I’ve done an interview with the Jane Austen Summer Program. It’s on Austen, Regency fashion, the Empire, and much else: janeaustensummer.org/post/keynote-s… #JASP #JaneAusten #PrinceRegent #BeauBrummell #TheRegencyYears

Paul Douglass has updated his wonderful site on Lady Caroline Lamb, the remarkable Regency novelist and socialite who famously described her lover Lord Byron as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know": sites.google.com/sjsu.edu/caro #LadyCarolineLamb #LordByron #RegencyWomen #TheRegencyYears

As an English prof, I really like hearing about book clubs and people who love reading. Here’s one that especially caught my eye!: janegs.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-re…. #JASNA #Bookclubs #JaneAusten #TheRegencyYears

The modern vampire first walked among us 202 years ago today: theconversation.com/perverse-passi… #Vampires #Polidori #Byron #Frankenstein #MaryShelley

Thomas De Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: “It yet wants much of sun-rise; and it is Easter Sunday; and that is the day on which they celebrate the first fruits of resurrection. I will walk abroad; old griefs shall be forgotten to-day.” #DeQuincey #Confessions

Revealed: Lord Byron’s £,4000 cheque helped create modern Greece: theguardian.com/books/2021/apr… #LordByron #GreekWarofIndependence

"If the doors of perception were cleansed," declared the poet William Blake, "everything would appear to man as it is, infinite": bbc.com/news/entertain…. #RomanticPoetry #WilliamBlake #MarriageofHeavenandHell

Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and the Brontës are all represented in an amazing private library of rare manuscripts: museumsassociation.org/museums-journa… #JaneAusten #WalterScott #Brontës

Thomas De Quincey published the first part of his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater two hundred years ago this month: wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/th… #DeQuincey #ConfessionsofanEnglishOpiumEater #WordsworthTrust

There is a wonderful new review of The Regency Years on Society Nineteen: societynineteenjournal.com/2021/08/the-so…. #RegencyYears #JaneAusten #LordByron #Waterloo #DukeofWellington

‘Sex and the Regency: Love, Rakery, and Respectability’: londonparisromantic.com/?p=1582. Join us! #JaneAusten #PrinceRegent #LordByron #MaryShelley

One month until the CfP for De Quincey's Confessions at 200 closes (on November 15th). If you fancy coming to the Lakes in May to discuss De Quincey (and to hear Robert Morrison's plenary), please send an abstract to Tim Fulford, @brecht_groote and me: [email protected].

Looking very forward to speaking live tonight on Thomas De Quincey and the Dreams of Somerset: brlsi.org/whatson/the-en…. #DeQuincey #BRLSI #BritishRomanticism #Opium #Wordsworth #Coleridge

Just How Much is Jane Austen a Precursor to Bridgerton?: lithub.com/just-how-much-… #JaneAusten #bridgerton2 #LitHub #TheRegencyYears

David Bowie, Billy Joel, Beau Brummell, and more: a new interview on The Regency Years: societynineteenjournal.com/2022/03/so19-i…. #DavidBowie #BillyJoel #BeauBrummell #TheRegencyYears

A lively and insightful assessment of my book on The Regency Years: austenconnection.substack.com/p/sex-drugs-ce… #TheRegencyYears #TheAustenConnection #JaneAusten #LordByron #MaryShelley #RegencyRakes

M. J. Maloney’s The Ghostwriters is available at 25% off pre-order with Barnes and Noble. Use the code PREORDER25 at check out! barnesandnoble.com/w/the-ghostwri…

Fifty-four years ago today, The Beatles rocked the rooftop: theconversation.com/get-back-the-b…

In this short film, Professor Robert Morrison, British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University, explains why this manuscript is the most important letter Thomas De Quincey ever wrote. Filmed in the Jerwood Centre at Wordsworth Grasmere. youtu.be/jxfSVtJntX0

Thomas De Quincey (1821): “It was Easter Sunday….I was standing, as it seemed to me, at the door of my own cottage….I gazed upon the well-known scene, and I said aloud (as I thought) to myself… ‘I will walk abroad; old griefs shall be forgotten to-day’”.