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Sara Zadrozny
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Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor, at Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford.
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smdsmith.bsky.social
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
vpfa.bsky.social Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 19d
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
jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk and siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk by 19th February 2026
This one-day symposium seeks to explore representations of the ‘critical age’ – the (peri-) menopause – in Victorian popular literature. The peri-menopausal and menopausal experiences of Victorian women have to date been overlooked or underrepresented in scholarly discussions of the period. Victorian popular literature, from novels to periodicals to advice books, provided an essential forum for discussing and shaping the public understanding of women’s bodies, even as much of it sought to obscure the female body. The (peri-) menopausal experience was often framed in terms of illness, excess, and degeneration, or, conversely, was relegated to silence. Women at the ‘critical age’ are frequently marginalised and associated with a range of negative stereotypes in literary and cultural narratives. This call for papers invites exploration of how this phase of women’s lives was constructed in the Victorian imagination, in medical discourses and advice literature, and in women’s lived experiences. We invite 20-minute papers exploring any aspect of the critical age in Victorian popular literature. Topics for exploration include but are not limited to: • Representations of the critical age in Victorian popular fiction • The medicalisation of (peri-) menopause • Cultural constructions of middle-aged women • Class and (peri-) menopause • (Peri-) Menopause in Victorian advice literature • Motherhood and (peri-) menopause • Experiences of the critical age in Victorian women’s life writing • Myths and popular misconceptions The event will also include a Digital Humanities Research Skills Workshop, with an emphasis on making digital methods more accessible. We invite short papers or workshop proposals that showcase how digital tools can be used to research women and their bodies in Victorian literature. Possible topics include data creation/cleaning/visualisations, textual, quantitative or statistical analysis, using AI or specific tools (such as Voyant or Power BI).
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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wanderlustpress.bsky.social
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
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aktange.bsky.social
GO AND MAKE THESE CHANGES unless you are okay with gmail scanning all your emails and attached content.
booksofm.com Monica Valentinelli is riding to Isengard @booksofm.com · 6d
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.
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
🍃 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
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
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
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profmhwhitworth.bsky.social
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 michael.whitworth@ell.ox.ac.uk if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
Jacket of CUP’s 1932 “cheap” edition of Science and the Modern World, bearing a quotation from Herbert Read’s review for The Criterion.
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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
drsarazadrozny.bsky.social
Just 'reduced' a section of my introduction by somehow adding 1000 words. I'll revisit it tomorrow …
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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michaelwdurrant.bsky.social
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
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jendeavour.bsky.social
Currently (just about) functioning between 5-8
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17d
Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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suewilkesauthor.bsky.social
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
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sineadcarter.bsky.social
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
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hbsj.bsky.social
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
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a photograph of a magnificently ornate biding, looking like a French chateau. Printed under the photo is "The Royal Holloway College, Egham". Handwritten in pencil is "Passed the College as we walked to Virginia Water. Is not it a fine building? Does it come up to the B F Library?"
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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vpfa.bsky.social
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 🪶
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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bendoyle.bsky.social
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
drsarazadrozny.bsky.social
Just got round to reading The Wrath to Come and it's 👏👏👏
Sarah Churchwell's book about the relationship between the myth of the Lost Cause, Gone with the Wind and the current political situation in the US.
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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vicmanch.bsky.social
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
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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Looks like we might have an update about CR from our SMT this Friday (Oct 24)
earlymodlancs.bsky.social Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 30
- 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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Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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October 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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catherinespooner.bsky.social
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
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clareclarke.bsky.social
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
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cathfeely.bsky.social
University of Derby proposes more than 200 redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Derby proposes more than 200 redundancies
The university says it is committed to supporting everyone affected.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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naomiclifford.bsky.social
If you're looking for historical images to illustrate your blog/book etc check out my list of resources and databases
www.naomiclifford.com/image-databa...
The focus is on Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
#history
Naomi Clifford | Historical image databases for your Georgian blog
An index of image databases useful for sourcing 18th and 19th century pictures to illustrate your history blog. Some free, others require permission.
www.naomiclifford.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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victorianlondon.bsky.social
has anyone done research on how much mothers were separated from children under New Poor Law? a topic I know nothing about, but Strand Union rules say that, for under sevens, mothers should be 'permitted to have access to them at all reasonable times'. a lot hanging on 'reasonable' perhaps.
October 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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lucindahawksley.bsky.social
I'm doing an event at The Museum of the Home on Sun 7 December. Tickets are on sale now. museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/a-d...
A Dickensian Christmas Talk with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley - Museum of the Home
Who better to get you into the Christmas spirit than a direct descendant of Charles Dickens? Join Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, author of Dickens…
museumofthehome.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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dickenssociety.bsky.social
📞 Calling all authors! See below 👇
Call for authors working on any aspect of the 19th century in connection with Charles Dickens for the Dickens Society Blog, the Cricket. Send submissions to doctorkatiebell@gmail.com and drcelestecallen@gmail.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM