Marielle Birks
@mariellebirks.com
Part-time MA student in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck
Writer, Game Designer, Publisher
Blue Fox Comics I Fox Red Comics I Blue Fox Tabletop
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@bluefoxcomics.com I @bluefoxtabletop.bsky.social
Writer, Game Designer, Publisher
Blue Fox Comics I Fox Red Comics I Blue Fox Tabletop
https://linktr.ee/mariellebirks
@bluefoxcomics.com I @bluefoxtabletop.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Had the privilege of hearing a paper from @helenkingstone.bsky.social on ageing, generations, and Oliphant and it was brilliant. Great to see more on this here.
I'm really proud of this: the latest issue of #VictorianStudies has an article of mine in it!
It's on #ageing and #generations, & the insightful ways that Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant approaches these issues, with takeaways for us now.
doi.org/10.2979/vic....
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It's on #ageing and #generations, & the insightful ways that Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant approaches these issues, with takeaways for us now.
doi.org/10.2979/vic....
1/
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Had the privilege of hearing a paper from @helenkingstone.bsky.social on ageing, generations, and Oliphant and it was brilliant. Great to see more on this here.
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Is there an article, book, or chapter that made you think in a new way about Lister? If you’d like to lead a discussion about a piece of Lister scholarship for the Anne Lister Forum, drop us a message!
October 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Is there an article, book, or chapter that made you think in a new way about Lister? If you’d like to lead a discussion about a piece of Lister scholarship for the Anne Lister Forum, drop us a message!
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Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…
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September 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
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Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.
The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social
The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.
The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social
The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Got an amazing day to visit Brantwood today! Those views 😍
September 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Got an amazing day to visit Brantwood today! Those views 😍
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Ask your husbands if you can go to "Domestic Ideology and Its Others" and get some dangerous ideas from Nina Elisabeth Cook, Shrutakirti Dutta, Christine Colon, & Julie Sorge Way at #NAVSA2025
September 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Ask your husbands if you can go to "Domestic Ideology and Its Others" and get some dangerous ideas from Nina Elisabeth Cook, Shrutakirti Dutta, Christine Colon, & Julie Sorge Way at #NAVSA2025
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📢 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' online conference tickets now live - international speakers explore many aspects of dress 1714-1815
Full details of the conference programme costumesociety.org.uk/conference
Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…#fashionhistory#cossoc2525
Full details of the conference programme costumesociety.org.uk/conference
Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…#fashionhistory#cossoc2525
September 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
📢 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' online conference tickets now live - international speakers explore many aspects of dress 1714-1815
Full details of the conference programme costumesociety.org.uk/conference
Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…#fashionhistory#cossoc2525
Full details of the conference programme costumesociety.org.uk/conference
Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…#fashionhistory#cossoc2525
Booked for this Wednesday and looking forward to the @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social event. Amazing to have the option to attend online as well.
Very much looking forward to Dan Gosling (TNA) speaking on 'A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield’s “judgment” on the sex of the Chevalier d’Eon' this Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome online or in person, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield’s “judgment” on the sex of the Chevalier d’Eon
www.history.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Booked for this Wednesday and looking forward to the @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social event. Amazing to have the option to attend online as well.
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JOIN ME in writing your paper proposal on the last possible day of the final deadline extension
Not like I have a book to promote there or anything
Not like I have a book to promote there or anything
THIS IS IT!
You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026
Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
You have until 11.59pm TONIGHT to submit your proposals for #BSECS2026
Ease yourself into the New Year by joining us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS - Submit a Proposal
Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.
www.bsecs.org.uk
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
JOIN ME in writing your paper proposal on the last possible day of the final deadline extension
Not like I have a book to promote there or anything
Not like I have a book to promote there or anything
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📢 Final call to submit your abstracts for our upcoming conference at the University of Stirling this January! You have until midnight tonight! 📑🖋️
📢 Just a few weeks left to submit your abstracts for our exciting conference at the University of Stirling in January!
🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept
📩 Email: rrr@soton.ac.uk
🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept
📩 Email: rrr@soton.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📢 Final call to submit your abstracts for our upcoming conference at the University of Stirling this January! You have until midnight tonight! 📑🖋️
Looks so good!
September 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Looks so good!
😂 know the feeling
Really hard to go back to editing after yesterday…
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
😂 know the feeling
While in London, made it to the 'Heiress: Sargent's American Portraits' exhibition at Kenwood House!
September 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
While in London, made it to the 'Heiress: Sargent's American Portraits' exhibition at Kenwood House!
Wow.
Went to the theatre tonight with the gorgeous @simonbirks.com, a treat after a lot of hard working.
Got to go to The Lady From the Sea at The Bridge Theatre. An amazing experience, absolutely incredible. Bit speechless.
Went to the theatre tonight with the gorgeous @simonbirks.com, a treat after a lot of hard working.
