Just a few more days to apply to join the editorial team at Restoration! #earlymodern #academic #journals

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with @dukepress.bsky.social in October!

Officers of the Saint Hadrian company of the Haarlem civic guard, having a grand old time in 1627 and immortalized doing so by Frans Hals. Cheers!

📢 Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 is looking for an Associate Editor to join our editorial team. 📢 Deadline is Sept. 5 and more info is linked below. Academic friends please share widely. DM @drerinnerung.bsky.social with questions. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"[W]e hope to further illuminate the links between Behn, early ‘scientific’ collecting practices, and the colonizing process." Discover Oroonoko’s insects in John Kuhn & Carolyn Arena's “Strange American Flies": Oroonoko and the Royal Society’s Early Surinamese Collections doi.org/10.1353/rst....

Publication day!! Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more 🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) English Restoration era playwright, fiction writer, and poet who was the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing #womensart

@hernandez-sau.bsky.social (CHAM – Universidade Nova de Lisboa) reviews "Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders" (Palgrave, 2024) edited by @mboluferp.bsky.social, Laura Guinot-Ferri, & Carolina Blutrach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of the literature, history, and culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700/the adjacent periods? Or tracing Restoration texts, ideas, and culture anytime up to our current moment? Submit! blog.umd.edu/restorationstudiesjournal/submissions/

The faculty of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia campus, invites applications for two 9-month, full-time, tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 16, 2026. www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...

Tugging further on this fascinating historical thread... This painting shows Sir Harry Harper with a favourite horse, Furiband, and an unnamed groom, c. 1774: could this be a portrait of "Jockey Jack"? I certainly hope so! #18c

Although dating back to the 17th century, this map appears quite modern in style. John Ogilby’s Britannia marked the peak of a varied career from court dancer to Cosmographer to Charles II. Published in 1675, it was one of Britain’s first and most 1/3

The new Scottish Literary Review is out on Project Muse! A Special Issue, guest edited by Gioia Angeletti and Marina Dossena, it features articles on Early Modern ScotLit, Mary, Queen of Scots, Scottish Picturebooks, migration writings and drama. You can access it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55288

Postdoctoral Research Associate (16th-18th century focus) - Inclusive Histories - Royal Holloway #skystorians 🗃️#earlymodern #c18th jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

This silver shilling of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is one of the earliest coins minted in what would become the USA. It depicts a pine tree & was struck in Boston sometime between c.1667 & 1682. This specimen is from the collection of the Hunterian museum.

Twa Cats anes on a Cheese did light, To which baith had an equal Right, But Disputes, sic as aft arise, Fell out at sharing of the Prize… —Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), “The twa Cats & the Cheese” via @natlibscot.bsky.social #C18th #Scots #poem #InternationalCatDay 😾😾🧀🐵 digital.nls.uk/special-coll...

Shen Fuzong Michael Alphonsus of Nanjing, d. 1691. Shen toured Europe with plans for new #Jesuit missions in #China. In 1687 James II requested Godfrey Kneller to paint Shen's portrait which is still in The Royal Collection. Kneller was b. #otd 8 Aug 1646.

📢 Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 is looking for an Associate Editor to join our editorial team. 📢 Deadline is Sept. 5 and more info is linked below. Academic friends please share widely. Feel free to DM with questions. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Time for a key-word search! We searched for "sexuality" in all the previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the exciting and expansive results in the thread below:

We're looking for essays 5000-7500 words that contribute to our understanding of the literature, history, and culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods. Scholars at the beginning of their careers are welcome! Submit: blog.umd.edu/restorationstudiesjournal/submissions/

We’re excited to announce that Restoration 49.1 is available open access on Project MUSE! Check out the featured articles in the replies below and the whole issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55243

Today we're thinking about our double issue 46.2/47.1 “Genre Liaisons in Restoration Prose Fiction: Influences, Texts and Reception” edited by Sonia Villegas-López and Elaine Hobby! It explores experimental late 17C fiction, transnational influence, and fiction that led to the novel’s development.

"Congreve’s defensiveness almost surely had something to do with his depiction of the tragedy to follow as an allegory of Anne herself […]" Read John O’Brien's “William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, and the Modernity of Entertainment” in 48.2 open access on Project MUSE: doi.org/10.1353/rst....

16 July 1691: Robert Boyle FRS, #philosopher, #scientist, patron of the #Gaelic bible makes his will #otd Died 31 December 1691.

We’re looking for scholarly/critical essays that contribute to our understanding of Anglophone literature/history/culture,1660-1700. Essays that explore how the Restoration impacts other periods, including our current moment, are especially exciting! Submission info: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

Time for a key-word search! We searched for "colonialism" in all the previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below:

📢JOBS: 2 postdoc research associate positions📢 On AHRC project 'Informing contemporary land use policy through sustainability assessment of farming systems' in pre-modern periods🗃️ - FT from 01/10/25 - #Medieval history (3 years) - #EarlyModern history (28 months) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

"Aladdin is a story of its time, operating on the logic of early capitalism and seasoned to a colonial palate. It is a distinctly modern story and should be considered as such." Read Matthew Risling's “'Slaves of the Lamp': Economics of Magic in The Story of Aladdin" open access on Project MUSE!

We’re open for submissions! Can your essay contribute to our understanding of literature/ history/culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods? We’re open to any subject and any convincing method! Find more information on our website: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Eighteenth-century bathing machines' - wp.me/p3JTNy-3IT #18thc #18c #18thcentury

Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900 is now available as a relatively affordable paperback from CUP. Jon and I are really happy with the fourteen excellent intersecting essays our contributors prepared - do consider picking the book up if you work in the area: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i....

My new article 'The Politics of Colonial Lists' just published in Comparative Studies in Society and History @csshjournal.bsky.social And it is open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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My (long!) article on ‘Shakespeare and War’ for Oxford Bibliographies has just been published! It covers Shakespeare’s time through centuries of reception history & I hope is useful for research on this multifaceted, diverse & (alas) timely topic www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

somewhere along the way, teaching fiction and poetry became a kind of squishy thing to do, as opposed to drilling "real skills," but for centuries reading literature was at the heart of serious education and it's a mistake to dismiss it

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

It may have been hot, but there was plenty of cold, hard time to be done during our amazing weekend at Oxford Castle & Prison, bringing the English Civil War history of this historic university city to life earlofmanchesters.co.uk/cold-hard-pr... 📷 John Beardsworth & Michael Molcher

Duck for #MosaicMonday, San Vitale, Ravenna #Birds #Ducks

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...

Throughly enjoyed yesterday's talk about Prince Rupert at York Library & Archives. Great Q&A at the end, lovely feedback & saw some 1644 pamphlets about Marston Moor. 🎟️Next, I'll be at Acomb Library on Friday 27th with the same documents on display - tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/explo...?

📢 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...

Restoration Fun Fact: The journal was founded 48 years ago as a newsletter. Check out the first issue! All of our past volumes are available on @jstor.bsky.social

We’re excited to announce that Restoration 48.2 is available open access on Project MUSE! Check out the featured articles in the replies below: @drerinnerung.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social

Are you familiar with our SCP (Some Current Publications) section? Along with the scholarly essays and book/theater reviews, each issue contains the SCP––a unique, comprehensive annotated bibliography of recent scholarship in the field. We love including your suggestions,so send them our way!

Are you familiar with our SCP (Some Current Publications) section? Along with the scholarly essays and book/theater reviews, each issue contains the SCP––a unique, comprehensive annotated bibliography of recent scholarship in the field. We love including your suggestions,so send them our way!

Did you know Restoration publishes scholarly essays on ANY subject in the field? We consider the Restoration period wide (anywhere touched by travel/empire), long (Restoration play performances), & deep (crucial cultural formations that still shape our world). What insights can YOU share with us?

Join us for our seminar at the Foundling Museum, London, this Saturday 15 March, with 3 speakers talking about women, art and culture. All welcome! Themes include Stuart cabinets, miniatures & books; eighteenth-century women artists; women of the Stuart court. womensstudiesgroup.org/2025/03/10/w...

Three days left to respond to our Call for Papers! Send your abstracts and bios to [email protected] and [email protected] by Friday 14 March

ELR is putting our best face forward for the big @saaupdates.bsky.social + RSA extravaganza next week. Here is a new poster with the titles of our special issues in 2024, 2025 (coming this fall), and 2026.