Many congratulations Matt! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

This is great - thank you!

Mrs Lovi’s beads This is a short piece I wrote for a feature in The Scotsman to mark Women’s History Month 2023. Five female curators at National Museums Scotland were asked to share a story about woman repre…

Mrs Lovi's beads - sharing a short piece I wrote for a newspaper feature for #WomensHistoryMonth on Isabella Lovi, a female scientific instrument maker in Edinburgh
teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/m... #histSTM

As it's St David's Day, here are some Welsh stones – near St David's Head in Pembrokeshire. They're named after King Arthur though: Coetan Arthur, or Arthur's Quoit. #StandingStoneSunday

1831 Mary Anning "a knowledgeable lady and now very famous for her discoveries in England and on the Continent" (useful quote in response to claims that Anning was unacknowledged/ unknown/forgotten) #histsci

Huge congratulation to SoE's Karen Solie on winning the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for WELLWATER! 🥳 What an incredible achievement. Karen's insight, creativity and brilliance continues to inspire us all.🤩 #ProudDepartment #TS-EliotPrize

Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Please do join me if you can for these events #IrishRomanticism @universitypress.cambridge.org

UCC 19 February 5.30pm Hub Atrium
Cambridge 2 March 5.30pm Emmanuel College
Boston College 11 March 5pm Connolly House
NYU 12 March 6pm Glucksman House
Royal Irish Academy 25 March 6pm Academy House

Conferences ​Sites of Memory: making, remembering, forgetting 15 - 17 May 2026   Hybrid Conference – in person  and simultaneously online Aberystwyth University The Thirty-sixth Annual Conference of the...

It’s #CfP time for the Association of Welsh Writing in English: this year’s themes are Sites of Memory: Making, Remembering, Forgetting.

15th-17th May, hybrid and Prifysgol Aberystwyth University.

www.awwe.org/conference.h...

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

The Uses of Romanticism @ucc.ie

Reading 18 Feb by Maureen McLane

Papers 19 Feb by Mary-Ann Constantine, Elisa Cozzi, Porscha Fermanis @penfielding.bsky.social Nigel Leask, Omar Miranda, Jane Moore @drtinamorin.bsky.social Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Diego Saglia & Brandon Yen

Many many congratulations on the book Clare! 🥳And a wonderful conference line up - fantastic!

5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️

Congratulations Daryl! 💐

This is fantastic @victoriandetective.bsky.social! 😍

"Why had the character of the professional Victorian female detective suddenly materialised, then vanished?"

Read an extract from Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective'.⬇️

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"History has never been more important than it is in the current moment."

'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' by @victoriandetective.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @yalebooks.bsky.social

Publication day today 11 September 2025 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/ros-...

When Summer Meant Sea Serpents

Great to see 'When Summer Meant Sea Serpents' published in September's issue of @historytoday.com - www.historytoday.com/archive/hist... For more on the history of sea serpents see my new book, The Perilous Deep reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-per... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

As usual forgot to take photos, but here's a couple from @catherinespooner.bsky.social's and @coffinboffin.bsky.social's wonderful keynotes 🩵

So grateful to @ogomproject.bsky.social for bringing us together for the dream mermaid conference. A brilliant three days thinking about submarine fantasies 💦🧜‍♀️🩵

Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō

Great day 2 at the Sea Changes conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social! #seachanges

A is for AMBOINA MERMAID
Writers recorded the capture of a mermaid on the island of Amboina 1712. Said to be 5 feet long, it screeched like a mouse & would not eat fish. The mermaid appears in 'Fishes, Crayfish & Crabs', a collection of the region's sea-life (1712) #SeaChanges

KEYNOTE 'The luck of the Ningyō: Hybridity and the rise of the fake museum mermaid'. Looking forward to sharing my research with all the wonderful attendees at #SeaChanges
@britishlibrary.bsky.social #GothicMermaids

Sea Changes Mermaid Conference 2025 Sea Changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and on line) Date: 6–8 September 2025 (6th on line…

Still some online tickets available for Saturday if you fancy a mermaid-y weekend (in-person tickets are sold out) www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-... 🧜‍♀️💧🦭

Congratulations Rhys! 🎉

Brilliant! Have a wonderful time.The programme looks out of this world. Just spectacular.

Congratulations, Jennie, and all involved!

Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction book cover

Congratulations to Dr Kiron Ward on the publication of Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction (published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social)

The ebook is out today & it's available in hardback from 6th February:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/encyclopa...

BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Michelle de Kretser Take Four Books speaks to Michelle de Kretser about her new novel and its three influences

Yesterday, Emeritus Professor Susan Sellers appeared on BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books talking to Australian novelist Michelle de Ketser about Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith.

Catch up on BBC Sounds -
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Congratulations to Dr Asha Hornsby on the publication of her new book titled 'Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture' It's available from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

More info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/news...
Order here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...