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Dan Wall
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English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
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Dan Wall @kindabluesky.bsky.social · Sep 24
If you're around in Aberdeen in the evening on Saturday October 4th, please do consider coming along to this exciting WayWord event at the Art Gallery, sponsored by the Aberdeen University Centre for the Novel:

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CfP: Networks of Antiquity, University of Copenhagen, 7-8th May 2026

Abstracts due 31st January!
More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6237
CfP poster: "The antiquarian networks of the eighteenth century and Romantic era contributed to a fascinating constellation of multicultural, multilingual, exchange across the globe. The study of antiquarianism was a vastly popular pastime and scholarly pursuit in Europe, especially as a way of mapping ancient world cultures, religions, and politics onto contemporary society. The circulation of knowledge within local, national, and global networks paradoxically consolidated independent national exceptionalisms, as well as contributing to a budding multicultural globalism. Texts such as James Macpherson’s “Fragments of Ancient Poetry” (1763) prompted a revival of vernacular traditions across the British Isles like ballad imitations and Norse translations, while the establishment of the Society of Antiquaries in Britain encouraged the circulation and study of material culture. With the various inventive reimaginations of world mythologies, and as an oppressive vehicle for European imperial agendas, the study of vernacular antiquities during the long eighteenth century formed the critical foundations of contemporary worldviews via the lens of the past. Pre-dating Herder’s thesis about “Volksgeist, ” these antiquarian practices already constituted a rewriting of histories, memories, and cultures, and brought to the fore questions of heritage, identity, empire, trade, as well as the value ascribed to language. Through this global trade of antiquity in all its forms—material, textual, visual—both national and local European perspectives were brought into dialogue with alternate histories and the legacy of bygone eras. Networks of Antiquity is a two-day interdisciplinary conference held in person and in English at the University of Copenhagen. It aims to bring together scholars of Eighteenth Century Studies, Romanticism, and Reception Studies to examine how antiquarian networks across Europe and beyond created porous cultural borders during the long eighteenth century." Poster: "We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers that consider how European communities, networks, and individuals of the long eighteenth century engaged with antiquarian studies and cultural contexts regarding and those external to their own geographical borders. PAPERS MAY EXPLORE TOPICS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Circuits of communication, letters, and objects Material culture and its popular or localised consumption Antiquarianism and visual culture Nordic antiquity, Northern antiquarianism, the Gothic The relationship and tensions between (neo-)Classical antiquity and vernacular traditions National vs local networks, the circulation of knowledge production Recollecting, reconstituting, and reinventing the past Adaptations and appropriations The Antiquarian as a figure/character Antiquarian Spaces: The Society of Antiquaries, libraries, museums, private vs. public exchange Exchange and Encounters: Transatlantic, Anglo-Nordic, Asiatic, etc. Geographies of antiquity, landscapes, scientific antiquarian travel Empire, trade, race, imperial and postcolonial perspectives Antiquarianism as a literary form and genre Stadial theory, Translation theory, Reception Studies, Memory Studies TO APPLY Please submit a 250-word abstract and 150-word biography to Sharon Choe (sharon.choe@hum.ku.dk) with the subject line : Networks of Antiquity Conference Submission. We are keen to encourage the participation of PhDs, early career researchers, and scholars on precarious employment contracts, and so will be offering bursaries to contribute towards travel to and accommodation in Copenhagen. Priority will be given to those without access to institutional financial support or external grant funding. To be considered for a bursary, please also provide a short 100-word application alongside your proposal, including your current institutional position and any research projects. Application deadline : 31 January 2026 Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 10 February 2026"
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Often dismissed and even maligned by male biographers, Charlotte, the wife of Sir Walter Scott, was actually key to his success, according to a new book
Meet Charlotte, the wife of Sir Walter Scott, who was actually key to his success
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December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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However insane you remember The Tempest being, it is more insane than that.
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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TALK: Lifting the Veil on Ann Radcliffe's 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' - Professor Angela Wright
We are delighted to welcome Professor Angela Wright for the final event as part of the Fear and Fascination Gothic Exhibition programme. This talk is a collaboration with the Centre for the Novel and ...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Come visit our excellent Archives & Special Collections! Especially strong in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period books due to the copyright privilege. Awards cover costs up to £2500.
uofglasgowasc.bsky.social UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 27d
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!

