Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications.

Deadline: 1st April 2026

More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359

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

Reminder: only a fortnight until our next North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar, which is being organised by ace PhD student Sarah Dutson. This hybrid event focuses on PGR/ ECR research into 19c afterlives. For info and to book, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...

Symposium: Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland

On Sat 11 April we will be hosting, in association with @irishhistorians.bsky.social, a day symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland'. This is a free event, open to all in-person or online via Teams. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishStudies

Partial MA Scholarships for International applicants: deadline; 20 March: www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola...

***DEADLINE ON FRIDAY 13 MARCH***
Don't forget to submit your proposals for our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery! Only two days left to go!

Patrick Leary Resource Development Grant Guidelines – RSVP The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Patrick Leary Resource Development Grant each year to a single researcher or a team of researchers pursuing a project that…

Happy Monday! This is your friendly reminder that Leary Resource Development Grant applications are due this coming Sunday, March 15! Leary Grants offer up to $27,500 USD to support new tools, repositories, datasets, + other projects that deepen our engagement with the #19thC press.

Mitchell Prize Submission Guidelines – RSVP Eligible applicants for the Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize will have successfully defended their dissertation within the previous calendar year (i.e., the 2025 prize winner defended in 2024). Proje...

🔔 Attention ECRs! Just a reminder that March 1 (next Sunday) is the last day to get your applications in for our annual Mitchell Dissertation Prize! Winners receive $1,000 USD + a 2-yr. membership to RSVP. We look forward to reading your work! rs4vp.org/awards/mitch...

The BAVS/Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph 2026 is now open! If you published your second scholarly monograph in Victorian studies between 17 February 2025 and 17 February 2026, please do consider submitting! You can find more information here: bavs.ac.uk/book-prize-2/

@ehunineteen.bsky.social @pgresearchhub.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @l-h-p-c.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @l-h-p-c.bsky.social @post-doc-club.bsky.social @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social

[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]

📢 LAST CALL, BOOK GIVEAWAY ends this Thurs. Repost to win 1 free copy of *Women, 'Failure' and Academia*(Apr 2026) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai...

More exciting VPR news!

Guided Tour of Pope's Grotto and Marble Hill House and Grotto We are partnering with Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust for tours of Alexander Pope’s grotto and Marble Hill House and grotto on Tuesday 7 April.

www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-... get for tickets now for this fantastic day of visits and tours!

Follow the link for Matt’s Tales of Health bringing together Medical Humanities with Romantic literary studies - careful thinking about care 🖤

📢 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

@vpfa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ehunineteen.bsky.social @ecrfrenchart.bsky.social @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @pgresearchhub.bsky.social @post-doc-club.bsky.social @l-h-p-c.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social

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...

Join the VPFA for a workshop on publishing Victorian Popular Fiction!
✅ Turning your thesis into a monograph.
✅ Writing a winning book proposal.
✅ Insights from the VPFJ editorial committee.
✅ Handling peer review & rejection

📅 26th February at 6pm
🔗 See your emails for the registration link!

Today is your final opportunity to submit an abstract for the VPFA study day on the 'critical age". Get submitting!!

Reminder: If you are applying for a 2026 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, the deadline to submit your application is this Thursday 19 February, 4pm. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

Save the dates for our upcoming #RSVPDigiEvents! More details will be shared as dates approach (so watch this space!). Registration links for each of these events can be found by scanning the QR code or visiting our website: rs4vp.org/digital-even... Hope to "see" you there!

Need more #18thC in your life??
OF COURSE YOU DO!

Click below for an incredible programme of events from our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️

www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Newcastle's People's Theatre are putting on "Mary Shelley" by Helen Edmundson: 10-14th February 2026 1930pm.
More info and to book tickets:
www.peoplestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/mar...
Photo: Paul Hood

Help University of Glasgow researchers celebrate 'The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ by completing the survey about your own Burns Supper.

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The British Association for Romantic Studies is pleased to invite Expressions of Interest in hosting its 2028 International Biennial Conference.
More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6294
Deadline: Tuesday 31 March 2026

Talk:
Deidre Shauna Lynch (English, Harvard)
"Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Thursday, March 26, 7.50pm GMT
In-person: UConn Humanities Institute
More info and register to join online below

uconn-cmr.webex.com/webappng/sit...

***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH***
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city

@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians

www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

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The Trust's Major Research Fellowships scheme enables experienced researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research. For more details and to apply, visit: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/major-resear... Deadline: 8 May 2026

Today: join Saeed Taji Farouky for a timely talk on life-writing as a battleground for survival and cultural endurance amid genocide. Register by 14:30. 📅 Feb 3 | 17:30 📍 @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social + Zoom🔗 buff.ly/Jr1gDyr@torc...

don't forget to send in your abstracts for this VPFA study day. Women's bodily experiences are so often overlooked in fiction, so this study day is so important for bringing those to light.