Great new work by @dianewatt.bsky.social and colleagues on a millennium of medieval women's writing from across the globe www.surrey.ac.uk/news/thousan...
@heikebauer
Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they. London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. π in Scotland
Great new work by @dianewatt.bsky.social and colleagues on a millennium of medieval women's writing from across the globe www.surrey.ac.uk/news/thousan...
Weather! Near Bridge of Orchy, Scotland.
Excited to share that Karen Hiestand & I have secured a 2nd Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship working across the Royal Veterinary College & Birkeck Humanities:
When Should Pets Die? Mapping changing expectations around end-of-life care in UK veterinary practice
bloomsbury.ac.uk/when-should-...
Excited to share that Karen Hiestand & I have secured a 2nd Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship working across the Royal Veterinary College & Birkeck Humanities:
When Should Pets Die? Mapping changing expectations around end-of-life care in UK veterinary practice
bloomsbury.ac.uk/when-should-...
Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval womenβs writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. Youβre welcome.
Applications are invited for a Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship on Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. Deadline 27 March. Full details in the link ππ bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin...
Applications are invited for a Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship on Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. Deadline 27 March. Full details in the link ππ bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin...
RIP Rosa von Praunheim, inimitable queer activist filmmaker ππ
Beauty along the Wey #SurreyHills
Looking forward to Doing Social Justice Research Now, a panel discussion with representatives from the Birkbeck Institutes, 10 December 2pm at Birkbeck.
Free but register to secure your place.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Looking forward to Doing Social Justice Research Now, a panel discussion with representatives from the Birkbeck Institutes, 10 December 2pm at Birkbeck.
Free but register to secure your place.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
London evening
London evening
Today! 6pm at Birkbeck. Hope to see some of you there!
Sorry, this is an in-person event only.
This week Wednesday at Birkbeck, right in the heart of Bloomsbury: join us for thought-provoking talk by the brilliant Julia Laite on the history of Newfoundland, home of one of the British Empireβs most remote settlements where one of its most complete genocides took place. Free but pls register
Join us on 19 Nov for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture featuring Julia Laite on the difficult history of Newfoundland, home to one of the British Empireβs oldest & most isolated settler populations where one of its most totalizing genocides took place. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Join us on 19 Nov for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture featuring Julia Laite on the difficult history of Newfoundland, home to one of the British Empireβs oldest & most isolated settler populations where one of its most totalizing genocides took place. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'.
19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London.
All welcome but please register:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'.
19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London.
All welcome but please register:
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland
Beautiful sky over Troon on the West Coast of Scotland
Vienna!
Vienna!
Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to Β£250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
Did you colour coordinate with Robyn? Looking good and great to see you out and about together, Martin!
The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... ππ
The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... ππ
π³οΈβπ LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography now live! π³οΈβπ
Thank you to all of the collaborators who made this resource happen! And what a resource it is! Let us know if and when and how you use it!
Check it out!
#BookHistory #QueerBookHistory #LGBTQIABooks #Research
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
A familiar London panorama looking particularly bright today