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Sarah Wride
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Cultural & intellectual historian @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | hows, whys, & effects of re-imagining historical homicides | #YWES editor | committee @historylabplus.bsky.social & @capnetwork.bsky.social | sarahwride.co.uk/historianforhire
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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · Sep 3
A HUGE thank you to @ihr.bsky.social for welcoming me into its fellowship community while I work on two big #publichistory projects 2025/26! So excited to get started. If you’re also a #histparl & #truecrime #history & #ethics buff, watch this space!

#ECRs #skystorians #humanities
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drbeard79.bsky.social
Creature schmeature - if you’re an academic, I gleefully inform you Victor Frankenstein is One of Us 🖤
Oscar Isaac as Victor hugging little William goodbye with subtitle reading: And there [University of Edinburgh], for decades, I tried to… Present day Victor with beard and bandages, perfectly poised in front of a porthole and two windows letting in Arctic light, finished his sentence ‘[I tried to] expand the narrow limits of academia’
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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bars.bsky.social
BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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gargarin.bsky.social
If you have tea and some fig rolls you may also be in heaven
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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lindas1775.bsky.social
#cfp Explore Austen's first-sold and last-composed novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, with the Jane Austen Society of North America. CFP closes November 30. #c18 #18thc #18thcentury #austen #janeausten
lindas1775.bsky.social LindaS @lindas1775.bsky.social · 12d
PLEASE SHARE: The Call for Papers for the 2026 JASNA AGM is open through Nov 30. The conference will be in Tucson, AZ, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2026, focusing on Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. 1/4
Logo for the 2026 Jane Austen Society of North America conference, with the theme Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
srwride.bsky.social
“‘People read Foucault […] & develop an alienated view of the world’. God, did I love this. An ‘alienated view of the world’! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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paulkirkley.bsky.social
I interviewed the exceptional James Graham for Waitrose Weekend and I would just like to scream this bit from the rooftops.
www.weekend-online.com/issue768/#10
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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navsa2025.bsky.social
In our Wilkie Collins era
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
More than 100 years after it was thought lost or stolen, the legendary Florentine Diamond has resurfaced. Read more: nyti.ms/47swbBi
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Irish Studies Seminar: Catriona Kennedy, 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'
www.qub.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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aksagal.bsky.social
A friendly reminder that our cfp for "Naming & Classifying in the Eighteenth Century" has an extended deadline to Nov. 30. Send us your brilliant ideas! Please share, too. 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 ...
docs.google.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
srwride.bsky.social
The cacti are just starting to feel a *smidge* aggressive now…
A fireplace mantel with a horse sculpture in the middle, and ceramic pots at either end, each containing a cactus. The cacti both have a number of low ‘knuckles’ with one tall ‘finger’ sticking up…
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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maxinebeuret.bsky.social
History Day at senate house organised by the @ihr.bsky.social So nice to meet fellow historians on their career journey and encourage them to join @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social and @historylabplus.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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cathamclarke.bsky.social
A spooky story from the Victoria County History archive (or is it...?). A tribute to M R James and the world of the early VCH, which I first shared on 31 October last year - I hope you enjoy it. #Halloween @vch-home.bsky.social

blog.history.ac.uk/2024/10/vch-...
VCH Ghost Story - On History
With the nights drawing in, it’s the season for storytelling. This curious and disconcerting letter was found recently in the archive of the Victoria County History of England (addressed to then-Gener...
blog.history.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
New Job Posts Like:

Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
srwride.bsky.social
It’s time! I’ve seen too many!

I’m starting a (glacially slow) #puns in #business marketing appreciation thread…
w/ special mentions for #crime #wordplay…
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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wormmo.de
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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bars.bsky.social
Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
srwride.bsky.social
📣 Callum Smith is launching The Foxite Whigs & Visual Culture, 1780-1810: Radical Sociability at @aberuni.bsky.social on 19 November from 17:10. Online (tinyurl.com/yvnukza8) & in person.

#histparl
#skystorians
@bsecs.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social
The Foxite Whigs and Visual Culture, 1780-1810
This book examines how sociability was strategically employed by the Foxite-Whigs and argues for the existence of two primary forms of sociability
link.springer.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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annafancett.bsky.social
I'm on a mission to try and merge my academic and storytelling lives. Hosting this event at the University of Aberdeen's exhibition is an exciting step on this journey!
First Friday Fling. Messages from the other side: supernatural stories. 7th November, 7-9pm. Sir Duncan Rice Library. Drop-in. Over 16s only.
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
srwride.bsky.social
An embarrassment of riches this #YWESnesday! I also now have Tess Somervell, James Metcalf, & Rayna Rossenova’s mega-review of 2024 #c18th #poetry studies.
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
srwride.bsky.social
Another #YWESnesday & happily I’ve come by another fantastic looking mega-review—this time of 2024 #c18th #prose scholarship...
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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drbevans.bsky.social
Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
Image of a person buried under a pile of marking, grant deadlines and meeting requests. Logos of University of Liverpool and Independent Social Research Foundation. Text reads: Creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions. Webinar and guidance for academics with ELC, line managers & HR professionals, EDI & union representatives, funders, publishers & conference organisers. Monday 24th November 2-3pm.
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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bars.bsky.social
Fellowship Opportunity for ECRs: The Byron Society Fellow

Focussing on digital promotion activities, with a £2500 annual stipend.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197
Fellowship Opportunity: The Byron Society Fellow – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
srwride.bsky.social
Anyone else automatically read this as the men & women really thought things through on those holidays?
Image of text from Ronald Hutton's excellent The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. It reads, "There was a tendency for the men's clubs to process on Whit Monday, and those of the women on the Tuesday."
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
srwride.bsky.social
#LordByron turning detective? In Venice? Yes please.

@essiefox.bsky.social talking all things Dangerous w/ @drtimrideout.bsky.social on 29 October at Nottingham’s The Bookcase 👇

@bars.bsky.social
#romanticism
What’s On – The Book Case
www.thebookcase.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM