#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30.
Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm
BARS 2026 Conference Registration now OPEN!
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.
Could anyone recommend good, recent(ish) scholarship on oral traditions of travel narration? Whether Inuit, African, Aboriginal, 'Indigenous' more broadly - any suggestions very welcome! TIA!
Call for Papers: Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
28 to 30 June 2027, with an optional trip to Scott’s home, Abbotsford House, on 1 July
More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395
The programme is now available for the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference in April at Southampton. Full details and booking here: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...
It’s been out a while now, but Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thcentury British travel to Spain and Portugal that is free to download here!
uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...
An army of help accompanied wealthy British sightseers on their #18thcentury sojourns across the Continent. What was it like to travel as a servant on the Grand Tour?
🔒 Richard Ansell’s cover feature is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
Workshop Flyer showing a plan of Catania showing Etna Erupting, 1669, TNA: MPF 1/214/3.
Looking forward to presenting my paper “Bound Together at Sea: Convict Sociability and Life Aboard HMS Calcutta, 1803” at the the GIS Sociabilités Workshop at The National Archives, UK, this week. What forms of sociability did convicts experience during the voyage? #earlymodern #history
Two women in the entomological section, © Senckenberg Archive
We’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research)
“Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS
We are getting excited - proof-reading the MS for The Wreck of the Gloucester: A 17th-Century Warship Through Time! Finally! It should go to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for publication next week! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I are now discussing the cover image ... tempted by this artefact (!?)😉
Upcoming in-person lecture (and wine reception!) at QMUL (London): 'Slow Reading in an Age of Speed: Wordsworth and the Practice of Criticism' by Jonathan Sachs
2 April, 5:15-7:15pm. More details and book tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slow-readi...
Global historians! The European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) has a Bluesky account. Please share and follow: @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social
Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.
Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork
One for the #TravelWriting scholars. Samia Ounoughi and I seem to have been working on this book forever, but it's out at last! It features a great range of contributions. If you have access to an academic library and an interest in travel writing scholarship, please request a copy!
Arthur Adams's (1820-1878) drawings range from pen and ink scientific sketches to charismatic watercolours of fish species observed during his voyage to the Malay Archipelago. Angling to see more? ⬆️ Use the link in our bio to explore this collection and many others.
Congratulations, Constance!
📚 New publication! 📚
On the move: mobility and Early Modern translation 👉 buff.ly/9rFFBQ5
Co-edited by our own Giancarlo Casale and Ann Thomson
The volume investigates the translators' role as agents of encounter in a world in which ideas, texts and people circulated as never before
Looking forward to this! @sussexpast.bsky.social #SussexCoast sussexpast.co.uk/event/spring...
Very, very excited to share a new collaboration between @giflab.bsky.social and @nichecanada.bsky.social!
I'm serving as series editor for a NiCHE series on Indigenous Geographies!
Please consider submitting something--we are open to a variety of media!
Work begins today on the 3rd iteration of the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Critical Editions project, which this year sees students from our English Literature degree and MA in Publishing editing a new full accessible digital edition of the correspondence between Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne #18c
Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant.
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Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.
#EnglishCreates: Futures
Today, Dr Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds) shows how English can help us to think about climate change:
'Literature of the first fossil-fuelled society can help us to imagine alternative futures...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism
#EnglishCreates: Futures
Today, Dr David Cooper & Prof Kate Pahl (MMU) discuss 'Teaching on treescapes':
'By listening to and being attentive to children’s meaning making practices, a social poetics of treescapes engagement emerged...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/voices-of-th...
#Ecocriticism
We are supporting this conference on Charles Ignatius Sancho, the late-18thC Black British polymath. A recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries makes it timely to bring together international scholars and practitioners for the first time in over 25 years! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
Cover of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" showing a detail from an abstract painting by Nano Reid called "Makeshift Gate at Wildgoose Lodge" (1973)
Congratulations to @claireconnolly.bsky.social on the publication of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" @universitypress.cambridge.org ❗We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm ⬇️⬇️⬇️
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Two people sit at a table in an archive research room, carefully removing pencil sketches from cardboard mounts.
Behind the scenes project work: demounting and repackaging original artwork from the Shepard Trust collection of art by illustrator E. H. Shepard.
#archiveconservation #ehshepard #archives
#EnglishCreates: Futures continues this week with a focus on the 'Blue Humanities':
'Oceans have always seemed mysterious, vast and invulnerable... Until recently, that is...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
#EnglishStudies #HigherEducation #Ecocriticism #bluehumanities
Please join us to discuss detached pieces, single leaves, and un/bound forms, and mark the publication of The Book Unbound @universitypress.cambridge.org
Friday 30 January, Senate House, University of London
@ies-sas.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social
please spread the word
