Brontë Juvenilia: An online five-week course | The Brontë Parsonage Museum This 5 week course, delivered by Dr Sam Hirst, takes a deep dive into the world of the Brontë Juvenilia, exploring the fantastical worlds they created. Wee

There's still time to sign up for this 5-week online course starting in May.

We're diving into the Bronte juvenilia, reading work by all 4 of the siblings!

Come dive in with me and see what the Brontes were up in their strange and expansive paracosmic worlds

www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...

I think @jacklynch000.bsky.social posted it last year?

Rare painting sparks identity quest by National Portrait Gallery Research is underway to uncover the identity of two teenagers in 17th Century portrait.

This is so cool and I can’t wait to see it on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Really fascinating to see this kind of rare double portrait with male figures.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

would love to get a closer look at the writing on the plinth in the top left hand corner… 🧐

I use an e-reader to read pdfs (specifically, archive[dot]org pdfs of out-of-print 19thC novels) and library e-books: the e-ink display is much kinder to the eyes & uses much less energy than reading these texts from a phone/computer screen
(NB. I don’t use kindle though)

I'm here because my Jewish grandparents escaped the Holocaust. Many of our family were not so fortunate. NEVER AGAIN is supposed to include Iranians. And Palestinians. And Ukrainians. And on and on. There are no exceptions based on religion or country of origin.

Also, I will say, to any of my academic friends and acquaintances, it's only been reviewed twice (in Irish University Review and ECF), so if you have access and could feel a review coming on...

Am 100% with you on all three counts

AI systems are plagiarism-ecocide-harassment-surveillance-enslavement-radioactive waste machines.

The point of being alive is to not ask a garbage machine questions.

The point of being alive is not to delegate being alive to a garbage machine.

Photograph of book, The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, on a table

Photograph of open book, opened on title page of chapter within

Delighted to see my chapter within the newly published Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell. Really proud of how this piece came together with Lizzie and Rebecca's excellent guidance (it's not about trees, for once), & now looking forward to reading the other chapters in the collection.

Congratulations!! Looks splendid!

Briefly wondered if this was some kind of early April Fools’ joke 😣
(apparently if you freeze frame on the name of the building at one point the AI prints “Lierary”, appropriately enough)

Tomorrow a trailer for a franchise will be dropping. The creator of the franchise funds transphobia.

There is not much I can say except trans rights are human rights. And these days human rights are under attack.

Choose wisely.

Anita Anand wrote a biography of her & it’s an absolute page turner, it should be a docu-drama miniseries

Someone in south east London knows who the driver of the red car who intentionally ran over a Muslim woman in Abbey Wood. Please share this if you don't know them, please report them if you do.

Elevenses is also very much a thing in the Paddington books (if I remember right), when he & Mr Gruber have cocoa and currant buns

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

Good news for Whovians: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely!! And it’s always bothered me that Demetrius is only marrying Helena at the end because he’s still enchanted, which seems to leave some pretty big consent issues. Definitely not a cute little comedy

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

So pleased to announce that MUSIC INDUSTRY AND FAMILY NETWORKS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN: THE CORRI FAMILY IN EDINBURGH AND LONDON, 1771–1825 is now under contract with Boydell and Brewer! Many, many thanks to the series editors and those who have supported this work so far! @bsecs.bsky.social

4 days left to get your free download of Disability & the Gothic.

Disability and the Gothic Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic

Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Yes, I mean this isn‘t my specialist field but I didn’t think prehistoric humans were weaving/tailoring fine cloth & making money pouches quite that early either

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

The top line story this week is the proposed nationwide book ban. Read it, understand where and how it emerged from local and state legislation and policy, and then take action by spreading the word and contacting your reps.

bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

"If AI can go to school for you whats the point of going to school"
SO YOU YOURSELF, THE HUMAN IN THIS EQUATION, CAN LEARN TO SAY AND DO THINGS, THATS WHY
So you learn not to say ridiculous things like this, so you learn to think critically about the world and not believe the crap that AIbros sell.

Really glad I could help! ☺️

There should still be a way to switch off all auto-correct if that’s a help at all, I think it’s under Settings>General>Keyboard>Auto-Correction
If it’s the predictive text that’s giving the problem, that can also be switched off in Keyboard settings

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...