Announcing the publication of
BLAKEAN SMALL-PRESS PUBLISHING IN LONDON, 1969-2021: AN INTERVIEW ARCHIVE

The archive appears in the latest issue of 'Publishing History' (vol 90). Infinite thanks to all the blakeans who generously contributed ✨

www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/7bf39c...

Inspired today by visits to 'elective affinities' at @swedenborghouse.bsky.social and 'black atlas' at @warburginstitute.bsky.social, both *free* shows focusing on the art and politics of worldviews. I think 'black atlas' closes tomorrow - but absolutely worth the time (if you have it to spare!)

“One reason we keep coming back to zines is because zines, by their very nature, are kind of uncensorable,” [citizen archivist Milo] Miller says. ​... No robot is going to go through and scan the material and say, ​‘You can’t publish this.’" @qzap.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

IMPORTANT REMINDER - order my new book to your library before the holidays if you want to put it on your reading lists next term 😉

Giving @noreenmasud.bsky.social's 'A Flat Place' a second read & am enthralled again

Finished off my Friday reading the final pages of Robert Poole's groundbreaking study 'Earthrise.'

Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃

Happy birthday, William Blake! 🌻

Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz).

The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.

Two books titled Chartist Lives inside an opened cardboard box.

Chartist Lives fresh out of the box
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

My intro to Blake turns 1 today! 🥳

Can't stop thinking about Olafur Eliasson's glacial ice watercolour - at once worldly and otherworldly - on show in 'Nordic Noir' in the BM's prints and drawings galleries

Hello, I work at the @fitzmuseum.bsky.social now 😊

@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!

Autumn is always twin peaks rewatch season

I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

All that is solid... found these immortal words inscribed in a weird little nook round the back of SOAS a few years ago and just rediscovered it yesterday, just a little more melted.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.

📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor!

www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

Happy Monday ✨ I am pleased to announce the publication of my article 'London Blakeans' in vol. 89 of 'Publishing History'! Thank you to all who contributed ❤️❤️
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Living on the fringes of globe town couldn't feel more appropriate as I start my research on global imagining...

Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade).
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Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968

Read about the conference I recently organised at @engfac.bsky.social here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/befo...

Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!

Before Earthrise A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Location: English Faculty, Oxford

When in #Oxford, attend an amazing conference on "Earthrise" & #Global Imagining @ox.ac.uk 's English Department - ‪@engfac.bsky.social‬ - and give a paper on global #oceans.
sites.google.com/view/before-...
organiser: #CarolineAnjaliRitchie
#GlobalLiterature #AcademicChatter #TeamEnglish

Looking forward to seeing u and hearing ur talk Kate!

I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨

Remember to sign up before the end of Saturday!

Unlocking your archives with GIS workshop Join us on 12 June and find out how location can help unlock your archives and build powerful interactive experiences for the public to explore.

I'm speaking about @layersoflondon.bsky.social, partnership working, and supporting research with historical mapping at this event "Unlocking Your Archives with GIS" organized by @rgsibg.bsky.social and ESRI UK on 12th June - for anyone interested in historical GIS, maps, and public engagement!

STYROFOAM CUP thou still unravished thou thou, thou bride thou unstill, thou unravished unbride unthou unbride

Still thinking about Brenda Hillman’s ‘Styrofoam Cup’

I kinda want it on a cup

‘An album, a miscellany, a sort of patchwork’: ‘Curiosity’, Genre, and Literary Quality in Early British Reviews of The Dutt Family Album (1870) | Global Nineteenth-Century Studies This article focuses on the little-explored British reviews of the nineteenth-century Indo-Anglian poetry collection The Dutt Family Album (1870). I argue that these reviews take their cue in important ways from the Album’s paratextual and generic ...

New article out today! Focusing on the Dutt family album and its early reception in London - a brave new world for this Blakean. Would love to hear people's thoughts

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Just a couple more weeks left to register for 'before earthrise'! Join us for an exciting programme of talks at Oxford's English faculty. Pls share widely 🌍 🌏 🌎

Before Earthrise A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Location: English Faculty, Oxford

Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...