☃️ Open up door number 5 on our #AcademicAdvent and join a world of 18th century refinery and poise. Let Dr @hillaryburlock.bsky.social take you on whirl around the etiquette of Georgian assembly rooms and indulge your Austenesque dreams theconversation.com/inside-the-r...

Delighted that my short piece on Jane Austen and dance has been published in The Conversation! theconversation.com/inside-the-r... #assemblyrooms #dancehistory #18thc

If you find yourself in Brighton on Friday evening, why don't you join me for an In Conversation at Brighton Pavilion about Jane Austen, balls and assemblies, and the Christmas season. #assemblyrooms #janeausten #christmas brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/jane-a...

💃 Explore the politics of dancing in the 18th century and the crucial role played by assembly rooms in Georgian Britain with our latest 'researcher in focus' podcast featuring @hillaryburlock.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... #AcademicSky #DanceSky

Don't let anything come between you and our latest podcast featuring @hillaryburlock.bsky.social exploring the politics of dance in Regency society, and how those Austenesque balls were scenes of more than just flirting creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Even though I was not able to be in Ascona in person for the Feminist Enlightenment and Politics conference, I was able to patch in via Zoom to talk about the role of women in #18thc elections, in processions and mock elections, and at election balls. #dancehistory #assemblyrooms #politicalhistory

I can get on board with Macaulay's course of treatment... Bring on the ice cream!

Office for the day at the British Academy! Ready for the Academic Book Publishing Conference...

Good to see these out in the wild at last. Many thanks to my co-editors, @hillaryburlock.bsky.social and Tatjana LeBoff for their sterling efforts, and to all of the contributors for bringing this together. #HistParl #skystorians

Office for the next two days in Oxford... Ready for the Oxford Dance Symposium to commence!

It's #PublicationDay for Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room! Get your copy on Routledge or Amazon... #assemblyrooms We finally made it @georgianlords.bsky.social and Tatjana LeBoff! 🎉🎉 www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey...

Is anyone familiar with an eighteenth-century dance treatise or conduct book that has several plates of women gesturing with fans? I remember seeing such a book, but can’t recall what the title was… Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! #18thc #dancehistory

Yesterday's office for the day was the Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel, where I gave a talk to a Jane Austen tour group on "Experiencing Austen’s Assembly Rooms". It was a great group, and they had so many wonderful questions! #assemblyrooms

Sir William Beechey, portrait of a young Kenneth Dixon playing shuttlecock (c1790), SMK, Copenhagen #c18th #c18 #18thc

Office for the day! Not a bad view before the funding bid-recycling workshop...

Good reading on the train to Liverpool this morning...

My first edited collection with @georgianlords.bsky.social and Tatjana LeBoff is now available for preorder! Eek! #assemblyrooms #18thc www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey...

Good to see this volume coming together - the result of a hugely enjoyable conference involving @profelainechalus.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.bsky.social and @hillaryburlock.bsky.social - and a lot of work since by Hillary Burlock and Tatjana LeBoff... #HistParl www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey...

A new #18thc resource! kingsbench.engagedhumanities.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

Philip Dawe - The Oyster Woman (1769) #oysters #art #woman #night #lamp #18thcentury

Poring over proofs this week! 💻📖 #18thc #assemblyrooms

For Black History Month in the US, one of the most haunting things I've ever encountered at a museum: the silhouette of Flora, a 19 year old enslaved woman, made from life around 1796. I don't think I've ever seen a shadow carry such weight or sorrow. On display at New York Historical Museum.

The next Centre for Midlands History & Cultures organised by the Friends will be online 🗓️Thurs 20 Feb 🕰️7:00-8:00pm Join researcher Jen Dixon to learn more about 'Variety & Choice: Birmingham Buttons and New Modes of making' All welcome! #18thCentury

February 3rd, fourth edition of our Workshop: Databases on the Eighteenth-Century Francophone World : Cooperation and Exchange Two papers will be in English et un en français. The discussion will be in English et en français. #BlueSkyStorians #skystorians #earlymodern #frenchhistory #18thc #ESR

We are four scholars whose work in some form deals with corporeality and being in the premodern period (early #medieval to #earlymodern). We are unhinged about our work. Check us out and feel free to email us details about your events and CFPs for our events page. #AcademicSky bodiesandbeing.com

That's a wrap! It was fantastic to organise #BSECS2025 this year's conference with @fancyhistorian.bsky.social and @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social, with fantastic help from @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social! Many thanks to Dione Dietrich and Richie Stubbs at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social for their support...

