We so much enjoyed talking to Leigh about this delightful novel, the state of satiric literacy, what BookTok is doing to the publishing industry & the ways we read & the best way to celebrate Halloween 👻 #halloween #books #authorinterview #satire

"When it comes to Jane, so many images have been danced before us.. The effect of all of them together is to make us read novels that aren't actually there." - Helena Kelly Glorious meeting of the York Georgian Book Club, following a brill lecture by Lizzie Rogers! #18C #18thCentury #JaneAusten

We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP

Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history! The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory

It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer. You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.

#18thc #skystorians! Help! Was faux nudity a thing during Restoration masques or plays or early 18thC theatrical productions? Looking for context for a masq habit of a 'naked' Adam (he was wearing sarsinet) & trying to determine how shocking this actually would have been...

@yalebooks.bsky.social are celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday by offering a 30% discount on their 'World of Jane Austen' books using discount code JA250 #skystorians #18thC yalebooks.co.uk/austen-250-t...

Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’

Planning the first month of term? Don’t miss @elementaladam.bsky.social at UCD, speaking as part of the Drinking Cultures project! All are welcome to this in-person seminar: “Hate, Shame, and Boozy Banter in the Eighteenth Century” 🍻 Full abstract here: texerenetwork.com/drinkingcult...

🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨 EP78. Cartoon Comebacks: Animated Satire from #kingofthehillreboot to #SouthPark Jo & Adam (@elementaladam.bsky.social) take a look at the ways American adult animated comedy is satirising Donald Trump's administration: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

Interesting student-led project (a model of its kind, I should think). Good to see many of the longer Lyrical Tales that I had to exclude from my Shearsman edition of MR, here available, in clear readable and annotated versions.

Download our new student-led @yorkstjohn.bsky.social critical edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales for free, here: blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical... Featuring a critical introduction, annotated poems, example readings, timelines, a delightful Foreword by Prof Andy McInnes & a Preface by me.

Delighted to be asked to write the foreword for the York St John University Critical Edition of Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales which you can now read here!

Now on the BARS Blog: CfP: 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' - Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 2026 Conference See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071 Please share widely!!

Ahead of the first meeting of the York Georgian Book Club tomorrow, where we'll be discussing Persuasion, here are my quick initial thoughts on the novel after re-reading it for the first time in 10+ years. TLDR version: I loved it. #JaneAusten #18C #18thC #18thCentury

Still looking for others wanting to present at @bsecs.bsky.social 2026 and form a panel. Message me if interested by end of August 2025 though it might be that others have got in touch and a panel is formed by then so don’t delay! #18c #comfort #discomfort #skystorians

Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne University of Liverpool, 5-7 Nov 2025 CFP open until 15 Sept 2025 More info: terraqueousglobe.wordpress.com #18thC #18C #18thCentury #Sterne #LaurenceSterne @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social

CFP: 39th Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society 9–11 April 2026, Philadelphia, USA Papers are invited on any aspect of #C18th Scottish history, thought, & culture, especially the notable 250th anniversaries in 2026 Deadline: 10 Sept. Full details in ALT-text

Here are four books I recommend if you enjoyed my piece in @theconversation.com & would like to know more... #18th #18C #18thcentury #JaneAusten

Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one? theconversation.com/jane-austen-...

Or of course, my edition! www.shearsman.com/store/Mary-R...

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 whether, technically, there is really any difference?

Can someone please point me in the direction of people working on philosophy and religion in the long eighteenth century..? #18thC #18C #C18th #18thCentury

A little intro to my PhD project for those interested 🫶🏻: I am exploring the relationship between alcohol and class in 18th and 19thC British art and literature, with an interest in satirical art, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Robert Burns, the Bröntes, Elizabeth Gaskell, and more 🍻

@megandanielle.bsky.social I just found this, by Mary Robinson: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... Do you know it?

"Students make one of the most subversive and experimental women writers of the Romantic era accessible for all" www.yorksj.ac.uk/news/2025/ly... via @yorkstjohn.bsky.social #18c #18thC

Who is the best male character in all the works of Jane Austen & if you don't agree it is James Benwick prepare to fight me #JaneAusten #JaneAusten250

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS*** Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Discover miniaturist Jeremiah Meyer’s attempt to help William Hayley earn some £ bit.ly/KnausMeyer in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th #romanticism #opera #theatrehistory #arthistory #friendship #miniatures (Vid shows @LIS4G33 opening the book at the chapter)

Here is the cover to our forthcoming digital edition of Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales! It is an original piece by artist Lara Aiken. The edition has been edited by @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students with a new preface by @drbeard79.bsky.social. It'll be free to download from 10th August. 18thC

🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨 EP76. Charlotte Brontë Is In YOU Could You be Satire? Jo & Adam investigate the strange Netflix show about putting women in cages & quoting literature at them, before exploring Brontë's own use of satire. Listen: spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/SHXYS8f8BUb #19C #Bronte

This was a wonderful paper, well done Charlotte! 👏👏👏

'Sancho and his World', a British Academy/Northeastern University Conference in March 2026. CFP deadline, 14th July 2025. #18thC #18thCentury #18C #CFP @bsecs.bsky.social

Really pleased to have my new article on Romanies & London in eighteenth century published by @thelondonjournal.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

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 Jo deliver a highly unique performance 'The Way I Am' by Eminem 🙌 #ComedyStudies

Tomorrow we're welcoming author and radio presenter @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social‬ for her talk 'Brothers & Lovers: Frances Burney and the Gothic'. Sophie will explore themes from her book, Reading with the Burneys, which delves into an annotated copy of Fanny Burney’s Evelina.

PSA: My article on satire & cannibalism after Swift is currently available open access in the European Journal for Humour Research: europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/issue/v... It's part of an amazing special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories & Nils Couturier #18c #18thC @talkaboutsatire.bsky.social

Adam was sharing the last news from the York Research Unit for the Study of Satire at the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Research Centre summit today. Read more here: www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/yor... Sign up as an affiliate here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #comedystudies #satire #talkaboutsatire

CFP: PGR/ECR Symposium Abstract deadline: 22 Oct 2025 Info: blog.yorksj.ac.uk/hauntology/c... #Hauntology #Folkhorror #Gothic #horror #cfp @bloomsburyspectres.bsky.social

"History is a process, not a locked box with a collection of facts inside." Black Family & Community in 18th-Century Britain & North America, edited by Karen Lipsedge, currently open access: www.tandfonline.com/toc/yfch20/c... #18C #18thC #18thCentury #BlackHistory @bsecs.bsky.social

🚨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. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Distance education, including pedagogy and communications: my article on #18c distance education outlines some trials, tribulations and triumphs, including how key relationships, communication and emotions are to making it work. Useful to reflect on in the present doi.org/10.1111/1468... #education

Coming to York in August 2025... I'm excited to announce that Jemima Hubberstey & I will be running a bi-monthly in-person book club on behalf of the York Georgian Society & all are welcome! More details below 👇 #18C #18thcentury #York #18thc

A little over 2 weeks left to apply for the 2025/26 BARS/BAVS C19 Matters Fellowship - offer of institutional affiliation @ Uni of Edinburgh for an ECR working in C19 studies. Deadline MONDAY 12 MAY! Further details below:

Be sure to join us on at @imc-leeds.bsky.social all day on 10 July for back-to-back sessions on "Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century"!

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.

My long essay on Folk Horror and the lingering influence of Victorian anthropological thought is just out in Horror Studies. intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...