Romancing the Gothic 2026 Talk Series – Call for Papers In 2026, our annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘…

I've put up the new call for papers for the 2026 Romancing the Gothic programme!

Come join us!

(I welcome feedback)

romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies is now on Bluesky! It is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal founded in 2014, skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS

🚨Due to popular demand, a few more tickets have been added to this previously sold out event!
Sign up now to save your place👇
🎬 bit.ly/3YiK67P

The Gibbs building on campus isn’t spectacular. But the woman it’s named after was. She left a wonderful legacy for Oxford, and for Oxford Brookes. Join us to uncover the story. It’s free and everyone is warmly welcome. 👇

Take a look at our amazing Oxford Brookes @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social schedule! Tons of events for everyone between 7 May and 10 May this year! There's a QR below you can use too. Come along, I'm really looking forward to it.

Partying through the Plague with the London Livery Companies In 1603, plague struck London.

Lucy Holehouse on partying through the plague (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/partying-t...)
Lydia Valentine on civic racemaking (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/race-makin...)
And ClareMcManus on Shax on the ropes (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shakespear...)

Amazing series (online & in person) coming up at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social (c/o @lucyholehouse.bsky.social): Performing (in) the Early Modern City'. 3 brilliant talks with exhibited material—for what more can 16th/17th century London fans ask!?

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Thing...

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We’re having a symposium at @livesandletters.bsky.social! Come and geek out with us over early modern libraries and the books that filled them. Abstracts due May 16th, full details here www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #bookhistory #earlymodern

Stop what you’re doing. Go into your Bluesky setting, click Accessibility and toggle on the setting that says ‘require alt text before posting’ and then you’ll *never* forget.

Screenshot of an ArcGIS map of northern Italy from Milan to Venice showing green waypoints and red and green paths

Probably one more session of tidying to go before I've got a complete route network for Italy as published #16thCentury - #18thCentury! I like this view of Northern Italy to show that the #earlymodern routes (red) are not just the Roman roads (green). 🗃️ @emdigit.bsky.social

My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite:

‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’

Think Human Festival 2025: A celebration of ideas, creativity, and community - Oxford Brookes University Oxford Brookes University will host the Think Human Festival 2025 from Wednesday 7 to Saturday 10 May, offering a four-day programme of free public events exploring contemporary social issues, creativ...

@ThinkHumanFest
is coming to Oxford Brookes University, 7-10 May! 🎉
Highlights include explorations of War & Peace in Ukraine, New Labour in Power,
Navigating Hybrid Work & more!
brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke... #ThinkHumanFestival #OxfordBrookes #FreeEvents

Are you in Oxford on 7 May? Join us for this important event @oxfordbrookes #humanities 👇👇👇 Free, all warmly welcome!

ok. because we all could use a little joy here are some silly medieval hedgehogs for hedgehog day:

In case this is of use to anyone...

Greg Walker - newly appointed Chair of main panel D for REF 2029 - will be speaking to the @univeng.bsky.social OGM this Friday, 1-2pm. Please contact ben.davies@port.ac.uk for the zoom link
Hope to see you there. Please spread the word

Main Funding Bodies in Britain and Ireland Arts and Humanities Research Council British Academy Irish Research Council The Leverhulme Trust UK Research and Innovation The Wellcome Trust Conference Grants Economic History Society The Fritz Thyssen Foundation German History Society The Mind Association Modern Humanities Research Association Social History Society Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry The Society for the Study of French History Royal Historical Society Royal Musical Association

Bluesky! Can you out-twitter twitter & do the thing that place used to be really good at: pool info about resources?

Which funds are there to support individuals' conference participation & travel?

We have this list of external funds, any to add/remove? rensoc.org.uk/features/ext... #skystorians

And then there were three!

Though this party is a bit empty. Any #earlymodern -ist want to come and hang out with this lovely bunch? go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK

GOOD NEWS for the discipline: there are *many* #earlymodern historians. Bad news: we couldn't all squeeze into one pack. So here's the second, do follow all the wonderful researchers in this one as well: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 #skystorians

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

Not as far as I know, but I will ask.

earlymodern historians OG Join the conversation

Now we’re all settling into this app: the starter packs of #EarlyModern historians for an easy follow — and check the update as some new ones have moved over.
1: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF
2: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1

There’s still space in that second one so do wave if you’re around and want in!
#SkyStorians

Call for Papers — English: Shared Futures 2025

English: Shared Futures UK’s largest English Studies conference…creative writing,language,linguistics & literature - academics, teachers, policy-makers…celebrate strengths,tackle shared challenges,imagine a new future for English Studies across sectors & beyond! www.englishsharedfutures.org/cfp

Does anyone know of any work that's been done on the lynxes in the 1585 and 1595 Skinner's company Lord Mayor shows? By which I mean...did they really have a lynx?? And did someone really ride it??? (Surely the answer to this last one is no)

The first round Call for Participation for BSA Conference 2025 is open!

#BSA2025 'Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons' will be hosted by the University of York, 25-28 June. View the full CfP www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/