Devaluation and extraction go together and have done a number on the humanities. It would great to find a way to stop feeding the beast before we're all consumed. Anyway, just talked myself into my own quit-lit so we will leave it at that.

Excited to announce that Dr @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social and I will co-host our 4th annual conference this year at the John Rylands Library in Manchester. Call for papers is now alive. Please help us to spread the news. Grateful for the support of ASCH and AFCBS.

Why did clergymen marry? What did a wife offer them in serving their parishes? Why on earth would Charlotte Lucas marry Mr Collins? Answers to these questions, & much more, at this talk using the @thejohnrylands.bsky.social collections with curator Paul Carlyle. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clerical-c...

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027. Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) is excited to announce 3 new roles on our groundbreaking Valuable Lives project! 🔍 Open roles: • 2 x Research Assistant (Digital Humanities) • 1 x Research Fellow (Digital Humanities) 🗓 Closing date: 23 Jan 2026 shorturl.at/OCpLP

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026. Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now. #booksky

My review of @benltjackson.bsky.social's excellent book!

Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!

I'm going to @thenacbs.bsky.social this November (wahoo) in Montreal. My own funds are quite tight, does anyone know of funds available to ECRs to support attending I'd be really grateful!

Really chuffed to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society today

Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅 Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world. #WorldEnvironmentDay #BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️

Have just heard that a university has drawn up a policy excluding trans staff & students on campus from using single-sex spaces. Does anyone else know of any other UK unis doing this? Please let me know

Had a wonderful conversation earlier this week with Miranda Melcher from the New Books Network about 'Material Masculinities' (out now with MUP! 😉) newbooksnetwork.com/material-mas...

New today from our GENDER IN HISTORY series 📣 Material Masculinities by @benltjackson.bsky.social explores how material objects were integral for men in forming their identities and shaping experiences in the eighteenth-century. Endorsed by @historymatt.bsky.social #GenderinHistory #18thCentury

'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:

'Material Masculinities' will be out in a couple of months! A labour of love, & sometimes hatred, it's about what does it mean to be a man and to possess things in the tumults of the eighteenth century. available to pre-order and 30% off at MUP manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/

Does anyone I know on here have a copy (electronic or physical) of Jennifer V. Evan's 'The Queer Art of History' so that I could read the introduction? BL hasn't got it catalogued, my library doesn't have it, and I haven't $88 to buy my own copy!

Can anyone recommend some good transcribed and printed eighteenth-century women's diaries or letters - am hoping to find some gems in the BL this week!

A copyediting question! Should you capitalise 'T/town' for London for the 18C?

Just under a week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conference at Manchester in September 2024. We welcome any paper proposals exploring the 17 and 18C clergy in Britain and their experiences/identities at [email protected] CfP below!

Just under a week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conference at Manchester in September 2024. We welcome any paper proposals exploring the 17 and 18C clergy in Britain and their experiences/identities at [email protected] CfP below!

Has anyone ever written a covering letter for a journal to be book review editor (AND) would be willing to share it with me please?

Now that I've signed the contract... 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' will be coming out sometime in 2025 with @manchesterup.bsky.social - Delighted, excited, nervous, and scared.

I'm currently setting up a research database for my new project. Has anyone good suggestions for software to manage primary and secondary sources? Is Zotero (long abandoned now) my best bet?

Going to use the final day of welcome to ignore absolutely anything not desperately urgent and start work on a book chapter. Trying to think through what did it mean to be 'mobile' in the eighteenth century

Our #earlymodern IHR seminar has a REALLY cool line-up for this first term! Everybody very welcome to join. If you can't make it to London, you can sign up to get a zoom link (all times are UK) www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur... 🗃️ #18thc

Job 🚨—👇 The History Dept at Duke University is hiring “a tenure-track, assistant professor in the history of the 18th-century Atlantic World. We esp welcome scholars whose work engages histories of the transatlantic slave trade, enslavement, or the Black Atlantic.” www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Delighted to have left the old place! I've missed communing with colleagues and friends in a non-toxic place!