Sarah Bull
@sarahebull.bsky.social
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in histories of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches
Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE
Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE
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Sarah Bull
@sarahebull.bsky.social
· Jun 27
The open access version of Selling Sexual Knowledge is out (hardcopies coming shortly)! Reposting this little thread from December where I take a break from chowing down on holiday treats to talk a little about what it's actually about and why I wrote it.
A proper holiday party is not a social occasion! It’s a department meeting in December!
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A proper holiday party is not a social occasion! It’s a department meeting in December!
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I admit to having a different Victorian studies conference occupying my mind just this week, but man am I psyched for this, and deeply honored to be part of it. MVSA rules. I can’t wait.
CINCY!
CINCY!
If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/
Conference
“The Underground: Prohibition, Abolition, Expression”2026 Call for Papers April 10-12, 2026, hosted by Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Baker Street Station on the Metropolitan Railway, 1863 &#…
midwestvictorian.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I admit to having a different Victorian studies conference occupying my mind just this week, but man am I psyched for this, and deeply honored to be part of it. MVSA rules. I can’t wait.
CINCY!
CINCY!
Same in our part of the city!
And now for some hurried new snow boot shopping for my kid, who went to school in rain boots
And now for some hurried new snow boot shopping for my kid, who went to school in rain boots
This is our front garden in Toronto right now: substantial snow fall even before the leaves have fallen!
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Same in our part of the city!
And now for some hurried new snow boot shopping for my kid, who went to school in rain boots
And now for some hurried new snow boot shopping for my kid, who went to school in rain boots
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This statement is always true.
Kash Patel currently resembles in appearance someone who has stumbled into our timeline from the Terminator one.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This statement is always true.
The CPC statement is so gross.
Barging into office, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont | CBC News
Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont says the barging into his office and yelling from Conservative Party leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on his choice to cross the floor to the Liberals earlier this week.
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The CPC statement is so gross.
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Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
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Question for #histmed: what are your favourite continous histories of disease? By which I mean, there's been very little progress in atiology, treatment etc over a long period of time
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Question for #histmed: what are your favourite continous histories of disease? By which I mean, there's been very little progress in atiology, treatment etc over a long period of time
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Currently fluctuating between 4, 5 and 6
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Currently fluctuating between 4, 5 and 6
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The humanism, the pain, the humour... a wonderful documentary heroically filmed and narrated by Pavel Talankin, now safely (i hope) in Prague. How great that it's on BBC iPlayer. Strongly recommend
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The humanism, the pain, the humour... a wonderful documentary heroically filmed and narrated by Pavel Talankin, now safely (i hope) in Prague. How great that it's on BBC iPlayer. Strongly recommend
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These Frankenstein adaptations are getting wild 🤯
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
These Frankenstein adaptations are getting wild 🤯
Really like this article on the circulation of the Marquis de Sade's works in C19 England, looking at everything from adaptation/imitation/influence to two-penny serial parts of Nouvelle Justine.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
The Marquis de Sade in English, 1800–1850 on JSTOR
Will McMorran, The Marquis de Sade in English, 1800–1850, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 112, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 549-566
www.jstor.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Really like this article on the circulation of the Marquis de Sade's works in C19 England, looking at everything from adaptation/imitation/influence to two-penny serial parts of Nouvelle Justine.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...
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"Until a year ago, only 2–3% of submissions were ultimately rejected by moderators, says Steinn Sigurðsson, an astrophysicist at Penn State University in University Park who is arXiv’s scientific director. But in the last year, that number has gone up to 10%."
'The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that have been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed venue, such as a journal or conference.'
Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here’s why
The repository is taking steps to tackle a surge in low quality, AI-generated content.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
"Until a year ago, only 2–3% of submissions were ultimately rejected by moderators, says Steinn Sigurðsson, an astrophysicist at Penn State University in University Park who is arXiv’s scientific director. But in the last year, that number has gone up to 10%."
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“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?”
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
Imperilled culture - it really is.
Such negligence.
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📣 Save the date! Nominations for our annual Colby Book Prize opens next week on 15 November. To comply with tax laws, books must be nominated by somebody other than the author, so tell us about the best book YOU read on #19thC periodicals published in 2025. rs4vp.org/awards/colby...
The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP
The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of Dire...
rs4vp.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
📣 Save the date! Nominations for our annual Colby Book Prize opens next week on 15 November. To comply with tax laws, books must be nominated by somebody other than the author, so tell us about the best book YOU read on #19thC periodicals published in 2025. rs4vp.org/awards/colby...
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Dear NYT: every godawful thing is "celebrated" by someone somewhere, but that is not how a neutral and informed person would characterize the overall reception to "The Double Helix." Not in 1968 and certainly not since.
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Dear NYT: every godawful thing is "celebrated" by someone somewhere, but that is not how a neutral and informed person would characterize the overall reception to "The Double Helix." Not in 1968 and certainly not since.
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New acquisition: a manuscript copy of a printed biography of a transwoman. France, 1859. (And after this, showing off cool items to Economics faculty…)
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
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here's my finds for the week:
1/2 - new #HistMed timeline by the Black Cultural Archives
bsky.app/profile/sshm...
1/2 - new #HistMed timeline by the Black Cultural Archives
bsky.app/profile/sshm...
Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
#histmed
#histmed
Medicine, Race and Activism - Black Cultural Archives.
This timeline focuses on the contribution of Black people to the British healthcare ecosystem over centuries. It underscores the experiences of these workers and Black service users and recognises the...
bcatimelines.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
here's my finds for the week:
1/2 - new #HistMed timeline by the Black Cultural Archives
bsky.app/profile/sshm...
1/2 - new #HistMed timeline by the Black Cultural Archives
bsky.app/profile/sshm...
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Love me some autumnal leaves on a misty morning 🍂
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Love me some autumnal leaves on a misty morning 🍂
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The best bit is how Rossetti is roughly the same size and shape as the wombat, emphasising the wombat's humanity and/or the artist's wombatity. A tale as old as wombats.
156 years ago #onthisday, Top the wombat died. He was the pet of the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, upon Top's passing, created this self-portrait in mourning. More on Rossetti and co’s curious but longstanding fixation with the #wombat here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o...
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The best bit is how Rossetti is roughly the same size and shape as the wombat, emphasising the wombat's humanity and/or the artist's wombatity. A tale as old as wombats.
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This looks brilliant. I've been lucky enough to see see @jameskneale.bsky.social present on this research and its just fascinating. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Recommend wholeheartedly to @drinkingstudies.bsky.social and Victorianists among others....
If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This looks brilliant. I've been lucky enough to see see @jameskneale.bsky.social present on this research and its just fascinating. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Recommend wholeheartedly to @drinkingstudies.bsky.social and Victorianists among others....
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Hot from the press! 🗃️
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing
This article brings together cultural studies and legal history to address a particular mode of historical enchantment, namely, the economic magic of something-for-nothing. Considered within the ea...
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Hot from the press! 🗃️
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anat Rosenberg's article on the history of 'magical economics of something-for-nothing' in a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy, on enchantment in the history of capitalism (this is us: economic-enchantments.net)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Excited to be part of this wonderful event organized by @yrhu.bsky.social! Looking forward to the panel discussion next Monday.
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Excited to be part of this wonderful event organized by @yrhu.bsky.social! Looking forward to the panel discussion next Monday.
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