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 📣

👀 Free writing workshops this June at Harewood House 🖋️

Join us next Wednesday 28 May, in person at the IHR and online (17:30-19:30) to hear Annabelle Gilmore’s (Birmingham) paper “‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park” @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...

Registration is now open for our landmark conference ‘Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent’. We have a wonderful programme of international speakers including the editors of Barbauld’s Collected Works (OUP 2025). 📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June. More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25

Our final research seminar of the semester is on 3 June at 4.30pm. Join us to welcome @kharveyhistory.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820’. 📍 KG/07 More info 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

📚 🥂 Congratulations to Dr Alison O’Byrne and Prof Jim Watt on the publication of their co-edited collection, Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours. Out now from CUP: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Don’t miss today’s research seminar by Paul Keen (Carleton University)! #eighteenthcentury

Our next research seminar is tomorrow (20 May)! Please join us to welcome Paul Keen who will present a paper titled ‘The Dust of Accidents: Rethinking the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay’. 📍4.30pm, KG/07 More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Thank you so much to everyone who supported our book sale in person and from afar! We more than met our target and raised £2,135. What a wonderful celebration of our brilliant postgraduate community at CECS!

What a fantastic review of the #AustenandTurner exhibition at Harewood House, co-curated by CECS, from @www.stored-honey.com. Such a thoughtful response to the exhibition and a wonderful affirmation of the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration: www.stored-honey.com/p/austen-and...

We’re open today from 11am to 4pm at King’s Manor for the Great CECS Book Sale. Come by to support our brilliant postgraduate community in person or online at our crowdfunding page: yustart.hubbub.net/p/CECSbooks/...

Run don't walk! I've just been and there's some wonderful books for a wonderful cause.

Supporting my PhD home @cecs-york.bsky.social this morning at the book sale 🫡💛

We are up and running at the Great CECS Book Sale. All welcome! Thank you so much for your support whether you’re in York or supporting from afar 📚🩷📚

Tomorrow @cecs-york.bsky.social is holding a Great Book Sale to raise funds to support our wonderful postgrad students. If you’re in York, come on down! If not, but you still have reason to feel warmly about CECS or want to support its students, you can donate online. Every little helps! TIA.

Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter at Harewood House... This looks like a fascinating exhibition at Harewood. Open May to October this year. @bsecs.bsky.social #skystorians

An external donor is matching up to £5,000 of donations for this 😱 Get yourself to King's Manor on Friday or Saturday and snag a book or two. Or 50. Consider bringing a robust box (and perhaps a friend to carry it).

Don’t miss the Great CECS Book Sale tomorrow and Saturday!! There will be scholarly books on periods ranging from the medieval to the 20th century as well as works by eighteenth century novelists, poets and non-fiction writers! All proceeds will go towards supporting our postgraduate students! 📖📚

It was a thrill last night to attend the @cecs-york.bsky.social Copley Lecture delivered by @titachico.bsky.social who talked with characteristic brilliance and urgency about 18th thermometers and representations of climate disruption.

I am very excited and honored to share new work today!

Today is the day! Join us at 4.30pm in the Huntingdon Room (King’s Manor) for this year’s Copley Lecture! Professor Chico’s lecture, ‘The Great Frost of 1708/09’, will be nothing short of Brrrrrilliant ❄️ #thegreatfrost #eighteenthcentury

📢 Extended Deadline: May 31 📢 Still time to submit your proposals on all things long 18th century. Join us in Regina this October. www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...

Fancy spending a few hours on Monday 12th May listening to me reveal some experiences of the 18th century Bath ballroom? Tickets still on sale for in person and online attendance for Trials and Tribulations www.brlsi.org/whatson/tria... @cecs-york.bsky.social #Austenites #JaneAusten250 #Bridgerton

Our CECS PGRs, Rachel Feldberg, Maddy Mikinski @mikinski.bsky.social & Kate Nankervis @womanofclouds.bsky.social, were a vital part of the research team for the #AustenTurner exhibition at Harewood House.

Oh y’know, just the manuscript for Jane Austen’s SANDITON and JMW Turner’s PAINTBOX. Just two of the extraordinary exhibits at Harewood House’s ‘Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter’, arts event of the year! Enormous congrats to @cecs-york.bsky.social colleagues who curated/contributed!