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The early history of teacher training colleges in Britain, 1836-1918 - call for participants deadline 8 May 2026 We are inviting participants to attend and contribute to a workshop day at the Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool, on 2 June 2026, organised by Edge Hill University, in collaboration with Lincoln Bishop University. The intention is to orient most of the day around workshop sessions that contain introductory (c.8-10 minutes) presentations which enable us to collectively discuss and progress particular research questions relating to the early history of teacher training colleges across Britain. Further aims of the day are to establish a national network to research the history of teacher training, unlock underused archival collections related to this field and to develop interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities for the future. Please provide a 250-word (max) overview of your interest and background in this area to enable the organisers to construct a thematic and coherent programme. Please email to Professor Alyson Brown (browna@edgehill.ac.uk) • If you have any suggestions or ideas for the best way to present/share your knowledge and research, please do indicate this. We are open to whatever works to advance collaboration and research and make the day as productive as possible

Exciting opportunity to collaborate with our own @interwarcrime.bsky.social and Lincoln Bishop University on the history of teacher training colleges, with an openness to alternative presentation formats

[PDS Award] Preventing Species Loss for Human Health and Wellbeing: from Nineteenth Century Conservation to De-extinction and Rewilding. at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - [PDS Award] Preventing Species Loss for Human Health and Wellbeing: from Nineteenth Century Conservation to De-extinction and Rewilding. at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAP...

Please see below for a fantastic funded PhD in 19c literature with Clara Dawson at the University of Manchester - deadline 18 March 2026:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... [findaphd.com]

📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY ends next week: Share this post to win 1 free copy of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#JaneAusten #WutheringHeights
@ncsascholars.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social

It was a belter of a session, if I do say so myself 😆
@benltjackson.bsky.social is such a great speaker, and his research is fascinating. I can't wait to read the book!
#skystorians #18thC #19thC #EHU19🗃️

“A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Thin... Introduction With interests spanning from the baroque to Postmodernism, Caroline Shaw, a contemporary classical composer and the youngest person to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music for her 2013 Parti...

Rocking Romanticism article 10

Me on Caroline Shaw, perfectly placed with my concluding play on rocking to send you Off to Bed! 11/

Rocking Romanticism – Introduction The question of the relation between rock music and Romanticism is as difficult as it is suggestive, not least because the precise nature of “Romanticism” is elusive to begin with. Already in 1924,...

Rocking Romanticism / Off to Bed! Double Issue of Sillages Critiques - Laurent Folliot and Ben Winsworth’s Introduction to Rocking Romanticism - with thank to Laurent and Ben for their excellent editorial work 1/

39 | 2025 Rocking Romanticism | Off to bed! The present issue is based, for the most part, on papers given at the International RomRock Conference, “Rocking Romanticism,” held at the Université d’Artois in March 2024 under the coordination ...

Check out the whole double issue of Rocking Romanticism / Off to Bed! in which Peter Gabriel and Nick Cave rub shoulders with Beauty and the Beast and Dildo Poems!

“A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Thin... Introduction With interests spanning from the baroque to Postmodernism, Caroline Shaw, a contemporary classical composer and the youngest person to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music for her 2013 Parti...

My article on the contemporary classical composer Caroline Shaw and her engagement with Romanticism is up in Sillages Critiques (Critical Whiffs) - give it a read if you’re interested in music, the sublime, mortality, and joy 🖤

Why asking ‘Was Jane Austen gay?’ still causes controversy A review which posed the question – causing a storm in a teacup of Austenian proportions in 1995 – has now been set to music.

A review which posed the question – causing a storm in a teacup of Austenian proportions in 1995 – has now been set to music.

Why asking ‘Was Jane Austen gay?’ still causes controversy A review which posed the question – causing a storm in a teacup of Austenian proportions in 1995 – has now been set to music.

Was Jane Austen gay?

Michel Foucault says ‘non’!

Last chance to register if you fancy hearing me chat about how volcanos shaped some of your favourite gothic novels.

I can promise a LOT of volcano art, some early stage adaptations of Frankenstein, a cut scene from Dracula, & of course lots of Lord Byron!. 🌋 #c19th

Regular readers of my skeets might remember that I recently-ish went to London to find out whether Jane Austen was gay and lo! the conversation piece I wrote the day afterwards has finally been published

Commiserate with our own @drbeard79.bsky.social about editors not getting his obscure jokes by reading his piece (quote skeeted below) on thinking about Jane Austen and sexuality

Nineteenth-Century Afterlives: Creative and Critical Approaches An exploration of the many ways in which the 19th century is revisited, reimagined, and critically reinterpreted

Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...

Call for Contributors!

Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830.

We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

Call for Papers: Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR Conference
Friday 26th June 2026
Edge Hill University

For more info and the full CfP see the BARS Blog link⤵️
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6343

Bring on the additional paperwork! 🥰 And be prepared for the inevitable theatrical takeover…

Yeah we are!

We’re delighted to welcome / recognise / promote / tell you all that @catherinequirk.bsky.social is our new Co-Director!

@drbeard79.bsky.social and @digivictorian.bsky.social are very happy to have her on board 🖤

We look forward to bringing you exciting stuff in the future 🥳

Re-upping our PGR-organised ECR conference on Place - send us an abstract by 1st May for a (hopefully) sunny day in June 😎

The last of our regularly scheduled EHU19 seminars finished tonight with a bang - thanks to @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social for hosting and Ben Jackson for a great talk on absurd but necessary clergymen!

Look out for recordings and future plans!

TODAY!

TOMORROW!

THIS WEEK! Join us!! Free, online, all welcome - register in link below

On her deathbed, to her husband, Charlotte Brontë referring to God in saying “Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us. We have been so happy.”

Most tragic but beautiful thing to say possible 🖤

Happy Valentine’s Day 🖤

Tell us your most romantic moment in history!?

Happy Valentine’s Day 🖤🖤🖤

We @ehunineteen.bsky.social continue our Valentines takeover of @uk.theconversation.com with @drbeard79.bsky.social’s Pulpy reading of Wuthering Heights

Vinegar Valentines: how cruel Victorians sent insulting cards to their unwanted suitors The vile Victorians were funnier than they looked, using brutal Valentine’s Day cards to mock people they didn’t fancy much.

The vile Victorians were funnier than they looked, using brutal Valentine’s Day cards to mock people they didn’t fancy much.

Vinegar Valentines: how cruel Victorians sent insulting cards to their unwanted suitors The vile Victorians were funnier than they looked, using brutal Valentine’s Day cards to mock people they didn’t fancy much.

Find out about Vinegar Valentines - by our PhD researcher Grace Marks 🖤