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Jim Mussell
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Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
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victorianlondon.bsky.social
"What shall we go with on the first issue cover, Dave?"
"Yeah, I'm thinking a gothic vibe."
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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drchrislouttit.bsky.social
Very happy @matthewchambers.bsky.social has proposed this @englishstudies.bsky.social special issue! One for SHARPists & scholars of bookselling across periods & Anglophone cultural contexts:
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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bldigischol.bsky.social
Work at the British Library on pulling structured information from scanned card catalogues:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250805102551/https:/blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/09/convert-a-card-past-present-and-future-of-catalogue-cards-retroconversion.html [1/2]
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
jimmussell.bsky.social
I enjoyed being interviewed about Adelaide Anne Procter, the English Woman's Journal, and the Victoria Press by Lizzie Ludlow and Amanda Vernon for their podcast Adelaide Anne Procter: Victorian Poetry, Faith, and Fundraising. First episode here (I'm in no. 3): open.spotify.com/episode/7iHS...
Episode 1: Introduction
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October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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rs4vp.org
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
Black-and-white printed image of crowd of people overlaid with CFP announcement that says "Movements and Migrations Trinity College, Dublin, 23-25 July 2026 New proposal deadline 21 November 2025"
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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lcsleeds.bsky.social
So excited to launch our new MA in Classics and Ancient History now recruiting for 2026 entry! 🎉💐🥳
leedsclassics.bsky.social Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · 15d
New MA in Classics and Ancient History at Leeds - we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new MA in Classics and Ancient History, *now recruiting* for September 2026!

For more information and to apply, please visit:
courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...
Classics and Ancient History MA | University of Leeds
The Classics and Ancient History MA is unique to Leeds and explores the ancient Mediterranean world, spanning literature, history, philosophy, religion and material culture.
courses.leeds.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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zacharylesser.bsky.social
This is delightful
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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emmabolland.bsky.social
The Public Dream 21–23 November 2025. Delighted to be working on this project with THE ART HOUSE. Transforming the Main Gallery into a live working studio from 10 Nov and unveiling fully with extended opening hours during the Light Up festival (21–23 November). the-arthouse.org.uk/news/autumn-...
An image of a hand holding a torch shining a coloured light on to a wall covered with layers of coloured chalk made from palimpsests of writing, with a panel of text that reads 'Emma Bolland: The Public Dream, 21–23 November 2025. Unveiled during Light Up Wakefield, Bolland transforms the Gallery into a poetic installation of drawing, light, and text. Developed through a live working residency, the work explores archives, dreams, and speculative futures, offering audiences the chance to step into a space where imagination takes form.
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...
Tripitaka Koreana - Wikipedia
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October 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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drewhobbs.bsky.social
New open-access article on a peculiar type of periodical, the county magazine:
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
doi.org/10.1080/1478...
In Cultural and Social History
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
There are some eighty-five county magazines across England, read by millions. This case study of 1930s Cheshire Life explains their appeal and demonstrates their value for twentieth-century social ...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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heikebauer.bsky.social
Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'.

19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London.

All welcome but please register:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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emmamerkling.bsky.social
Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory
Call for papers: “The nineteenth century saw profound transformations in how being and embodiment were figured across British culture. Art and science were at the forefront of these changes. As new forms of subjectivity were being formulated, the relationship between the self and the body, and between the body and life itself, were being reconfigured in visual productions and scientific writings alike. These transformations were entangled with new, ambivalent, and profoundly modern ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, form, and the nature and limits of the human. In Victorian art, the body was opened up to forces and flows which constituted and exceeded it. This panel invites papers which centre trans studies as a lens through which to explore these turbulent transformations in nineteenth-century art. What modes of…” “… embodiment, being, or becoming come into view when Victorian visual culture is approached via trans theory? What kinds of subjects and materials come to matter differently? What are the uses of transness— attuned to transition, indeterminacy, multiplicity, and bodily change—as a theoretical and historical framework? We invite 20-minute papers exploring British art (broadly conceived) in the long nineteenth century through the lens of trans theory and/or from trans perspectives. Topics might include, but are not limited to: • The (un) making of the human; nonhuman bodies; monstrosity; animality • Ecology, metamorphosis, bodies and environments • Racialization of sex, gender, and embodiment • Coloniality of gender; imperialism and difference • Transness and disability; mutable, prosthetic, and anomalous bodies • Fairytales, folklore, myth, and transformation • Spirituality and immaterial bodies • Sexology and medical imaging”
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Tetley Malthouse, Mill Street, Leeds, winter 1973, photo by Peter Mitchell.
October 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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triproftri.bsky.social
Help: I need photos of *Bengal Annual* 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 & 1836 at @britishlibrary.bsky.social
BL isn't doing digital scans for remote patrons, tho
a/o in London who mt be able to get to the BL?

@rs4vp.org @victstudies.bsky.social @jimmussell.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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openresleeds.bsky.social
🗣️Speakers:

🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester)

💂‍♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds)

🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester)

💂‍♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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carinr.bsky.social
Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard.

Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory

www.pennpress.org/978151282705...
Facsimile – Penn Press
An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts h...
www.pennpress.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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luciejones83.bsky.social
We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…
October 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
jimmussell.bsky.social
Yorkshire really is a lovely place
October 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Don't miss this year's Holden Lecture by Prof Jason Peacey at Senate House Library, University of London, 30 October at 6PM. It's inspired by Senate House Library's Spineless Wonders Exhibition. 1/2 @uclhistory.bsky.social
Holden Lecture: Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print and Restoration England
www.london.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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openresleeds.bsky.social
Join us for this special online event that brings together a panel from two universitiess, separated by the Atlantic Ocean while joined by a common history. We’ll hear from academics and archivists with an interest Black history and how libraries and archives support these histories 👇
nickshepp.bsky.social Nick Sheppard @nickshepp.bsky.social · Oct 9
Exciting trans-Atlantic collaboration between the libraries at Universities of Rochester and Leeds:

🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT)

leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...
Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester.
Leeds has a rich, though still under-discussed, history of anti-slavery activism. For instance, the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association was established in 1853 at The Leeds Library on...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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edithmayhall.bsky.social
This coming Sunday, three historic performances of the late, great Tony Harrison's masterpiece "v." in the Leeds graveyard where it's set. I'm speaking before the final reading. Please come. slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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rs4vp.org
Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…
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September 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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pritijoshi.bsky.social
The deadline for application is Oct 15. If you or somebody you know works on periodicals and attribution research, do apply (or spread the word).
rs4vp.org Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Oct 8
Are you doing #19thC attribution research? Do you have DH skills and nowhere to use them? YOU could be the next editor of the Curran Index! We're still accepting applications thru next week on 15 Oct. Lead this ongoing + fully supported DH project into its next iteration! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...
Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP
RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.
rs4vp.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unexpectedly lengthy) walk-in-progress over the past few days. It's much appreciated. The full thread (128 posts) is below.
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Sep 30
A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.
October 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM