Modern Humanities Research Association (@themhra.bsky.social)

@themhra.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 10:00 AM

🔊 The latest volume in the Jewelled Tortoise series is out!

👉 'Maria Janitschek: A Modern Woman. Stories and Poems', edited by Lea Felicitas Döding.

📖 Book information 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

🎙️ Interview with Lea 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/09...

@simonfd.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 11:19 AMReposted by @themhra.bsky.social

Please come along to this if you're in/near London! There'll be three interesting talks plus a drinks reception after (well, two interesting talks and one talk by me)

@themhra.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 11:15 AM

A reminder about our event in London next month, 16 October. Celebrating one hundred volumes of ABELL and thinking about the past and future of English Studies.

Please share with anyone who might be interested, and come join us if you're nearby!

Free but RSVP 📅

www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

A cropped photo of the title page of the first volume of the MHRA's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. It reads 'Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920: Compiled by members of the Modern Humanities research Association'

@themhra.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 11:43 AM

It's the day after our own event celebrating 100 years of the Annual Bibliography and the MHRA's work in English Studies, so a full weekend of English Studies events! 📚

@themhra.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 11:42 AM

Our colleagues in the @englishassociation.bsky.social are hosting an event in London on 17 October, Why Subject Associations Matter -- celebrating their 120th birthday!

Do come along if you're in the area.

Details here:
englishassociation.ac.uk/confronting-...

A painting of a group of hands in a rainbow of different colours

@simonfd.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 1:35 PMReposted by @themhra.bsky.social

Spending today working on my talk on the history of the Annual Bibliography for our London event in October (join us!). It's going to be so hard compressing everything into the time available. Also I haven't given a public lecture for about 10 years...
www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...

@themhra.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 2:27 PM

We've just published a new volume in our 'Jewelled Tortoise' series!

'Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose. A Translated Selection',
translated and edited by Colton Valentine.

All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

@simonfd.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 12:13 PMReposted by @themhra.bsky.social

When @themhra.bsky.social was founded in 1918, it was reported in The Times, and the Minister of Education sent a letter of support and good wishes. How times have changed eh! For newspapers, politicians, and the MHRA itself...

@themhra.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 10:37 AM

'The Damned of Fiat and Olivetti'

Barbara Burns interviews Erica Bellia, whose book 'Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy 1955-1965: An Allegorical Reading' was published this summer in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/09...

@themhra.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 10:29 AM

🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' (@uclssees.bsky.social) is out!

Special Issue 'Empires in Transition Between Land and Sea
Southeastern Europe, 1815-1878', edited by Jovo Miladinović

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Articles via @projectmuse.bsky.social👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57552

@themhra.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 2:44 PM

Read more about the edition here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

A portrait of George Moore, looking self-consciously melancholy

@themhra.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 2:42 PM

We're delighted to report that Matthew Creasy's edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man, volume 5 in our Jewelled Tortoise series, has been shortlisted for The Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize for scholarly editions 2026!

www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...

The front cover of Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore, edited by Matthew Creasy

@jackie-stirling.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 4:01 PMReposted by @themhra.bsky.social

Newly published in the Legenda series Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Thank you to the @themhra.bsky.social for all their support during this project, and to the managing editor Graham Nelson for his vital contribution to this book.

www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

@themhra.bsky.social Aug 31, 2026, 12:15 PM

Book launch! For our edition of Ella Hepworth Dixon's Selected Short Stories, hosted by the Writing Lab at the Université de Genève.

It's on Tuesday 8 Sept but you need to RSVP today if you'd like to come along. Send us a DM and we'll pass it on.

www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

@themhra.bsky.social Aug 28, 2026, 10:15 AM

'The Cold War: Not Gilded, Not Golden, Just an Age'

Barbara Burns speaks to Jackie Stirling, whose book 'Rebranding Dictatorship: Franco, Golden Age Drama and Film in the Cold War' has been published in Legenda’s Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...