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📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team.
See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...
🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026
Hello, all. I'm writing this thread to ask for your help. I know it's a bit of a downer at the start of a sunny spring weekend, but please read to the end. (1/?)
The early history of teacher training colleges in Britain, 1836-1918 - call for participants deadline 8 May 2026 We are inviting participants to attend and contribute to a workshop day at the Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool, on 2 June 2026, organised by Edge Hill University, in collaboration with Lincoln Bishop University. The intention is to orient most of the day around workshop sessions that contain introductory (c.8-10 minutes) presentations which enable us to collectively discuss and progress particular research questions relating to the early history of teacher training colleges across Britain. Further aims of the day are to establish a national network to research the history of teacher training, unlock underused archival collections related to this field and to develop interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities for the future. Please provide a 250-word (max) overview of your interest and background in this area to enable the organisers to construct a thematic and coherent programme. Please email to Professor Alyson Brown (browna@edgehill.ac.uk) • If you have any suggestions or ideas for the best way to present/share your knowledge and research, please do indicate this. We are open to whatever works to advance collaboration and research and make the day as productive as possible
Exciting opportunity to collaborate with our own @interwarcrime.bsky.social and Lincoln Bishop University on the history of teacher training colleges, with an openness to alternative presentation formats
Everyone please clap. Today I have successfully set one (1) boundary at work.
Not the key point, but all the 'Andrew Mountbatten Windsor' coverage shows how quickly and easily the entire UK media complex can switch to someone's new name/title, even after using their old one for decades, when it's an incredibly pampered white male deviant. So, you know, it's not *that* hard...
Re-upping our PGR-organised ECR conference on Place - send us an abstract by 1st May for a (hopefully) sunny day in June 😎
Bring on the additional paperwork! 🥰 And be prepared for the inevitable theatrical takeover…
TODAY!
Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR conference Friday 26th June 2026 Image of Blackpool Edge Hill Nineteen research centre is excited to invite you to 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', a PGR/ECR conference focused on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literature and history. London and the South have often been the heart of discussion about the nineteenth century. However, development in industry during the period brought popularity to cities such as Liverpool and Manchester, which led to a boom of industrial growth in the north of England. In the nineteenth century, the north of England developed like never before, both within cities and in more rural areas.
Following a recent EHU19 research symposium, PhD students from literature and history came together to discuss their emerging research and found a common theme - place. More specifically, the North (and North West) of England was a uniting thread, and so the idea for such a conference was born. We invite proposals that engage with 'place' in the long nineteenth century, with particular attention to the North (West), broadly conceived. Papers may approach place as material, imagined, represented, contested, remembered, or speculative. We welcome MA/MRes students, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers whose research interests focus on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literary studies, history, art history and related disciplines, with suggested (but not limited to) topics such as:
• Fictional/fantastical representations of the North (West) • The legacy of space in the North (West) • Transnational and postcolonial links to the North (West): colonial, imperial, and transatlantic contexts (e.g, Liverpool as a global port) • Museums, archives, and collections: regional museums and the afterlives of nineteenth-century places • Gendered, racialised, and marginalised spaces: who belongs, who is excluded, and how space is policed • Landscape across disciplines: historical, literary, artistic, and creative engagements with the natural and industrial landscapes of the North (West) in the long nineteenth century • The North (West) in popular culture, periodicals, visual culture, and performance • Queer histories and queer readings of place, including non-normative identities & relationships
Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words (including title) for 10-15 minute papers, along with a short biography to ehu 19place@outlook.com by 1st May 2026, including name, preferred pronouns, and academic institution. We are excited to have Dr Claire O'Callaghan giving a keynote address on Top Withens, Wuthering Heights and the impact of literary scholarship. As Dr O'Callagham is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Brontë Studies journal, she has kindly agreed to also run a workshop on publishing in an academic journal. Given the conference's emphasis on 'place', we are excited to offer an in-person conference gathering in the North West and warmly welcome participants to join us here. However, we are also committed to accessibility needs and widening participation, so please indicate if you would prefer to present online in your application. Please also do let us know about any other access needs or adjustments that can make your experience easier.
Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June
CFP deadline: Friday 1st May
We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩
Please share - and send us an abstract!
I think about it all the time too. It’s wild how everything just….got ignored (though not surprising). Wrote about it a bit on today’s substack open.substack.com/pub/morganll...
Screenshot of a website. The text reads: Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group Submit a Manuscript to the Journal Brontë Studies For a Special Issue on To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry Abstract deadline 01 April 2026 Manuscript deadline 15 December 2026
Call for Contributions: 'To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry', a special issue of Brontë Studies, edited by @drbeard79.bsky.social
500-word abstracts due by 1st April. More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6317
Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....
We should not shy away from understanding the underlying message of all this, & so much else in the media: that it ought to be socially acceptable to be able to pick a marginalised group and hate them, to make yourself feel good.
No. It ought not.
If you need AI to do these things, I do not believe you are qualified to be a lecturer.
This could have been an interesting article on the importance of honing aspects of our craft such as storytelling and performing, but instead is just another call to abandon our human creativity for efficiency.
We see there's a new playwriting prize seeking to "counteract overtly political theatre".
Just to be clear: We welcome woke plays. And viciously satirical plays. And plays about lettuces becoming political icons. We welcome all plays, and all plays are political.
More soon 👀
“Who wrote this, Ibsen? Stop talking!” and other things I shout at the TV when I’ve clearly been spending too much time with work…
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Still a few days left to send in an abstract for what promises to be another brilliant BAVS conference! 👩💻
I’m so tired. Must be all the taking I’ve done.
Image: a Home Office X post saying “Britain welcomes migrants who contribute to our economy and society. High earners, entrepreneurs and skilled frontline workers like NHS staff will be fast-tracked to settlement - rewarding those who give, not take”
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
For our next seminar, the wonderful @digivictorian.bsky.social is hosting our just as wondrous PhD researchers, Liam Pope, Laura Grande Mateu, Emily Hayes, & Emma Butler, for our #19thCFlashTalks.
Join us for a pre-Christmas treat on Wednesday 10th December from 6 pm. Free, online, all welcome!
Dickens is going to Denmark! Will you go too?
CFP deadline: 4 January
Conference: 13-16 July in Aarhus on ‘Thinking Dickens’
dickenssociety.org/home
Thread of all HE threads 👇
Super depressing, but sort of nice in the midst of it all to know that you’re not alone in this experience…
TOMORROW - join us!!!
Never thought I’d be boycotting a work Christmas Carol concert, and yet here we are. UK HE really needs to sort out its priorities 🙄
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
THIS WEEK - join us on Thursday for some amateur theatricals and at least semi-professional zooming 😉
NEXT WEEK - join us!
And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social
Call for paper for a special issue on the Brontës and poetry - on their work as poets - on poetry in the novels - on poetic influences and legacies - hoping for creative responses too!
Abstracts due April 26
Articles due December 26
#Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic
Please share!