If you’re a @bavs-uk.bsky.social early career researcher join us for our next BAVS Tea Time tomorrow (Wednesday 14th October) on Zoom at 5pm-6pm (BST) for a chat about all things Victorian with me and @laurenicullen.bsky.social - DM us for the link 🫖 ☕️ 🍵
BARS is pleased to announce the relaunch of its conference and seminar support scheme.
Applicants may apply for up to £500 from BARS to support seminar and conference activities. Deadline: 1 November 2026 (further rounds thereafter).
The next USIHS meeting is on 22 October at 6pm (in-person and online) - all welcome!
New Approaches to the History of Sexuality Panel – with Mary McAuliffe (UCD), Páraic Kerrigan (UCD) and Tom Hulme (QUB)
usihs36.com/2026/10/08/n...
Reminder NOW FREE: Chapter 5 “The Brontës on the Irish Stage,” 1-31 October only, academic.oup.com/book/62303/c...
From *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
delighted to announce I'm part of the 2026-7 online programme for Romanticism Across Borders! I'll be lecturing on my Scottish Romantic illustration research the evening of 9th December 💫
JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc.
Due: 12/1/26
jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...
Have you recently started your PhD in history and/or a related discipline? Would you like to hear more about the incredible resources the IHR has to offer history students in the heart of Bloomsbury? Join us on 7 Oct!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
@royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
CFP: Fiction in Victorian and Edwardian Socialist Periodicals
(Abstract Deadline: 10/31/2026)
navsa.org/News/13728410
Join us for the latest episode of Varney the Vampyre on KCBP-FM radio or kcbpradio.org. Please enjoy, like, share, and subscribe!
Born #OTD 1847, Annie Besant campaigned to end the terrible toxic working conditions and improve the poor pay of the Bryant and May factory Match Girls in the East End. Then moved to India to support home rule. Hear her story in our Women and Protest podcast: tinyurl.com/2p8fek9r #history
Submissions are welcome for the London Topographical Society's Anne Saunders Prize: £1,000 for an original & unpublished research essay on the topography, development, or buildings of #London in any period.
Details here: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann...
#skystorians 🗃️
✨ Fast facts about the Pforzheimer awards!
- Who can apply: Grad students, untenured faculty, & independent scholars
- Purpose: Expenses related to research in Romantic-era literature & culture
- Award amount: $3,000
- Deadline: Nov. 1
Find more info & apply today! www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
NEW: JVC–BAVS Early Career Mentorship Scheme; a collaboration between the Journal of Victorian Culture (JVC) & British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) to support PhDs & early career scholars in developing their first peer-reviewed journal article. More here: jvc.oup.com/2026/09/28/j...
We’re so excited to see this pilot website go live and grateful for the opportunity to be involved with this ongoing project!
Join my students and I for a #BHM26 event exploring the life & writing of Ignatius Sancho, including his letters to Laurence Sterne.
12 October 2026, 6–7.15pm
Free to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-hist...
The first 20 to book get a free printed copy of our edition. #18c #18thCentury
We are now recruiting two Book Review Editors! Together they will oversee the publication of circa 90 reviews each year, covering multiple languages, to ensure that First World War Studies keeps its readers up to date on all the important international scholarship
4 X Postdoctoral Fellowships #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 Doctoral degree granted between 30 September 2024 and 1 October 2026
🏫 Universität Konstanz
⌛ Monday 12 October
🔗 buff.ly/mRkXCDp
#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is on the horizon! Come feel some regional feels and get a sneak peak of the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) from some of its editors and contributors!
Join us Friday, 16 October at the usual time: rs4vp.org/preview-edin...
We're thrilled to be able to support six new early-career research Fellowships thanks to funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Applications open 21 October.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/47fu2b0
Registration is now open for Modernist Crossings, a series of free online events co-organised by seven international associations of modernists. More info here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/d...
