The Global 19th Century Studies Reading Group is organising an outing to the "Liberty in Fashion" exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. For more details, visit the reading group webpage.

Congratulations to Kirsty Hooper (SMLC-Hispanic Studies), who has been awarded £433,185 by the AHRC for a three-year project exploring the inter-imperial, transoceanic networks operated by two nineteenth-century Basque commercial families - the Larrinagas and the Zuluetas - between the port cities of Liverpool, London, Bilbao, Havana and Manila. The project has an important community dimension, tracing the resonances of these networks, the people who inhabited them, and the places they lived, worked and are remembered, across all five port cities today.

Abstracts are invited for a two-day workshop on interactions between the novel and the periodical press during the long nineteenth century. Deadline 30 November. Follow the link for more details!

Thanks to a successful funding bid to Warwick’s Connecting Cultures GRP, we now invite applications for the post of part-time Research Assistant (RA) in Global 19^th-Century Studies at Warwick. The post is for 2 hours per week during the academic year 2015-2016 and is remunerated at £20 p.h. It is open to both postgraduate and postdoctoral candidates, and while related research interests may be an advantage they are not essential.

Click here for full details | Closes 14 September 2015

Congratulations to Dr Ross Forman (Warwick, English) and Professor Sandra Guardini Teixeira Vasconcelos (Letras Modernas, São Paulo), who have been awarded funding from the British Academy/Newton Trust for a one-year project, Displacements: the Novel without Frontiers.