Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.
Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork
09.03.2026 12:47
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Arthur Adams's (1820-1878) drawings range from pen and ink scientific sketches to charismatic watercolours of fish species observed during his voyage to the Malay Archipelago. Angling to see more? ⬆️ Use the link in our bio to explore this collection and many others.
04.03.2026 14:00
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Congratulations, Constance!
04.03.2026 19:00
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📚 New publication! 📚
On the move: mobility and Early Modern translation 👉 buff.ly/9rFFBQ5
Co-edited by our own Giancarlo Casale and Ann Thomson
The volume investigates the translators' role as agents of encounter in a world in which ideas, texts and people circulated as never before
04.03.2026 12:43
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Very, very excited to share a new collaboration between @giflab.bsky.social and @nichecanada.bsky.social!
I'm serving as series editor for a NiCHE series on Indigenous Geographies!
Please consider submitting something--we are open to a variety of media!
25.02.2026 17:21
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Work begins today on the 3rd iteration of the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Critical Editions project, which this year sees students from our English Literature degree and MA in Publishing editing a new full accessible digital edition of the correspondence between Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne #18c
18.02.2026 13:08
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Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant.
c.org/N2cycpKrpB
07.02.2026 12:19
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Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.
07.02.2026 17:49
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#EnglishCreates: Futures
Today, Dr David Cooper & Prof Kate Pahl (MMU) discuss 'Teaching on treescapes':
'By listening to and being attentive to children’s meaning making practices, a social poetics of treescapes engagement emerged...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/voices-of-th...
#Ecocriticism
28.01.2026 11:11
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Cover of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" showing a detail from an abstract painting by Nano Reid called "Makeshift Gate at Wildgoose Lodge" (1973)
Congratulations to @claireconnolly.bsky.social on the publication of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" @universitypress.cambridge.org ❗We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm ⬇️⬇️⬇️
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
20.01.2026 16:55
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Two people sit at a table in an archive research room, carefully removing pencil sketches from cardboard mounts.
Behind the scenes project work: demounting and repackaging original artwork from the Shepard Trust collection of art by illustrator E. H. Shepard.
#archiveconservation #ehshepard #archives
20.01.2026 14:56
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#EnglishCreates: Futures continues this week with a focus on the 'Blue Humanities':
'Oceans have always seemed mysterious, vast and invulnerable... Until recently, that is...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
#EnglishStudies #HigherEducation #Ecocriticism #bluehumanities
19.01.2026 15:27
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Please join us to discuss detached pieces, single leaves, and un/bound forms, and mark the publication of The Book Unbound @universitypress.cambridge.org
Friday 30 January, Senate House, University of London
@ies-sas.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social
please spread the word
19.01.2026 11:58
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Just 2 weeks to go until the next Triskele Heritage online talk: The Mediaeval Traveller - a journey into life on the road & the observations of mediaeval wayfarers.
Takes place at 7pmGMT on Wed 28 Jan. Booking & more info, here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...
📸: British Library
14.01.2026 08:35
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Women and the Sea Workshop - Global Maritime History
Women and the Sea Workshop April 29th to May 1st St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada Subject Fields: History, Sociology, Anthropology, Folklore, Archaeology, Social Sciences, Humanities, Maritime Studies, History of Sexuality, Coastal Studies, Gender Studies, etc Please reply by January 31st, 2026 Call For Applications Since Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling’s 1996 edited collection, Iron Men and Wooden Women, maritime history has expanded immensely, embracing not just gender but coastal histories, riverine and riparian connections, inland seas and bathyscaphe depths, animal agency, prehistorical oceans and nautical futurisms. But what, in the meantime, has happened to to the women? In many ways the challenges issued by Creighton and Norling’s volume – the shore’s vitality to shaping seafaring, women’s active and important roles in maritime enterprise, and the varied form and meaning of sailors’ masculinity – have been quite successfully taken up. But what has been the cumulative effect of this expanding scholarship? Women have not been neglected in considerations of gender and the maritime (see particularly the 2022 Jaarboek voor vrouwengeschiedenis, Gender at Sea, edited by Djoeke van Netten). Yet what has changed about what people in and outside the field think or understand of the maritime past? As much as scholarly efforts have expanded, the tendency remains to look for women on shore and men at sea. Men’s more prolific accounts of maritime life make masculinity the more accessible facet of gender for analysis, and as a result, works on women and other marginalized identities in maritime spaces have arguably been outpaced. Many of Jo Stanley’s 2002 critiques about the focus on exceptional women, the pirates, whaling wives, and cross-dressed cabin boys, remain relevant, particularly in popular conceptions of maritime life. Broader analyses of society, history, and culture, have little reason to move away from reiterations of homosocial heterotopias, bad luck maritime mythologies, and jolly Jack Tar stereotypes. This workshop will convene scholars focused on women and other marginalized identities in maritime spaces to consider what has been the impact and what is the future of the expansion of maritime studies, particularly those driven by gender, on both scholarly and popular conceptions of maritime life. As part of the Lloyd’s Heritage Foundation-funded SWAAN Project (Seafaring Women Aboard and Ashore Network), this discussion will be folded into a wider consideration of women’s work in modern maritime industries to produce resources for promoting recruitment, bettering retention, and encouraging training of women in careers in these spaces. The workshop will be held at the Maritime History Archive (MHA) at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Time will be spent between discussions, presentations, and opportunities for research and writing in a collegial setting, with outings and sessions organized for developing projects using the resources available at the MHA and in the city of St. John’s more broadly. The SWAAN project argues that to imagine a future significantly different from the present, we must re-approach the past with new eyes, methods, and ideas. Faculty, independent scholars, early-career and postdoctoral researchers, students, and others interested in women or marginalized identities and subjects in maritime history across spectra and periods are invited to apply. Please send a 500 word abstract to swaanproject@gmail.com with the subject line: Workshop Application – [Preferred form of Address, Preferred Pronouns]. The abstract should address your research and its connections to and your interest in the workshop subject. Support in the form of accommodation can be provided to some attendees; if requesting accommodation, please include accessibility requirements. Please do not hesitate to reach out to the organizers at swaanproject@gmail.com with any questions.
13.01.2026 19:13
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2026 Global History Lecture, with the German Historical Institute, London - RHS
On Tuesday 10 February, the Society hosts its annual Global History Lecture, in partnership with the German Historical Institute, London. This year we are delighted to welcome Professor Vinita Damodar...
Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social
Prof. Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB
Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians
13.01.2026 17:30
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Notices and CfPs from the Byron Society – BARS Blog
On the blog: a whole host of notices and calls for papers from the Byron Society! Including the Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, the Student Byron Conference in Missolonghi, and the International Byron Conference in Keele.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6271
11.01.2026 15:55
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The next online talk will look at life on the road in the mediaeval period. What was it like to travel, who could be found on the road, and what observations did they leave us?
I'll be live online at 7pmGMT on Wednesday 28 January.
Booking & more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...
03.01.2026 12:16
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Delighted to see this new special issue of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy on ‘The Philosophical Writings of Scottish Women’ in print. I had a lot of fun writing this short piece on Susan Ferrier earlier this year - now free to read @edinburghup.bsky.social: www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/....
23.12.2025 09:02
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Explorers on Screen
Explorers on Screen
Forthcoming for historians of exploration & film studies:
"Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance!" Sue Matheson, Cynthia J. Miller, eds. (Edinburgh University Press: June, 2026).
Full Info: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-explore...
#exploration #film #history #empire #place #gender 🗃️
23.12.2025 04:06
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You want to know about this site that lets you explore data collected by the HMS Challenger from 1872–1876, an expedition that laid the foundation of oceanography. 🌊
challenger-expedition.sams.ac.uk/explore
22.12.2025 09:50
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Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
19.12.2025 17:14
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Promotional image featuring a landscape painting with bison, titled "Living with the Planet." It includes a text overlay asking, "What can histories of Empire teach us about modern environmental efforts?" with attribution to Sadiah Qureshi, a British Academy Funded Researcher, and the logo of The British Academy.
What can histories of Empire teach us about today’s environmental efforts? Professor Sadiah Qureshi explores how modern conservation has been shaped by empire and indigenous dispossession - and how we can build a more sustainable future without repeating mistakes of the past.
https://bit.ly/4oZ5glQ
19.12.2025 17:30
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