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John Gardner
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Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Doctoral School at ARU. Working on www.engineeringromanticism.com a Leverhulme Trust Research Project.
'da, in my part of the world, means father'--Samuel Beckett
June 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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New post in Theology and Religious Studies in our School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social:

Lecturer in Islamic Studies
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

#AcademicSky
April 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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2 new posts in English Literature in our School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social:

* Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

*Lecturer in Postcolonial or Indigenous Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

#AcademicSky
April 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Just got hold of this very rare pamphlet for the first art exhibition organised by a trade union, the AEU, which I joined at age 16, and is now part of @unitetheunion.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.
We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!

Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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The Guardian has published an obituary of my dear friend Brian, written by his wife Maxine. I love the photo she chose for it. www.theguardian.com/education/20... #C19
Brian Maidment obituary
Other lives: Academic expert on downmarket illustrated books, prints and ephemera of Georgian and Victorian eras
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Visiting Fellowships call for University of East Anglia’s archive of contemporary writing: poetry, fiction, nature writing, scriptwriting children’s literature and more. Deadline: end of March. Please share! And if you’re interested in applying, let me know. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...
Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowships
University of East Anglia
www.uea.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students.

Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
February 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Really excited to be talking with @danielwilson.bsky.social and @fedenanni.bsky.social about collaboration at this event!
February 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Brian's 2024 essay in the 1830s book
January 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Enjoyed talking and meeting at the London Paris seminar last night. Thanks to David Duff for organising and Chairing. Lovely cycling through central London today
January 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Nervy
January 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
January 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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This is a fantastic opportunity if you're looking to pursue a Romantic Studies PhD with great supervision.
*Please share widely!*

Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:

British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty

www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
PhD scholarship in English: Poetry and Negotiation | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
January 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The CMLJ arrived today!
January 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The latest edition of the Charles and Mary Lamb journal is out!
January 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Happy to announce that "Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation", a special issue of Library and Information History (40.3), edited by myself, @mjrsangster.bsky.social, and @maxinebranagh.bsky.social, is now out in the world and ready to read!

www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3.
Library & Information History: Vol 40, No 3
www.euppublishing.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:43 AM
I replaced my teenage Leaves of Grass, which had its pages falling out, last week. This new one, that Peter Riley has with OWC, already looks well used. I can't go anywhere without it. 'WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!'
November 23, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Out today on open access:Full article: Thread form at the Crystal Palace www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thread form at the Crystal Palace
This article establishes that the British Standard Whitworth thread form, suggested in 1841 and not adopted as a standard until 1905, was being used at the Crystal Palace sites (1851–1854).
www.tandfonline.com
September 4, 2024 at 7:57 AM
I also saw this bit of home there too
October 20, 2023 at 3:13 PM
At the science museum archive in Swindon today measuring romantic period threads. Wonderful.
October 20, 2023 at 3:12 PM
At the Crystal Palace archive on weds measuring threads from brunel's 1854 water tower
October 20, 2023 at 3:11 PM
Been writing something on deaf blind poetry. Land of silence and darkness from 1971 haunts me. youtube.com/watch?v=xb1R...
September 26, 2023 at 7:24 PM