Helena Goodwyn

Roundtable on the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914 YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

Last Friday's #RSVPDigiEvent on the #19thC British press in non-Anglophone countries is now live on our YouTube channel! And don't forget to join us *tomorrow* for our March event featuring @triproftri.bsky.social and the Forget Me Not!

(Re)View February's event here: youtu.be/Z_SHdYrF6tE

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I know, I know. It is. Although increasingly I’m not shocked by these closures. Very sad still.

I assume you mean the closure Sophie? But then I read the turgid AI generated prose and now I wonder if you mean the press release…

Illustration from New Writing North’s insta account, announcing Kym Deyn, Katherine Horrex and J.A. Mensah as Jerwood Fellows

Biographies of the three Jerwood Fellows.

Totally made to see my brilliant colleague & friend Juliana Mensah recognised as one of the 2026 @newwritingnorth.bsky.social Jerwood Fellows. Can’t think of a more deserving recipient - and can’t wait to read her new novel, follow-up to the amazing Castles From Cobwebs. Congrats to the others too!

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

Position: Gaskell Journal Co-Editor (Application Deadline: 3/2/26) navsa.org/News/13595200

Curate a Refugee Reading Wall for University Refugee Week 2026.docx Create a Refugee Reading Wall for University Refugee Week, 2nd-6th March Background Refugee Week, held annually in June, is the world's largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributio...

Join members of the #Decolonising the Discipline network in curating a Refugee Reading Wall for University Refugee Week, 2nd-6th March, in association with Universities of Sanctuary and the National Year of Reading campaign. Find more information, guidance and tips at docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Degrees of opportunity? Working-class women’s lives beyond the elite university Employing innovatively creative methods, Katherine Davey’s research interrogates the nuanced relationship between social class and gender, offering the first national picture of how inequalities emerg...

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Dr Katherine Davey, conducts new research @manmetuni.bsky.social offering the first national picture of how inequalities emerge for academically successful working-class women. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/kdavey

Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign The musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each

‘Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign.
The musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

It keeps me awake at night Helen. What they’re doing to women and girls. I wish there was something we could do as ordinary citizens.

It's the last day to register for the free & online @divorcehistory.bsky.social one-day workshop 'Archives to Action' where we will be examining the relevance of #humanities and #sociolegal research to contemporary policy issues. All welcome! Sign up here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...

Applications are now invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social

'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians

15-20 people gathered around a long table in a large library/study space, listening to a presentation being delivered. A large pull-up screen displays a presentation.

📣Opportunity for consultants and freelancers

The National Archives & @araukie.bsky.social are seeking a supplier with leadership training experience to present at & chair an event for recordkeepers focused on leadership skills!

Apply here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... (1/2)

It is! Much nicer and much saner!

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...

The Society offers following 3 funding calls with closing dates in January: bit.ly/4p6jcea

> Workshop Grants, supporting project work by historians
> PhD Fellowships, to support completion of a doctorate
> Applied History Fellowships, for post-doc historians with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson

Issue 10.2 of JEPS is now live! openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/

Does anyone have a cover letter for an academic job in creative writing that they wouldn't mind sharing? 🙂

Starting now!

Where can you hear about: Armenian literary periodicals & women’s writing, book-reviewing strategies of C.19 UK periodicals, Walter Scott & Italian Gazettes of the early C.19, & Turkish Periodicals of the 1920s? JEPS in conversation that’s where! Join us 11/12/2025 16:00 CET tinyurl.com/JEPSINCONVO1

Journal of European Periodical Studies is now on Bluesky! JEPS is a peer-reviewed online journal published by Ghent University on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present. Follow us for news & please share! Our website: openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/

JEPS is excited to announce that we'll be hosting a research conversation to launch our latest issue. If you would like to attend this 'JEPS In Conversation', it will be taking place online, on the 11 December 2025, 16:00 CET, Free and open to all upon registration: tinyurl.com/JEPSINCONVO

Attendees will hear from contributing authors Chiara Cremona, Yasemin Gencer, Anne-Marie Millim, & Hayarpi Papikyan. Issue editors @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social and Zsuzsa Török will facilitate short papers from each of our contributors and there will be time for some lively discussion too!

‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Robot Woman’ would be a new take.

Will you come and teach it with me?

Andrew I’m working on a CL module for my uni at the moment. Being the exceedingly generous chap you are I wondered if I might have a nosy at your syllabus?

Thanks so much Jen, very generous as always! I’ve added the Collins to my list. And look forward to reading the essay on Carter. Thanks also for the link to that.

That would also be a great one to use. Particularly as it has that strong thread about how the past can infect the present! Thank you.

That’s very generous of you Priti! Yes please ☺️