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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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The 2026 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist is here💜

Which book will you be picking up first?

#WomensPrizeforNonFiction
February 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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To mark #valentinesday & the theatrical release this week of the highly anticipated “Wuthering Heights”, here is the scrapbook we hold of William Wyler’s 1939 adaptation.

Which screen adaptation of Bronte's classic novel is your favourite?

#wutheringheights #filmsky #cinemasky
February 11, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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2 new books on #plants & the #nonhuman in #Literature & #Culture
Elizabeth A. Campbell explores the #Solanaceae (belladonna, potato, tobacco, pepper, tomato etc) in diverse texts such as poetry & fiction but also botanical treatises, newspaper reports & medical ads

#CulturalStudies #FoodStudies
Holding the book "Victorian Nightshades" in front of a snowy landscape
February 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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New book alert! 🚨
How did #EnglishLiterature writers of the 18th & 19th c depict Nordic traditions such as #folklore or pagan religion in their #GothicLiterature ? Find out in "Nordic Terrors" by Robert W. Rix - now in our collection: s.gwdg.de/5xgTYQ

#Gothic #LiteraryStudies #Scandinavia
Holding the book "Nordic Terrors" by Robert W. Rix in a snowy landscape
February 5, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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CALL FOR REVIEWS | Calling all experts! Our journal needs your expertise: The open-access Zeitschrift für Australienstudien | Australian Studies Journal (ZfA|ASJ, ISSN 1864-3957) is looking for dedicated reviewers. Have a look at the recent publications #AustralianStudies
Call for Reviews – German Association for Australian Studies
German Association for Australian Studies
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January 26, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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CONFERENCE ›Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian Studies‹ | Second International Emerging Research in Australian Studies Workshop | 12 & 13 March 2026 #Conference #Australia
Workshop for ECRs 2026 – German Association for Australian Studies
German Association for Australian Studies
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February 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Ugh no. Aargh. Google Books has stopped working.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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archive.org
Journalists don’t just report from the web anymore—they report on it 🕵️‍♀️

Learn 9 Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations on how reporters track deleted pages, uncover hidden connections, document edits & follow what vanishes,

Read FOLLOW THE CHANGES ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/f...
Logo of the Internet Archive WayBack Machine, in black and red text on a white background.
February 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Dies ist eine Liste von Fachinformationsdiensten auf Bluesky. Die FIDs werden gefördert von der @dfg.de. Das Starter Pack wurde zusammengestellt von der @stabihh.bsky.social. Hinzukommende FIDs gerne melden.

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February 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Dearest Gentle Readers, it has come to this author's attention that a new season is upon us. It is that scandalous #Bridgerton family again! We are consulting our collection on them - for knowledge, dear reader, is power - and it looks rather good in one's hands 🪶📖

#BridgertonSeason4 @netflix.com
A Bridgerton themed bookstack on adaptation, colourblind casting, Black Neo-Victoriana, politeness and class and the British royals, decorated on a wooden table in SUB library's main building with a blue ribbon and a black feather mask
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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#CallforPapers #CfP by the Obama Institute Mainz for a student #conference

topic: “‘We Hold These Truths’? 250 Years Later
deadline: February 28, 2026
conference dates: June 19- 20, 2026.

#DeclarationOfIndependence #America250 #AmericanStudies #USA250

www.obama-institute.com/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers – “We Hold These Truths”? 250 Years Later | Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
www.obama-institute.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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Welcoming 4 new books on #Medievalism to our collection!
Helen Dell's "Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism" examines the surge of music at the core of an imagined medieval & the #nostalgia for this invented past, esp in #FantasyLiterature such as #Tolkien 's #LOTR

#CulturalStudies
The book "Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism" on a wooden bench, with snowy ground and trees in the background
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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English writer Virginia Woolf was born #OnThisDay in 1882. For Christmas 1933, society hostess Ottoline Morrell gifted her friend Woolf an embroidered black silk shawl, now believed to be the only surviving piece of Woolf's clothing. Monks House collection. #readmorewomen #fashionhistory
January 25, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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”My heart's in the highlands, my heart is not here...”
Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland, born #OTD 1759.
‘Lost portrait’ by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1803, unveiled at National Galleries of Scotland #BurnsNight #AuldLangSyne
Blackie House Museum & Library | Dr Bendor Grosvenor
January 25, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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May Liberty meet wi’ success!
May Prudence protect her frae evil!
May tyrants and tyranny tine i’ the mist,
And wander their way to the devil!

—Robert Burns, “Here’s a Health to them that’s awa” (c. 1792)
In advance of #BurnsNight #C18th
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertb...
Here's a health to them that's awa Robert Burns Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; And wha winna wish gude luck to our cause, May never gude luck be their fa'! It's gude to be merry and wise, It's gude to be honest and true; It's gude to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue. Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to Charlie, the chief o' the clan, Altho' that his band be sma'! May Liberty meet wi' success! May Prudence protect her frae evil! May tyrants and tyranny tine i' the mist, And wander their way to the devil! Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; Here's a health to Tammie, the Norlan' laddie, That lives at the lug o' the law! Here's freedom to them that wad read, Here's freedom to them that wad write! There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard, But they whom the truth wad indite. Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; Here's chieftain M'Leod, a chieftain worth gowd, Tho' bred amang mountains o' snaw; Here's friends on baith sides o' the Forth, And friends on baith sides o' the Tweed; And wha wad betray old Albion's right, May they never eat of her bread!
January 24, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them."

