br...
Suchitra Choudhury. Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture Victorian Studies. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2023. Pp. 226. $80.00 (cloth). - Volume 64
www.cambridge.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“Scholars and students across fields will find in Choudhury’s work new insights into the sensibilities and preoccupations of texts we thought we knew…” Many thanks to Madeleine Seys for her kind review of "Textile Orientalisms" in the Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
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📢 Call for Contributions 📢
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📢 Call for Contributions 📢
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
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Delighted to see this new special issue of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy on ‘The Philosophical Writings of Scottish Women’ in print. I had a lot of fun writing this short piece on Susan Ferrier earlier this year - now free to read @edinburghup.bsky.social: www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/....
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Delighted to see this new special issue of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy on ‘The Philosophical Writings of Scottish Women’ in print. I had a lot of fun writing this short piece on Susan Ferrier earlier this year - now free to read @edinburghup.bsky.social: www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/....
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One of my grad school professors here at SUNY New Paltz was Arthur Cash, biographer of Laurence Sterne. Classes met in his kitchen. Wine was served. We read Tristram Shandy, and he laughed at each joke and funny scene like a happy, new discovery. What made grad school worthwhile? Moments like this.
On this day, 18 December 1759, the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy were printed in a small edition at York. #OTD #TristramShandy
December 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
One of my grad school professors here at SUNY New Paltz was Arthur Cash, biographer of Laurence Sterne. Classes met in his kitchen. Wine was served. We read Tristram Shandy, and he laughed at each joke and funny scene like a happy, new discovery. What made grad school worthwhile? Moments like this.
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A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
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How do you celebrate Burns Night? 🏴
UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July.
Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf
UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July.
Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
How do you celebrate Burns Night? 🏴
UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July.
Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf
UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July.
Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf
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Coming up Buchanan Street, quickly, on a sharp winter evening
a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights…
—Edwin Morgan, “Trio”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights…
—Edwin Morgan, “Trio”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Coming up Buchanan Street, quickly, on a sharp winter evening
a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights…
—Edwin Morgan, “Trio”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights…
—Edwin Morgan, “Trio”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
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Another Mathematical Objects podcast episode is out! Find out about the interesting maths behind a slice of pizza: aperiodical.com/2025/12/math...
aperiodical.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Another Mathematical Objects podcast episode is out! Find out about the interesting maths behind a slice of pizza: aperiodical.com/2025/12/math...
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New Special Issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, edited by @helenaesser.bsky.social and @drclaireocall.bsky.social alert ‼️ The issue explores Victorian popular fiction and culture as key sites for negotiating gender and sexual non-conformity, with a focus on the concept of the ‘third sex’.
December 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
New Special Issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, edited by @helenaesser.bsky.social and @drclaireocall.bsky.social alert ‼️ The issue explores Victorian popular fiction and culture as key sites for negotiating gender and sexual non-conformity, with a focus on the concept of the ‘third sex’.
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The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly.
www.ecis.ie/news-events/
www.ecis.ie/news-events/
News and Events
www.ecis.ie
December 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly.
www.ecis.ie/news-events/
www.ecis.ie/news-events/
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Angus at midwinter
or near as makes no odds –
faint shadows raxed
over fields of dour earth,
every fairmer’s fenceposts
splashed with gold.
—Kathleen Jamie, “Solstice II”
in SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018
#poem #poetry #midwinter
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
or near as makes no odds –
faint shadows raxed
over fields of dour earth,
every fairmer’s fenceposts
splashed with gold.
—Kathleen Jamie, “Solstice II”
in SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018
#poem #poetry #midwinter
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
December 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Angus at midwinter
or near as makes no odds –
faint shadows raxed
over fields of dour earth,
every fairmer’s fenceposts
splashed with gold.
—Kathleen Jamie, “Solstice II”
in SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018
#poem #poetry #midwinter
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
or near as makes no odds –
faint shadows raxed
over fields of dour earth,
every fairmer’s fenceposts
splashed with gold.
—Kathleen Jamie, “Solstice II”
in SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018
#poem #poetry #midwinter
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
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Margaret Macdonald, The Three Perfumes, 1912, Glasgow School artist who was believed to have influenced Klimt #womensart
December 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Margaret Macdonald, The Three Perfumes, 1912, Glasgow School artist who was believed to have influenced Klimt #womensart
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At midday on the year’s midnight
into my mind came
I saw the new moon late yestreen
wi the auld moon in her airms…
—Liz Lochhead, “In the Mid-Midwinter”
published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon 2016)
#poem #poetry #StLucysDay
birlinn.co.uk/product/fugi...
into my mind came
I saw the new moon late yestreen
wi the auld moon in her airms…
—Liz Lochhead, “In the Mid-Midwinter”
published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon 2016)
#poem #poetry #StLucysDay
birlinn.co.uk/product/fugi...
December 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
At midday on the year’s midnight
into my mind came
I saw the new moon late yestreen
wi the auld moon in her airms…
—Liz Lochhead, “In the Mid-Midwinter”
published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon 2016)
#poem #poetry #StLucysDay
birlinn.co.uk/product/fugi...
into my mind came
I saw the new moon late yestreen
wi the auld moon in her airms…
—Liz Lochhead, “In the Mid-Midwinter”
published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon 2016)
#poem #poetry #StLucysDay
birlinn.co.uk/product/fugi...
