A brilliant sunny day for our @hannahmore.bsky.social @beinghumanfest.bsky.social ‘Herstory History Walking tour of Georgian Bristol’ ☀️

Great evening at Nailsea Tithe Barn with ‘Grace Shall Lead Me Home’ for BHM. Thanks @hannahmore.bsky.social for introducing the performance with context about More, Newton and Wilberforce from their letters.

On 8&15 Nov we're running "A Herstorical Walking Tour of Georgian Bristol" as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @engagebristol.bsky.social. Led by an actor it tells the stories of Bristol's women writers. Find out more & sign up for free: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/a-her... Plz repost

Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833). Please follow and repost for updates!

Excited about helping with the Hannah More Herstory Walking tour from The Georgian House Museum and finishing at the M Shed’s new Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans Gallery. Such a great programme of different events planned in Nov @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

And excited to unbox this new textbook for the Cambridge 9489/9981 syllabus! With grateful thanks to @davidandress.bsky.social Colin Storer and Christopher Read for their help, and to Will for making it happen @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social

Finally enough exams marked to start planning my new ContEd course for Sept, starting with this rather brilliant stick of dynamite from @davidandress.bsky.social to set things off.

Huge thanks to the always excellent @catlodge.bsky.social for being our speaker to celebrate 50 years of Nailsea & District Local History Society. Brilliant to hear of all the projects included in Cat’s remit as Regional Archaeologist @nattrustarch.bsky.social. Thanks for always supporting us!

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Flâneusing around Dublin

A grand day out #eighteenthcenturyists

Sunny Bristol with a walk via Windsor Terrace, No.4 home to Hannah More and No. 5 abolitionist clergyman Rev Peter Guillebaud in the 1830s #HannahMoreLetters

A shoutout on #IWD for a couple of real champions of others. I’m indebted to @katiehall.bsky.social and @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social for their mentorship and encouragement, & opportunities for which I am extremely thankful. Brilliant people. I’m proud to know you both and hope to pay it forward!

Sunny cargo cranes and the replica of ‘The Matthew’. Always seems a bit small to me for a Newfoundland trip …

*NEW COURSE* Pendle & Salem: Witchcraft in 17th-Century England and Colonial America Starts: Thurs 17 April Duration: 4-week online course Fee: £40 (+ booking fee) Tutor: Rebecca Rideal Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pendle-sal...

On the anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine we have made out Historian 'Ukraine edition' open access - learn about culture and history as well as politics of conflict. www.history.org.uk/publications...

Waterstones are offering 25% off pre-orders of my upcoming book Pathfinding from NOW until midnight on Monday! Just use the code PREORDER25 here: bit.ly/3O4ZPlw #WPreorder

We really enjoyed having the team from STV with us, who did a fantastic job and were huge fun with it.

We had fun filming this section about Hannah More and the Hannah More letters project last summer with the Antiques Road Trip team. Now available on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

My entry on Hannah More in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing has been published online. (Drop me a line if you don't have institutional access) link.springer.com/referencewor... Many thanks to Natasha Duquette for inviting me to contribute.

'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/

Luxmuralis at Bristol Cathedral

Perfect Saturday brunch at Sacred Grounds meeting up with son 1. Love Exeter 💚

Senior Research Associate University of Bristol - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ823/s...

It’s the last day at early bird prices. Whether you’re just starting out as a writer and you want to learn about research, or if you’ve experience and want to refine your research skills, I can help you move your writing forward. Starting January: perhaps a Xmas present for the writer in your life?

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below

That DOES look interesting.

Senior Research Associate University of Bristol - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG527/s...

It’s up! Please consider applying for this post on my project to edit the letters of Hannah More if you have some Digital Humanities experience. You’ll be supervised by me along with Jenny Batt with lots of support from the Hannah More Trust and English at Bristol ❤️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG535/s...

Come to Bristol and work on our Hannah More correspondence project - with the brilliant @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social, Jenny Batt and the HMT team! t.co/RailYHv0iq

Really enjoyed giving a talk on More and the Mendip schools to the members of u3a at Winscombe yesterday. Inspirational to see their ethos of ongoing learning in action. www.u3a.org.uk/get-involved....

Enjoyed being at Stoke Bishop local history society tonight to give a talk on Hannah More. A beautiful venue, great audience & apocalyptic weather 🌊.

Salisbury research day 🤓

@marcellesvs.bsky.social hurray!! So pleased to see you here!

A lovely day for a research trip to Bath ☀️

TFW when you have just uncovered a long, unpublished letter by a renowned 18thC woman to her renowned brother 😍 ... And then on painstakingly transcribing and translating it, you realise she is just spending three pages ranting about the price of chicken 🤦‍♀️

As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!

They were extremely receptive to abolitionist John Wesley preaching vs slavery & vs the dehumanizing of people of African descent. Below: the New Room in Bristol. You can & visit it. www.newroombristol.org.uk

📢 NEW Will of the Month Blog Post! 📢 It's an unusual will this month - all about Margaret Nelham's attempts to 'settle her account' in 1665. We look not just at content, but some unusual spelling, handwriting, even the paper used... #history #earlymodern sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Classical music lovers & history fans, if you want to know more about Guadeloupe born French composer (and fencer) Joseph Bologne, 5 episodes with yours truly as a guest. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

How can we historicise ‘trust’? It’s the @davidandress.bsky.social fresh off the presses of @frenchhistory.bsky.social! On the problem of the jury in the first years of the Revolution (1789-91) as a problem of risk, credit, conspiracy… and trust. doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 🗃️

The arguments vs women being able to sit in parlt were numerous in the #C18th #C19th; they often rested on a belief that men wouldn't be able to resist women's sexual allure. An example from Egerton Smith, editor of the Liverpool Mercury (from c.1834), which may make Rachel Reeves smile.

Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board? Me: I am a Dr Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701

Hugely recommend the 1471 battlefield walk at Tewksbury. Really well written interpretation boards which give you a clear picture of events as you walk around. A must for Lancastrians and Yorkists!

Very pleased to be at St Andrew’s Church Centre (known by many as the church in Broadchurch) for a talk to Clevedon Civic Society on Hannah More, abolition, 18th century lives and her Mendip Schools. #HannahMoreLetters #localhistory