Jim Mussell
Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/…
- Surely those aren’t back issues of the eminent Victorian Studies being used as decoration in a hotel in Amsterdam?
- Featuring an essay by our eminent Vice Chancellor @universityofleeds.bsky.social from earlier days too
- Obit for Michael Slater in the @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
- I like how the FT’s fiscal drag calculator assumes pay will rise with inflation
- Sorry to learn of Jimmy Cliff’s passing: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
- I remember a wonderful gig in Birmingham a while back full of late middle-aged multi-racial couples getting misty-eyed at the memories
- I enjoyed being interviewed about Adelaide Anne Procter, the English Woman's Journal, and the Victoria Press by Lizzie Ludlow and Amanda Vernon for their podcast Adelaide Anne Procter: Victorian Poetry, Faith, and Fundraising. First episode here (I'm in no. 3): open.spotify.com/episode/7iHS...
- Yorkshire really is a lovely place
- Just heard the news about Graham Moss of Incline Press. A devastating loss to the print community
- Back on the BookBeetle today for @universityofleeds.bsky.social Open Day
- Looking forward to seeing Enfolded Journeys at The Leeds Library this evening: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/eve...
- Got our the BookBeetle for @universityofleeds.bsky.social open day
- Excited by the Hamburg-Leeds lecture series, Affect, Archive and Artificial Intelligence. Organised by Julia Nantke and @dibyaroy86.bsky.social, there are three sessions and six papers. Details: dcch.leeds.ac.uk/events/affec...
- Academia can be a bit of a rollercoaster. Had some disappointing news earlier in the week but really pleased to see this in the world: www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
- Excited about this conference on typography, which has just been posted on SHARP-L. The Craft, Texture, and Aesthetics of Letterforms from Antiquity to the Present, Cambridge 2-4 Sept 2025: www.english.cam.ac.uk/events/lette...
- Looking forward to joining everyone at MLA in New Orleans later. I’m part of the first RSVP panel now the Society is an affiliated member
- Still looking forward to joining everyone at MLA. Almost 24 hours travelling and I’ve got as far as Miami. Thanks American Airlines
- Excited to have been accepted to the Midwest Victorian Studies Association (MVSA) conference in Fort Wayne, IN: midwestvictorian.org/conference/
- Fake Punch in the fake Irish bar in the all too real Schiphol
- Student work for my Parts, Periodicals, Newspapers module. Not bad for an hour’s workshop!
- Great to see a plaque to the Northern Star in Leeds at last
- Great to host Danny Snelson (UCLA) at a Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre CHoP) seminar the other day here in Leeds. Wonderfully rich and thoughtful account of the poetics of the 'little database'
- Thanks Françoise for the invitation. It was a wonderful event and I learned a great deal. Apologies again for the downbeat theme of my talk!
- @akhuseby.bsky.social Hi Amy, can you add me to your c19th British starter pack? Thanks!
- A fine afternoon in London. I still can’t believe we almost lost this
- Detroit Public Library is a magnificent place
- Brave to start a misinformed article like this with ‘Sometimes you just need to call something out for what it is’: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
