When Elizabeth Carter wittily attacks 'La metaphysique', is she commenting on a specific work or on a whole strand of French scholarship in general? Does anyone happen to know? (Editor out of his comfort zone here.) See www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/EX-HOUG... #18thC

'This ... makes 'Innovations in Teaching History' a timely publication that should be at the top of any list of reading materials, not just for scholars teaching the 18th century but those teaching history in any capacity.' uolpress.co.uk/book/innovat... #OpenAccess Thanks @bsecs.bsky.social!

@ecsssstir2025.bsky.social are accepting nominations for the Richard B. Sher First Book Prize (awarded early 2027). The prize recognizes authors whose first scholarly book contributes significantly to the field of eighteenth-century Scottish studies. #skystorians #18thC #ScottishHist

This looks like a tremendous event, on labouring-class poetry, in Manchester, this Saturday. @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @workingclasshistory.com @uolpress.bsky.social

At the IHR for a @royalhistsoc.org meeting of scholarly societies. I'm representing @bsecs.bsky.social and talking about our wonderful journal and book series

It's a good day when you get to bust out a sentence like this. #18C

New #18thC scholarship ahoy and entirely open access! (and for those of you who know the face behind the #BSECS socials, a little bit of shameless self-promotion!) #skystorians

The @ecisociety.bsky.social is on Bluesky. A must follow for all things and disciplines eighteenth-century Ireland. Please help spread the word. @isecs-sieds.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social @csecsscedhs.bsky.social

#skystorians #cfp #18thC 🗃️

Not only is the #CFP for #BSECS2027 out, the @isecs-sieds.bsky.social #CFP has also been released. 'Enlightenment and (in)equality' will take place in Zaragoza, Spain on the 12-16 July 2026.

🚨RADICAL PRINT CULTURE SYMPOSIUM 🚨 The Programme is now live (see 🧵), and the symposium will also feature two amazing keynote speakers, a print exhibition and a handling workshop. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social

Applications are open for the 2026/27 BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship, offering expenses up to the value of £4000 to support a visiting scholar undertaking research into the long eighteenth century. More information and apply at bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... @bsecs.bsky.social

IT'S TIME! The #CFP for #BSECS2027 has been released! This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity'. The deadline for submissions is the 15 September 2026. The conference will by the 6-8 January 2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

My review of @rosscarroll.bsky.social excellent book on Edmund Burke in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. @bsecs.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1754...

🎉CONGRATULATIONS🎉 to @historywithem.bsky.social who has been awarded our BECC-BSECS fellowship for her project 'Courtly afterlives: the influence of court life on Caroline of Ansbach's household ladies'. Read more about the project in the thread ⬇️ #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ 1/4

The next @isecs-sieds.bsky.social #ECR Seminar is taking place at Trier on 17-19 June. Details below:

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

Don't forget to apply for our #BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship. Travel, accommodation, and related expenses of up to £4,000 to support a visiting scholar of the #18thC at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, deadline 26 June 2026 #skystorians 🗃️ Details below! www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

TONIGHT! @naomipullin.bsky.social on the 'Pleasures and Perils of Aloneness'

There is only one more session of The North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Seminar for the academic year on the 8 May! Details below: northeastforum.wordpress.com/current-sche...

CONGRATULATIONS to @amrasharma15.bsky.social who is our #BSECS-Bodleian Visiting Fellow for 2026 🎉 Amrapali will use the fellowship to develop her project 'Daniel Defoe and Plague Discourse in the Long Eighteenth Century', examining how epidemic disease was understood in #18thC Britain

Lovely to host everyone at Darwin College @kent.ac.uk for our @bsecs.bsky.social council Spring Away Day. Wonderful discussions in person and online with some exciting #18century related developments in the offing. Safe home everyone!

Tomorrow's @cecs-york.bsky.social seminar is being delivered by Dr Harrie Neil on 'The Edgeworths, Ireland's Bogs, and Improvement'. For those of you who can make it in-person, there will be cake but you can also register to attend via zoom here: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #skystorians #18thC

NEW BOOK ALERT! Wednesday 13 May 2026 sees the launch of 'Gender, Science, and Sociability in the diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824) with a stellar list of speakers - in person and online www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... @cecs-york.bsky.social #skystorians #18thC

Our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social have a really exciting programme over the next few weeks starting with their Annual Copley Lecture: Prof Ros Ballaster, 'The sense of touch and the shaping of the woman artist in the #18thC' #history #womenshist #skystorians www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

This is my review of the film The Testament of Ann Lee, for Criticks @bsecs.bsky.social In short: it's a musical, and this (mostly) works www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-rev...

Here is an obituary for Frank O'Gorman, an important historian of British politics and former president of @bsecs.bsky.social, who died last year. It will appear in a future issue of JECS. It was a privilege to help put this together. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO GO! #CFP #skystorians #18thC

Only a few days left before our CFP closes!

If you find yourself in Paris on the 10-12 June 2026, you might like to attend @isecs-sieds.bsky.social 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual & political disputes today', at the Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris Details ⬇️ #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic. www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/rese... #skystorians 🗃️

🚨 CFP deadline extended - 31st March 🚨Apply for our @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR Conference in Montpellier in September! Theme is Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation. We can’t wait to see your abstracts! Details below ⬇️ #18c @royalhistsoc.org @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social

DEADLINE EXTENDED to the 31 March 2026! Join our PGRs and ECRs in Montpellier this autumn to discuss the theme of 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #PGR #ECR #CFP

Really pleased that my third-year course, Inventing Celebrity, has received a BSECS teaching prize. It's a joy to teach. Just marking the mid-semester assignments now, and dare I say it, even that's a pleasure!

***DEADLINE ON FRIDAY 13 MARCH*** Don't forget to submit your proposals for our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery! Only two days left to go!

You may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our second teaching prize, Marine Ganofsky. Her #interdisciplinary course invites students to discover 18thC France's fascination with #magic, imagination, & wonder, challenging the idea that the Enlightenment disenchanted the world. #skystorians 🗃️

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 Angus Sutherland @edinburghnapier.bsky.social, our Boydell & Brewer Career Development Fellow 2026! Angus studies #18thC practical manuals written by & for shepherds/sheep farmers to see how they challenge Enlightenment narratives of agricultural 'improvement' #skystorians 🗃️

🥳 Congratulations to Dr Emrys Jones, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, at @kingsenglish.bsky.social on this recognition!

#FeelgoodFriday CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to Emrys Jones who has won one of our #BSECS2026 Teaching Prizes. His prize-winning course introduces students to #18thC Britain's cultures of fame via a wide range of materials to identify parallels between the 18thC public sphere & our own #skystorians 🗃️

Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte... @bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social

Congratulations🎉 @breerob-kirk.bsky.social! We can't wait to read it! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

So pleased to announce that MUSIC INDUSTRY AND FAMILY NETWORKS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN: THE CORRI FAMILY IN EDINBURGH AND LONDON, 1771–1825 is now under contract with Boydell and Brewer! Many, many thanks to the series editors and those who have supported this work so far! @bsecs.bsky.social

More CONGRATULATIONS 🎉#BSECS HQ today, this time to Isabel Realyvasquez, winner of our Presidents Prize, awarded for her paper 'Polar Archipelagos: Cook's Voyages at the Ends of the Earth #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #BSEC2026

CONGRATULATIONS to our #BSECS-GPP fellow for 2026, @zoescreti.bsky.social 🎉 Zoe's project examines archival loss in the Royal Collections, exploring the ways in which destroying manuscripts preserved reputations, avoided scandal, and shaped legacies at the apex of #18thC society #skystorians 🗃️

This Valentine’s season, discover how 18th c. couples poured their hopes, anxieties and desires into hand written love letters - read my article in Bath Spa uni news feature here #18c #love #letters www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026. Please see the poster for further information!

Need more #18thC in your life?? OF COURSE YOU DO! Click below for an incredible programme of events from our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Welcome Emily! We're all looking forward to meeting you! #skystorians #18thC