Professor Matthew McCormack delivers his first banquet address as President of @bsecs.bsky.social #BSECS2025 - big thank yous to Dione Dietrich & all the team @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social for making our move so seamless!

Luggage can be stored in the Rookery - the lodge will give you directions 🙂 #BSECS2025 @bsecs.bsky.social

What a fabulous few days at #BSECS2025, wonderful conversations, great venue and it is utterly staggering the amount of exciting research that people are doing! Already excited to be back next year!

A full house in Pembroke College's Chapel for the annual BSECS concert! This year, the programme features the Warleggan Village Band who will be performing #18thc dance music. Many thanks to Richard Heacock, Matthew Coatsworth, and @greenmatthewsuk.bsky.social! #BSECS2025

Today's #BSECS2025 plenary panel brings together historians, heritage professionals & political scientists Matthew Grenby, @profelainechalus.bsky.social, Kendra Packham, @robertsaunders.bsky.social, Susan Banducci, Joanne Tinworth & Sir John Curtice to discuss elections and democracy.

Next up in the hybrid stream is a panel on New Directions in the History of Knowledge, with Susan Whyman, @leoniehannan.bsky.social, and Sarah Easterby-Smith! #BSECS2025

Ready for another hybrid panel at #BSECS2025 - this time on Science and Anatomy!

Have you seen the wonderful 18thC exhibit organised by @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social librarians? They’ve done this especially for us @bsecs.bsky.social and the exhibit changes every day! Come browse at reception #BSECS2025

Editor Elizabeth McDonald @drpastonsrus.bsky.social imparting her publishing wisdom to #C18th studies PhD students yesterday at #BSECS2025. If you're an #ECR hoping to turn your research into a book, stop by tomorrow with your questions! @bsecs.bsky.social

Proof that I was virtually "present" at #BSECS2025, welcoming delegates to the conference and presenting at the AGM despite injury... Hurrah for hybridity!

A fantastic paper by Charlotte MacKenzie on the Society of Skilful Aunts in Cornwall in #BSECS2025 online panel!

#BSECS2025 is trialling hybridity this year at Pembroke. Our first hybrid panel is on "Complicating Maternal Bodies and Motherhood", enabling Chandini Jaswal to join in from Panjab University, alongside Aditi Upmanyu, Clementine Garcenot, and Rebecca Ford.

The first paper in the online stream of #BSECS2025 is by Jingyue Wu on "Dunton's Athenianism and Gildon's 'The Post Boy Rob'd His Mail' (1692)"!

And #BSECS2025 has begun! Gutted to miss it due to my ankle injury, but tech support at Pembroke College has been brilliant, allowing me to welcome delegates from snowy Canada! We are starting with David Turner's keynote lecture on "Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency, and Embodiment".

Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.

We love the sense of anticipation on the day before the conference, as brilliant #18thC scholars start heading to Oxford from across the country. Post us your travel pics and tag us @bsecs.bsky.social

I hope the conference goes well. Some #BSECS2025 attendees might be interested in the 1st European Circus History Conference, covering 1760s-1860s, in London 28/2-2/3. Details and a list of speakers and topics at circusconference.org

Fellow #academicsky profs working on syllabi & looking for assignments that AI can't complete--check out my book hunt assignment. Students have to search for & check out a book from the library. It was a hit with my survey course this fall! /1 cassandragoodhistorian.com/2024/11/12/t... 🗃️

Vienna! Porcelain centrepiece for Zwettl monastery (1768 & earlier), MAK #c18th #c18 #18thc

🎉🎉 Our Digital Enlightenment Studies: Issue 2 is now live! 🎉🎉 #18C #DH This issue includes reports on digital projects currently underway, showcasing a range of varied possibilities offered by digital scholarship in the Enlightenment. More information: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/di...

We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

A Meddlesome Mother? Queen Charlotte and the Regency Crisis - by Natalee Garrett @georgianlords.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️#c18th #histparl historyofparliament.com/2024/12/05/a...

I'm unbelievably excited to see this will be published soon, after years of collaboration with Robin Eagles and Tatjana LeBoff! Many thanks to our wonderful editors, Elaine Chalus and Debbi Simonton, as well as our authors! www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey...

🚨🚨Don't delay!! BSECS 2025 registration closes tonight!! If you haven't yet, don't fret; there's still time to get yourself sorted for the annual conference in January #18thc #skystorians