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Marielle Birks
@mariellebirks.com
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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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Christmas #Caturday 😻
Black and white cat looking at a Christmas Tree
December 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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1890s tea gowns 😍
katestrasdin.bsky.social Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 10h
It positively glows, this early 1890s tea gown by Emile Pingat. The variegated black & yellow silk creates a kind of burnished hue, additional drama fashioned in full sleeves & high collar. It seems quite structured for a tea gown but it certainly makes a statement #NatGalleryAus #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Back view of a yellow, black and brown tea gown with a cinched waist, full velvet sleeves and high collar. It has a train that emphasises the dual tones of the full, long skirt
December 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr
Amplifying voices
New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish
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December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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This year, found me back at the library on Christmas eve (a tradition I love!) 😍📚 Its been a big year for me, personally, and it was nice to be back in the reading room, surrounded by books.

Detail from Arthur Rackham, 'Santa Claus' (1907)
Detail from Arthur Rackham, 'Santa Claus' (1907)
December 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Christmas eve eve; (mini) Azul.
December 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Very excited for this! #eighteenth-century #18thC #ecologies
womanofclouds.bsky.social Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · 6d
I'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱

Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
December 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Ooooooo
vpfa.bsky.social Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 5d
The deadline for abstracts for 'The Victorian Short Story' VPFA Study Day has been extended to 16th January! We would love to see your proposal in our inbox at vpfaconference@gmail.com
vpfa.bsky.social Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · Nov 12
We are Study Day MAD: 'The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation, and Legacy'.
🌏 Online
📅 19th April 2026
💰 Fee for non-members
Full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/the-victoria...
Send abstracts (250-300) for 20-min papers and bio (50) to VPFAconference@gmail.com by 20/12/25
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Just 6 or 7 weeks now 🌷
silverpebble2.bsky.social Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 19d
A small reminder, especially if you struggle with low mood in the winter, that this is just 8 or 9 weeks away, fewer in some cases 👇🏼🌱🌱
A photo I took of a dense patch of snowdrops against a dark fence, with rays of sunlight shining down on them and sunlight illuminating their petals from behind.
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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To lounge. Lounging.
December 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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"The inaugural grant will enable the beneficiaries to develop their first-book manuscripts by providing £1,000/US$1,300 and additional editorial support over a period of 12 months.

The first grant will support early career scholars in History and Areas Studies."
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 10d
Cambridge University Press has launched a new grant to support under-represented early career scholars from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations, including first generation scholars 👇 #BookSky
Cambridge University Press opens funding scheme for under-represented early career scholars
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December 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*:

1. Postgraduate Representative
2. Communications Officer

Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life!

More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...
Vacancies - BSECS
Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Looking forward to discussing printmakers' book forms with printmaker and book artist Marina Bindella in Rome tomorrow. This is the first outing of my monograph The Book Unbound, coming out universitypress.cambridge.org on 8 January. @blakesociety.bsky.social @blakequarterly.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Just settling in for tonight's seminar!
ehunineteen.bsky.social EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 17d
TODAY!
ehunineteen.bsky.social EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 26d
For our next seminar, the wonderful @digivictorian.bsky.social is hosting our just as wondrous PhD researchers, Liam Pope, Laura Grande Mateu, Emily Hayes, & Emma Butler, for our #19thCFlashTalks.

Join us for a pre-Christmas treat on Wednesday 10th December from 6 pm. Free, online, all welcome!
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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CfP: Networks of Antiquity, University of Copenhagen, 7-8th May 2026

