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Clare Clarke

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Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian literature, and 19th century newspapers. New book coming soon(ish) Rep: Aevitas Creative UK

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 1h

🎉 Happy Birthday to #SSVanDine (Willard Huntington), #bornonthisday in 1888!
He was a key figure in Golden Age detective fiction, creating detective Philo Vance in The Benson Murder Case (1926), which inspired films and radio dramas. A puzzle mystery master! #CrimeFiction

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 2h

Leading the witness!

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 9d

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 23d

We have a cover!

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 4h

“Objection, your honour! Move to strike!”

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 4h

A conversation piece, if nothing else.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 6h

A must-have, for every home.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6h

It's always striking seeing other academics talk about their academic parents and be reminded that close to a quarter of all tenure-line academics have at least one PhD parent.

That's not a critique, but I always wonder how different it would be to have a parent who already understood academia.

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Natalie Washington @transsomething.bsky.social · 6h

Buying this for whenever one of our cats claims they're hungry

Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 7h

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 6h

Ohhh eewwww

Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 6h

Hello David!

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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 8h

has anyone done research on how much mothers were separated from children under New Poor Law? a topic I know nothing about, but Strand Union rules say that, for under sevens, mothers should be 'permitted to have access to them at all reasonable times'. a lot hanging on 'reasonable' perhaps.

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 2d

www.espr-it.eu/esprit/event...

PhD Studentship Opportunity. Decadence in Translations: Translating for, and in French and British Periodicals, 1880–1914 - ESPRit

www.espr-it.eu

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 3d

lifelangs.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
JOB

LIFELANGS

A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities

lifelangs.com

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 4d

Yikes! But worth it, I reckon.

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 4d

Can you pay for a shingles jab? Having had shingles I am very keen to not get it again!

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 5d

Off to @tlrhub.bsky.social for what should be a fascinating conference on Ireland and the American Revolution organised by @joelherman.bsky.social and @timvrti.bsky.social with support from @historytcd.bsky.social and @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

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Ireland and the American Revolution - Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute | Trinity College Dublin

A-two day conference exploring the role of Ireland and its people in the American Revolution, will take place in Trinity Long Room Hub on Thursday, 9 October and Friday, 10 October.

www.tcd.ie

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 6d

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Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP

RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.

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𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘 @doomdisco.bsky.social · Aug 20

June 1976, KISS played their first ever concert in Switzerland. At the time, Charlie Chaplin had been living in Switzerland for over 20 years. There's no way to prove that an 87 year old Charlie Chaplin didn't see KISS on the Destroyer tour and was so invigorated that he went on to outlive Elvis.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 7d

Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 9d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 11d

Happy October 3rd to all who celebrate.

Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 13d

So cool!!

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 13d

*unearthly shrieking intensifies*

TALES OF THE WEIRD MERCH IS GO

@blpublishing.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird

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