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Many thanks to all who came along to our annual ‘Autumn Round-Up’ this afternoon, where friends and colleagues congregated to present and listen to a selection of papers and new research from this summer’s busy conference season! Details of our next event to follow soon… /1

If you’re in Edinburgh and would like to join us, we have a few spots available still. Sign up for our Scottish and Irish Gothic event below 👇

@larainsublime @cleo_ocy @drtinamorin @MJRSangster @DaleGothic96 @madeline_cct Unfortunately we’re not able to offer online attendance for this event, but we are very thankful for your interest in it.

We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you. Full details and registration below: swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/scottish-and-i…

🚨 Call for Papers: Family If you are a postgraduate researcher, submit your work to FORUM! 📩 Deadline: 6 April 2025 Read the full CFP & our journal guidelines here: journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/announce…

Applications are now open for 2025-26 IASH Fellowships, with 50+ places available! Apply here: iash.ed.ac.uk/application-fo… Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 Apr. See our Fellowship pages for details: iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-pro…

Join next week’s session of READING SCOTLAND to hear Gero Guttzeit talk about “Double Nation? Stevenson and the Doppelganger.” Join us via tinyurl.com/ReSco-Gero-Gut… @uni_mainz_event @ScotGovGermany @scotlit @UoA_LLMVC

📢 Call for Blog Contributors in 2025! Women’s History Scotland is seeking blog posts on women’s and gender history in Scotland. Share your research, projects, or thoughts on exhibitions, talks, books, or films! For more details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kwbayum

📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED: After a wonderful initial response to our Call for Papers, we have decided to extend the deadline for the BARS ECR & PGR Conference 2025 - 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'. The new deadline for all paper and panel proposals will be 20 January 2025.

Newly published: REGIONAL ROMANTICISM tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

If you’re around in Edinburgh this Friday, feel free to come along to my public lecture on Gothic seascapes at the Banshee Labyrinth for the @EdHorrorFest Krampus Fest 🌊 💀 @ShoresHaunted edhorrorfest.co.uk/event-details/…

A final 🎄pre-holiday🎄 reminder to submit an abstract for #BARS025, ‘Romantic (Un)Consciousness’, if you’ve not already done so! CFP CLOSES 6 JANUARY 2025 Very happy to be able to offer a number of bursaries; more details to follow in the New Year! ✨ barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home

CFP special issue, 'Cultures of Care in Scottish Women's Writing' 💜. Please share widely! 🙏

📢 As part of our conference programme we're delighted to announce a visit to the Wren Library at Trinity College to view a curated selection of Romantic-period materials on September 4 at 17.30. Remember to submit your abstracts! Our CfP remains open until January 6 2025.

Only eleven sleeps till Christmas so the little bears are busy with the finishing touches for their tree 🎄 🧸 From Molly Brett's The Jumble Bears (1977) in Edinburgh's Museum of Childhood book collection @EdinCulture #children #books #TEDDYBEAR

Happy that Remediating the 1820s is now available as a (relatively) affordable paperback. One of the reasons we wanted to publish with @EdinburghUP was their commitment to paperback releases: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-remediati….

📢Happy to announce that registration is now OPEN for our conference, 'Play in the Long Nineteenth Century' (17 Jan. 2025 @UniKent)📢 Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/play-in-the-… Programme here: rrrjournal.com/_files/ugd/d44… Do share widely; we look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

We are now also on Bluesky 🦋

Many congratulations to our friend and colleague @desha_osborne on this exciting announcement!

Happy to announce that "Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation", a special issue of Library and Information History (40.3), guest edited by myself, @MJRSangster, and @maxinebranagh, is now out in the world and ready to read! euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3

Now on the BARS Blog: CFP: 49th International Byron Conference Check out the details here! bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5701 And don't forget to share widely! Thank you!