'Flood the country with rationalism, normality, kindness, paint over the slogans, tear down the hateful flags, but move calmly and with thought, with immense care and logic, not passion. Passion leads to fighting, book-burning, riots, deaths, chaos. Exactly what they want.' #OldFox'sCottage #Wisdom

I should also tag this #18thC #18thCentury #18C and where is the dix-huitième siècle tag? The special issue is co-edited by Eric Gidal and Alexander Dick. My article: “What’s a Coast For? A Walk on the Beach with Flinders and Baudin,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 59, no. 1 (Fall 2025), 37-45.

Mary Hamilton and her networks: Gender, sociability, manuscript. Important (we would think so, wouldn't we?) special issue of JECS, now in copy-editing. Intro + 4 research papers by the team (see www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/further-read...) + 5 outside contributions. #18thC #langsky

Just a shout out to #skystorians #academicsky #historians #historyteacher #18c #c18 #georgians #history of #Caribbean #slavery people that my new book #Heiresses is out now. You can read more about it here: www.heiresses.co.uk/about-heires...

So... The Beggar's Opera redux? Because that's what a musical about #18thCentury Jack Sheppard screams to me. If anyone at the David Bowie Centre wants to get in touch with people who know more about that context, I've got some ideas...

Starter Grant Programme 2026 University of Bayreuth - Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON423/s... #skystorians 🗃️

Research Assistant (Part Time) - Grade 6 University of Liverpool - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Department of #Philosophy #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON798/r...

Lecturer in History Birmingham Newman University #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO275/l...

Postdoctoral Positions at Max Planck Institutes- Max Planck Society #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON436/p...

Research Assistant Professor Lingnan University, Hong Kong – Department of #Philosophy #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO254/r...

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow University of Sheffield - The School of History, Philosophy & Digital Humanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO631/l... #skystorians 🗃️

Paper proposals are due October 15 for our Slavery and Abolition in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy workshop at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia! Aminah Hasan-Birdwell and I are so excited about this event next May 13-15, and we are in the process of securing travel support for participants […]

_Notable_ adj. once had meanings to do with household management. Mary Hamilton often applies it to her (needle)work, slightly antedating OED, while Lady Dartrey mentions 'a good notable woman', i.e. competent in household matters. News to me, but not (I bet) to some of you. #18thC #langsky

#alienenemiesact #trump #noem #deportation #ice #iceprotests #immigration #Venezuela #18thcentury The Guardian: Court blocks Trump from using 18th-century law to deport group of Venezuelans: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

The Democratic governors of California, Oregon and Washington are forming an alliance to coordinate vaccine recommendations for their states, the Washington State Standard reports.

Judge orders Trump to unfreeze nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard "There is, in reality, little connection between the research affected by the grant terminations and antisemitism," U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs said in a ruling Wednesday. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Cornelia Smith Bradford (?-1755) was a printer and newspaper editor located in Philadelphia. She is one of only eleven US women known to have supported themselves as printers before the American Revolution.

We appear to have come up with a blank on the identity of the author of the unpublished Philip Francis biography. However, channeling our inner Bagpuss, we will be taking the draft with us to our new offices and we hope may one day find a lost owner...

It's worth remembering that Prince Frederick's household was appointed for him - he had little say in who was in it - so it is not surprising that someone recommended by the queen might have found a post within it. Also, the presence of several Germans, including Holtzmann and Pavonarius.

An interesting note in the London Evening Post for 1-3 April 1740: the death of Mr Earnest, a Page of the Back Stairs to the Prince of Wales whose likeness was taken for the figure of Merlin that featured in Merlin's Cave, built in 1735 for Queen Caroline of Ansbach in the gardens of Richmond Lodge.

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Article from the Cornishman, published on Thursday 7th September 1933.

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🔴Reform UK Councillors ‘Exploited Legal Loophole’ to Dodge Spending Limits on Farage Election Leaflets At least 12 newly elected Reform UK councillors in Durham did not declare costs for mass mailings from party leader that attacked local council’s spending bylinetimes.com/2025/08/28/r...

Only people with no experience of *actual* authoritarian censorship regimes could believe this tripe. Ignorance is always the charlatan’s friend

House members voted largely along party lines Wednesday to formally establish a new panel to investigate the events around the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. It’s the latest chapter in the Republican effort to rewrite the history of the events at the Capitol on that day.

2/ A domino was "...a robe-like costume which dates back to the masquerades of the 18th century and is more associated with masquerades (masked balls) than fancy dress events..." (More at "Historical Fancy Dress" at www.historicalfancydress.com/2011/08/the-...)

1/ The mystery of the Blue Domino Lady! I wonder if old Ward stepped a little too far when deciding to publish this. Images from: "Society as I Have Found it", Ward McAllister, January 1890, Cassell Publishing Company #history #1800s #gildedage #19thcentury #gossip #society #fashion #masquerade

Sorry to hear that Melvyn Bragg is stepping down, but a legacy of 1,000 episodes is quite something. A personal thanks, as he was genuinely interested in our contributions when we recorded> BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Hanoverian Succession www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #skystorians

Research Fellowship University of Cambridge - Newnham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK466/r...

Post-Doctoral Research Associate - LSTM Decolonial History Project Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK716/p...

Teaching Fellow in Global Development University of East Anglia - School of Global Development #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK784/t...

Postdoctoral Fellow AI and PA The University of Edinburgh - CMVM / MGPHS / USHER Institute #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK872/p...

Faculty Position (Ageing and Health Management) in HeXie Management Research Centre Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University – HeXie Management Research Centre www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL054/f...

Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage University of Oxford - School of #Archaeology #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL618/r...

Junior Research Fellow in Civic Virtue University of Oxford - Regent’s Park College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL710/j...

Hong Kong History Centre Research Associate: Oral History University of Bristol - Department of History (Historical Studies) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL945/h...

Emmanuel College Research Fellowships 2026- University of Cambridge – Emmanuel College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL944/e...

Research Assistant – Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations Aarhus University - Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM426/r...

Research Associate University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM520/r...

Two Postdoctoral Positions in Environmental Histories with a focus on Denmark/Mexico Aarhus University - Department of Anthropology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM447/t...

Research Associate of Slavery in War (Information Science / Data Management) King's College London - Digital Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM785/r...

Starter Grant Programme 2026 University of Bayreuth - Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON423/s...

Research Assistant (Part Time) - Grade 6 University of Liverpool - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Department of Philosophy #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON798/r...

Development and Alumni Relations Manager (Fixed Term) Woolf Institute www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON927/d...

@scottsandage.bsky.social Hi Scott - I wanted to pass your How to Read a Book on to colleagues and grad students, but all I am getting is a 404 error page when I click on the link your old link to it. Is there another link somewhere?

So I'm doing a commonplace book assignment with the students in my #earlymodern women's history course this semester. Big thank you to everyone who shared resources and ideas! Watch this space for updates and reflections. #teaching #pedagogy