👑 #QueenVictoria passed away #OTD 22 January 1901. #History
January 22, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

✒ Remembering #UrsulaKLeGuin, who passed away #OTD 22 January 2018. #SciFi #SpeculativeFiction #Literature
January 22, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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#OscarWilde’ s Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to #Auction 125 Years After His Death

Other rare items, available for purchase in February, include illustrations, theater programs, telegrams and newspapers

#Art #Theatre #Poetry #Literature

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o...
Oscar Wilde's Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to Auction 125 Years After His Death
Other rare items, available for purchase in February, include illustrations, theater programs, telegrams and newspapers
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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Deadline for abstracts is 30 January 2026

#CallforPapers #CfP #GothicStudies #Gothic
igagoths.bsky.social International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · Sep 19
The next IGA conference will be at the University of Hull, England on 28-31 July 2026!

You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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dariaheu.bsky.social
The #CallforPapers is open for the Digital Humanities Congress at the University of Sheffield from 2-3rd September 2026

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of the digital humanities

#DHC2026

🔜 Deadline: 2nd March
ℹ️ More info: www.dhi.ac.uk/congress
January 21, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved

London, 11-12 June 2026

Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026

Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗

#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
Ill Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe: Moving and Being Moved Call for Papers London, 11-12 June 2026 We are delighted to launch the Call for Papers for the III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, which will take place in London on 11-12 June 2026. After two successful editions, this year's Colloquium will focus on movements) within and accross late medieval and early modern cities (ca. 1300-1800). Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to: • Mobile people in urban centres, e.g. migrants, merchants, vagrants, enslaved people, minstrels, mendicants, and pilgrims. • The exchange of goods and knowledge. • Transitory urban events and performances that moved bodies and minds, including social uprisings, civic performances, dances and urban processions. • Lack of 'movement: considerations of what it means to stay put and belong in a city or to be forced to remain in a city. This is an interdisciplinary and international Colloquium which offers an opportunity for PhD students and early career scholars to share their research through 20-minute long presentations, and to receive feedback through constructive discussion. Established scholars will also be invited to present their research and methods and to contribute to discussion. There will also be opportunities for all participants to continue the conversation over coffee and lunch. Interested applicants are encouraged to send an abstract of 200 words along with a short bio to Ana Roda Sánchez (Queen Mary University of London), Eliot Benbow (Institute of Historical Research) and Emma Olson (University of Cambridge) in colloquiumcities@gmail.com by 31 January 2026. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us. We look forward to receiving your proposals and learning about your research!
January 21, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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Nicholas A. Basbanes's "Cross of Snow" is the 1st major literary #biography on #AmericanPoet & translator #HenryWadsworthLongfellow in 50 years & traces the tragedies & achievements of his life, w new material & a fresh look at #Longfellow 's 2nd wife Fanny

#AmericanLiterature #Poetry #biographies
Holding the book "Cross of Snow - A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" in front of an old cross gravestone in the snow at a cemetery
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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New #CallForPapers #CfP by the DACH Victorianists for their 9th workshop - "Terraqueous' Victorians: Global Geographies as Metaphor, Materiality, and Methodology"

when? 26 June, 2026
abstract deadline: 1 March, 2026

#VictorianStudies

details: dachvictorianists.blogspot.com/2025/12/call...
Call for Papers: 9th DACH Victorianists Workshop - 'Terraqueous' Victorians
dach victorianists network
dachvictorianists.blogspot.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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This premieres today!
wegeekgirls.bsky.social We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social · Nov 4
Agatha Christie's 'Seven Dials' premieres January 15th on Netflix.

The limited series stars Mia McKenna Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman, Corey Mylchreest, Ed Bluemel, and Nabhaan Rizwan.

#AgathaChristie #SevenDials #Netflix
January 15, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 - 50 years ago today.

Did you know our Agatha Christie business papers comprise thousands of letters, incl. from the novelist herself?

📷 EUL UA/P/5i: Christie receiving an honorary degree from @exeter.ac.uk in 1961

#AgathaChristie #OnThisDay #OTD #Archives
Black and white photograph showing the Chancellor of the University of Exeter (centre) - Mary Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire - with two honorary graduates on either side of her. A small boy also stands to her left. The honorary graduates - Agatha Christie (far left), Theodor Heuss, William Hodge and Bernard Leach - are wearing velvet bonnets. Information box containing a cropped image of a letter signed by Agatha Christie on the right hand side, and on the left hand side, the following text: "This collection is from the offices of Hughes Massie and Co. Ltd. relating to Agatha Christie's literary estate. Throughout her career her agent was Edmund Cork, and these files were created by him to reflect his dealings with publishers, film-makers and other professional persons with an interest in the Christie estate, including Agatha Christie herself, and her husband, Sir Max Mallowan. Each file of correspondence relates to a particular year, and may include correspondence between Agatha Christie and Edmund Cork, correspondence between Cork and American literary agent, Harold Ober, and other interested parties. There are between 5,000-6,000 letters in the collection. Further information is available on the archive catalogue."
January 12, 2026 at 10:14 AM