TODAY! We’re very excited at CECS to hear from Dr Rachael King, our British Academy International Visiting Fellow this autumn.

North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...

But on the bright side, the 18thC is clearly winning. @rezekjoe.bsky.social & @profchander.bsky.social bearing witness:

It was a fantastic 3 days in Liverpool at the conference, ‘Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne’. Well done to the organizers and contributors! I gave a keynote on transatlantic material Marias, with unintended shopping consequences 👇🏻

The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation of more than 6500 historians in the UK & worldwide. Applications to Join Us, as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member are welcome at any time. bit.ly/49zM3mM Next closing dates: 15 Dec 2025 and 9 March 2026 #Skystorians

Part 2!

📢 Our next seminar is just a week away, with Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social, presenting a paper titled ‘Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives’ 🗓️ Tuesday 11 November, 5pm 📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November. Details below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️

📢📚🎉 We’re excited to share that recent English / CECS PhD @sharonchoe.bsky.social has placed her debut novel under contract with Atheneum. Many congratulations Sharon!! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Many congratulations to CECS MA student Elizabeth Riddick, who has won first prize in the JASNA essay contest, for her essay on ‘An Open and Shut Case(ment): The Form and Function of Windows in Jane Austen’s Novels’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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

AUTUMN 2025 TERM CARD: We have an exciting range of speakers for the remainder of this term - covering a range of topics relating to Britain in the #18th! As always, all our seminars take place in person and online. Make sure to register with the following link! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📢 Bookings are open for the 2025 Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture, delivered by our own Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social at CECS & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Looking forward to this!

📣 It’s research seminar day! Join us at 5pm to welcome Dr Rachael King (UC Santa Barbara) who will present a paper titled ‘Care Networks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Archives’. 🗓️ Tuesday 14 October, 5.00pm 📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

📣 Our next research seminar is today! @lenaliapi.bsky.social will be presenting a paper titled ‘Contrasting News and Controlling the Narrative: English and French News Reporting in the Wake of the 1696 Conspiracy’. 🗓️ 8 October, 5pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’. 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm 📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v #Skystorians

Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the academic year! @saragwynbeam.bsky.social will be kicking things off with an excellent paper titled ‘Paradoxes in the History of Torture and the Advent of Modernity in Europe, 1400-1700’. 🗓️ 1 October, 1pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 - Heslington Hall

A selection of wigs for your delectation and delight. Wig 1. Sir Henry Thompson Baronet (not the wig - the man underneath it). Wig description: Long, curly but clearly in need of some conditioner.

Again and again, the response @laurenworking.bsky.social and I received from #StudentSalon workshops was how much handling objects meant. As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.' blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )

VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

It’s here!! 🎉 The CfP for the FIFTH ANNE-VERSARY Anne Lister Soc’y Mtg, 3-4 Apr 2026 in Halifax! We seek proposals from scholars & researchers across the Listerverse, on any topic from Anne’s life & times to her afterlives. Due 1 Nov. For more details ➡️ english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…

THERE IS STILL TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER PROPOSAL FOR #BSECS2026! The deadline is MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER and there will be no more extensions! Come & share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026. It's a lovely way to start the new year! #skystorians #18thC #academicsky 🗃️

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Congratulations Dr Garcenot!

The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford. www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

And just in case it sounds like I'm only crediting my old MA supervisor John Barrell with teaching me "some things" - here's the more fulsomely worded and entirely accurate credit I give him (and the rest of @cecs-york.bsky.social) in my acknowledgements!

Delighted to share our first call for contributions! We are seeking proposals to lead meetings in any format which will promote conversation and debate among junior Lister scholars. Deadline 15th October. See below & please help spread the word!

Professor Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social is a former contributor to the research seminar at York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. During her visit to York, she also led a fantastic session on journal publication for all arts & humanities PhDs at York.

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

Amazing write-up of a new portrait of Austen’s Miss Lambe, inspired by the research of none other than @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social (and other brilliant colleagues @cecs-york.bsky.social) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congratulations to the CECS curatorial team who contributed to Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter at Harewood House until 19 Oct. Today Lela Harris’s portrait of #JaneAusten ‘s Miss Lambe was unveiled, which draws on @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social ‘s research: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Congratulations to CECS director Chloe Wigston Smith, on being a finalist for the Susanne M. Glasscock prize for interdisciplinary research that reaches academic and wider audiences.

What a generous and fascinating review of Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter. This exhibition, co-curated by staff at CECS, is on until the 19th of October at Harewood House.

It’s always so nice to hear from CECS alumni! If you would like to stay in touch with CECS, we have a mailing list sign up at this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Superb final keynote by Scott Krawczyk on Voicing Anti-War Dissent. Our landmark Barbauld conference also featured excellent keynotes by Emma Clery, Elizabeth Kraft & William McCarthy. Thank you to all of our brilliant presenters & to organisers @maryfairclough.bsky.social & Jo Wharton 💫 #Barbauld

What a grand first day of our conference ‘Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent’ at King’s Manor and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. And now we’re partway through a second day of rich and wide-ranging research. #eighteenthcentury #18thC

We are very excited for this wonderful conference, starting tomorrow! More info below 👇🏼 #eighteenthcentury

We are offering an online offer for the PGR/ECR @bsecs.bsky.social conference 30th-31st July to anyone who wants to join us! For just £10 you can join all paper panels + the keynote across the two days live via Zoom. To sign up register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"This incredible exhibition is sure to move everyone who really wishes to engage with the high art and experience the historical spirit of the Regency era." Just delighted to read this fabulous review of Austen and Turner at Harewood House, in The Conversation theconversation.com/austen-and-t...

Many congratulations to Dr Catriona Kennedy @trionakennedy.bsky.social on her new book, Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution, from Oxford University Press. A beautiful and insightful book! 📚💫🎉 Find out more @oxfordunipress.bsky.social: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Congratulations to CECS director, Prof Chloe Wigston Smith, on this good news about her book, Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 📚🎉

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

📣 Don’t miss tomorrow’s research seminar with the excellent @kharveyhistory.bsky.social 📣