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...

I had such a fun time attending my first @wsguk.bsky.social seminar on Saturday! It was a lovely atmosphere and I enjoyed the brilliant talks by @evillegasdelatorre.bsky.social, Nora Rodríguez-Loro, and Sarah Clarke 📖 #earlymodern

Thank you so much for your excellent talk, Esther. We loved meeting you and chatting with you about learned early modern women.

#earlymodern #learnedwomen What a wonderful experience presenting today at the @wsguk.bsky.social seminars! Such a warm and interesting audience! Thoroughly recommended. #Iwillbeback

Join us on Wednesday for Philippa Hellawell (The National Archives), 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade', at the Institute of Historical Research, London and on Zoom, 11 February, 5:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Booking link below.

We have now recorded 9 days of +10mm of #rain since the start of the year. The previous high was 6 days in 2004, 2014 and 2025 and the average is 3 days. #reigate #climate #rainydays

Bill Turkel and I have just published an article in DHQ. It is about the emergence of Manslaughter as a charge at the Old Bailey, and the working methods we used to analyse the data. dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... Thanks to Gabor Toth for shepherding it through peer review.

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

PGR event! Having sampled the fantastic produce of @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, I recommend running, not walking, to book your ticket for this...

At the IHR @long18thsem.bsky.social for a special event, an appreciation of the work of Penny Corfield

A reminder to any @bsecs.bsky.social ECRs out there that we are looking for a new research fellow to join the Georgian Lords at @histparl.bsky.social. Details of how to apply below: www.histparl.ac.uk/news/history...

#BSECS @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Career Development Fellowship £1050 to fund expenses associated with a defined research output or impact (including childcare & costs associated with publication) which supports the fellow's career development #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

#BSECS-GeorgianPapers Fellowship £1,000 to support a project that draws on the resources of the Georgian Papers Programme on any topic in the study of the Georgian period (1714-1837) #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

Did you know that we award SEVEN #fellowships, five of which have #deadlines of the ***1 FEBRUARY 2026*** #skystorians #18thC🗃️ Details can be found on our website or in the thread 🔽 www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Rule Britannia: Queens, Power, Thrones Sat 7 March | Oxford Join Prof. Kate Williams, Dr Nicola Tallis & Rebecca Rideal for a special study day spotlighting queens who have ruled in their own right – from the Tudor period to the twentieth century. Sign up lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/rule...

We're delighted to announce our event @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social 8 March 2026, London, 2-4pm: "18th-Century Women, Struggle, Fame or Fortune". Talks will be in the Picture Gallery (free with Museum admission). Full list of speakers via link: foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/women-... /1

Our house is being packed up today. We are moving on after 20 years here and I feel like Georgian lodger and frequent mover Charles Lamb

‪Thank you to all of you who made #BSECS2026 such a success. 271 delegates 21 pre-formed panels 8 roundtables 5 alternative sessions 144 individual papers = 1 incredible conference We are already hard at work planning #BSECS2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social See you there?! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

Ann was an enthusiastic and distinguished historian of London and for thirty-five years the Society’s Honorary Editor. In that capacity she helped many scholars to achieve publication of their work. Full details can be found here: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We are looking for volunteers with good communication and people skills, IT skills, good manual dexterity, neat handwriting, ability to work methodically and with care. Get in touch if you are interested in any of the roles below. #library #volunteering #volunteerwithus #essex

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is fabulous news for this great independent library, bringing its marvellous collection to the wider audience it deserves @thegibsonlibrary.bsky.social

Looking forward to hearing @mazinggrace.bsky.social talk about gardening and reading at @thegibsonlibrary.bsky.social

I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html

Great to see the programme for the @long18thsem.bsky.social for next term @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . You can register to attend either in person or online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.

The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation of 7000+ historians, UK and RoW. We welcome historians to join us at any time: our next closing date is 15 December. We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2

Join us next Wednesday 19 Nov from 5:30pm either online or in Room 828 of the Institute of Education to hear @helenesfandiary.bsky.social present her paper on ‘The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England’ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided... I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority. @ihr.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @ihrwomen.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social

📢Funding announcement! Applications for our bursary are now open (deadline 15 December 2025). £750 for ECRs, indie scholars or PhD students working on any aspect of women's studies in the period 1558 to 1837. Full details available on our website: womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/ #funding #ECR #PhD

Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday

Please ignore my X account! I haven’t looked at it in a while as the whole site is such a cess pit And in any case my account has been hacked, I’m locked out and X refuse to do anything about it

📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme! 🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society 🔹 Full time, open ended contract 🔹 London 🔹 £54,931 Closes 8 September. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Very funny cartoon from @stephencollins.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

I have updated my website! Now with section on consultancy. If you are looking for some consultancy/workshops/facilitation on communication anxiety within your workplace, group, students, please get in contact. Also available for media on the topic too. rachelabynoth.wixsite.com/misshistorian

Places still available to attend the BSECS PGR/ECR conference online 30-31st July 2025. The programme has been finalised and you can see the amazing papers in store across the two days - all for just £10! Details to register here: forms.gle/VMZgsW6JRAdc...

@joecozens.bsky.social, one of our seminar convenors, has just had an article published by @histparl.bsky.social discussing his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election. historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...

SHAPE job #culturalSector Black Cultural Archives is hiring a new Managing Director. £70k p.a. jobs.theguardian.com/job/9628071/...

Last year in the lead up to the 2024 general election, we turned our attention to 18th c. elections and electioneering in our Georgian Elections Project! You can revisit our articles, exploring how our electoral system functioned 300 years ago here: historyofparliament.com/category/sec...

Tattered Pages Discovered in Storage Reveal an Enslaved Man's Daring Bid for Freedom—and His Second Life at Sea share.google/VZHDnXwwXgHz...

Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’ @ihr.bsky.social shorturl.at/hMRGz

The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors. Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC

Here's a link to my blog piece on finding Black voters in the 18th-century archive: ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/bla... With thanks to ECPPEC (Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture ecppec.ncl.ac.uk)

Is it just me? (BBC East of England weekly quiz)

My piece on the ECPPEC Project for the Modern History Review is finally here! The MHR is a magazine aimed at promoting history and resources for UK schools, bringing new perspectives on key A-level topics from leading historians, and putting history in a real-world context... ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Over the next three weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today we feature James Burns, ‘The Bandit, the Holy Man, and the Slave in the Early Medieval West’, Journal of Late Antiquity bit.ly/4k7oMKR 1/2

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #WomensWork