Dr Laura Eastlake

Find me at the other place. It’s nicer over there.

My talk with University of York's CECS PGR forum will be on 11th February from 4pm-5pm via zoom! Please drop me a message for the link if you'd like to join and hear me yap about Jane Austen (again!) What better way to celebrate Austen's 250th birthday (year)? @cecspgforum

📢 NEW DATE! Celebrate John Duncan Fergusson's 150th birthday with a special symposium on his work and legacy. Organised by @CulturePandK, @SSAHistory and the JD Fergusson Arts Foundation. 🗓️ Sat 23 Nov | 1:30-4:30pm 💷 £15 - £10 🎟️'s buff.ly/40q9jzl

The more essay writing workshops I do, the more I am turning into Stilgar. (Caveat: sometimes it’s ok to be a little bit fancy!) Good luck to everyone writing/marking final assignments at this time of year. You got this!

@LyndsayyG - look! A new derp! 🩷

I can’t believe it but, a year after the passing of Padraig the Fancy Chicken, it’s happened again … I need you all to meet PEANUT! #padraig

Unlike #padraig, whose approach was shrieking at dawn and casually strolling into the kitchen to raid cupboards’; Peanut has adopted a more genteel approach to tippety-tapping on the back door to summon the food-mammals.

Please share this opportunity for a 2-year F/T Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History, working on our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Loads of lovely archives to work in 😃 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

@mxdxhouse Ha! My personal digital poltergeist. I’ll have to put on Bluesky one day and see if it goes down as well over there! 🤔

@VictorianMasc i see this tweet on my instagram at least twice a week. I feel as though i’m being haunted by it.

Sure, everyone’s talking about the swords-&-sandals thirst trap that is Gladiator II, but have you met #19thC heartthrob Wilson Barrett?! Barrett found fame playing decadent Romans & was said to have the best legs on stage. Even Queen Victoria wrote him fan mail! #Gladiator2

Join us to welcome visiting international scholar Assistant Professor Eric Parisot (University of Adelaide, Australia) to the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies on 20th November for his fascinating lecture. Tickets for in-person and online. eventbrite.co.uk/e/post-twiligh…

@kovesi1 Ha. Oh yes, that’s kind of you to check. This is not work related but rather ‘dealing-with-house-admin-on-lunch-break’ humour.

‘Hope this email finds you well.’ How your email finds me:

Interested in studying 17th-19thC material culture, dec arts or histories of collecting/art market?! Come do a PhD with me! PhD scholarships now available at @EdiArtHistory @edinburghcollegeofart registryservices.ed.ac.uk/student-fundin…

Seriously, though, good for her. (Obituary of a Hermit, Anaconda Standard, 1890.)

@19thcenturyem Ah, best of luck! You'll do brilliantly.

All credits to @VictorianMasc 🦇

Autumn mist, Haworth Graveyard.

CfP: The Year's Work in English Studies ("The Eighteenth Century" and "1780–1830: The Romantic Period") (deadline 1 December 2024) victorianist.wordpress.com/2024/10/29/cfp…

Will the real Doc Holliday please stand up? Was he a ‘mild-mannered frontier angel’ or a ‘taciturn & much-dreaded’ killer who ‘left a trail of blood’ wherever he went? My article on the myth-making around Doc Holliday is free for 7 days from @HistoryToday