Dr Emily Middleton (formerly Bell)

I've not been active here all year, but hoping to get back into things on the new place. I've been trying to follow everyone I do here, but if I've missed you, you'll find me as emilyjlm! (And this GIF summarises how I'm feeling, trying to start on a new social media platform...)

CFP: Collins and Dickens - Dickens and Collins. Abstract deadline: 31st January 2024. collins-and-dickens.com

✨CHRISTMAS SPECIAL No. 5✨ The inimitable @Chrisnayak reads from the First Branch of Dickens’ rarer Christmas story - THE HOLLY TREE 📚 Listen here on (Apple, Spotify): buzzsprout.com/1897197/141811… 🌲🔥☃️🌲🔥☃️🌲🔥☃️🌲🔥☃️

This was great fun to record; after a long day of admin and meetings, it was a very welcome opportunity to talk about the important stuff like Dickens, muppets, and politicians kissing babies. Honestly felt more like a fun pub conversation - thanks @MichaMahlberg

Historians and DH colleagues please take 5 mins to respond to this consultation (email). The plan is to destroy the originals. Anyone who had worked with digitised collections will know it is vital we keep the originals as well as digitise.

✨CHRISTMAS SPECIAL No. 1✨ It’s a thrill to welcome the inimitable @Gina_Beck as she reads ‘A Christmas at Dingley Dell’ … adapted from Chapter 28 of The Pickwick Papers! Listen here (on Apple, Spotify etc) buzzsprout.com/1897197/141620… 🔥🎩🔥☃️🔥🍷🔥📚🔥💐🔥🔔 #CHRISTMASISCOMING

A beautiful sunset for my last day on campus for the year.

📢 We @sotonDH are hiring again. This time for a (full time, permanent) Lecturer in Digital Humanities. We are particularly interested in candidates who do more English, Film, Music, or Philosophy related DHy things. Deadline 11 Jan. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

@DrPeteOrford Isn’t it?! The Good Afternoon song is hilarious. I think I’m going to teach this next year when I finally get my own Dickens module. I also watched Christmas Carole, out about the same time, and that was… a bit rubbish. But Spirited surprised me.

I just took advantage of a cinema rescreening to finally see Spirited (a year late) and now I need to write an article on this or something because it is a *great* adaptation of/sequel to Christmas Carol.

With more than 35 outstanding reviews from the press as well as Recognition from Queen Elizabeth II for its part in Dickensian scholarship, 'A Christmas Carol - As told by Jacob Marley (deceased)' has been hailed as "a forcefully compelling masterpiece" (Manx Independent) and...

Do you know what’s even better than weird Victorian Christmas Cards?! The fact that the Victorians were also really into getting weird CHRISTMAS TATTOOS! 🍾🎄

Book history mavens take happy note: the whole of the 19th- and 20th-c. runs of the Bookseller have today appeared on the BNA. @RS4VP @SHARPorg blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2023/12/04/the…

Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities is now available for FREE and open access online! With 60+ graphs and tables on Pynchon's wildly experimental prose bit.ly/3uLYMQZ

@EmilyJLB and @CallenCeleste have contributed a series of voice notes to @natfiereeve's wonderful guide to Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Get involved with our listen-along starting on December 10th, or just download and listen on Audrey 😊

@ViolaLorella @VUamsterdam Massive congratulations!! This is so well deserved!

📢 Super exciting news everyone 🤩 I'm so happy to share that I will very soon be joining @VUamsterdam as Assistant Professor in #digitalhumanities and #Society!!! I can't wait to start this new chapter 👩‍🎓,👩‍💻🤩 #inthedigital

Postgrads and early career Victorianists who work on London may be interested in applying for the recently established Curriers' Company London History Essay Prize.  The prize carries an award of £1000.  Deadline is January 31, 2024. Details here: history.ac.uk/join-ihr/fello…

🎉 They’re here!!! Fresh transcripts released today by @wyorksarchives!! This batch covers the part of #AnneLister’s life so brilliantly dramatized in #GentlemanJack 1. 👏 BRAVA! & *thank-you* to the archive & transcription team; you’re making #lgbtq AND literary history! 🎩📚

Max Chapnick's (@maxchappy)'s discovery of a new pseudonym for American novelist Louisa May Alcott has revealed her "spoof" on #Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," entitled "The Phantom." This article contains a link to the story (PDF) w/notes. theguardian.com/books/2023/nov…

@mark_wheats Thank you!!

@EmilyJLB That’s the latest tracking I have on it too (the Dickens Museum, 2015). It may have been a temporary exhibit, however.

Do any Dickens #twitterstorians know where the original of this much-reproduced image of Maria Beadnell is (as in, which library/archive...)?

@RossiMargo Thank you very much!

@EmilyJLB theguardian.com/books/2015/feb… this article says it’s from Dickens Museum (London).