It’s been ages since I’ve done one of these posts, but I’m hoping to start the new academic year as I mean to continue, so here’s my roundup of things that tickled my fancy this month:
blog posts, articles, and other pieces:
this INCREDIBLE issue of The Rambling on Eighteenth-Century Futures
we shared this wonderful preview from Catriona McLeod’s romantic papercuts book over on the Collage Research Network blog – a treat to read and to look at
Rhiannon Easterbrook’s blog on imagination and materiality in Edwardian classicism
this microhistory of a blasphemous bar crawl in 1874 by Will Clement is truly fascinating, not least from a methodological perspective
this thoughtful piece from Manu Chander on The Karma of Brown Folk at 22
Sophie Cooper’s delightful article on women, Limerick lace and community heirlooms in the Australian Irish diaspora
this issue of Decorating Dissidence on care, craft and COVID
this lovely piece on gardening as therapeutic
events:
the inimitable Stephen Guy-Bray talking about his new book on Shakespeare and Queer Representation
new sessions of ODSECS by brill people
teaching things:
this crowdsourced collection of resources from the IHR for teaching British Histories of Race, Migration and Empire
random stuff:
this episode of the hilarious You’re Dead To Me podcast on vampires
this thread from The MERL on cottagecore
this lovely napkin embroidery pattern from Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin’s book Jane Austen Embroidery looks like an incredible lovely thing to do in lockdown
this thread on the Reclaim her Name debacle
See you in September!
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