Dickens Day 2026 - ‘Dickens and Family’

The CFP for Dickens Day 2026 is live! We warmly invite proposals linked to this year’s theme of “Dickens and family” (both in his life and work). The deadline is 15 June, and the day itsef will be on Saturday 10 October at Senate House, London. All are welcome!
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This is a fabulous PhD opportunity to study the history of Scottish video games and its intersection with museums.

More details can be found at the following link. Click on 'Fully Funded PhD Research Studentship' on the left side:
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Associate Professor (297742) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: Associate Professor (297742), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

I'm spending the morning writing about Daniel Dunglas Home, which is always fun. I was reminded of this wonderful sketch by the famed caricaturist George Cruikshank from 1868. It was drawn during a private seance. It depicts Home levitating in the air and floating out of the room.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!

My darling cat Viktoria and I have been immortalised together in print! 💗

Advances in Nineteenth Century Research: Forums This brief editorial article introduces the aims, form, and anticipated content of the Forums section of Advances in Nineteenth Century Research. Guided by its section editor, the Forums section of...

The brand new journal ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ from @incsa.bsky.social is now LIVE! See here for my editorial which introduces the Forums section, for which I’m the section editor: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland.

Deadline April 21st - please circulate!

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Outreach and Engagement Committee – BSHS – The British Society for the History of Science BSHS – The British Society for the History of Science

📣 BSHS Outreach & Engagement Project Grants

Have an idea for sharing #HistSci with wider audiences?

We offer grants of up to £500 to support creative engagement projects — from events to collaborations with museums or heritage sites.

Next deadline is May 15, 2026!

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My adorable little snuggle monster Viktoria has just been recruited to promote my good friend @sharonchoe.bsky.social's forthcoming novel Queen of the Spirit Woods. I'm a proud cat daddy

Two fictional characters from different universes you want to see fight

Playing in Ghostly Spaces: Haunted Houses, Videogames, and American Popular Occulture While Gothic literature and film has long received scholarly attention, video games remain underexplored in the broader discourse on popular occulture. This article seeks to address this gap by exa...

More publication news! My other latest article "Playing in Ghostly Spaces," on haunted houses and videogames, is now available online. If you are a lover of Gothic tropes, Atari, and the Magnavox Odyssey, this is the article for you! 👻

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And thanks for taking our readers on a tour de force, psychic force! ... 👻

Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Publishes content exploring nineteenth century studies, including all fields of study in the arts, social sciences and sciences.

It has been a long time in the works, but the first articles for @incsa.bsky.social's brand new journal *Advances in 19th-Century Research* are starting to appear on the website. It is super exciting. Thank you to everyone involved!

Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

A Spirited Challenge Accepted: William Marriott, the Crisis of Evidence, and the Sunday Express Photographic Test from 1921 During the opening decades of the twentieth century, William Hope was championed by British spiritualists as a leading psychic photographer within their community. He was said to be able to capture...

I'm delighted to share my latest article: 'A Spirited Challenge Accepted.' If you're interested in spirit photos and print media, this is the article for you!

Special thanks to @emmamerkling.bsky.social who digitized so much of the archival material for me.

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The Medical Museion @ucph.bsky.social is hosting a satellite hybrid event on 20 July 2026 as part of @incsa.bsky.social's bi-annual conference. The CFP is open and the theme is broadly on 19thC medicine. Please share!

Details👇
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Deadline: 31 March 2026

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I wish I could make the event, but I'm away. Looks great!

Image of Georgian house with text: 'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' RHS Lecture with Professor Sasha Handley (Manchester) Royal Historical Society Lecture Friday 1 May 2026

If you can't get to the University of Warwick on 1 May, booking for online attendance at our next lecture is also now available: bit.ly/3P5pqOZ

'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' with Professor Sasha Handley (Manchester).

All welcome #Skystorians

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"Feel the Force": The First 50 Years of Star Wars

A PopCRN conference

4th-5th of May 2027 (really, would any other days do?)

Free, online academic popular culture conference

Submit here - unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Register here - unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The call for papers for the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) is out! This biyearly conference, hosting around 1500 participants, brings together scholars who explain historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences.

More information: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

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Still time to book - Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Friendly reminder that the abstract deadline for this year's York Magic and Witchcraft conference is 14th March 📜 the theme is NATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL, broadly defined 🌦️🌛🌍

Please send your abstracts to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com !
@drdebsmoretti.bsky.social

I expect the rest of this essay on my desk by noon tomorrow.

Another elitist competition...

You know, I kind of thought you were doing this, but wasn't sure so I went with the safe response. I should trust my instincts next time.

Essay Prize The aim of the prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad. The

Announcing the Journal of Victorian Culture Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026!

Anyone currently registered for a higher research degree or awarded one within 3 years can apply. Deadline October 1st 2026.

Details: academic.oup.com/jvc/pages/es...

Please share widely!

@jofvictculture.bsky.social

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Come on common street pigeon 🤞

No, an undergraduate seminar for a course on monsters in literature and culture.

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I'm doing some final prep today for a wicked seminar I am leading tomorrow where we are going to do a deep Gothic dive into Konami's classic Castlevania from 1986. We are even going to be playing it on emulators. 8-bit Simon Belmont is already running to get to class, he can't wait!