Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

***The #CFP for the #BSECS2026 conference closes on the 15 September 2025*** Submissions are welcome on any aspect of #18thC history, culture, and literature, but particularly on our conference theme 'Big and Small'. @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

so anyway I've been thinking about how Chicago style is the historian's secret weapon in a war of AI slop and the blithe, social media spread of unattributed misinformation. CMS requires attribution of quotes, paraphrases and any fact not commonly known. 1/?

This is me! 🃏&🎭: valuepast.hypotheses.org/4666 Vielen Dank an @valuepast.bsky.social and @newcastleuni.bsky.social! #18thC

What is performance? And what was performance? For our latest blogpost @jharrimansmith.bsky.social (ourformer fellow at @zfl-berlin.bsky.social) thought about these questions and continue that thinking here with the help of a peculiar pack of cards and a trip to the @blnensemble.bsky.social

***Engagement Officer Vacancy*** We're looking for an engagement officer to act as primary point of contact for #18thC centres across the UK, and to oversee our outreach and engagement. It's a voluntary role, but associated travel & accommodation expenses are paid... www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

Belatedly posting a photo from the Theatre Book Prize ceremony! 📸 Thanks again to the STR (@theatreresearch.bsky.social) and Bloomsbury (@methuendrama.bsky.social). And well done to all the other shortlisted authors too! 🥳

With big thanks to the staff there, I'm pleased to announce that you can now buy copies of my What Would Garrick Do? at David Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare in Richmond (www.garrickstemple.org.uk) - another reason to check out this amazing little place!

MY BOOK HAS BEEN SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEATRE BOOK PRIZE!!!! www.str.org.uk/grants-prize... I am very excited about this!! #18thc #theatre #acting

IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS! Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June! Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ Click on the link for the full CFP www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Applications are now open for the BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship - up to £4000 to research the culture, history, and identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Find out more at www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

This June, we have an exciting conference! It will showcase early career scholars working on the intersections between text, materiality and performance, both in and beyond the commercial theatres in Great Britain and Ireland in the long early modern period (1500-1800). www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/

#FeelGoodFriday Congratulations to Jake Bransgrove who is our 2025 GPP/BSECS Fellow. His project explores the social functions of paper silhouettes within cultures of elite sociability in the Georgian court. #18thC #skystorians 🗃️

#FeelGoodFriday The winner of the #BSECS2025 Digital Prize is the Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830 database! The database contains borrowing records from 18 Scottish Libraries, 43,000 register pages, 162,000 borrowing acts #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ @books-borrowing.bsky.social borrowing.stir.ac.uk

CONGRATULATIONS to the winner of the #BSECS2025 President's Prize, Zoe Copeman! Zoe's paper 'Women's access to anatomical knowledge in #18thC Britain and France' used Anne Lister's diaries to show how women had access to surgical imagery, but often didn't interpret it correctly or fully 🗃️ 1/2

We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to [email protected] by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

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Hello lovely #BSECS2025 delegates. The registration desk is now closed. We will reopen at 8.30am for payments, programmes & I can’t think of another thing beginning with ‘p’. But you get the idea! @bsecs.bsky.social

🚨Important update🚨 online panels will now take place in the art gallery and not Steinway Room. If in doubt ask me at reception, which is close to both @bsecs.bsky.social #BSECS2025

Important update from #BSECS2025 🧳 @bsecs.bsky.social

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 #BSECS2025

On 21 Jan I’m giving a hybrid lecture about amazing Geordie printer Sarah Hodgson who produced a Bible in Arabic in Newcastle in 1811, fighting off the Oxford dons to keep it in the north 🙌 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/sarah...

Happy New Year! Wishing you a peaceful and prosperous 2025. As always, #BSECS25 is here to kickstart your year & we're hugely excited to welcome you to Pembroke College next week. If you are unable to attend in person, check out our virtual papers & keep an eye on our BlueSky account #18thC 🗃️

Link seemed a little troublesome. Hopefully this works: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tiq6d...

Only a week left until #BSECS2025 I’ve set up this Dropbox folder for anyone who wishes to share an accessible copy of their paper ahead of time: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tiq6d... Ahead of time can be interpreted as you wish! Please do consider access in how you present your work @bsecs.bsky.social

REGISTRATION FOR #BSECS2025 CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER!!!! We can't wait to see you all in January. #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Give thanks—The Rambling is out! From Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading our latest issue, now live at the-rambling.com.

We are delighted to be able to offer the BSECS/Georgian Papers fellowship again this year. £1,000 to support a project drawing on the papers of the Georgian Papers Programme. **DEADLINE 1 FEBRUARY 2025** #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ #history www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

You have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to apply for one of our bursaries. Details below. HURRY HURRY HURRY! #18thC 🗃️ #skystorians #history

Hello Bluesky! Did you know that we have 17 bursaries available for the BSECS Annual Conference? To find out more and apply, please use this form: (forms.office.com/e/ZJAmgxRHLd Applications close at midnight UK time on 20th November @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thC

Speaking at Cambridge's Early Modern French seminar today on cards, performance, and romance. They made me a lovely poster! #18thC

My second book was published this week! It's called What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: bloomsbury.com/uk/what-woul... I'd like to tell you a little bit about it... 1/7 #18thc #theatre #acting '#wwgd' #c18

Happy New Year #skystorians! We're excited to see you all in Oxford this week for our 53rd annual conference! And if you can't come to Oxford, follow along with our live-skeets here #18thC

The submission portal for the 53rd Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, to be held in Oxford on 3-5 Jan 2024, is open with an extended deadline. Please submit your proposal by Monday 30 October 2023! 😃 www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

#18thc peeps! #BSECS2024 registration is open! Spread the word & don’t forget to submit your paper abstracts! You can find all the details here >>> www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Some new #18thc and #19thc people to follow, recently arrived from t’other place: @drannaburton.bsky.social, @jharrimansmith.bsky.social, @elizaspakman.bsky.social, @iha.bsky.social, @voloshkova.bsky.social, @gladlib.bsky.social, @bradders953.bsky.social

In my efforts to give away as much of BSECS's money as possible, I have updated the Society's awards pages. All members are eligible for this funding, so do take a look: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...