Helena Goodwyn
Assistant Professor | c.19 Studies | Editorial Team @esprit-jeps.bsky.social
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynA eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
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- Reposted by Helena GoodwynLeverhulme Early Career Fellow, Dr Katherine Davey, conducts new research @manmetuni.bsky.social offering the first national picture of how inequalities emerge for academically successful working-class women. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/kdavey
- Reposted by Helena Goodwyn‘Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign. The musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynIt's the last day to register for the free & online @divorcehistory.bsky.social one-day workshop 'Archives to Action' where we will be examining the relevance of #humanities and #sociolegal research to contemporary policy issues. All welcome! Sign up here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
- Our FREE ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20th January 2026 will now be a fully virtual event. Come and join us and our fantastic speakers, all welcome. #Archives #History #MaritalBreakdown #Divorce #DomesticAbuse #ChildWelfare #ChildCustody #PolicyReform #Policy #England #Wales
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynApplications are now invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians
- Reposted by Helena Goodwyn📣Opportunity for consultants and freelancers The National Archives & @araukie.bsky.social are seeking a supplier with leadership training experience to present at & chair an event for recordkeepers focused on leadership skills! Apply here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... (1/2)
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynThe Society offers following 3 funding calls with closing dates in January: bit.ly/4p6jcea > Workshop Grants, supporting project work by historians > PhD Fellowships, to support completion of a doctorate > Applied History Fellowships, for post-doc historians with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynIssue 10.2 of JEPS is now live! openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynDoes anyone have a cover letter for an academic job in creative writing that they wouldn't mind sharing? 🙂
- Starting now!
- JEPS is excited to announce that we'll be hosting a research conversation to launch our latest issue. If you would like to attend this 'JEPS In Conversation', it will be taking place online, on the 11 December 2025, 16:00 CET, Free and open to all upon registration: tinyurl.com/JEPSINCONVO
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynWhere can you hear about: Armenian literary periodicals & women’s writing, book-reviewing strategies of C.19 UK periodicals, Walter Scott & Italian Gazettes of the early C.19, & Turkish Periodicals of the 1920s? JEPS in conversation that’s where! Join us 11/12/2025 16:00 CET tinyurl.com/JEPSINCONVO1
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynJournal of European Periodical Studies is now on Bluesky! JEPS is a peer-reviewed online journal published by Ghent University on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present. Follow us for news & please share! Our website: openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynJEPS is excited to announce that we'll be hosting a research conversation to launch our latest issue. If you would like to attend this 'JEPS In Conversation', it will be taking place online, on the 11 December 2025, 16:00 CET, Free and open to all upon registration: tinyurl.com/JEPSINCONVO
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynAttendees will hear from contributing authors Chiara Cremona, Yasemin Gencer, Anne-Marie Millim, & Hayarpi Papikyan. Issue editors @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social and Zsuzsa Török will facilitate short papers from each of our contributors and there will be time for some lively discussion too!
- JEPS is excited to announce that we'll be hosting a research conversation to launch our latest issue. If you would like to attend this 'JEPS In Conversation', it will be taking place online, on the 11 December 2025, 16:00 CET, Free and open to all upon registration: tinyurl.com/JEPSINCONVO
- If you were teaching a module on NeoVictorian fiction what is the one Victorian novel you would want students to have read (if it had to be just one) as a useful/informing baseline of knowledge?
- I don’t know who it was but this guy will be suuuper mad about it.
- Reposted by Helena Goodwyn🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynIt's here! Sign up for History Day 4 Nov 2025. #HistDay25 Together with @senatehouselib.bsky.social we are celebrating all things history with collections from galleries, libraries, archives, museums & more. Find out what it's all about and book your free spot. www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynDepressing - we need the arts now more than ever www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynMajor yn Englisshe: • focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge • research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet • meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir • it ys awesome • books!
- Reposted by Helena Goodwyn***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025*** Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week. Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynThe Royal Literary Fund are offering grants to writers facing financial difficulties. If you're currently experiencing difficulties, such as an illness or unexpected bill, you might be eligible to receive support.
- Reposted by Helena Goodwyn#History #SkyStorians Writing a new course on social movements/political practices in 19th c. Britain & Ireland & struggling to find secondary sources on associations/civil society in general, as opposed to studies of specific societies, e.g. Catholic Assoc. Any suggestions?
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynThe Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are very happy to take any queries, please just email us at vpfjournal@gmail.com.
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynPlease help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.
- Reposted by Helena Goodwyn🚨 JOB ALERT-The Curran Index is hiring! Editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social + Lars Atkin seek a Research Assistant to conduct archival research on /Fun/ housed at the Huntington Library. Stipend available, with applications accepted through Aug. 20! More details on our website: rs4vp.org/curran-index...
- Reposted by Helena Goodwyn✨️Job Alert✨️ Research Associate, 21st Century Oxford Authors Edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Fixed-term, University of Sheffield, closing date 18 August. Please share with ECRs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynHere's an excellent opportunity for anyone working on Margaret Oliphant! Please help spread the word. This special issue is looking for more contributors.
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynFellow freelancers, a boring tax question: do you use any accounting software, and would you recommend it? I currently, & happily, use an Excel spreadsheet - but I see this whole ~making tax digital!~ thing looming, so am reluctantly in the market for recommendations of more complicated things 🙏
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynWeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynJob alert! We're advertising for a full-time, permanent Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in 20thC American History at Edge Hill. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX206/l...
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynJoin us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynI'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...
- @drmarylshannon.bsky.social Billy Waters in the wild at #GlobalAusten250
- Indiana Jones and the Last University (Too dark?)
- Our amazing Centre for Contemporary Art - Baltic - are looking for a ‘Director of Development and Enterprise’ www.artsprofessional.co.uk/job/baltic-c...
- Just over 2 weeks left to apply for the fully-funded PhD ‘the Northern Echo and the Politics of Place’ working with me @northumbriauni.bsky.social & @bethgaskell.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social please share with networks & anyone you think might be interested www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- PhD studentship in nineteenth century newspapers and the politics of place now up on ‘find a PhD’ as well - please share with anyone you think might be interested in the opportunity www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- 3.5-year fully funded PhD studentship hosted by @northumbriauni.bsky.social and co-supervised by the @britishlibrary.bsky.social: ‘The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place’ - please share widely if you can! www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/pos...
- 3.5-year fully funded PhD studentship hosted by @northumbriauni.bsky.social and co-supervised by the @britishlibrary.bsky.social: ‘The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place’ - please share widely if you can! www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/pos...
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- Can anyone help Sam? The work he’s doing is really vital!
- @chuarchives.bsky.social today. If I learn nothing else I’ve found some great alt. email openers to ‘hope all’s well with you’: ‘alas for Deptford!’, ‘the Devil is raging in Basingstoke’, & my personal favourite ‘what a man you are-to talk of making a round of the theatres as if they were brothels!’
- The Victorians knew how to start a letter.
- Not me, needing to cut 15,000 words from this manuscript, busily adding a new footnote on the invention of the telephone.
- I took a Sociology elective in which the tutor divided us into teams and told us we had to get from A to B on campus without using stairs to demonstrate how ableist our campus was. It made me think properly for the first time as a young adult about the built environment as discriminatory.
- Reposted by Helena GoodwynApplications are now open for a fully funded PhD position at Northumbria University as part of my research project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange’. The studentship will focus on global musical instruments as tools for education in the primary classroom /1
