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Dr Laura Eastlake
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James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · Nov 10
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/14 #Gothic
Edison phonograph machine Famous yellow cover of Dracula (1897)
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I'm super excited to be chatting to The Byron Society about how volcanoes have shaped the Gothic and why Lord Byron was the ultimate 'Volcanic Gothic' celebrity. Featuring cameos from Jo March, Dracula & the Dark Lord Sauron!

📆 26/02/2026 5:30 pm. Online.
🎟️ www.thebyronsociety.com/events/volca...
Poster with a painting of Vesuvius in eruption. Text: A Byron Society Lecture. Volcanic Gothic: From Lord Byron to Lord of the Rings Start Date & Time: 26/02/2026 5:30 pm. Location: Online. Speakers Dr Laura Eastlake.
February 12, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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I guess we’re not going outside today.

Those of you who remember Padraig the Pheasant, please meet his equally tenacious descendant, Phil the Pheasant.
A pheasant of Bowling ball dimensions waits at a glass door. Nobody shall be permitted to pass without paying the peanut tax.
February 8, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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He’s been stuck like this for ages.
My dude. Just reverse.

Truly, achingly vacant.
A portly pheasant standing in a cul de sac of plant pots. He could reverse out with ease if he wished. Has he discovered this obvious fact yet? Definitely no.
February 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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🔈 Calling all PhDs & ECRs working on 19thC places and spaces! Send your abstracts in for what is going to be a wonderful event! 👇
ehunineteen.bsky.social EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 7d
Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June

CFP deadline: Friday 1st May

We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩

Please share - and send us an abstract!
Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR conference Friday 26th June 2026 Image of Blackpool Edge Hill Nineteen research centre is excited to invite you to 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', a PGR/ECR conference focused on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literature and history. London and the South have often been the heart of discussion about the nineteenth century. However, development in industry during the period brought popularity to cities such as Liverpool and Manchester, which led to a boom of industrial growth in the north of England. In the nineteenth century, the north of England developed like never before, both within cities and in more rural areas. Following a recent EHU19 research symposium, PhD students from literature and history came together to discuss their emerging research and found a common theme - place. More specifically, the North (and North West) of England was a uniting thread, and so the idea for such a conference was born. We invite proposals that engage with 'place' in the long nineteenth century, with particular attention to the North (West), broadly conceived. Papers may approach place as material, imagined, represented, contested, remembered, or speculative. We welcome MA/MRes students, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers whose research interests focus on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literary studies, history, art history and related disciplines, with suggested (but not limited to) topics such as: • Fictional/fantastical representations of the North (West) • The legacy of space in the North (West) • Transnational and postcolonial links to the North (West): colonial, imperial, and transatlantic contexts (e.g, Liverpool as a global port) • Museums, archives, and collections: regional museums and the afterlives of nineteenth-century places • Gendered, racialised, and marginalised spaces: who belongs, who is excluded, and how space is policed • Landscape across disciplines: historical, literary, artistic, and creative engagements with the natural and industrial landscapes of the North (West) in the long nineteenth century • The North (West) in popular culture, periodicals, visual culture, and performance • Queer histories and queer readings of place, including non-normative identities & relationships Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words (including title) for 10-15 minute papers, along with a short biography to ehu 19place@outlook.com by 1st May 2026, including name, preferred pronouns, and academic institution. We are excited to have Dr Claire O'Callaghan giving a keynote address on Top Withens, Wuthering Heights and the impact of literary scholarship. As Dr O'Callagham is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Brontë Studies journal, she has kindly agreed to also run a workshop on publishing in an academic journal. Given the conference's emphasis on 'place', we are excited to offer an in-person conference gathering in the North West and warmly welcome participants to join us here. However, we are also committed to accessibility needs and widening participation, so please indicate if you would prefer to present online in your application. Please also do let us know about any other access needs or adjustments that can make your experience easier.
February 6, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Peanuts have arrived. Bon appetit wee man.
Pheasant eating peanuts
February 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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“Greetings Food-Mammal. I cannot help but notice that you have allowed yourself to become distracted from feeding duties by your day job.”
Impatient pheasant waiting at the office door.
February 4, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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It’s Decadence day. 💛
Entering a lecture theatre. The slide is right yellow, titled ‘Reading Decadence’ and with an image of ramon casas’s panting Decadent Young Woman. 19thC woman in black dress lounging on green sofa and holding a bright yellow book
January 28, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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Headline: Vampire film Sinners breaks Oscar nominations record.
January 22, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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🚨 The goat has fallen!!!
#Gävlebocken
Livestream image of the gavle goat collapsed in strong winds.
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Very Happy Blue Carbuncle Day, to all those who celebrate!

