Sarah Wride
@srwride.bsky.social
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
#ECRs #skystorians #humanities
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In the lead up to the #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner announcement next month, we are shining a light on each of the shortlisted books.
This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
In the lead up to the #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner announcement next month, we are shining a light on each of the shortlisted books.
This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
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So delighted that this long-gestated brain child is now out and in the real world. I'll be talking about it at the English Faculty in Cambridge, @cam.ac.uk on Thursday of next week at 5pm. Do please come along if you're in town!
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
So delighted that this long-gestated brain child is now out and in the real world. I'll be talking about it at the English Faculty in Cambridge, @cam.ac.uk on Thursday of next week at 5pm. Do please come along if you're in town!
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The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.
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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…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shapy7mhnclleohdoeridwum/bafkreihz26ynv2kde7ykates45ogplauscvqc5nhifhcn7wokntl42ycs4@jpeg)
![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’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shapy7mhnclleohdoeridwum/bafkreic3jrkh2zysifm4xjzcqo6mvbf7hoemqzxp4lg2pei3mudu2x3coe@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Creature schmeature - if you’re an academic, I gleefully inform you Victor Frankenstein is One of Us 🖤
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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
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
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
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
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If you have tea and some fig rolls you may also be in heaven
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
If you have tea and some fig rolls you may also be in heaven
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#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
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
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
#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
“‘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.”
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“‘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.”
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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
www.weekend-online.com/issue768/#10
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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
www.weekend-online.com/issue768/#10
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In our Wilkie Collins era
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
In our Wilkie Collins era
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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
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...
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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 ...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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...
The cacti are just starting to feel a *smidge* aggressive now…
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The cacti are just starting to feel a *smidge* aggressive now…
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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
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
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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-...
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
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-...
blog.history.ac.uk/2024/10/vch-...
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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
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
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
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
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
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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-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
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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
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.
📣 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
#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
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October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
📣 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
#histparl
#skystorians
@bsecs.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social
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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!
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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!
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
An embarrassment of riches this #YWESnesday! I also now have Tess Somervell, James Metcalf, & Rayna Rossenova’s mega-review of 2024 #c18th #poetry studies.
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
Another #YWESnesday & happily I’ve come by another fantastic looking mega-review—this time of 2024 #c18th #prose scholarship...