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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · Apr 16
We are the @dfg.de -funded Specialised Information Service (Fachinformationsdienst) Anglo-American Culture #FIDAAC at SUB Göttingen & Branch Library North American Studies at University Library, FU Berlin.
Follow us for publications from all anglophone cultures & news for the scientific community!
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Off to see the wizard... 2 new books on The Wizard of Oz in our collection! 📗📗
Explore queer readings of #LFrankBaum 's works with Tison Pugh's "Queer Oz" - not only for "friends of Dorothy"! 💚🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#childrensliterature #AmericanLiterature #QueerStudies #TransStudies #LiteraryStudies
Holding the book "Queer Oz" by Tison Pugh in front of a Christmas tree decorated with white and silver ornaments
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
#Christmas is a time of tradition & #nostalgia for many. Embrace it with these 2 new studies on beloved #childrensclassics
1) Patrick C. Fleming's "Animating the Victorians", tracing the #GoldenAge #childrensliterature texts that inspired #WaltDisney & Co

#Disney #VictorianLiterature #Adaptations
Holding the book "Animating the Victorians - Disney's Literary History" in front of a christmas tree decorated with silver ornaments
December 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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theguardian.com
The Room in the Tower: A Ghost Story for Christmas review – Tobias Menzies is perfect in Mark Gatiss’s spooky tale
The Room in the Tower: A Ghost Story for Christmas review – Tobias Menzies is perfect in Mark Gatiss’s spooky tale
The understated lead in this year’s creepy festive drama is ideal for the whispered dread it drips with. Be warned, though: it verges on horror – young kids may well be terrified
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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britishlibrary.bsky.social
To mark Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, we hosted Wild About Jane Austen: The Woman Behind the Novels, an event exploring Austen as an ambitious, politically aware writer.

Watch the full event on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4_V...

#BritishLibrary #Libraries #JaneAusten250
Wild About Jane Austen: The Woman Behind the Novels
YouTube video by British Library
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
#MerryChristmas 🎁
Will there be any books under your tree this year?
If so, why not explore the tradition of "The Literary Gift in Early America" with David Faflik's interdisciplinary study on gifting books, #giftbooks & beyond!

opac.sub.uni-goettin...

#AmericanStudies #AmericanLiterature
Holding the book "The Literary Gift in Early America" by David Faflik in front of a large Christmas tree, decorated with silver-white ornaments
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
According to British #folklore ghost activities are heightened at #wintersolstice & #Christmas 👻

This new book in our collection by @folklorewales.com & @folklorepod.bsky.social presents & categorises some #Welsh #ghoststories now available in English for the 1st time!

#WelshCulture #ghosts
The book "The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts" on a gravestone, in front of a gnarly tree in sunny winter weather
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
If you're intrigued by Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein then check out this essay collection, edited by Robert I. Lublin & Elizabeth A. Fay on the afterlives of #MaryShelley 's creation in film, #PopularCulture & other #adaptations

#AdaptationStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies
The book "The Afterlives of Frankenstein - Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings" on a mossy stone in a graveyard, with several historic tombstones in the background
December 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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manchesterup.bsky.social
Listen to today's episode of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour for a discussion of why Jane Austen is still so relevant to women today, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of her birth, featuring author @thezhm.bsky.social:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#JaneAusten250 #booksky
BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Why is Jane Austen still so relevant to women today?
Woman's Hour celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

250th Anniversary ✒ #JaneAusten, English novelist, was #BOTD 16 December 1775. #Literature. #JaneAusten250
December 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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250. Geburtstag von Jane Austen: Literaturwissenschaftlerin PD Dr. Franziska Quabeck vom Englischen Seminar @uni-muenster.de sieht mehrere Gründe für den Erfolg der britischen Schriftstellerin – einer davon betrifft eine besondere Eigenschaft ihrer Romanheldinnen. #JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten
[12.12.2025] 250. Geburtstag von Jane Austen: Warum die britische Romanautorin noch immer so beliebt ist
Jane Austens Bücher sind Bestseller über Generationen hinweg. Zu ihrem 250. Geburtstag ehren Presse und Fans jeden Alters sie mit Festivals, Features und Re-Reads. Literaturwissenschaftlerin PD Dr. Fr...
www.uni-muenster.de
December 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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theul.bsky.social
✨This book was once owned by Jane Austen! ✨

There are very few books that Jane Austen is known to have owned, making this one at the UL incredibly special. We're delighted to show it to you today, on her 250th birthday!

#JaneAusten250
December 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Happy Birthday, #JaneAusten !! 🎂🎈
She was born exactly 250 years ago #OTD
"It is a truth universally acknowledged" that her combination of an enthralling romance plot with uniquely funny characters & social criticism remains timeless. 💌

#JaneAusten250 #EnglishLiterature #BOTD
A table with toile do juoy tablecloth, several stacks of books by and on Jane Austen and her works, decorated with a pink ribbon, saucers with biscuits and chocolates and a porcelain cup of tea
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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johnrlambert2.bsky.social
Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI - Gizmodo gizmodo.com/librarians-a...
Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI
AI chatbots are generating fake titles that people insist are real.
gizmodo.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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tazkultur.bsky.social
Das Romance-Genre boomt und beruft sich auf Jane Austen als Ahnherrin. Zu Recht? Auftakt einer Reihe zum 250. Geburtstag der britischen Autorin.
taz.de/250-Geburtst...
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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rezekjoe.bsky.social
When the New Year turns, all the Jane Austen 250 birthday people will limp to the finish line, absolutely exhausted, and hand the baton to the America 250 birthday people, all little babies ready to run.
December 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
4 doctoral scholarships at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Deadline: 31 Jan, 2026

www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduates...

#AmericanStudies #CanadianStudies #CulturalStudies #AmericanLiterature #CanadianLiterature
4 doctoral scholarships (DAAD and Freie U Berlin)
www.jfki.fu-berlin.de
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
"Mau Moko - the world of Maori tattoo" by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku et al., the reprint of the 2007 work on #tattoos as a traditional practice among #Maori is gracing our library with its lavish illustrations & explanatory texts - contemporary & historical documents of wearers of #moko

#MaoriStudies
Holding the book "Mau Moko - the world of Maori tattoo" by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku next to a yellow rose A glimpse into the book "Mau Moko - the world of Maori tattoo" by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku next to a yellow rose, showing two pages with Maori women with moko an historical illustration depicting wearers of moko, c 1850, by Joseph Jenner Merrett
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
ALA is disappointed and concerned with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow a lower court ruling in Little v. Llano County stand. This decision will significantly restrict the freedom to read in public libraries across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Our statement: https://bit.ly/48HOSAl
Supreme Court refuses to hear Little v. Llano County. Quote from ALA President Sam Helmick: "Millions of library users now face a diminished right to read and explore information free from government interference. The ruling threatens to transform government libraries into centers for indoctrination instead of protecting them as hubs of open inquiry.” American Library Association logo
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Who else is unimpressed with #CloudDancer - the #PantoneColoroftheYear #Pantone2026 ?!
We offer you instead: lots & lots of books to learn about #CriticalWhiteness & #CriticalRaceTheory from our collection!

P.S.: we got more colourful clouds than just plain, old, boring white, too! See pic ☁️🌈
A stack of books on Critical Whiteness Studies in front of a window looking to a purple and lilac nightsky with pink clouds
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
I have already been quoted and referenced with hallucinated literature, and you all will be too. It’s a growing mess.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19d
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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evelynkoch.bsky.social
#CFP for the 27th International Thomas Hardy Conference and Festival:
www.hardysociety.org/oxo/817/ths-...
July 25th-August 1st 2026, Dorchester
#ThomasHardy #19thC #Victorian 💙📚 #booksky
THS Call for Papers
The 27th International Thomas Hardy Conference & Festival
www.hardysociety.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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evelynkoch.bsky.social
Some of my favourite etymologies are that of lord (hlāford) and lady (hlǣfdige).
dannybate.bsky.social Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 24d
It's a great word fact that English 'lord' comes from a compound meaning 'bread guard', which fused into one word: Old English hlāford.

There's evidence from Norway that the concept was an old one, as the Tune runestone (c. 400 AD) mentions the role of "witadahalaiban" – 'the one watching bread'.
A drawing of the two sides of the Tune runestone, showing its four lines of a runic inscription
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
New week, new addition to our collection - this time it's a cold case from #AmericanHistory 🔎
Edited by Eric Klingelhofer, the book traces a possible spot of #SirWalterRaleigh 's 1587 "Lost Colony" & documents the findings of #archaeology & historical maps with many illustrations

#Cartography
Holding the book "Excavating the Lost Colony" in front of a yellow brick wall, overgrown with red leaves
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
Congratulations once again to the six shortlisted authors for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize.

📕Eleanor Barraclough
📕Helen Castor
📕 @kieranconnell.bsky.social
📕Hannah Durkin
📕Andrew Fleming
📕 @victoriandetective.bsky.social

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners...
December 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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romanceofbooks.bsky.social
‘The Circulating Library’ personification illustration by George Spratt. Printed by Printed by G. E. Madeley and published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, London ca. 1830.

#printhistory #bookhistory #CirculatingLibrary #historyofprint #botanicalart #romanceofbooks
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM