Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.
Rakhi Singh does a version of LAD for strings which is fabulous on a fantastic album
New followers, new intro! 👋 I am a third-year PhD candidate at Radboud University, studying our historical relationship with insects and other small creatures 🐜🪱🪳🪰 I am also editor for @womenshistory.bsky.social
My interests include #envhist, #entomology, #gardening, and of course #cats 🌱👩🌾🐱
The housing emergency has been caused by decades of under-investment and made worse by profit-driven asylum contracts. We’ve launched a practical guide to help you talk about housing with facts and clarity. Download and share. https://bit.ly/4lFj4Cl
LISTEN to Hope Spiral - it’s like a fairground ride with laughs and gulps and squees and splats with added William Blake!
#InternationalBagpipeDay, you say? May I recommend Julia Wolfe’s LAD? Which sounds like giant monoliths in space slowly moving into a jig
Oh! Angela Wright has a great book on Shelley from UWP which is short and sharp! This is the one!!
Mary Shelley biographies generally make me feel depressed but I remember liking The Godwins and the Shelleys: The History of a Family by William St Clair
genuinely asking: best biography of Mary Shelley?
Taking place TOMORROW! Get your free tickets at the link below!
Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.
Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel
Screenshot of the poets' gallery in the SPARQL examples
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive is officially in beta and open for testing! 🚀
We are modelling #GlobalRomanticism through the #SemanticWeb and your participation is encouraged and appreciated!
Explore the beta: www.romanticperiodpoetry.org
#Romanticism #19thC #poetry #DigitalHumanities
digital pencil and pen sketch in black and white of a Canada Goose--long neck bent to scratch itself; one leg on the ground; one tucked. the work is signed "sp."
Canada Goose at the Inner Harbor, Baltimore.
#birds #birding
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Please enjoy my mym’s guide to social media platforms and web browsers:
WhatsUp
Pininterest
And my favourite
Mozzarella Firefox
This seems useful #BuildHomesNotHate www.refugee-action.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Great edition of Unclassified - looking forward to Hannah Peel’s new album with Beibei Wang 🖤
The editor also describes Emily and Anne as ‘girls’ in 1845 when Anne was 25!!
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The good daffodils with the orange trumpets surrounded by some mud at Platts Lane Lake
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It’s only the 1 song but it’s a good un
Small Prophets is a small scale delight, a surreal slice of suburbia, tinged with wonder and sadness, with a suitable soulful soundtrack from Cinder Well
I wonder if both the title & the living room forever decorated for Christmas are nods to Great Expectations? Pip growing up to be Miss Havisham?
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
I live in Burscough and just laughed aloud at a van advertising the pet sitting / dog walking services of an outfit called The Hound of the Burscoughvilles
#CFP: 'Bodies and climate : transcorporeal affects of weathering'
Workshop, 13 November 2026, France
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Info: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
#envhum #envhist #ecocritcism #ecolit
Working on Anne Brontë’s poems in the 1846 Poems volume and feeling protective of her when a previous editor describes one poem as ‘rather undistinguished’ - like, back off, guy!
Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) writing of his grief after the death of his wife Venetia:
'everywhere I carry my hell with me'.
More CONGRATULATIONS 🎉#BSECS HQ today, this time to Isabel Realyvasquez, winner of our Presidents Prize, awarded for her paper 'Polar Archipelagos: Cook's Voyages at the Ends of the Earth
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #BSEC2026
Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte...
@bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social
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