Delighted to be seeking a PhD student for this scholarship. If you're interested in working on the Blue Humanities, ecocriticism, poetry... please get in touch. Deadline May 17th. Please share widely!
Full details in link below.

“On April 11th, I made the first inspiration of pure nitrous oxide” — #onthisday in 1799, Humphry Davy became the first to experience #laughinggas (of which he perhaps became a little too fond). Read more in our essay by Mike Jay: buff.ly/3wULLBt #OTD

We are delighted to announce the Edgeworth Society podcast ' Edgeworth Echoes' available on Spotify, Amazon Music and YouTube. Only two episodes as yet but we will add more. Please share. #podcasts #edgeworth #mariaedgeworthcenter

Can't wait to read this new book on Shelley by my Davy Notebooks Project colleague Dr Andrew Lacey.

Annie West Edgeworth Society National Library of Ireland To celebrate Maria on International Womens Day, we have just acquired a new bookcase to house a selection of books from her personal library. #Literature

To celebrate M E on this International Women's Day, we have just acquired a new bookcase to house some of her books from her personal library

One week until Dr Madeleine Callaghan will be speaking on ‘’The Magic Circle There’’: Inner and Outer Worlds in Shelley’s Lyrics’. No need to book, but if you would like to join us for the meal afterwards, please email one of us to confirm 👇

We're excited to be kicking off our series of library workshops on 21 March 12-2pm at Lancaster Library. Come and get ‘hands-on’ with a Lancaster University project, which shines a light on the work of Sir Humphry Davy. Further details here:
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Our 2024 programme is here!

Our first speaker is Dr Madeleine Callaghan, 14th March, 6pm OL1, University of Derby (KR campus). She will be speaking on ‘’’The Magic Circle There’’: Inner and Outer Worlds in Shelley’s Lyrics’. All are welcome!

We have grown four of these plants successfully in Edgeworthstown Longford Libraries Irish Heritage Trust

We’re running our first library event, at Lancaster Library on Thursday 21 March, 12-2pm. Come and help us to annotate pages of Davy’s lab notebooks and learn from Prof Sharon Ruston about the poetry we’ve discovered in his notebooks. It’s free to book here: tinyurl.com/4rdmt4sz.

Paperback is off the press - on sale Feb 27 in the UK, April 30 in US

My wife's first trade book is out on 29 Feb!

It's the fabulous story of the forgotten heroines of feminism – the BLUESTOCKINGS.

She's not on social media, so, people of X, can you please help promote it? It really deserves to be successful.

Pre-order: amazon.co.uk/Visible-Women-…

John Beddoes This is worth getting. There’s a whole section on Ann Yearsley!

📣REMINDER: The Shelley Conference Call for Papers closes TODAY!📣

theshelleyconference.com/call-for-paper…

STC, writing #OTD 1809 after the death of Thomas Beddoes: ‘The intelligence of his departure from among us, came upon me abruptly and unexpectedly... his decease, struck me like a bodily blow, and was followed by a long and convulsive weeping'

Aside from being one of the prettiest footpaths in Bristol (and lending its name to a 2017 Helen Dunmore novel) Birdcage Walk in Clifton is actually the churchyard of St Andrews Church.
The church itself was gutted by a German incendiary bomb in 1940 and demolished in 1954.

We're excited to announce an International Women's Day event in collaboration with Jane Austen’s House Elizabeth Gaskell's House and Brontë Parsonage Museum focusing on the female friendships of some of Britain’s most loved writers. Join us online, Thurs 7 Mar, 8-9.30pm, £6: shorturl.at/ehH48

Prof Sharon Ruston will be talking about the Davy Notebooks Project at the Literature and Science seminar online via Zoom tomorrow at 3pm BST. Full details and link here: literaturesa.co.uk/events

All welcome to our 'Mapping the Davy Notebooks' online workshop on 13th December. Please sign up for a free ticket here: ticketsource.co.uk/joannaetaylor/…