Did my phd with Briony, she’s just the type you’d want on your editorial shoulder 👇

Super happy to announce that the first book in our series, Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures, will be coming out this June. Check out Porscha Fermanis's _Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890_ and please ask your libraries to order?

So sorry to our Australia’s Lebanese communities who must think all we care about is the price of fuel. 😔

Congratulations to all!

Lebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areas The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this.

"Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings."

ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

Looking forward to talking character in Austen, Edgeworth and Scott @tlrhub.bsky.social next week, with Sharon Marcus and Jim Chandler

Date: 14 Apr - 14 Apr 2026
Time: 13:30 - 15:30
Venue: Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub

www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

If you want a freebie excerpt, my article on Sheppard Lee (and Get Out) is open access here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12...

Books on shelves

Yesterday I was in York, and popped into Minster Gate bookshop.
Scanning the British History shelves, I slowly realised that there were many books on the same themes - radicalism, Chartism, trade unionism, 19th century economy and society, clearly part of a curated collection 1/n

Can't wait to get hold of this

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions.

Applications due 21 April

More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Here is my best Habermas story.

I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

And Thelwall as radical fugitive!

I vote for The Wild Irish Girl, filmed in locations in N.Ireland by the crew who produced Game of Thrones. Outlander would have nothing on it!

Laleh Khalili · Guns, Money and Opium There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The...

‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Translucent blue green glass; trail in the same color. Intact; a few large bubbles; small patches of soil encrustation, weathering, and iridescence. Vessels that have been deliberately worked to create a wavy rim and sides are extremely rare in Roman glassware. This bowl is perhaps the best example known to have survived. A handkerchief bowl (or vase) is a decorative glass piece designed to mimic the folded, drooping appearance of a cloth handkerchief. Popularized in the modern era by Italian glassmakers in the 1940s and 50s, it remains a popular form. 3rd-4th century CE. H.: 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm) Met Museum, New York (17.194.314)

This is an extremely rare and the best example of Roman glassware with wavy sides, a type known as a ‘handkerchief‘ bowl - so named because the design mimics the folded, drooping appearance of a cloth handkerchief. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/

3rd-4th c. CE. #MetMuseum
📸 me

Lucky students -- no idea what the going rate for this would be.

So in the UkK the repercussions from Epstein scandal have taken down a chief-of-staff, a prince, an ambassador to the US and will soon take doen the prime minister himself. That's what a functioning democracy looks like. And in the US...???

This image shows the interior of the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire. It is a Grade I listed building, described as the most important theatre in the development of the English playhouse. Built in 1788 by actor-manager Samuel Butler, it is one of the UK's oldest working theatres. The theatre maintains an authentic 18th-century country theatre atmosphere, featuring original boxes, a sunken pit, and a small gallery. The scenery shown, which is part of the theatre's collection, dates between 1818 and 1836.

Built in 1788 by actor manager Samuel Butler the Georgian Theatre Royal In Richmond Yorkshire closed in 1848. Some 115 years later it was restored and reopened 1963 before being extended in 2003. It is the most complete Georgian theatre in the country.

You're in for such a treat! One of my recent favourites is 'Up North'.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."

Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Activists unveiled a giant portrait of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Barcelona on the second anniversary of her killing.

Hind was trapped in a car and targeted at close range by Israeli forces in Gaza after they had killed her relatives.

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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

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Will this be recorded Luisa?

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

The Great Silencing Last week it snowed heavily twice in Paris, turning the city into a frigid, monochrome fantasy land over three days, and at the weekend I popped into the Musée Marmottan Monet for a spot of impression...

Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...

Congratulations James!

Newspaper headline

Book cover

Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social and Mary Miniham @irishtimes.com for taking my piece on heavy coats and ragged people for today’s paper - with a shoutout for new @universitypress.cambridge.org book on #IrishRomanticism #speirgorm

We're very well -- I became a grandmother four weeks ago!

Wow! Congratulations Sophie!