Caroline Anjali Ritchie
@carolineanjali.bsky.social
Curatorial Fellow @ Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Globes, maps, zines, William Blake. Author: "William Blake" (Tate Publishing, 2024), "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination" (Palgrave, 2025). Editor, BARS Review.
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✨Breaking Blakean news!✨ My little intro to William Blake is pretty in pink and out next Thursday!
Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...
Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...
Finished off my Friday reading the final pages of Robert Poole's groundbreaking study 'Earthrise.'
Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃
Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Finished off my Friday reading the final pages of Robert Poole's groundbreaking study 'Earthrise.'
Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃
Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃
Happy birthday, William Blake! 🌻
Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz).
The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.
Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz).
The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happy birthday, William Blake! 🌻
Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz).
The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.
Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz).
The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.
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Chartist Lives fresh out of the box
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Chartist Lives fresh out of the box
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory #BookSky 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
My intro to Blake turns 1 today! 🥳
✨Breaking Blakean news!✨ My little intro to William Blake is pretty in pink and out next Thursday!
Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...
Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My intro to Blake turns 1 today! 🥳
Can't stop thinking about Olafur Eliasson's glacial ice watercolour - at once worldly and otherworldly - on show in 'Nordic Noir' in the BM's prints and drawings galleries
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Can't stop thinking about Olafur Eliasson's glacial ice watercolour - at once worldly and otherworldly - on show in 'Nordic Noir' in the BM's prints and drawings galleries
Hello, I work at the @fitzmuseum.bsky.social now 😊
@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!
@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Hello, I work at the @fitzmuseum.bsky.social now 😊
@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!
@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!
Autumn is always twin peaks rewatch season
I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy
I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Autumn is always twin peaks rewatch season
I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy
I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy
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Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨
All that is solid... found these immortal words inscribed in a weird little nook round the back of SOAS a few years ago and just rediscovered it yesterday, just a little more melted.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.
October 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
All that is solid... found these immortal words inscribed in a weird little nook round the back of SOAS a few years ago and just rediscovered it yesterday, just a little more melted.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.
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Update: it's being posted
It's a session on "Creative-Critical Writing and Romantic Studies" so... if you are interested in this and want to collaborate on a session for BARS 2026, please get in touch!
It's a session on "Creative-Critical Writing and Romantic Studies" so... if you are interested in this and want to collaborate on a session for BARS 2026, please get in touch!
Sent a session call to BARS 2026 a tiny bit over the deadline today but really hoping they'll post it -- keep your eyes peeled 👀
October 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Update: it's being posted
It's a session on "Creative-Critical Writing and Romantic Studies" so... if you are interested in this and want to collaborate on a session for BARS 2026, please get in touch!
It's a session on "Creative-Critical Writing and Romantic Studies" so... if you are interested in this and want to collaborate on a session for BARS 2026, please get in touch!
📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor!
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Vol. 61 (2025)
| The BARS Review
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September 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor!
www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...
www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...
Happy Monday ✨ I am pleased to announce the publication of my article 'London Blakeans' in vol. 89 of 'Publishing History'! Thank you to all who contributed ❤️❤️
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September 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Happy Monday ✨ I am pleased to announce the publication of my article 'London Blakeans' in vol. 89 of 'Publishing History'! Thank you to all who contributed ❤️❤️
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Living on the fringes of globe town couldn't feel more appropriate as I start my research on global imagining...
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Living on the fringes of globe town couldn't feel more appropriate as I start my research on global imagining...
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Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade).
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Issue 21.1 • Special Issue: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy and Gender •
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
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July 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade).
ncgsjournal.com/issue211/ind...
ncgsjournal.com/issue211/ind...
Read about the conference I recently organised at @engfac.bsky.social here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/befo...
Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
english.web.ox.ac.uk
July 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Read about the conference I recently organised at @engfac.bsky.social here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/befo...
Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!
June 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!
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When in #Oxford, attend an amazing conference on "Earthrise" & #Global Imagining @ox.ac.uk 's English Department - @engfac.bsky.social - and give a paper on global #oceans.
sites.google.com/view/before-...
organiser: #CarolineAnjaliRitchie
#GlobalLiterature #AcademicChatter #TeamEnglish
sites.google.com/view/before-...
organiser: #CarolineAnjaliRitchie
#GlobalLiterature #AcademicChatter #TeamEnglish
Before Earthrise
A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025
Location: English Faculty, Oxford
sites.google.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
When in #Oxford, attend an amazing conference on "Earthrise" & #Global Imagining @ox.ac.uk 's English Department - @engfac.bsky.social - and give a paper on global #oceans.
sites.google.com/view/before-...
organiser: #CarolineAnjaliRitchie
#GlobalLiterature #AcademicChatter #TeamEnglish
sites.google.com/view/before-...
organiser: #CarolineAnjaliRitchie
#GlobalLiterature #AcademicChatter #TeamEnglish
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I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨
June 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨
Remember to sign up before the end of Saturday!
Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...
Before Earthrise
A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025
Location: English Faculty, Oxford
sites.google.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Remember to sign up before the end of Saturday!
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I'm speaking about @layersoflondon.bsky.social, partnership working, and supporting research with historical mapping at this event "Unlocking Your Archives with GIS" organized by @rgsibg.bsky.social and ESRI UK on 12th June - for anyone interested in historical GIS, maps, and public engagement!
Unlocking your archives with GIS workshop
Join us on 12 June and find out how location can help unlock your archives and build powerful interactive experiences for the public to explore.
www.rgs.org
May 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm speaking about @layersoflondon.bsky.social, partnership working, and supporting research with historical mapping at this event "Unlocking Your Archives with GIS" organized by @rgsibg.bsky.social and ESRI UK on 12th June - for anyone interested in historical GIS, maps, and public engagement!
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Still thinking about Brenda Hillman’s ‘Styrofoam Cup’
I kinda want it on a cup
I kinda want it on a cup
May 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Still thinking about Brenda Hillman’s ‘Styrofoam Cup’
I kinda want it on a cup
I kinda want it on a cup
New article out today! Focusing on the Dutt family album and its early reception in London - a brave new world for this Blakean. Would love to hear people's thoughts
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
‘An album, a miscellany, a sort of patchwork’: ‘Curiosity’, Genre, and Literary Quality in Early British Reviews of The Dutt Family Album (1870) | Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
This article focuses on the little-explored British reviews of the nineteenth-century Indo-Anglian poetry collection The Dutt Family Album (1870). I argue that these reviews take their cue in important ways from the Album’s paratextual and generic ...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New article out today! Focusing on the Dutt family album and its early reception in London - a brave new world for this Blakean. Would love to hear people's thoughts
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Just a couple more weeks left to register for 'before earthrise'! Join us for an exciting programme of talks at Oxford's English faculty. Pls share widely 🌍 🌏 🌎
Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...
Before Earthrise
A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025
Location: English Faculty, Oxford
sites.google.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Just a couple more weeks left to register for 'before earthrise'! Join us for an exciting programme of talks at Oxford's English faculty. Pls share widely 🌍 🌏 🌎
Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...
Before Earthrise
A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025
Location: English Faculty, Oxford
sites.google.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...
Conference programme now up here! Stay tuned for registration details sites.google.com/view/before-...
March 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Conference programme now up here! Stay tuned for registration details sites.google.com/view/before-...