Got to go to The Lady From the Sea at The Bridge Theatre. An amazing experience, absolutely incredible. Bit speechless.
September 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Wow.
Went to the theatre tonight with the gorgeous @simonbirks.com, a treat after a lot of hard working.
Got to go to The Lady From the Sea at The Bridge Theatre. An amazing experience, absolutely incredible. Bit speechless.
Went to the theatre tonight with the gorgeous @simonbirks.com, a treat after a lot of hard working.
Got to go to The Lady From the Sea at The Bridge Theatre. An amazing experience, absolutely incredible. Bit speechless.
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Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life
The smell of firewood from a log burner on a quiet evening
The comfort of a soft sweater
The sound of a gentle sea
Finding you have twenty minutes when you thought it was ten
Coming home to your dog
The smell of firewood from a log burner on a quiet evening
The comfort of a soft sweater
The sound of a gentle sea
Finding you have twenty minutes when you thought it was ten
Coming home to your dog
battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
-the little sigh as a dog puts their sleepy head on your knee
-the first bar of the overture in a hushed theatre
-discovering the coffee pot still has another cup in it
-rereading a good book
-the smell of a fireplace on a crisp autumn day
-the little sigh as a dog puts their sleepy head on your knee
-the first bar of the overture in a hushed theatre
-discovering the coffee pot still has another cup in it
-rereading a good book
-the smell of a fireplace on a crisp autumn day
battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
first sip of coffee
picking up a conker, cool and soapy in your hand
geese honking overhead
leaves changing colour: green, yellow, red
debating when to put the heating on
(I really like autumn, ok)
first sip of coffee
picking up a conker, cool and soapy in your hand
geese honking overhead
leaves changing colour: green, yellow, red
debating when to put the heating on
(I really like autumn, ok)
September 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life
The smell of firewood from a log burner on a quiet evening
The comfort of a soft sweater
The sound of a gentle sea
Finding you have twenty minutes when you thought it was ten
Coming home to your dog
The smell of firewood from a log burner on a quiet evening
The comfort of a soft sweater
The sound of a gentle sea
Finding you have twenty minutes when you thought it was ten
Coming home to your dog
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Incredibly proud of @mariellebirks.com - this is such a massive achievement, and her essays are genuinely full of genius and intelligence. Looking forward to going outside, too. 🌳
Dissertation submitted! 🎉🎉
Two years ago I started my MA in Victorian Studies @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and now its done. Lots of emotions but its been a fantastic, wonderful and amazing ride. Could not have done it without my incredible husband. Thank you @simonbirks.com Might go outside now.
Two years ago I started my MA in Victorian Studies @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and now its done. Lots of emotions but its been a fantastic, wonderful and amazing ride. Could not have done it without my incredible husband. Thank you @simonbirks.com Might go outside now.
September 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Incredibly proud of @mariellebirks.com - this is such a massive achievement, and her essays are genuinely full of genius and intelligence. Looking forward to going outside, too. 🌳
Dissertation submitted! 🎉🎉
Two years ago I started my MA in Victorian Studies @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and now its done. Lots of emotions but its been a fantastic, wonderful and amazing ride. Could not have done it without my incredible husband. Thank you @simonbirks.com Might go outside now.
Two years ago I started my MA in Victorian Studies @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and now its done. Lots of emotions but its been a fantastic, wonderful and amazing ride. Could not have done it without my incredible husband. Thank you @simonbirks.com Might go outside now.
September 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Dissertation submitted! 🎉🎉
Two years ago I started my MA in Victorian Studies @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and now its done. Lots of emotions but its been a fantastic, wonderful and amazing ride. Could not have done it without my incredible husband. Thank you @simonbirks.com Might go outside now.
Two years ago I started my MA in Victorian Studies @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and now its done. Lots of emotions but its been a fantastic, wonderful and amazing ride. Could not have done it without my incredible husband. Thank you @simonbirks.com Might go outside now.
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The Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are very happy to take any queries, please just email us at vpfjournal@gmail.com.
August 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are very happy to take any queries, please just email us at vpfjournal@gmail.com.
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📢 Just a few weeks left to submit your abstracts for our exciting conference at the University of Stirling in January!
🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept
📩 Email: rrr@soton.ac.uk
🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept
📩 Email: rrr@soton.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
📢 Just a few weeks left to submit your abstracts for our exciting conference at the University of Stirling in January!
🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept
📩 Email: rrr@soton.ac.uk
🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept
📩 Email: rrr@soton.ac.uk
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RSVP 2026 Conference Call for Papers: 'Movements and Migrations', to be held at Trinity College, Dublin, 23-25th July 2026. Share widely! @rs4vp.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
RSVP 2026 Conference Call for Papers: 'Movements and Migrations', to be held at Trinity College, Dublin, 23-25th July 2026. Share widely! @rs4vp.org