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Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social · 5d

Not contemporary exactly but in Kate Chopin you have a desire for freedom & independence from restrictive societal roles, proto-modernist impressionistic techniques, & in ‘The Awakening’ alone you have an articulation of women's need for financial & personal autonomy to achieve creative success.

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 13d

🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process
print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa

CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities
A VPFA Study Day
Loughborough University, 27 March 2026

The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change.

Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world.

20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine
• The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 20d

It's here! Sign up for History Day 4 Nov 2025. #HistDay25 Together with @senatehouselib.bsky.social we are celebrating all things history with collections from galleries, libraries, archives, museums & more. Find out what it's all about and book your free spot. www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

History Day

History Day and the History Day: Discover Collections website bring together researchers and collections in-person and online

www.history.ac.uk

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 26d

Depressing - we need the arts now more than ever www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

More than half of RSC staff urged to apply for voluntary redundancy

Arts institution seeks to make ‘urgent’ savings as it is thought to be facing a shortfall of between £5m and £6m

www.theguardian.com

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28d

Major yn Englisshe:
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Sep 13

***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025***
Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week.
Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · Sep 11

The Royal Literary Fund are offering grants to writers facing financial difficulties. If you're currently experiencing difficulties, such as an illness or unexpected bill, you might be eligible to receive support.

Grants for writers facing financial difficulty

As our research into authors’ incomes demonstrates, a career in writing is often financially precarious. If you’re currently facing financial difficulties, whether that be due to an unexpected bill or...

www.alcs.co.uk

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Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social · Sep 9

#History #SkyStorians Writing a new course on social movements/political practices in 19th c. Britain & Ireland & struggling to find secondary sources on associations/civil society in general, as opposed to studies of specific societies, e.g. Catholic Assoc. Any suggestions?

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are very happy to take any queries, please just email us at [email protected].

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · Aug 6

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 5

🚨 JOB ALERT-The Curran Index is hiring! Editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social + Lars Atkin seek a Research Assistant to conduct archival research on /Fun/ housed at the Huntington Library. Stipend available, with applications accepted through Aug. 20! More details on our website: rs4vp.org/curran-index...

The Curran Index is Hiring! – RSVP

The Curran Index is hiring a qualified U.S.-based research assistant to conduct archival research at the Huntington Library in California.

rs4vp.org

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · Jul 24

✨️Job Alert✨️ Research Associate, 21st Century Oxford Authors Edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Fixed-term, University of Sheffield, closing date 18 August.

Please share with ECRs!

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Research Associate - Percy Bysshe Shelley

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Jul 23

Here's an excellent opportunity for anyone working on Margaret Oliphant! Please help spread the word. This special issue is looking for more contributors.

CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) | NAVSA

navsa.org

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Kit Heyam (they/he) @krheyam.bsky.social · Jul 23

Fellow freelancers, a boring tax question: do you use any accounting software, and would you recommend it? I currently, & happily, use an Excel spreadsheet - but I see this whole ~making tax digital!~ thing looming, so am reluctantly in the market for recommendations of more complicated things 🙏

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Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social · Jul 23

Oh no…

a man without a shirt is taking a shower in a dark room

ALT: a man without a shirt is taking a shower in a dark room

media.tenor.com

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Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social · Jul 23

Blink twice if you’re being controlled by a convention-defying voice built on three core pillars, each with distinct voice traits?

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Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social · Jul 23

Me thinks someone has gone ‘Beyond’ experimenting with generative AI to letting it ‘control’ the Brand Team…

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · Jul 14

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

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Dr Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social · Jul 14

Job alert! We're advertising for a full-time, permanent Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in 20thC American History at Edge Hill. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX206/l...

Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History at Edge Hill University

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social · Jul 13

Whaaaaaat?! What a strange thing to do. And why would you own up to it now?

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Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hurrah!

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jul 11

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · Jul 11

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social · Jul 11

@drmarylshannon.bsky.social Billy Waters in the wild at #GlobalAusten250

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Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social · Jul 3

Indiana Jones and the Last University

(Too dark?)

Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jul 3

Indiana Jones and the Disappointing Conference Coffee

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · Jul 2

Indiana Jones and the Presentation Time-Limit

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