“It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan,” I remarked.
“Precisely so," Holmes replied, "on December 22nd, just five days ago."

💎
December 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Go check out Bob for Wired!
December 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This week we launch a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social

'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the 2026 Chalke History Festival bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited #Skystorians
Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS
Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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In this week’s episode of “Place names that sound like Victorian novel characters!”

Fankerton Bash would be a hearty but slightly abrasive American in an Arthur Conan Doyle or Bram Stoker story. #c19th
Screen shot of a map showing the town of Fankerton.
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Honk honk 🎄
An excessively large goose Christmas decoration standing about 5-6 feet tall with wings outstretched in belligerent fashion. Guarding a golden egg.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I’d forgotten what a banger of a kids movie is Small Soldiers (1998). But if it was freaky as a kid then it’s extra freaky in the age of AI.
Poster for small soldiers movie featuring a soldier action figure who is very clearly part-terminator and part buzz lightyear.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Apply!
uofglasgowasc.bsky.social UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · Nov 13
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!

We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.

Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

📆Closing date: 5 January 2026

#UofGLibraryFellows
Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Dickensians, what are your academic plans for next Thursday?
qaqv.bsky.social From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · Oct 24
📚 Join us on Nov 13, 2025 (7 PM CET, Zoom) for Dr. Adrianne Wojcik’s lecture:

“Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.”

Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature.

Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/

#QAQV #Dickens
Mud and Stars
FORTHCOMING Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act This lecture explores the legal symbolism of “mud” and “stars,” the two inextricably linked extr...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Some really great literary theory classes today. Our regularly scheduled class on Marxist theory and Sianne Ngai’s ‘cute’ commodities derailed wildly (but not irrelevantly) into a discussion of what Karl Marx would make of the Labubu that someone left on his grave.
Left: grave of Karl Marx Right: close up of a malevolently cute looking labubu doll on the grave among flowers
November 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Boiler’s borked. So I’m spending Halloween waiting on … “The Boiler Man!!” #BBCghosts
Mary from BBC Ghosts, in cap, mustard-coloured dress and blue kirtle, who lives in dread of ‘The Boiler Man’
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I’m currently writing about Sherlock Holmes and my autocorrect keeps changing ‘Lestrade’ to ‘Lestat’. But now I’m thinking that would be one wild shared universe?!
Left: Sidney Paget illustration of Inspector Lestrade in bowler hat. Right: Sam Reid as rock star lestat shirtless but wearing a smoulder.
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social!

Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
ehunineteen.bsky.social EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · Oct 17
Our second seminar is:

27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#EHU19SeminarSeries
A print called ‘A Private Theatrical of Jane Shore’ with a seated woman performing with book for variously involved seated guests, a cat and dog fighting in the middle of them
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Reposted by Dr Laura Eastlake
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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...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Very excited for BAVS to come to Liverpool next year, and very pleased to see our CfP out! No specific theme, we are open to any exploration of the multifaceted nature of 'the Victorian' - have a look at the call here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
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October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A path lined with dark green plants, deep red Japanese maple and bright yellow trees. In the background the tower of glasgow university main building. A bicycle leans against a lamppost.
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
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October 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM