Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social. This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏 'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!' uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

Steaming this eve (GMT) I'll be speaking on abolitionism and naval medicine in the 1780s at the 'Science and Revolution' conference'. Full programme: www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-... Both days of the conference will be available via livestream here (times EST): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Published today by ​Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social is a new, co-edited, open-access essay collection: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700. Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

Looking forward to kicking off the 'Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions' conference next week @amphilsociety.bsky.social, on the 'Science on the Front Lines' panel. I'll be tackling naval medicine + abolition It's free and open to the public! www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...

Blessed sunshine at last to accompany the start of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Summer School today! + found out I'm in a video about last year's conference on 'Animal Thinkers': vimeo.com/1094757932?f...

Super news! Cambridge University Library have saved the papers of another working-class poet, James Withers (1812-92). How rare it is to have this kind of material preserved - bravo! www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Forg...

Very much looking forward to presenting at this upcoming conference - and so excited to finally meet Linda Colley! Free to register: blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/...

Join Leverhulme Early Career Fellows @adambridgen.bsky.social ‬and Rebecca Macklin who will be speaking at an event next week on the multi-faceted dimensions of extraction through visual media, storytelling, creative and interpretive practices @durham-university.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/nkvsd9xp

Ahoy Bluesky! Teaching is done for the year, blessed be. Thanks to @fierengraw.bsky.social and @maryfairclough.bsky.social for the invite, and apols for the delay... Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends in pastures pleasant and new!