According to this student-led petition there are projected to be 100-150 staff losses across all Schools at the University of Surrey. Solidarity with colleagues.

Please listen to this podcast where my colleagues discuss the devastating impact of proposed cuts and the history of English as a discipline at Surrey open.spotify.com/episode/6ZSnrl…

Only two weeks left to apply to our symposium - we seek interdisciplinary papers on fin de siècle sexuality, sexology, eroticism and its long afterlife. Sponsored by The University of Edinburgh and VPFA! And you can look forward to a keynote by Heike Bauer DEADLINE: 15 April!

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🚨I recently started as the post-1800 reviews editor for Gender & History. If you have written a book that addresses gender history after 1800 or want to review a specific book/s in this field, please get in touch!🚨

Check out the amazing Birkbeck Arts Week programme! 7-10 May in the heart of Bloomsbury bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-…

Great & timely new work by my Birkbeck, University of London colleague Fintan Walsh: Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres. Free to read if you're quick! School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication

Staff Union Warns University of Surrey of No Confidence Votes 👇 ''The new survey echoed results of a survey held in 2019'' guildford-dragon.com/staff-union-wa… @UCUSURREY @UCU Max Lu The Guildford Dragon NEWS SupportSurreySLL UNISON - Surrey Uni Jo Grady Times Higher Education Guardian Universities Emily Dalton

The composer, suffragette & avid golfer Ethel Smyth with Pan IV, one of 5 Old English Sheepdogs she owned with that name and her favourite. From Smyth's droll & astute ode to (her) dogs, Inordinate (?) Affection: A Story for Dog Lovers.

Join us in person or online! Featuring fabulous speakers and a keynote by yours truly on Animal Lovers. #histsex #queerhistory #gender #findesiecle #animalhistory

Pleased to share that Birkbeck is inviting expressions of interest for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship applications. You need a BBK mentor to support your bid; the BBK deadline is 19 June 2024. bbk.ac.uk/research/early…

Spent a wonderful research day with colleagues in the faculty of humanities and social sciences Birkbeck, University of London. It’s so uplifting to hear about the breadth of transformative work happening in & across the different schools. Thanks to everyone who joined the event!

Jason Arday at Birkbeck!

Hugely looking forward to this symposium! Check out the fantastic programme. You can join online if you want to hear my talk on some of the dogs and cats that have left their mark on modern queer history.

Congratulations Diane! 👋👋👋 Out in August, but you can preorder this excellent book for your holiday reading now!

hi, i wrote a novel, it’s about locating desire in a vacuum and peach silk slips and the dead things that won’t leave you alone. also complex closeted lesbian situationships? it has girls and ghosts and gore and i think those are good things to put in a book so i hope you like it

Happy birthday to the inimitable Debbie Harry who is 79 today! Here she is back in the day with her dog Chi Chi, a Japanese Chin.

Lovely endorsement from Dr Helena Kelly, author of Jane Austen, Secret Radical and the Life and Lies of Charles Dickens 🥰

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Margaret Paston's letters provide us with a unique insight into the life of a well-to-do wife, mother, and then widow in 15th-century England. Medieval historian and author, Prof Diane Watt, unlocks the secrets of the past. ⬇️ bigissue.com/culture/books/…