Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView
🔬 Susan E. Whyman, 'Edmund Rack: master of knowledge, scientific societies and social networks in eighteenth-century Bath'
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Really pleased to see the recording of Phillippa Hellawell (TNA) & Liberty Paterson (TNA)'s seminar on The Ship Bedford and the slave trade @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
So pleased to announce that MUSIC INDUSTRY AND FAMILY NETWORKS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN: THE CORRI FAMILY IN EDINBURGH AND LONDON, 1771–1825 is now under contract with Boydell and Brewer! Many, many thanks to the series editors and those who have supported this work so far! @bsecs.bsky.social
Congratulations🎉 @breerob-kirk.bsky.social! We can't wait to read it! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
Register to join us next week, either in person or online on 25 February to hear Warwick final year PhD @brendantam.bsky.social present his paper titled:
‘A Christ Church Set’: Exploring the Discourse of Political Friendship in Late Hanoverian Britain, 1780s-1830s
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
I’ll be presenting a paper at the IHR British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar next Wednesday based on my (worryingly) soon to be completed PhD research!
A white book with a black and white image featuring a coterie of women seated around a table in conversation. The book title reads 'Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange'.
It's wonderful to see advance copies of 'Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange' out in the world. I had a wonderful time editing this book with @breerob-kirk.bsky.social. More news soon on our wonderful contributors! Publication date: 19 February. @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP
Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026.
Please see the poster for further information!
Need more #18thC in your life??
OF COURSE YOU DO!
Click below for an incredible programme of events from our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Thank you for coming Esther. It was lovely to meet you!
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I had such a fun time attending my first @wsguk.bsky.social seminar on Saturday! It was a lovely atmosphere and I enjoyed the brilliant talks by @evillegasdelatorre.bsky.social, Nora Rodríguez-Loro, and Sarah Clarke 📖 #earlymodern
Thank you so much for your excellent talk, Esther. We loved meeting you and chatting with you about learned early modern women.
#earlymodern #learnedwomen What a wonderful experience presenting today at the @wsguk.bsky.social seminars! Such a warm and interesting audience! Thoroughly recommended. #Iwillbeback
Join us on Wednesday for Philippa Hellawell (The National Archives), 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade', at the Institute of Historical Research, London and on Zoom, 11 February, 5:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Booking link below.
We have now recorded 9 days of +10mm of #rain since the start of the year. The previous high was 6 days in 2004, 2014 and 2025 and the average is 3 days.
#reigate #climate #rainydays
Bill Turkel and I have just published an article in DHQ. It is about the emergence of Manslaughter as a charge at the Old Bailey, and the working methods we used to analyse the data. dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... Thanks to Gabor Toth for shepherding it through peer review.
For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
PGR event! Having sampled the fantastic produce of @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, I recommend running, not walking, to book your ticket for this...
At the IHR @long18thsem.bsky.social for a special event, an appreciation of the work of Penny Corfield
A reminder to any @bsecs.bsky.social ECRs out there that we are looking for a new research fellow to join the Georgian Lords at @histparl.bsky.social.
Details of how to apply below:
www.histparl.ac.uk/news/history...
#BSECS @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Career Development Fellowship
£1050 to fund expenses associated with a defined research output or impact (including childcare & costs associated with publication) which supports the fellow's career development
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
#BSECS-GeorgianPapers Fellowship
£1,000 to support a project that draws on the resources of the Georgian Papers Programme on any topic in the study of the Georgian period (1714-1837)
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
Did you know that we award SEVEN #fellowships, five of which have #deadlines of the ***1 FEBRUARY 2026***
#skystorians #18thC🗃️
Details can be found on our website or in the thread 🔽
www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
An image of a red and gold throne. The text says Rule Britannia: Queens, Power, Thrones. Sat 7 March | Oxford. Professor Kate Williams, Dr Nicola Tallis, Rebecca Rideal.
Rule Britannia: Queens, Power, Thrones
Sat 7 March | Oxford
Join Prof. Kate Williams, Dr Nicola Tallis & Rebecca Rideal for a special study day spotlighting queens who have ruled in their own right – from the Tudor period to the twentieth century. Sign up lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/rule...
We're delighted to announce our event
@foundlingmuseum.bsky.social 8 March 2026, London, 2-4pm: "18th-Century Women, Struggle, Fame or Fortune". Talks will be in the Picture Gallery (free with Museum admission). Full list of speakers via link:
foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/women-...
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Our house is being packed up today. We are moving on after 20 years here and I feel like Georgian lodger and frequent mover Charles Lamb
Thank you to all of you who made #BSECS2026 such a success.
271 delegates
21 pre-formed panels
8 roundtables
5 alternative sessions
144 individual papers
= 1 incredible conference
We are already hard at work planning #BSECS2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
See you there?!
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
Ann was an enthusiastic and distinguished historian of London and for thirty-five years the Society’s Honorary Editor. In that capacity she helped many scholars to achieve publication of their work.
Full details can be found here: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
