Today is a momentous day in America, especially for those who care about women's history... It is, of course, the day my book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective is *officially released* in the US. I fully expect the newspapers to feature nothing else. 🙄

For those in our orbit who may not yet know the news, our own President Priti Joshi has received this year's @NAVSA President's Award for all of her fine work! 🎉We have written up a little summary here: rs4vp.org/congratulation…

Final reminder to get your Peterson Award applications in by THIS Friday, Nov. 15 at 11:59 PST! More info about the award can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peterso… Completed applications can be submitted using our secure applications portal: rs4vp.smapply.io/prog/Peterson/

Final call for #RSVP2025 proposals! We know you're just putting the final touches on your proposal now.😉 Submissions are due by 11:59pm Pacific Time via our online portal: rs4vp.smapply.io/prog/rsvp_conf…

Don't forget to join us TOMORROW for a special #RSVPDigEv honoring Brian Maidment. We'll convene at the usual time (8am PST/11am EST/4pm UK) and no prior registration is required. You can access the event via our website here: rs4vp.org/special-event-…

The BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX is no more. “This resource is no longer available … website was withdrawn: 29 November 2024”. A total failure of stewardship by Bodleian Libraries @bodleiancsb. Please note LRBS Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Rare Book School SHARP (@[email protected]) The Bibliographical Society CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group

For S5E3 of the WPHP Monthly Mercury, join us as we interview @MeganPeiser and Emily Spunaugle about their work on the Hicks Collection. This episode has it all—a badass woman book collector, a Boston marriage, and even a heist (!!!): womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/143

'I think the happy people must be those who do not long to work.’ Mary Cholmondely to her publisher George Bentley (14 December 1894).

Congratulations to the new Dr Deborah Siddoway who has now completed her viva and submitted her final thesis🎉 Read more about Dr Siddoway’s work at: 👉 etheses.dur.ac.uk/15800/. Deborah’s PhD was supervised by Dr Simon Grimble and Dr Andy Hayward.

Recent alumni are eligible for discounted tuition for PFW graduate programs: pfw.edu/news-center/pu…

My 2x great grandfather William H. Bassett served in Company E of the 1st Minnesota that day--lightly wounded in arm and leg. A miracle he survived!

Delighted to confirm that the largest UK Temperance archive in the world, housed in a splendid new home, is open for business and featuring in Heritage Week later this year. heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-eve…

Exciting new Digital tool for Victorian scholars with Exact Editions, providing a new, fully searchable window into The Illustrated London News, The Illustrated War News, The Graphic & The Sphere. For more information: For more information: publisher.exacteditions.com

THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES is our #Halloween vintage read for #folkloresunday. A Victorian gothic novel based on the true story of the Pendle witches, executed in 1612. The novel was serialised in 1848. A book appeared the following year published by Henry Colburn

Bluemoose Books Wonderful news! And thank you for all you do for writers & readers. I was at Glasgow necropolis yesterday & v touched by a monument to a bookseller/publisher whose shop was the heart of the writerly city. People felt his loss as an earthquake. Publishers matter so much.

Said to be the first alien invasion story (not by me), 1892, by Canon Robert Potter of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia. The cover has little relation to the content, which is C.S.Lewis meets germ warfare. Potter was also a red-hot eugenist.

Locked within the shadows of Eaglehurst Towers lies more than a house—it holds secrets that beckon the curious. mflibra.com/products/1890-… This rare first edition of Eaglehurst Towers by Emma Marshall charts hidden alliances, sudden dangers, and the quiet power of truth rendered in

Michael Slater obituary theguardian.com/books/2025/dec…

New end of year update to At the Circulating Library: just passed 26,000 titles, plus hundreds of new biographies.