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Sharing thoughts from the seventeenth century. Biographer, antiquarian, gossip.
In 2026 we celebrate Aubrey's quatercentenary.
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Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming Sept 2027…
The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the history of the Lords, Parliament and society across the 'long 18th century'.
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Associate Dean and Professor, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press, tbc) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
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Curator Emeritus at Oxford's History of Science Museum; STEM historian, particularly instruments and material culture - current research focused on astrolabes and astrology in medieval and renaissance Europe. (Disclaimer: focus known to wander.)
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Lecturer @ SPC Oxford. Asst. Ed. @ Imago Mundi. Ferimus ea quae sunt ferenda.
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
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Hand carved, often sweary, lettering on stone. Brace yourself.
Retired silversmith. Recovering geek. Rude mechanical. Nobody gets out of here alive.
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18th-centuryist, book historian, media scholar. I read old letters. Assoc. Prof., UCSB English
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Curator for Iron Age and Roman Coin Finds (@findsorguk.bsky.social / British Museum). Vice-President of the Royal Numismatic Society. Trying to use this more, but X sucked all the joy out of social media.
Medieval Churches, paintings, carvings, stained glass, gravestones,
Cathedral, Priory, Abbey,
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Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
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Wanting to post about movies, tv, sw dev, food, travel... instead, frantically re/posting about the political crisis.
Proud Dem. Harris should have won!
DEI/A are virtues.
Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University
Editor - New Nottingham Journal
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Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
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Editor, anthologist, reviewer, professor. Alexander Pope | John Betjeman | contemporary poetry.
Interested in Jacobites and the 17th and 18th centuries- art, architecture, material culture, symbolism, JMW Turner, John Soane and ceramics. Historic House Manager.
Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit. Shakespeare and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Co-ordinator, Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Libraries Department of Special Collections
Wiltshire Museum, Devizes. Discover the story of Wiltshire, including Britain's best early Bronze Age archaeology collection featuring Gold from the Time of Stonehenge. Family friendly.
Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
We conserve buildings and monuments, manage and share green open space, champion thoughtful planning and organise Oxford Open Doors.
BBC News Analysis Editor, The Media Show, 'The Art of Explanation', 'Communicating...' podcast, squash enthusiast, DJ. Agent:
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Collector. Antiquary. The Material Culture of the Jacobites (2014). Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing (2017, 2021). Trustee, George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
Bath, UK. Trees. Trees in Bath. History. History of trees. History of Bath. Books. History books. Books about trees. Other random stuff.
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Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
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Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope
Early Modern English literature, English Civil Wars, Restoration, literature and political, social, local history.
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Critic, scholar, translator and poet in Paris. Recent reviews in the TLS and The Friday Poem. Most recent books from CUP & Palgrave. Poems in various places. Weekly substack on poetry & translation https://vamoul.substack.com/ https://www.victoriamoul.com
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
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Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
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Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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DPhil in very late medieval English and French courtly lits / Exam fellow at All Souls, Oxford
The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
Award-winning charity looking after Alexander Pope's 18th-century Grotto in Twickenham UK.
Winner, 2024 Civic Trust AABC Conservation Award.
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PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology
Mostly posting about Samuel Pepys’s diary, and other strange 17th-century stuff
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
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lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london.
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed Inscription: The Journal of Material Text
president Oxford Bibliographical Society
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Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Retired university History teacher. Modern British politics. Short history of British Liberalism published by Agenda April 2025. Occasional LRB reviewer. Part-time resident and unofficial chronicler of Sark.
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The official account of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. We are a welcoming, inclusive and modern academic community.
Founded in 1347 by Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke.
World leader in Enlightenment studies, based at the University of Oxford.
Our publications: Voltaire's Complete Works (OCV), Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OSE) and much beyond.
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Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2026: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
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ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.
University of Cambridge’s workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century | Providing opportunities for postgraduate students to present papers at the University of Cambridge's History Faculty
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• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
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Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
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Things I like, make, or grow; assorted wokery; C16-17th religion, literature, and history. Prof of English, Oxford for just a bit longer. 🏳️🌈
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IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
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