Dr Laura Eastlake
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
- Peanuts have arrived. Bon appetit wee man.
- “Greetings Food-Mammal. I cannot help but notice that you have allowed yourself to become distracted from feeding duties by your day job.”
- It’s Decadence day. 💛
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- 🚨 The goat has fallen!!! #Gävlebocken
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- Go check out Bob for Wired!
- I made a video for @wired.com answering questions from the internet about Victorian history! youtu.be/10iYlK7bsJw?...
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- In this week’s episode of “Place names that sound like Victorian novel characters!” Fankerton Bash would be a hearty but slightly abrasive American in an Arthur Conan Doyle or Bram Stoker story. #c19th
- Honk honk 🎄
- I’d forgotten what a banger of a kids movie is Small Soldiers (1998). But if it was freaky as a kid then it’s extra freaky in the age of AI.
- Apply!
- 📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows
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- Some really great literary theory classes today. Our regularly scheduled class on Marxist theory and Sianne Ngai’s ‘cute’ commodities derailed wildly (but not irrelevantly) into a discussion of what Karl Marx would make of the Labubu that someone left on his grave.
- Boiler’s borked. So I’m spending Halloween waiting on … “The Boiler Man!!” #BBCghosts
- I’m currently writing about Sherlock Holmes and my autocorrect keeps changing ‘Lestrade’ to ‘Lestat’. But now I’m thinking that would be one wild shared universe?!
- Reposted by Dr Laura EastlakeOur first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social! Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
- Our second seminar is: 27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #EHU19SeminarSeries
- Reposted by Dr Laura EastlakeGreat news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
- Reposted by Dr Laura EastlakeVery excited for BAVS to come to Liverpool next year, and very pleased to see our CfP out! No specific theme, we are open to any exploration of the multifaceted nature of 'the Victorian' - have a look at the call here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
- Reposted by Dr Laura EastlakeThe BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!
- Reposted by Dr Laura EastlakeThe full line up for our 2025/2026 #EHU19SeminarSeries is available to book now in the thread below! Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
- Weekend reading.
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- Wilkie Collins did ‘slutty little glasses’ first. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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- This year is the year! What a great lineup. Join @romgothsam.bsky.social and read along.
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- A few bonus covers. 🌷❤️⚽🏹
- Your La Vie Parisienne cover by birth month. Some silliness from the historical periodicals for your #Friday. #c19th
- Same vibes, somehow? (Piggy is chilly and is accepting warming hugs.) #cats
- If anyone needs Piggy, he’ll be sulking in the bathtub about his lion cut until further notice. #Caturday
- True facts.
- “What if the Brontës met a vampire?” I was asked this question last week and I think I have the answer! Some silliness for you your Friday. #c19th #vampires #brontës #WutheringHeights #Friday
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- Job: #Gothic, #Horror, #MedHums people! ‘A Mutual Fascination: British horror and the psy disciplines, c.1955-present’ working with PI Dr Gavin Miller (University of Glasgow) and co-I Dr Timothy Jones (University of Stirling). www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
- Sheridan le Fanu published his vampire novella 'Carmilla' in a magazine called 'The Dark Blue' between 1871 and 1872. I don't think I've ever seen a bound volume of The Dark Blue until today...and it's BEAUTIFUL! 💙 #c19th #vampires
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- When all the USB ports on your laptop glitch and even the power is by USBC. I wonder how much I’m going to accomplish today with my remaining 17%.
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- Reposted by Dr Laura EastlakeMy University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...
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- I'm writing on Florence Marryat's 'Blood of the #Vampire' (1897-same year as #Dracula). It starts in the dining room of the Hotel du Lion d'Or in the Belgian seaside resort of Heyst (modern Heist-aan-Zee). I've just found a hotel postcard from c.1910 & dining room of similar hotel down the street!
- This is your morning reminder that if Dracula had been written in the 1990s instead of the 1890s, then Dr Seward would have used one of these: #c19th
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