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@vpfa.bsky.social So happy to see you here!

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Don’t forget! Our first (free!) members-only writing retreat is on 21 June, 10am–3pm (UK). Whether you're drafting a paper, editing a book, or just need focused time—you're welcome! Structured blocks, breaks & reflection included. Check your email to register!

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Given that it's now more than 6 months since Darwinism's Generations was published, I thought I'd send out an ICYMI for all those who haven't yet noticed. You can find a summary of the contents and arguments in the 'autoreview' I've posted on profmartinhewitt.com. Do check it out!

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General registration for BAVS2025 is now open. Come and join us in Oxford in July and help to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of BAVS.

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Are you an author? Add your signature to this call from the Society of Authors to protect your rights in the face of unauthorised pirating of your work by AI chng.it/47GzhjP4dV

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On my birthday a gift: Granville Bantock's ravishing setting of Sappho fragments assembled by his wife. Here's no 4, a joyful seduction song: "Stand face to face, friend, and unveil the grace of thine eyes.All care let buffering winds bear away..." Indeed! youtu.be/aH-nSLyQrkM?...

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It is always worth knowing what the powerful mean when they use terms like "the economy."

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Provocative words here. Alas, it's not only travel arrangements.

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📣 CFP alert! The Victorian Institute's 2025 conference "Victorian Studies—Who Cares?" will explore why and how we continue to care about a historically-focused discipline like #Victorianstudies. Deadline for proposals is May 1. Thanks for #SharingYourNews!

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“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” It's no surprise that several of my students are writing dissertations on Orwell's 1984.

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🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...

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I love having a pretty common name. It makes me feel so productive and polymathic (though I'm not sure friends & colleagues would be convinced that all of these really were mine). Thanks @theatlantic.com for an unexpected chuckle over an enraging extraction.

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PhD x 4 and Postdoc Opportunity: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz announces the following scholarships within the framework of the new Mini Graduate College (MGRK) "The Aesthetic Inventions of Ecology around 1800" funded by the Gutenberg Junior College (GNK): www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5886

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#YWES 👇 is still recruiting! Want to stay up-to-date with relevant publications? write for THE oldest & most comprehensive review of scholarly work? & join a supportive @englishassociation.bsky.social & OUPAcademic community? Come join the #c18th & #RomanticPeriod chapter teams! 1/4

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Welp.

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Following on the "interesting conversation" about AI and labour ... a revelation when it happens to you. We don't get royalties or acknowledgement by management: no good for career progression is it? Search your name & wring your hands. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Today is Nowruz! From ancient Zoroastrian legends to modern festivities, the Persian New Year has a rich history and vibrant present. Among its origin stories, the mythical Iranian King Jamshid is said to have saved humanity from an apocalyptic winter, marking the first Nowruz. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

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Times change and with them my depressed cynicism & pessimism increases... levels of comfort have gone up since 1921. Not sure about liberty. Or happiness. As one comment noted, rhetoric of click bait hasn't!

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Interesting conversation re AI and labour here (not unfamiliar but nicely focussed). Raises (by implication) issue about what we academics are being paid for, and indeed the nature of work (but I would say that).

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Later today are holding a Zoom to discuss David Graeber's essay - There Never Was A West, with a focus on the myths of democracy in ancient Greece. If you'd like to join in, you can register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/k3eowtklTGmyzTrxOYt0PA#/

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navsa.org/2025/03/18/c... Please spread the word about this lovely conference: Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century University of St. Andrews 28-29 August 2025

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Research Fellow, Collective Violence,Holocaust & Genocide Studs UCL - Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH993/r...

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North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar: Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century Wednesday 2 April, 12.00 - 17.00 BST Geoffrey Manton Building, GM.09A & ONLINE (Hybrid event) Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Details below:

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This is brilliant: Victoria Research Web's 'working list of British periodicals of the long 19th century that are accessible online for free'. To which we would only add our own volumes of the Christian Mission Magazine (1868-1879): www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

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The first essay in the 2025 iteration of our #TeachingC19 series is published on our website! Read Margaretta M. Lovell's "The Narrative of Nancy Prince: Historical Facts—Artistic Fiction" here: www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

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On a more serious note, I'm looking for someone to write a chapter on C19 penny dreadfuls for an already commissioned OUP Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. The person contracted has sadly had to drop out. Please contact me if you know anyone. Deadline 2027.

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Bethan Stevens has written THE book about wood engravings, working with the Dalziel archive. So excited to hear this work on illustrations in newspapers too!

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So happy to see this still running!

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Submissions for the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography annual Essay Prize are now open. Essays published in 2023-24 in any field or time period, on texts, images, and artifacts as material objects are eligible. Deadline March 28. rarebookschool.org/sofcb-essay-prize

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PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

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Are you interested in reviewing for @bavs-uk.bsky.social? 📖 We have just updated our list of recent releases we're looking to review, featuring these amazing books and more! See the website below for details and email us if you're interested 📧 bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

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The BAVS Newsletter needs you! Please send us your CFPs, new publications, and other notices of interest for inclusion in the Spring edition @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social #Victorianist #Victorianstudies #BAVS

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We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open! Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

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A suitably gnomic cake for the 2nd class on #liucixin Three Body Problem. At the core the 3 layered [chocolate] blackness of space.

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On a more serious note, I'm looking for someone to write a chapter on C19 penny dreadfuls for an already commissioned OUP Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. The person contracted has sadly had to drop out. Please contact me if you know anyone. Deadline 2027.

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I'd forgotten this - for class 2 of Octavia Butler's Dawn, a truly horrific pandan tres leches dessert inspired by a Filipino recipe (tasted great though). Very alien and organic!

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Let's kick off with one of those cakes then. Now how does this represent ideas from Octavia Butler's Dawn? No prizes for answers.

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I've been very neglectful of social media for many months now, not even posting my weekly literary cakes for my Bestsellers class. But spring is returning and a reprise is in order.

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📝 CFP alert! VPFJ announces an upcoming special issue on “Poison(s) and Poisoning in Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction” that we think would interest many of our members and friends. More details and the full CFP here: rs4vp.org/cfp-poisons-... Thanks for #SharingYourNews!

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