We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.

Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

📆Closing date: 5 January 2026

#UofGLibraryFellows
Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Event Alert!

Join the English Literature Society and the Centre for the Novel next Wednesday (November 5th) for 100 Years of Mrs Dalloway with Dr Elizabeth Anderson, a celebration of Woolf’s iconic novel and the authors it inspired

📍King's College, University of Aberdeen NK10
🕰️: 17:30~18:30
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Event Alert!

Join the English Literature Society and the Centre for the Novel next Wednesday (November 5th) for 100 Years of Mrs Dalloway with Dr Elizabeth Anderson, a celebration of Woolf’s iconic novel and the authors it inspired

📍King's College, University of Aberdeen NK10
🕰️: 17:30~18:30
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Fellowship Opportunity for ECRs: The Byron Society Fellow

Focussing on digital promotion activities, with a £2500 annual stipend.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197
Fellowship Opportunity: The Byron Society Fellow – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
kindabluesky.bsky.social
If you're around in Aberdeen in the evening on Saturday October 4th, please do consider coming along to this exciting WayWord event at the Art Gallery, sponsored by the Aberdeen University Centre for the Novel:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sch...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I wouldn't tell people if I won the lottery, but there would be signs...
#BookSky #Books #Library
September 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Prof. Baker and AUCfN will also be hosting an impromptu reading group based around literary readings on a maritime theme between 2:30pm and 4pm on Friday 18th July, also at Aberdeen Central Library. Tickets and information can be found here: aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...
July 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
kindabluesky.bsky.social
On Wed 16 July at 6pm, Prof. Tim Baker and Aberdeen University's Centre for the Novel will be hosting a discussion group focusing on 'The Silver Darlings', Neil M. Gunn's 1941 novel of North Sea fisheries, in Aberdeen Central Library.

More information here: aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A happy tear for the return of Erasmus and for youth mobility. This is a very good thing.
May 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Step into a world of Gothic terror in the latest exhibition from University Collections opening next month.

The exhibition looks at how fear has been used to thrill and unsettle readers through monsters, villains, and transgressive themes.

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Poster for Fear and Fascination: A Gothic Exhibition at the University of Aberdeen. The design features a magenta and black gothic collage with crows, a ruined castle, and a distressed figure. Main text reads: “FEAR AND FASCINATION – A GOTHIC EXHIBITION.” Additional details: “19 May – 7 December, The Gallery, Sir Duncan Rice Library.” The University of Aberdeen logo appears at the top left. Background layers include gothic-style patterns and faint text: “Creature open; it breathed.” A charity registration statement appears in small print at the bottom.
April 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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V excited to be returning to Aberdeen to talk about 'Brothers & Lovers: Frances Burney and the Gothic'. I'll be drawing on research outlined in my @cambridgeup.bsky.social Element 'Reading With The Burneys', and playing show-&-tell with the all-important Evelina in @uoacollections.bsky.social!
PUBLIC TALK Sophie Coulombeau - Brothers & Lovers: Frances Burney and the Gothic 29 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30 TALK Sophie Coulombeau 'Brothers and Lovers: Frances Burney and the Gothic' Thursday 29 May 2025 The University is delighted to welcome author and radio presenter Sophie Coulombeau in this talk showcasing some of the research from her recent publication 'Reading with the Burneys' which is closely linked to Aberdeen. About the Speaker Dr Sophie Coulombeau is a Senior Lecturer in eighteenth-century literature and culture at the University of York. She is also a creative writer. Her debut novel, Rites, came out in 2012 and her second novel, Monster: A Tale, will be published by Northodox Press in 2026. Sophie writes and presents for radio and regularly creates features on mainstream arts and history for publications including BBC Arts, the Guardian, the Independent, the Times Literary Supplement, and History Today. About this Talk In this talk, Sophie Coulombeau will showcase some of the research she published recently in her book Reading With The Burneys (Cambridge University Press 2024). This publication centres on an all-important annotated set of Fanny Burney's first novel Evelina, which is held in the University of Aberdeen's Special Collections. Sophie Coulombeau and Fanny Burney Frances Burney (1752 – 1840), also known as Fanny Burney, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to George III's queen, Charlotte. Her long writing career gained her a reputation as one of England's foremost literary authors. Her fiction had a significant influence on the novels of Jane Austen, who greatly admired her style and drew on Burney's characters in creating her own. Burney has traditionally been thought of as a 'novelist of manners' far removed from the Gothic fiction of the time, but this talk explores how her four novels do in fact take part in some of the same conversations, and employ the same ideas. Coulombeau will be examining selected passages from Evelina with gothic features such as oppressive fear, fainting women, sexual menacing from villains, and will conclude by focusing closely on the way in which Evelina's brother/lover character Mr Macartney raises the spectre of incest - a key Gothic trope. Using the copy of Evelina now held in the University Collections, Frances Burney's own brother Charles attempted to model himself on Macartney when he lived in Aberdeen, with troublesome consequences! This event is part of a programme of events that will be accompanying the latest exhibition from University Collections. Fear and Fascination - A Gothic Exhibition runs until 7 December 2025. Speaker Sophie Coulombeau Hosted by University Collections Venue The Sir Duncan Rice Library Contact This FREE talk is open to all and will take place in the Sir Duncan Rice Library. If you would like to attend in person, please reserve a seat by following the booking link. Parking at the University is FREE at the time of this event. REQUEST A RECORDING OF THIS TALK We are hoping to record this talk. If you are unable to attend the event in person but would like to receive a link to the recording that will be prepared after the event, please email uoacollections@abdn.ac.uk Booking Online booking available
April 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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History of the National Library of Scotland
29 May, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh – free

2025 marks the 100th birthday of the @natlibscot.bsky.social as it currently is. Robbie Mitchell & Ralph McLean explore the 500 years of history that made it what it is today.
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History of the National Library of Scotland
Robbie Mitchell and Ralph McLean explore some of the five centuries of history that made your National Library what it is today.
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April 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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The April edition of the POST newsletter is out now…and it's flippin’ packed.

From Peacock’s bold anniversary light show to the return of Nuart tours, there’s loads to catch up on and even more to look forward to.

We’ve pulled together the best events, and culture news in Aberdeen.

⭕ Only on POST
Spring Spreads a Warm Cultural Glow Across Aberdeen
Explore the projects that make Aberdeen a melting pot of creative collaboration and cultural exchange.
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April 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth
18 March @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social & online – free

A talk by Prof @rhonabrown.bsky.social of @uofglasgow.bsky.social for
@abdnriiss.bsky.social
#18thcentury #literature #poetry
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Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth
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March 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Happy #WorldBookDay!
Please tag us if you're child has dressed up as Adam Ferguson, Sorely Maclean, Patrick Gordon, or any of our iconic AUP subjects. (I think my kid kind of phoned it in with her costume!) and enjoy some of our completely free and #OpenAccessBooks
www.fulcrum.org/aberdeenunip...
A little black cat laying with her tummy up next to the book 'Will my Cat Eat my Eyeballs' by Caitlin Doughty, the cover of which is a striking silouette of a black cat on a red background
March 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The fine people @waywordabdn.bsky.social have put together a banger of a summer programme! Painting! Graffiti! Theatre! Queer poetry in many tongues! Me chatting to Heather Parry about nasty things! Do come. www.waywordfestival.com
WayWORD Festival | Aberdeen's Literary Cross Arts Festival
WayWORD is a youth-led arts festival brought to you by the WORD Centre for Creative Writing, University of Aberdeen. Workshops, author events, panel discussions and performance nights are all FREE wit...
www.waywordfestival.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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That’s right. 🇺🇦
March 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.

Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference
www.english.ox.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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We've now launched the 2025 round of funding to support the study of @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social archive, library and museum collections. I'm grateful to the Friends of @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social for their support, which makes this possible.
Applications welcome!
www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/...
Friends of Aberdeen University Library Research Awards | Collections | The University of Aberdeen
www.abdn.ac.uk
February 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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'We are proud to announce a major victory for Palestinian students and academics'

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2491899...

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February 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM