The excellent journal Lumières is looking for contributions to its 'varia' and book review sections. More info: www.pub-editions.fr/fr/868-lumie...; past issues: shs.cairn.info/revue-lumier...

This week's 'Last Word', BBC Radio 4, includes the medieval historian Barbara Harvey (1928-2025) bit.ly/3KmCQ6M (9 mins 32). Among her many contributions to the profession, Barbara was Vice President of the Society, 1986-90. With contributions from former colleagues Joanna Innes and John Blair.

Do you work on the intellectual history of the long 18th century? Have you an interest in subjects relating to poverty and inequalities? Then you should definitely answer this call! For more info, you can dm me ✉️

Happy to share my new blog post on C18 French-Swedish relations for the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History blog @oxfordcih.bsky.social. French-Swedish diplomacy treated cultural alignment as a powerful vehicle for political change in Sweden👇 intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/enli...

In 2026, to accompany the digital edition of Voltaire’s complete works (OV: www.ov-vf.com), the Voltaire Foundation will launch Voltaire Iconography – an open-access critically annotated database of visual representations of Voltaire. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/digital-enli...

Call for Papers! A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century Deadline 31 December 2025 voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

Read all about our new digital edition, Oxford University Voltaire, in the newest blog by our research editors! And ask your librarian for the free trial! voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/c...

Apply by 27 October!

Congratulations to Mrinalini Wadhwa of our MPhil in Intellectual History (and @magdalenoxford.bsky.social) on a fascinating blog post @jhideas.bsky.social!

New on the blog | 'The making and remaking of the Enlightenment' by Hanna Roman & Olivia Sabee. In this post, the authors reflect on their recent publication in the series and its relevance to the current political climate. Read now: bit.ly/remaking-the-enlightenment 📚 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk #c18

Don’t miss our DPhil student Harun Ali's thorough introduction to a posthumous essay by the great J. G. A. Pocock! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📝 New Blog Post! 📝 Check out this new @voltaire.ox.ac.uk blog post by Nicholas Cronk, celebrating our recent acquisition of a rare printing of Voltaire's Candide, from 1791. Read on to learn more about the novel itself and the history of its publication, as well as more details on our new edition!

As promised, the latest news (blog) about this rare printing of Candide! voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/r...

The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Ingrid Schreiber: "Egoism and Sociability in the Kantian Public Sphere" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

New to the series | La Place Louis XV from the Old Regime to the Revolution by Victoria E. Thompson. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/LaPlaceLouisXV #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Exciting news about the recent acquisition of a 1791 edition of Voltaire’s Candide. The edition is recorded – there are copies in Geneva and Louvain – but it is certainly rare. A Voltaire Foundation (voltairefoundation.wordpress.com) and @tayoxford.bsky.social blog coming soon!

For #WorldElephantDay, here's J.-P.-L. Houël's classic depiction of elephants having sex in 1803 (from the British Library): (h/t @diderotesque.bsky.social, author of the magnificent article "The Book of Job & the Sex Life of Elephants", Journal of Modern History vol. 91 [Dec. 2019]: pp. 739–75.)

Congrats to Ingrid Schreiber, a recent DPhil @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, on the publication of her fascinating article in the august @jhideas.bsky.social, re-examining recent attempts to view Kant as a social (or proto-sociological) thinker. doi.org/10.1353/jhi....

New to the series | Cultural transmission and the French Enlightenment, edited by Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/Cultural-Tra... #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Five funded PhD positions (4 years each) at the Politics of Enlightenment research group at IZEA @unihalle.bsky.social! Details here: polight.uni-halle.de/en/five-posi...

The Eighteenth-Century Studies Collection offers over 700 volumes from two perpetual access digital collections and includes a complete archive of all content published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series between 1955–2021. Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...

📢 New Blog Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/drop...

New to the series | The age of Du Pont de Nemours: Politics, law and physiocracy in the Ancien Régime to the American republic, edited by Arnault Skornicki and Anthony Mergey. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/DuPontdeNemours #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Many congratulations to Michaela Kalcher @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social!

How were 18thC Germans involved in transatlantic slavery, in the absence of an overseas empire? Morgan Golf-French (Fondazione 1563, Turin) writes in our blog on the German Enlightenment's discourses on, and entanglements with, slavery: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...

📢 Call for Papers | Deadline 1 July intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/reform...

Reading Voltaire's entire correspondence (over 20,000 letters in 45 vols) has its disadvantages and rewards, says Gillian Pink. Read her blog post on one of the latter - a 1753 letter containing elements of Voltaire's Candide (1759): voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/f...

📣 Calling all budding dix-huitiémistes! 📣Applications are welcome until 1 July to the annual Early Career Seminar of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (@isecs-sieds.bsky.social) in summer 2026! oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

New Blog Read the final blog in our 'Democratic Identity' series | Anne Heyer, 'Searching for “Demokratin”? The Curious Case of Women Democrats in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany' You can now read all the posts in this series on our website ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/sear...

One of my favourite academic roles is co-organizing the Online Enlightenment Club (with Ingrid Schreiber, Ere Nokkala, and Martin Gierl). Each session we meet to discuss cutting-edge research with scholars from around the world. (Please repost if you see this!) 1/2 www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/he...

Registration for our annual graduate conference is now open! To join us on the 5th of June, please register below ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

The writings of a (self-styled) philosopher-king for only £11/$14! Order at the @princetonupress.bsky.social sale by the end of may: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

🎥 Live streamed lecture! 🎥 Don't miss Professor Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University) on the topic ‘Buffon and the Degenerated Human’, 29 May 2025, 9.30am (UK time). More info and link to the stream on our website: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/live-s...

The deadline for postdoc applications (30 May) is fast approaching! 👇

📢 New Blog Or Rosenboim (@orrosenboim.bsky.social) explores 'Planetary Orders and Global Divisions in the Political Thought of Barbara Ward' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/plan...

Many thanks to all speakers and audience members at our Enlightenment Workshop this academic year! 👏 You have made this a wonderful venue for discussion of 18thC culture and ideas. Watch this space for next year’s programme, to be advertised in a few months. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

TODAY, 5PM @magdalenoxford.bsky.social!

Fascinating day coming up at CRASSH in June, with a keynote by Max Skjonsberg. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46619...

Carlo Ginzburg in Oxford! 'On mechanical traces: reflecting on connoisseurship, once again.' Annual Isaiah Berlin and Oxford Centre for European History Lecture, Tue 20 May, 5pm @tayoxford.bsky.social. oceh.history.ox.ac.uk/event/mechan...

Carlo Ginzburg in Oxford! 'On mechanical traces: reflecting on connoisseurship, once again.' Annual Isaiah Berlin and Oxford Centre for European History Lecture, Tue 20 May, 5pm @tayoxford.bsky.social. oceh.history.ox.ac.uk/event/mechan...

How to think with/about Hannah Arendt: authors of recent books on Arendt, @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social & Thomas Meyer, in conversation with Sophie West, Tuesday 13 May, 4pm, Christ Church Research Centre. Links to the books in the first comment. intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/hannah...

Lyndsey Stonebridge, We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience (2024), and... www.penguin.co.uk/books/441705...

Thomas Meyer, Hannah Arendt. Die Biographie (2023) www.piper.de/buecher/hann... An English overview/interview: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

From manuals to encyclopaedias: how was artisanal knowledge diffused in the 18thC? Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam) discusses the case of bit-making at our Enlightenment Workshop: Wednesday (7 May), 5pm at Magdalen College. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

The diverse perspectives of Enlightenment authors on equality: Darrin McMahon @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social writes in our blog on 18thC discussions of equality and their legacies. voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/e...

The writings of a (self-styled) philosopher-king for only £11/$14! Order at the @princetonupress.bsky.social sale by the end of may: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#HCG2025 Reminder: Application deadline is May 31, 2025! For more information and details, follow the link: eventi.unibo.it/historical-t...

TODAY, 5pm. We look forward to seeing you @magdalenoxford.bsky.social!

📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.

What happens when someone who rejects all rules becomes the ruler? Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (@wiko-berlin.bsky.social) discusses the logic of autocracy in the case of Frederick William I: Wed. 30 Apr, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. Free registration here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/magdalen-col...