I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...

Very much looking forward to this CECS research seminar 📜

Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Always a dream to publish with @publicbooks.bsky.social. An amazing team with some of the greatest editorial engagement around. My many thanks, too, to Marlene Daut for commissioning my essay on the extraordinary "I'll Be Back!" by Hope Strickland.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Many congratulations to CECS MA student Elizabeth Riddick, who has won first prize in the JASNA essay contest, for her essay on ‘An Open and Shut Case(ment): The Form and Function of Windows in Jane Austen’s Novels’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️

📢 Bookings are open for the 2025 Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture, delivered by our own Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social at CECS & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

What a good Tuesday is in store!

Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’. 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm 📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

More #AustenandTurner love! Thank you Susannah!

Today was the last session of the Jane Austen Book Club at Harewood House. led by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social and me to run alongside Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition. Today, we spent a lot of time talking (amongst other things) about silence. #AustenandTurner #Austen250

I’m a happy camper to have @zugenia.bsky.social ‘s new book A Funny Thing to look forward to reading!

Thrilled that the story of Lela Harris’s stunning portrait of Miss Lambe from #Sanditon has made it to the BBC news. You can read more about her incredible work and how my research on the Lady’s Magazine, fashion plates and Austen intersect with it here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It was such a joy this morning to see Lela Harris’s extraordinary portrait of Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s only character explicitly of African heritage, from the last novel she worked on. She died at age 41 without being able to finish Miss Lambe’s story. 1/

Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.

How exciting to be part of this impressive group of finalists for the 26th Susanne M. Glasscock book prize for my @yalepress.bsky.social This prize recognizes “outstanding, original interdisciplinary research in the humanities that appeals to both academic and wider audiences.”

Thank you so much @titachico.bsky.social for connecting with Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter in such a moving way: “our challenge, individually and collectively, is to imagine the possibilities of more equitable futures by looking at the past anew.” At Harewood House until 19 Oct.

Very excited about these bursary awards for our CECS MA at York!

"This incredible exhibition is sure to move everyone who really wishes to engage with the high art and experience the historical spirit of the Regency era." Just delighted to read this fabulous review of Austen and Turner at Harewood House, in The Conversation theconversation.com/austen-and-t...

I feel so fortunate to be in such excellent company on the shortlist for the Kenshur prize, awarded by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University for the best book in eighteenth-century studies.

📝 Free writing workshops with the inspiring author and performer Dr Rommi Smith at Harewood House. These are part of the exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter. Book your place: harewood.org/events/write... #Austen #Turner #AustenandTurneer

Registration is now open for our landmark conference ‘Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent’. We have a wonderful programme of international speakers including the editors of Barbauld’s Collected Works (OUP 2025). 📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June. More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25

Looking forward to being back at CECS York with this new work!

Was thrilled to read this glowing review of #AustenandTurner at #HarewoodHouse over the weekend, co-curated by me, Richard Johns, @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social & Marjorie Coughlan at York and Rebecca Burton at Harewood, with curatorial input from Jade Foster and Diane Howse.

We’re open today from 11am to 4pm at King’s Manor for the Great CECS Book Sale. Come by to support our brilliant postgraduate community in person or online at our crowdfunding page: yustart.hubbub.net/p/CECSbooks/...

We are up and running at the Great CECS Book Sale. All welcome! Thank you so much for your support whether you’re in York or supporting from afar 📚🩷📚

Friends, I got to gaze and dream at Austen’s Sanditon MSs yesterday. Experience of a lifetime.

Great 🧵 on the astonishing new exhibition on Austen and Turner at Harewood House curated by @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social , @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social , and colleagues. Read it, see it!

It’s almost here!! The Great CECS Book Sale 📚💫 all donations to this sale will be dedicated to a new fund to support postgraduate research. Not in York on Friday or Saturday? You can still show your support: yustart.hubbub.net/p/CECSbooks/...

Such a thoughtful & generous response to #AustenTurner at Harewood House. This exhibition was co-curated by Rebecca Burton at Harewood and staff @cecs-york.bsky.social and History of Art at York, inc yours truly, @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social, Richard Johns & Marjorie Coughlan.

Such a perfect day to visit #AustenTurner exhibition at Harewood House with the brilliant Tita Chico.

So thrilled that the wonderful @titachico.bsky.social is our Copley lecturer this year. So looking forward to her talk this afternoon!

We are delighted to announce that our annual Copley Lecture will take place on Tuesday 13 May at 4.30pm. Please join us to welcome Professor Tita Chico who will present ‘The Great Frost of 1708/09: Thermometers and Representations of Climate Disruption’. The lecture will be followed by a reception 🥂

I am very honored and excited to have the opportunity to share new work next week under the aegis of the Copley Lecture at York's Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies! with a million thanks to @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Happy opening to Austen & Turner, an exhibition at Harewood House Trust co-curated by York English and @cecs-york.bsky.social colleagues @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social and @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social and Richard Johns and Marjorie Coughlan (History of Art). harewood.org/events/auste... 1/

Today is the day! @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Dr Richard Johns and Dr Marjorie Coughlan are off to Harewood House today to meet with fellow co-curator, Rebecca Burton, to show some visitors around a preview of Austen and Turner, which opens on Friday 2 May: harewood.org/events/auste... 1/

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

Our next research seminar is next week (Tuesday 29 April)! Please join us to welcome Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississippi) who will present a paper titled ‘Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800): Literary Landscaper’. 📍4.30pm, KG/07 More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

I have learned so much from @rezekjoe.bsky.social’s brilliant research. Thinking of my US colleagues and friends who have seen their NEH funding disappear without warning and in the middle of vital projects.

📣 now out in paperback 📚 Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Personal and Political Value of the Miniature, co-edited by yours truly and the amazing Beth Fowkes Tobin from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Don’t forget - our next research seminar is tomorrow! Come and learn all about how London was presented to, and experienced by, tourists in the eighteenth century! More information below 👇🏼 #eighteenthcentury #london

This has been a dream project to co-curate with Rebecca Burton of #HarewoodHouse, Richard Johns and @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social of @cecs-york.bsky.social and Marjorie Coughlan, with additional curatorial advice from Jade Foster. 2 May to 19 October 2025. #AustenTurner #JaneAusten #JMWTurner

Absolutely thrilled to have won the @cecs-york.bsky.social book giveaway! 😊 Can't wait to dive into this wonderful anthology - many, many thanks to @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & @serenadyer.bsky.social!📖

Late to spot this (gestures vaguely at everything in the world), but my book was reviewed in the TLS earlier in February. What a nice surprise!

The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York, trying to make the world less terrible™️ through #18thC community

So looking forward to this today! #JaneAusten #myvalentine

💗 All welcome at our Valentine’s Day celebration of the one and only Jane Austen in the 250th anniversary year of her birth 💓

Delighted to share this funded PhD opportunity at York, in collaboration with the National Trust. Please share with your #18thC networks.

Come play along with York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies #18thC

Congratulations Alison!! 🥂🥂

Lots of recent #18thC books are 30% off in Yale’s #BSECS2025 sale, including my book, Novels, Needleworks, and Empire.