Congrats Daniel!

The most exciting thing you’ll see today. Run bunny!!

Once again sharing our upcoming EHU19 PGR & ECR conference as the abstract deadline for 1st May is looming closer! We're very lucky to have @drclaireocall.bsky.social as keynote & running a journal workshop!

Send any abstracts or queries to ehu19place@outlook.com ✨️

@ehunineteen.bsky.social

Lecturer in English Literature The Department of English provides education at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels, and is part of the Faculty of Humanities. The Department has a staff of about 35 people. There are ap

Job: Stockholm. FT / 1-year post that comprises 70% teaching and 30% professional development. #C19th specialism.
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An excellent source of protein.

Illustration of a woman, with characteristic 'Gibson Girl' updo, carrying a serving tray. Lying on the serving tray, steaming as if recently removed from the oven, but otherwise smiling and unperturbed, is a small cherubic child with wings and legs in the air.

Looking at illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson. I have questions about this one. (1903)

a man and a snake are standing next to each other in a cave . Alt: Joana the Goana (aka the BEST Disney Princess) opens a tin box with malevolent glee and sneakily eats one of the many eggs inside it.

Oops. Marking at home when there’s a box of chocolates on the desk.
Bad plan. Bad plan.

black and white illustration of a large vertically-striped balloon, with the Palace partly in view in the background. A Megalosaurus is suspended underneath it

The aeronaut Henry Coxwell transports the Megalosaurus across the Crystal Palace grounds in his giant balloon "Mammoth"

Please note that this did not happen

University of Exeter and University of Cambridge Libraries & Archives - Collections Connections Communities

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.

#PhDsky

Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me.

Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships....

Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.

Book cover against blue background: Susan Sontag, “the volcano lover”. Cover features a late 18th/ early 19thC illustration of two women and a young girl pointing up at a volcano which is erupting

Some volcanic reading for a sunny Tuesday. 🌋

Majestic!

Photograph of indira varma as Mrs Gardiner in green velvet hat, green dress abs purple gloves. Mr gardiner in green coat and red cravat with his hat on his lap. Both smiling and clapping

Illustration from A Christmas Carol showing the Fezziwigs dancing at their ball. Mrs Fezziwig in yellow gown. Mr Fezziwig exhibiting some fancy footwork

“The Other Bennet Sister” was delightful and now all I want is a shared-universe spin off where the young Gardiners hang out with the young Fezziwigs and maybe solve some crimes and have raucous parties. #c19th

The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation and Legacy An Online VPFA Study Day Co-organised by Dr Graziella Stringos and Dr Philippa St. George Keynote Speakers: Dr Jen Baker, and Dr Victoria MargreeFriday 17th – Saturday 18th April REGISTRATION…

Come and join the chatter on *The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation and Legacy*, a free Online Study Day by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
Friday 17th – Saturday 18th April

Keynote Speakers: Dr Jen Baker, and Dr Victoria Margree
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Applications for the 206/27 round of the C19 Matters Fellowship @ljmuofficial.bsky.social are now open! Details and benefits below and here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/n.... Deadline Monday 11 May 2026; please share widely!

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Pictures of Kermit puppet in a glass cabinet. His puppet mouth is agape, his eyes vacant, as if dreaming about a nice Chianti. He is on a stick mount which gives the appearance of his being perched patiently on a stool, waiting for you to speak to him through the glass.

A little peek into the Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre, where they keep Kermit in solitary confinement like Hannibal Lecter.

(NB: the Scottish Mask and Puppet centre is actually a pretty cool educational venue with shows and things for families, and you should check it out!)

She is indeed one of the OG energy vampires of Victorian fiction.
Updog.

It did catch me off guard. Hope you're well!

Cover showing a male, dark-haired vampire scowling scowlily at us. His cape has multiple layers of shoulder details. His pecs are blood-spackled. Behind him hovers what may be either a bat or a chandelier (possibly AI could not decide).

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book"
Episode 1: Florence Marryat's Blood of the Vampire (1897).

This book features a female vampire who doesn't know she's a vampire, who drains life not blood, and is enjoying a holiday in a Belgian seaside town.
#BadBookCovers #C19th

I realise I’ve also missed off a class favourite: Robert Browning, who would 100% join you in the drunk heckling.

Seating chart: Leo Vincey, Catherine Earnshaw, Van Helsing, Jane Eyre, The Signalman, Mina Harker, Charles Darwin, Anne Bronte, Anna Sewell, Beatrix Potter, Dr Seward, Dr Jekyll (Mr Hyde by pudding), Marian Halcombe, Wilkie Collins (who would propose to MH by coffee), Sarah Bernhardt, Count Fosco, Napoleon Sarony, Lady Audley, Quincey Morris, Rosalie Murray. Sherlock Holmes declined and is now hiding at home with all the lights off. ME Brandon sadly declines. She has a deadline to meet.

⭐️ The results are in!! My wonderful hons class have made their choices for dream Victorian Popular Fiction dinner party.

Who are you adding and where are you sitting?! #c19th

A visit to Crystal Palace Park to see work on the 1854 dinosaur models. I'm just as interested in the fabulous mudscapes created as their setting. Amazing to recall that Benjamin Walter Waterhouse hosted a dinner *inside* the Iguanadon before it was revealed to the world. What a publicity stunt!

The new @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter is looking gorgeous after its refresh! It also features our halloween workshops for kids at the historic Mackintosh at the Willow tearoom, where we explored the history & ethics of sugar consumption & what it means to be a 'sugar vampire'! Thanks BAVS! #C19th

Absolutely huge. Much like the ‘huge walk min closet’

‘Mudroom & Laundry’ featuring two bathtubs, two sinks and no washing machine

It’s this one that cracks me up. Exactly how muddy does AI think I’m getting?!

Ai generated architectural plan of a house. From a distance all looks fine. Then you notice there are seven bathrooms, labelled things like ‘bedroom 4/full bath’, ‘master room’ and ‘coat bath’. Three of the bathrooms adjoin the master suite and the ‘gust bath’ sits alone on the other side of the house. The ‘wide two car garage’ is round the back of the house (between two more bathrooms); the ‘gourmet kitchen’ has nothing in it, and the “main foyer’ is a little vestibule at the back of the house (between three bathrooms.)

This is the best visual aid I’ve found for explaining to friends and family what it feels like to read text/essays that have been written by AI:

📣 Job: Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T) in my lovely school at UofG. FT Permanent. Please share.
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Page of the strand magazine with comedic illustrations of pug dog expressions, includes practically smiling, suspicious side-eye, and haughty

Pug expressions. The Strand Magazine. c1890

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

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