Featuring, amongst many other things, our attempt to answer a very tricky question posed recently at a Thackeray Society event at the Reform Club:. How can you when satire is actually nihilistic trolling, when nihilistic trolling is satire, and is there really any difference?.

If you'd like to know more about women's satire in the 18th century.

RT @Brycchan: I'm really delighted to announce that my book The Unnatural Trade has been shortlisted for the @asleuki Book Prize! You can s….

Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one? via @ConversationUK.

Here is the cover to the @YSJCritEditions eBook of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales (free to download from 10th August). It is an original piece by artist Lara Aiken. The edition has been edited by @YorkStJohn students with a new preface by @drbeard79.

RT @SatireNoMore: 🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨. EP76. Charlotte Brontë Is In YOU. Could You be Satire? . Jo (@waugh_JS) & Adam (@elementaladam) investiga….

Come for the lively & wide-ranging discussion featuring Juvenal, The Inbetweeners, The American Office, Half-Man Half Biscuit, The Divine Comedy, The Beautiful South, The Lancashire Hotpots. but stay to hear @waugh_JS perform 'The Way I Am' by Eminem 🙌 #ComedyStudies.

🚨Job Alert🚨. YSJU is seeking a permanent part time Lecturer in Liberal Arts, with expertise in modern history, politics and international relations, and a strong commitment to widening participation in higher education.

RT @EmmaLMSullivan: so delighted to be part of this 'Tasting Funny' EJHR special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories and Nils Couturier. My ar….

RT @humor_studies: Just two days left to register for the ISHS conference 2025! Don't miss your chance to listen to great presentations and….

RT @Brycchan: My book The Unnatural Trade came out late last year. It shows how evidence provided by naturalists was crucial to the way Bri….

RT @ChawtonHouse: "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.".#OTD in 1759, pioneering femin….

YORK GEORGIAN BOOK CLUB. Launching in York on 8 August 2025 (to coincide with the York Georgian Festival). All welcome. First text: Jane Austen, Persuasion . This bi-monthly in-person reading group will be led by Jemima Hubberstey in association with the @YorkGeorgianSoc

Also featuring discussion of a very Eastery Eggstract from Jonathan Swift's little-known novel, Gulliver's Travels (have I ever mentioned this novel before??) & a surprisingly robust debate about the best way to eat an Easter egg.

RT @annamercer_: Published this month — so thrilled to be a part of this exciting new collection ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley in Context’, brillia….

RT @Beanmimo: @elementaladam @CECSYork You may enjoy this piece I put together about Edmund Curll!

RT @ClementineGcnt: Serious post-conference blues after attending the wonderful LAPASEC conf in Essen this weekend. An incredible three day….

"There is, undoubtedly, no Sexes in Souls, and [Women] are as able to receive and practise the Impressions, not only of Virtue and Religion, but also of those Sciences which Men engross to themselves. ". Eliza Haywood, Female Spectator (4 Nov 1745).

"What a strange unpleasant thing that is.". Listen now to find out what Jo is describing 🤣. (Also featuring a poem printed in an Eighteenth-Century newspaper in Sheffield about a heroic dog named Dash.). #comedystudies #talkaboutsatire.

RT @Brycchan: I'm one of the organisers of the Gilbert White and his Contexts conference this June, celebrating the author of the Natural H….