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Early Bird Registration for #BSECS2026 closes on the
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
www.bsecs.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Early Bird Registration for #BSECS2026 closes on the
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
***15 NOVEMBER 2025***
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
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If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/
Conference
“The Underground: Prohibition, Abolition, Expression”2026 Call for Papers April 10-12, 2026, hosted by Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Baker Street Station on the Metropolitan Railway, 1863 &#…
midwestvictorian.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/
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RB & Gabriela Cunninghame Graham: International Travel, Domestic Reality
28 Nov @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free
Exploring the cultural & political significance of RBCG’s travels & travel-writing, & the question of Gabriela’s identity and RBCG’s collusion in the deception
wegottickets.com/event/677550
28 Nov @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free
Exploring the cultural & political significance of RBCG’s travels & travel-writing, & the question of Gabriela’s identity and RBCG’s collusion in the deception
wegottickets.com/event/677550
RB and Gabriela Cunninghame Graham: International Travel, Domestic Reality
An afternoon symposium with five speakers exploring the cultural and political significance of Cunninghame Graham's travels and travel-writing; the question of his wife Gabriela's identity and his col...
wegottickets.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
RB & Gabriela Cunninghame Graham: International Travel, Domestic Reality
28 Nov @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free
Exploring the cultural & political significance of RBCG’s travels & travel-writing, & the question of Gabriela’s identity and RBCG’s collusion in the deception
wegottickets.com/event/677550
28 Nov @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free
Exploring the cultural & political significance of RBCG’s travels & travel-writing, & the question of Gabriela’s identity and RBCG’s collusion in the deception
wegottickets.com/event/677550
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TODAY! We’re very excited at CECS to hear from Dr Rachael King, our British Academy International Visiting Fellow this autumn.
📢 Our next seminar is just a week away, with Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social, presenting a paper titled ‘Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives’
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, addresses close and distant reading, and the computational analysis of manuscript archives.
www.york.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
TODAY! We’re very excited at CECS to hear from Dr Rachael King, our British Academy International Visiting Fellow this autumn.
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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Call for Papers for 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures is out:pleased to be giving keynote,'Burns along the New Silk Road' @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social @sahavoice.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social scotlit-iassl.org/2025/11/11/c...
Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027)
The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027. Being China’s first city designated as a “UNESCO City of Literature…
scotlit-iassl.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Call for Papers for 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures is out:pleased to be giving keynote,'Burns along the New Silk Road' @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social @sahavoice.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social scotlit-iassl.org/2025/11/11/c...
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I have an essay on atmosphere in Virginia Woolf in the new issue of Modern Fiction Studies. Currently unpaywalled, if you even care muse.jhu.edu/issue/54710
May 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I have an essay on atmosphere in Virginia Woolf in the new issue of Modern Fiction Studies. Currently unpaywalled, if you even care muse.jhu.edu/issue/54710
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On Monday 12 May, 2.30 pm. All welcome! Also available via TEAMS (DM for link). poeticinnovation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
On Monday 12 May at the Centre for Poetic Innovation, @standrewsenglish.bsky.social & Modern Languages: seminar with Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social on 'New Perspectives on Ruaraidh Erskine’s Gaelic Magazines and Translation Activities', 2.30 pm: poeticinnovation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Centre for Poetic Innovation – University of St Andrews, Schools of English and Modern Languages
poeticinnovation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
On Monday 12 May, 2.30 pm. All welcome! Also available via TEAMS (DM for link). poeticinnovation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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Delighted to be speaking on 22 May at the SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (SSH) IN HORIZON EUROPE:
BRIDGING RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY FOR IMPACTFUL INNOVATION event, beginning 10am CET. Registration below. @ahallardyce.bsky.social @uofgied.bsky.social
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
BRIDGING RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY FOR IMPACTFUL INNOVATION event, beginning 10am CET. Registration below. @ahallardyce.bsky.social @uofgied.bsky.social
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Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Delighted to be speaking on 22 May at the SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (SSH) IN HORIZON EUROPE:
BRIDGING RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY FOR IMPACTFUL INNOVATION event, beginning 10am CET. Registration below. @ahallardyce.bsky.social @uofgied.bsky.social
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
BRIDGING RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY FOR IMPACTFUL INNOVATION event, beginning 10am CET. Registration below. @ahallardyce.bsky.social @uofgied.bsky.social
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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BARS is delighted to announce that the 2026 International Biennial Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme is Romantic Retrospection.
Weds 29th- Fri 31st July 2026 (with additional online elements held around the in-person conference)
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5908
Weds 29th- Fri 31st July 2026 (with additional online elements held around the in-person conference)
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5908
March 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
BARS is delighted to announce that the 2026 International Biennial Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme is Romantic Retrospection.
Weds 29th- Fri 31st July 2026 (with additional online elements held around the in-person conference)
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5908
Weds 29th- Fri 31st July 2026 (with additional online elements held around the in-person conference)
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5908
Lovely piece on Cashmere shawls, and cites Textile Orientalisms too - in Washington Post -
www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...
Is cheap cashmere worth buying? We put it to the test.
Brands like Quince, Uniqlo and Naadam sell cashmere sweaters for as low as $60.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Lovely piece on Cashmere shawls, and cites Textile Orientalisms too - in Washington Post -
www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...
😂😂
I’m enjoying this. I wonder who determined literary merit or otherwise 🤣
c. 150 books judged to be pornographic but possessing literary merit; c. 150 examples of early English printing; over 40 examples of important association copies and books with MS notes; over 110 albums and volumes containing original photographs.
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
😂😂