EHU Nineteen Research Centre

Take part in a workshop thinking about the history of teaching colleges in a collaboration between Edge Hill and Lincoln Bishop Universities - CFP deadline 8 May for 2 June Workshop

Check out our own Andy McInnes on a recent-ish concert celebrating q***r readings of Austen

Why asking ‘Was Jane Austen gay?’ still causes controversy A review which posed the question – causing a storm in a teacup of Austenian proportions in 1995 – has now been set to music.

Join us TOMORROW for our last scheduled seminar of 25/26 on Clergy & Conflict with Ben Jackson

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uJqETrTeQwK1bR8kkIHkPQ #/registration

Check out this piece on Victorian Vinegar Valentines from our PhD researcher Grace Marks 🖤

Vinegar Valentines: how cruel Victorians sent insulting cards to their unwanted suitors The vile Victorians were funnier than they looked, using brutal Valentine’s Day cards to mock people they didn’t fancy much.

Check out our poster for Placing the Nineteenth Century and send us your abstracts

Exciting news! Our brilliant PhD researchers have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June - we’ve booked the garden room of the business school 😎

CFP deadline: Friday 1st May

For our next seminar, the wonderful Bob Nicholson is hosting our just as wondrous PhD researchers, Liam Pope, Laura Grande Mateu, Emily Hayes, & Emma Butler, for our . We’ll be exploring Brontë gardens, Egyptomania, representations of victimhood in 19th-century newspapers, and 20th-century continuations of Austen’s final, unfinished novel!

Join us for a pre-Christmas treat on Wednesday 10th December from 6 pm. Free, online, all welcome! https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uFDVrsv8Rw2LIGDS7nhF1A #/registration

Join us for a pre-Christmas treat to celebrate the work of our postgraduate researchers.

Free, online, all welcome - register here:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uFDVrsv8Rw2LIGDS7nhF1A #/registration

Join us next week for our next seminar with David Coates presenting on Amateur Theatricals: In Fact and In Fiction

Free, online, all welcome - Thursday 27th, 6-7 pm

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rSYqg0VDQhiGG1bu2830Zg

Call for papers on the Brontës as poets - an opportunity to analyse their lesser known work and think about their poetic influences and legacies - hoping for creative responses too!

Abstracts due April 26
Articles due December 26
Publication in 2028

To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry Seeking original, high-quality analysis of Brontë poems, especially those with little to no critical attention

Of interest to any of our students, staff or alumni with an interest in the fantastical 19th century! 👀

SUBMISSIONS - University of Glasgow’s first fantasy fiction publication Elsewhere, is calling for submissions! 

‘We are interested in all forms of fantasy, but especially those with voices and stories historically under-represented in the genre. Contributors will work with a passionate team of student editors and have their work published in the journal at the end of the year. Some details are below, but please check the submission link provided for all the specifics. Any questions? Please direct them to our IG () or our email ([email protected]). ‘

✨DEADLINE 1st March.✨

Visit for more info and the link to submit is here and in our IG stories: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpOdvFbGo8iyFNqiw6JIJ9eF0s9Pa4O8fOPabziYqcwhWOfg/viewform?usp=sf_link 

More info below👇

Who can submit? 

‘Anyone! Contributors need not be students, in Glasgow or anywhere else. Younger students, uni students, staff, alumni, and the general public are all welcome to send in their work. If you know someone outside UG who might be interested in submitting work, please let them know about us.’

What do they accept? 

‘All forms of fantasy media including short stories, physical and digital art, music, novel excerpts, and more. Whatever you have to show us, we want to see it!’

When is the deadline?

All submissions to Elsewhere are due on March 1, 2025.