Join John Goodridge and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social next week as they launch their pioneering new book and look at some of the important issues it raises. Event registration details 👇

💥Launch for British Working-Class & Radical Writing Since 1700, an #OpenAccess book edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social, on 21st March in Birmingham, inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition. Tickets available here: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

Naval surgeons, theatre cleaners, and Ozzy Osbourne - some of the talks we'll be giving at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sat 21st March for our next launch event. Book via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

Some enticing exhibitions to see in London: late-18thc art, science, and nature, closing in Spring. + www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat... (til 12 April) www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/... (.. 11 May)

A great project with super guidance from the editors, inc. image sourcing! Strongly recommend!

Interested in a FREE, 2-day symposium on post-extractive visualities? We've organised one @durham.ac.uk Centre for Visual Arts and Culture. Last year was superb - abstracts due 27 Feb. History IS included (the past was 'post' once!) Last year's programme: www.durham.ac.uk/media/durham...

Join us in lovely North East England for an MA in English Literary Studies at Durham. Applications now being accepted for 2026/27.

Over the moon to be included in this years #18th #18thc workshop in Bloomington, Indiana. The Theme is, very appropriately - and provocatively! - '1776 in the World'. voltaire.indiana.edu/workshop.html

Our next public engagement event will be at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 21 March, where we'll be talking about women theatre cleaners, naval abolitionism, and the poetry that inspired Black Sabbath! Tickets via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is now listed in Verso's trade catalogue for 2026. You can find it here: versobooks.com/en-gb/pages/...

if you don’t know what to read over Christmas… uolpress.co.uk/book/british... (free online or print, discount code BWCARW30)

Coming next to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in early 2026!

So grateful to the Birmingham Back to Backs Museum for hosting our Birmingham book launch! A perfect venue to remember our late contributor, Stephen Roberts. Andrew Reekes gave an excellent talk on his life’s work, and the @nationaltrust.org.uk team, volunteers, and audience were amazing. Thanks!

Just 5 tickets left for our book launch in Birmingham this Thursday, with talks on naval surgeons and abolition, chartist poetry, and the invisible work of theatre cleaners @sarahinthepark.bsky.social. Free wine, good cheer! book here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

Great launch last night in Nottingham’s amazing @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social bookshop. Such a good crowd. Next week, Birmingham!

Tonight in Nottingham! Editors John Goodridge and @adambridgen.bsky.social will be discussing their new book, British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700. You can get the discounted book & a ticket thrown in. Thank you @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social! fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/briti...

If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm. For further details & tickets: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin... @midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social

Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

If you haven't had a chance yet to look at our new book, here it is (for free!): uolpress.co.uk/book/british... The official launch will be in Nottingham next month, with further events to follow in Birmingham next month and London next year: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/briti...

Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism Email David Willis if you want a Teams link! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...

The latest #OA book supported by the Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award is now available! "British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700" (@uolpress.bsky.social) is a collection of essays examining the intersection of British working-class and radical writing: bit.ly/4pRkSK4

Read our latest book online now - topics include the obstacles facing writers, women writers, socialism, feminism, anti-imperialism, & diasporic identities. British Working-Class & Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social: read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/bri...

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!