Abstracts due 31st January!
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6237
CfP poster: "The antiquarian networks of the eighteenth century and Romantic era contributed to a fascinating constellation of multicultural, multilingual, exchange across the globe. The study of antiquarianism was a vastly popular pastime and scholarly pursuit in Europe, especially as a way of mapping ancient world cultures, religions, and politics onto contemporary society. The circulation of knowledge within local, national, and global networks paradoxically consolidated independent national exceptionalisms, as well as contributing to a budding multicultural globalism. Texts such as James Macpherson’s “Fragments of Ancient Poetry” (1763) prompted a revival of vernacular traditions across the British Isles like ballad imitations and Norse translations, while the establishment of the Society of Antiquaries in Britain encouraged the circulation and study of material culture. With the various inventive reimaginations of world mythologies, and as an oppressive vehicle for European imperial agendas, the study of vernacular antiquities during the long eighteenth century formed the critical foundations of contemporary worldviews via the lens of the past. Pre-dating Herder’s thesis about “Volksgeist, ” these antiquarian practices already constituted a rewriting of histories, memories, and cultures, and brought to the fore questions of heritage, identity, empire, trade, as well as the value ascribed to language. Through this global trade of antiquity in all its forms—material, textual, visual—both national and local European perspectives were brought into dialogue with alternate histories and the legacy of bygone eras. Networks of Antiquity is a two-day interdisciplinary conference held in person and in English at the University of Copenhagen. It aims to bring together scholars of Eighteenth Century Studies, Romanticism, and Reception Studies to examine how antiquarian networks across Europe and beyond created porous cultural borders during the long eighteenth century." Poster: "We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers that consider how European communities, networks, and individuals of the long eighteenth century engaged with antiquarian studies and cultural contexts regarding and those external to their own geographical borders. PAPERS MAY EXPLORE TOPICS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Circuits of communication, letters, and objects Material culture and its popular or localised consumption Antiquarianism and visual culture Nordic antiquity, Northern antiquarianism, the Gothic The relationship and tensions between (neo-)Classical antiquity and vernacular traditions National vs local networks, the circulation of knowledge production Recollecting, reconstituting, and reinventing the past Adaptations and appropriations The Antiquarian as a figure/character Antiquarian Spaces: The Society of Antiquaries, libraries, museums, private vs. public exchange Exchange and Encounters: Transatlantic, Anglo-Nordic, Asiatic, etc. Geographies of antiquity, landscapes, scientific antiquarian travel Empire, trade, race, imperial and postcolonial perspectives Antiquarianism as a literary form and genre Stadial theory, Translation theory, Reception Studies, Memory Studies TO APPLY Please submit a 250-word abstract and 150-word biography to Sharon Choe (sharon.choe@hum.ku.dk) with the subject line : Networks of Antiquity Conference Submission. We are keen to encourage the participation of PhDs, early career researchers, and scholars on precarious employment contracts, and so will be offering bursaries to contribute towards travel to and accommodation in Copenhagen. Priority will be given to those without access to institutional financial support or external grant funding. To be considered for a bursary, please also provide a short 100-word application alongside your proposal, including your current institutional position and any research projects. Application deadline : 31 January 2026 Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 10 February 2026"
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Clueless - 30th Anniversary? - As if!
An excellent poster for Clueless with Alicia Silverstone in a yellow suit with the plaid from the suit also forming the background for the whole yellow poster like a grid with title and details in pink - coming to theatres June 29/30
June 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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How to pick a favourite? But loving the verse and image pieces and presence of Georgiana Burne-Jones this week. Beautiful advent calendar this December from the @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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For the second day of our Artist Advent Calendar, John William Waterhouse with ‘Saint Eulalia’, 1884, @tate.bsky.social.

Waterhouse exhibited this picture in 1885 with a note, that St. Eulalia’s body was covered ‘by the miraculous fall of snow when lying in the forum after her martyrdom.’
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Looking forward to the always-wonderful @c19qmul.bsky.social Carols on Friday. You can get your free tickets here! www.tickettailor.com/events/qmul1...
Nineteenth-Century Carols in Context With short talks by Queen Mary scholars of Victorian culture, carol singing, mulled wine, and mince pies! Friday 5 December 2025 6.15pm to 8pm The Octagon, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS All welcome from some festive cheer, with an ecological focus!
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Georgian wig shop www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky
Cover of JECS special issue 48.4 (December 2025), with ToC and network diagram. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2025/48/4
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · Nov 21
At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky
Cover of JECS special issue 48.4 (December 2025), with ToC and network diagram. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2025/48/4
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Well this looks amazing!!!!
alessandrapino.bsky.social Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · Nov 15
✨ Dark Feasts: The Sinister Side of Festive Dining ✨

Join me on 6 December 2025 at 3:30 pm for a talk with London Month of the Dead on the darker palate of festive food and how Christmas eating can slip into ritual, memory, unease & the uncanny.

Tickets: londonmonthofthedead.com/gothicdinner... 🖤
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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This is very exciting news. I think about Levy's work a lot, ever since I read Romance of a Shop.
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Tonight!⚡️
With @simonbirks.com at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM