a small Friday gift

✨intellectually rowdy✨@cecs-york.bsky.social ❤️ Congratulations Rhys!

Rest in Peace Jack Donovan: outstanding Shelley scholar, wonderful teacher, and delightful human www.york.ac.uk/english/abou...

long but not forgotten

BARS First Book Prize: Call for Expressions of Interest in Serving on the Judging Panel BARS invites expressions of interest from Romanticists who would like to serve on the judging panel for the next BARS First Book Prize. More information here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6086

Happy Bastille Day! Feline reminder that philosophical patron saint of the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, put a cat on the cover of "The Social Contract" because cats were his “test of character”; those who don’t enjoy cats “have the despotic instinct of men.” @dukepress.bsky.social

Now on the BARS Blog: Registration is Open for Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print, 1750-1870 A one-day conference at the University of Sussex, Tuesday 16 September, 2025 See the blog and full details/registration link here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6056 Please repost/share!

📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC

Our Barbauld conferences is next week! Still time to register, in-person or online 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Many congratulations to Dr Catriona Kennedy @trionakennedy.bsky.social on her new book, Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution, from Oxford University Press. A beautiful and insightful book! 📚💫🎉 Find out more @oxfordunipress.bsky.social: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🗣️🗣️🗣️

Join us in York and online 27-28 June for our conference Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent. Fantastic speakers! Great value registrations, including free registration for York students! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ tinyurl.com/barbauld25

Django the cat: roof surfer (he greeted me with a small squeak)

“in a lot of towns your university is your car plant, it is your steel mill”

wanderer above a sea of little birds, just out of reach [he has never caught and never will catch one; the starlings mock him]

Check out the Barbauld:Voicing Dissent conference poster 🗣️🗣️

Registration is OPEN for the Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent conference! Join us in York on 27-28 June to celebrate, Barbauld, Dissent, voices of all kinds, and publication of the OUP edition of Barbauld’s Works. More details and registration at the conference webpage: tinyurl.com/barbauld25

Save the date for the Great CECS book sale on 16 & 17 May! We’re raising funds to support the research of our brilliant postgraduate community at York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. Not in York in those dates? You can still lend your support; full details at spsr.me/6Gxx

beautiful spring shoots are springing 🌿

2 books, 6 articles, 1 book review 😑

I'm looking forward to this talk at UBO in Brest on 21 March! I'll be discussing Dissenting worship, devotion and contagious sociability. It's a double header with DCU's Ross Carroll, as part of the GIS Sociabilities project. You can access the event on Zoom: gis-sociabilites.org/gis-interdis...

Congratulations @carolineanjali.bsky.social ! ✨

helping with teaching prep

The deadline for proposals for English: Shared Futures 2025 is this Friday! We welcome papers on research and teaching across English Studies, and across HE, FE and Schools. We'll be using some fantastic, central York venues, and look forward to an amazing three days. www.englishsharedfutures.org

this lad stole his feline housemate’s gabapentin 👀

📚🎉📚 Huge congratulations to CECS member Dr Alison O’Byrne on the publication day of her book, The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social ‘Elegantly written, well-researched, and highly engaging’ and with a gorgeous cover. #18thC

So thrilled to see that Alice Rhodes's British Romanticism and the Matter of Voice is now out, published by Cambridge UP (print edition arriving on 23 January). I had the pleasure of supervising Alice's PhD at @cecs-york.bsky.social, and this book is very special 🗣️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

CFP: Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June 2025 Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield Organised by me and Adam Kelly Full CFP here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/... Please consider submitting, and share widely!

Another dreamy snow day round here ❄️

So great to be in the crowd tonight for RISE, opening event of #Bradford2025 City of Culture. Congratulations to the performers and organisers ✨

tiny snowy deer friend on today’s walk 🦌

subzero all day in south-west North Yorkshire ❄️

Happy new year! ☀️

💅🏻

family Christmas [ft. small nephews] officially underway ⚔️✨

Portal, North Yorkshire

betrayal [we left him home alone for 22 hours]

KLAXON: Call for Papers! Please spread the word. We are delighted to be co-hosting the next #englishsharedfutures @englishassociation.bsky.social Conference from 3-5 July 2025 and warmly welcome submissions. Further details here: englishsharedfutures.org/cfp #cfp 1/

Album cover? Or maybe take 2? #CatsOfBluesky

I read this on transit on my way in to teach and almost missed my stop! A really fascinating story. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

commuting in the time of floods

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

Fantastic Julian Lage gig last night at @nathbrudenell.bsky.social @bsky.social Leeds. Here we all are pixelated in the disco ball 🪩

Featuring York’s own Prof Michael White

😮

this week's column www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...

Céline Haidar, the 19-year-old Lebanon international, was hit by shrapnel following an Israeli airstrike. She’s in an induced coma. Many are asking @fifacom.bsky.social and @uefacom.bsky.social to act. They are yet to respond to my request for comment. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

snow appreciation from everyone in the household except one ❄️

the cupboard life chose him