The book "Victoria's Secret" by Fern Riddell propped up on a green chair

"Victoria's Secret" is the tongue-in-cheek title of this new 2025 #QueenVictoria #biography by Dr Fern Riddell asking what we REALLY know about the relationship of Victoria & John Brown

#BritishRoyalty #BritishStudies #History

The books "Dianaworld - An Obsession" by Edward White and "Victoria's Secret" by Fern Riddell propped up on a green chair

Already binged the new #Bridgerton episodes & can't get enough of the British upper class?
May we suggest some further reading on #Diana & #QueenVictoria ? Details on each book in the replies! 👑

#BritishStudies #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #Anglistik

Followers! If you don't know #KitWilliams "Masquerade" and the scandal around it, you should change this now. It was a hare-raising (pun intended) mystery

#childrensliterature #LiteraryHistory #MaterialCulture #BritishStudies #BritishCulture #riddles

Congrats to @drdominicdean.bsky.social on KILLING CHILDREN IN BRITISH FICTION being named a Co-Winner for the 2025 Monograph Prize presented by the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies

#WinnerWednesday #ReadUP tinyurl.com/ytzduwbj

#BritishStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryCriticism

Attention #NACBS2025: we have conference displays copies looking for a good home! If you're an #ECR stop by our stand anytime tomorrow morning to claim yours. @thenacbs.bsky.social #BritishStudies

If you do miss out, you can still grab a bargain with conference code BB154: buff.ly/U9twdID

A red London bus in front of a grey building

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be participating in North American Conference on British Studies 2025.

This annual gathering offers scholars and professionals a vital chance to engage with cutting-edge research and foster dialogue in British Studies.

#NACBS2025 #BritishStudies #Academicsky

2 bookstacks of books on Margaret Thatcher on a bookshelf

Today is, however, not only #MonsterMonday but also Margaret #Thatcher was #BOTD 100 years ago
Find arguments against #Thatcherism in the #BritishStudies & #PoliticalStudies literature in our collection

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A chalked arrow on the cobblestones pointing the way to Anglistiktag 2025

Greetings from #Anglistiktag2025 starting today in Essen! 👋 We're excited for the programme. The organisers did a great job at signage & ordering crisp, sunny autumn weather! 🍂
Please say hello if you're here too! 😊

#conference #BritishStudies #AnglophoneStudies #EnglishLiterature #Linguistics

Holding the book "Shakespeare on the Radio" next to a red and white vintage car

Wouldn't a #roadtrip be fun? 🛣️
Let #Shakespeare come with you - as a #radioplay
"Shakespeare on the Radio" by @audioandrea.bsky.social
takes a tour of 100 years of #BBC radioplays by the Bard, 1923-2023

#BritishStudies #EnglishLiterature #BritishRadio #AdaptationStudies

(sadly not our car!)

The book "From Tudor to Stuart" by Susan Doran resting on a wooden bench in front of a tree

New week, new book alert! 🚨
This mighty tome on #EnglishHistory by Susan Doran traces the dynastic change from #QueenElizabeth to #KingJames - from #Tudor to #Stuart in #RenaissanceEngland - on over 600 page, citing sources from #Literature to #MaterialCulture

#BritishStudies #Renaissance

🚨Just a few more days to get those applications in🚨

Does your research involve #envhist and #britishstudies? Check out the IAHI-NACBS Fellowship, which provides affiliation and library privileges at IAHA to fellows.

📅Applications due June 20
Info here: www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...

A new British #romcom to explain the British mind? #Britishness

#BritishStudies #FilmStudies

Looking forward to this conference on corruption in the early modern world starting today, June 5! #history #edusky #EarlyMod 📗 #britishstudies
www.eventbrite.com/e/corruption...

The book "Lifestyle Revolution" by Ben Highmore on a blue velvet chair

A social & cultural #history of consumerism in 20 c Britain, Ben Highmore's "Lifestyle Revolution" tracks changes of taste & how they influenced the British class system, from #cookbooks #ads & TV shows to shops like Habitat

#CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #ConsumerCulture

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James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion James VI and I: Politics, Government and Religion brings together early career and established scholars with a range of approaches to the reign. Their original, research-based essays on a series of br...

A new study of James VI and I is now available, just in time for the anniversary of the reign's end. Corruption! Religious strife! Devious diplomacy! All in one paperback @routledgehistory.bsky.social @kathrynmarshalek.bsky.social #EarlyMod #history #britishstudies
www.routledge.com/James-VI-and...

📌 😍 #BritishStudies #IrishStudies #Skystorians

#BritCult has published a #CfP #CallForPapers for their conference in November 2025

Deadline: 19 March 2025
Topic: Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today

www.britcult.de/cate...

#GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CulturalStudies #BritishStudies

the book "A Woman Like Me" by Diane Abbott in the grass, next to a bunch of purple and yellow crocuses

This empowering #memoir by @hackneyabbott.bsky.social details her way as a child of the #WindrushGeneration to her becoming Britain's 1st Black female MP

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#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #BritishStudies #autobiography #BlackStudies #WomensHistory #WomensStudies

Putting together a roundtable for #NACBS2025. Topic is Public History and Its Relevance to British Studies. MA graduate students are welcome to submit for this roundtable. Contact me for more info.
#NCPH #publichistory #publichistorians #britishstudies @thenacbs.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social

Call for Papers PCCBS 2025 – Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies

Early modern British historians! The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies has announced its CFP for the conference held in lovely Palo Alto/Stanford University. #history #earlymod #britishstudies ‪@thenacbs.bsky.social‬ pccbs.org/2024/09/12/c...

75th Capital Campaign | NACBS Join us in celebrating 75 years supporting excellence in British Studies scholarship.

This #GivingTuesday Support British Studies! There is still time to contribute and help us launch our 75th Anniversary Capital Campaign. All contributions go toward supporting our fellowship program.

👉 www.nacbs.org/75th-capital...
#GivingTuesday #SupportScholarship #BritishStudies

75th Capital Campaign | NACBS Join us in celebrating 75 years supporting excellence in British Studies scholarship.

This #GivingTuesday, help us support the next generation of scholars in British Studies! All donations today will go to support our Dissertation and Diversity and Inclusion Fellowships.

👉 www.nacbs.org/75th-capital...
#GivingTuesday #SupportScholarship #BritishStudies

75th Capital Campaign | NACBS Join us in celebrating 75 years supporting excellence in British Studies scholarship.

We hope you will take a moment today to help us kick off this year-long campaign by donating to support our fellowship programs!

👉 www.nacbs.org/75th-capital...

#GivingTuesday #SupportScholarship #BritishStudies

The books "Agatha Christie on Screen" and "Penny Dreadful and Adaptation" on a cream-coloured surface, with three autumn leaves strewn about

What better time is there to enjoy a good literary #Adaptation than autumn?! 🍂
Here's 2 newcomers in our collection, on #AdaptationStudies: one on #AgathaChristie #FilmAdaptations & one on #PennyDreadful!

#FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #BritishStudies #EnglishLiterature

Holding the essay collection "Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain" in the hallways of the University of Göttingen

We move to book # 4 in our thematic series & to mass-media #PrintCulture: the essay collection ed. by Paul Raphael Rooney & @annaga.bsky.social on media & print culture consumption in 19th c Britain & reader motivations

#VictorianStudies #CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #MediaStudies

The book "James Bond Will Return" on a bright yellow chair, leaned against a grey concrete pillar

Edited by Claire Hines, Terence McSweeney, and Stuart Joy, this new 2024 essay collection on #JamesBond presents 1 article on each of the 25 Eon Productions Bond movies - chronologically covering a variety of approaches & themes

#FilmStudies #AdaptationStudies #BritishStudies

Holding the biography "Keir Starmer" by Tom Baldwin in front of a red poster

How well do you know @sirkeirstarmer.bsky.social, the new Labour Prime Minister?
You can now learn about him in this 2024 biography by Tom Baldwin.

Find it here: opac.sub.uni-goettin...

#BritishStudies #PoliticalStudies

A black and white rendition of a photo holding Judith Flanders's book "Rites of Passage: Death & Mourning in Victorian Britain" in the Botanical Gardens, the background shows stone stairs next to a dark and looming wall of ivy

A colour rendition of a photo holding Judith Flanders's book "Rites of Passage: Death & Mourning in Victorian Britain" in the Botanical Gardens, the background shows stone stairs next to a dark and looming wall of ivy (same photo as the left, but in colour)

"Rites of Passage" by Judith Flanders has arrived at our library - providing a deeply researched analysis of the weird & wonderful mourning customs, beliefs around death and dying & burial rites of #VictorianCulture.

#VictorianStudies #BritishStudies #BritishHistory

Noni Stacey's book Leave to Remain on a yellow-green chair

Multi-layered insights into how the #European tragedy of #Brexit happened: @nonistacey.bsky.social captures the moods around the #Leave #Referendum, its impact & protests against it w photos, essays & ephemera

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#CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #BritishPolitics

For #twitterstorians of Second World War Britain, 50 free eprints of my @CultSocHistory article on author Richard Llewellyn are now available #SWW #BritishStudies #englishwelshconnections #WelshGuards...