You know that Rebecca Solnit essay ‘Men Explain Things to Me’? I had (yet another) such experience the other day as a man droned on about matters 18th century - most of it wrong - and never bothered to find out anything about my level of knowledge. He clearly thought he was educating me …

One week today: publication day for uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...! My brilliant co-authors Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social @adamcrymble.bsky.social & I are excited for the book to be out. It will also be available open access, as our dataset is: zenodo.org/records/8070... #HistFood

ISECS Early Career Scholars Seminar 2026 Reforming Religion, Morality and Society in Afro-Eurasia: Intellectual and Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global Eighteenth Century Universität Trier, Germany 17-19 June 2026 The programme is now available: oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/docs...

IT'S TIME! The #CFP for #BSECS2027 has been released! This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity'. The deadline for submissions is the 15 September 2026. The conference will by the 6-8 January 2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Very much enjoying Anna Harrington's talk on Empire's Imagined Spaces @long18thsem.bsky.social

If you’re still just about functioning in this heatwave, please do consider joining us for what I very much hope you will all find an interesting paper. Perks of a hybrid seminar mean you can listen at home with an ice cream in hand & no trousers on whilst I sweat my way (literally) through the Q&A!

@andyherrodweather.bsky.social Happy birthday!

Tomorrow (Tuesday) in London at the Institute of Historical Research and online on Zoom at 5:30pm, a celebration of @manchesterup.bsky.social 's influential Studies in Imperialism book series and launch of its 200th volume. Free and open to the public. Register in link below. 1/2 #Skystorians

RECORD-BREAKING HEAT IN REIGATE! Temperature records in #Reigate are being broken daily at the moment! 🌡️ We have already smashed the benchmarks for: ☀️ Hottest May Day 📈 Highest May Average Temperature 🔥 Highest May Apparent Temperature ("Feels Like") How are you staying cool out there? 👇💬

#HistSTM #Skystorians

5 June deadline for these Royal Historical research grants. #Skystorians

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

We're holding a meet up in London on 1st July. It doesn't matter if you're an author, broadcaster, tour guide or general hustler, you're more than welcome as long as you work in history and aren't part of academia (sorry lovely academics!) DM us for location as places are limited!

Don't forget to apply for our #BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship. Travel, accommodation, and related expenses of up to £4,000 to support a visiting scholar of the #18thC at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, deadline 26 June 2026 #skystorians 🗃️ Details below! www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

We're making London greener, safer, cleaner & an awful lot nicer! Before & after pics really show the total transformation of St John Street in Islington 💚🚶‍♀️🚲🌳 @islington-council.bsky.social @rowchampion.bsky.social @mayoroflondon.bsky.social @TfL

Looking forward to this event on Wednesday the 13th 👇

#MosaicMonday Great Yarmouth

I’ll tell you what AI doesn’t understand at all (because unlike the human brain it’s entirely literal): cryptic crosswords.

For a quick blog outlining the article Bob Shoemaker and I have out in Social History on mapping 18th c. crime see socialhistoryblog.com/mapping-the-...

Congratulations to WSG member Brianna Robertson-Kirkland for her excellent essay on Domenico Corri, featured recently on BBC Radio 3.

Paterson will be talking about the public and domestic life of Sancho and reading from his latest book 'The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho'. If you're not a WSG member and would like to come, please DM or reply below to be added to the guest list /2 of 2

Applications are still open for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. These grants help to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

📚 🥳 All welcome at our hybrid book launch for Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824), edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Rachel Feldberg and Jane Rendall (Boydell Press: 2026) 📚🥳 🗓️ Wednesday 13 May, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 🎟️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Pleased to see an article by Bob Shoemaker and myself now out in Social History: The geography of Old Bailey crime prosecutions, 1720–1820 www-tandfonline-com.sussex.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.... The underlying work was supported by @londontopsoc.bsky.social

As Britain prepares for local elections along with elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd, Dr Charles Littleton reconsiders elections in #Yorkshire in the 18th century, dubbed by one contemporary as "half of all England"... historyofparliament.com/2026/05/06/o...

With elections around the corner next week, another chance to consider the confusing implications of candidates sporting blue rosettes in the 18th century. They might be Jacobites, Tories, Whigs or Independents - all united by wanting to wear "True Blue"... historyofparliament.com/2023/11/30/p...

The Society currently invites applications from historians for seven funding programmes across a range of career stages. Deadlines fall between 8 May and 10 July bit.ly/4drZwP2 #Skystorians

📢 Applications are now LIVE for the IHR Fellowship! Join our vibrant community of scholars. 🏛️✨ 🗓️ Deadline: 30th June 2026 🔗 Apply here: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

@brendantam.bsky.social will be presenting the next Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, on Tuesday 5 May. Read about Brendan's paper discussing political sociability in late Hanoverian Britain on our website, alongside information on how to join the session:

I can't wait for you to read this. Nearly a decade of research has gone into uncovering how Britain’s food shaped its sense of place in the world during the First Age of Nationalism. 'The King's Dinner', out 1 June 2026. uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...

I must have walked past this hundreds of times when I worked in the City in the 1980s but have only just noticed it

Very much looking forward to the annual Lightning Talks by early stage PhDs this Wednesday @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome but please register at www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We are kicking off term 3 next Wed 29 April with our annual flagship event! Join us from 5:30pm at the IHR or online for our PhD Lightning Talks event. We have an exciting lineup of 12 early stage (1st or 2nd year) PhDs covering a range of 18th cent topics! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Keen to meet a new generation of historians researching British history in the (very) long 18th century? Join us for our annual Lightening Talks presentations and Q&A on 29 April at 5:30pm. All welcome. Free. In person at the Institute of Historical Research in London or online on Zoom. #Skystorians

Friends, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender is now accepting announcements for book-length works published in the 2nd half of 2025 & early 2026 for the next installment of the SSEMWG New Book Digest. Deadline: April 30th Submissions & questions: email [email protected].

Fascinating stuff.

This looks like a super interesting talk! Richmond Unchained is such a good book for anyone interested in Black British history or the Georgian/Regency period. Or boxing!

Another great topic at this month's #WomenWritersNet chat, taking place here on Thursday 16

Less than a month to go (29 April, 5:30pm) until our annual Lightening Talks event for the British History in the Long 18th Century seminar, showcasing new PhD student work. Join us in person or online at the IHR in London. It's free and open to the public. #Skystorians

We're thrilled to announce the keynote speakers for our July symposium, 'Radical Print Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century'. Dr Esther Chadwick (@thecourtauld) & Dr Helen Williams (@helenwilliams18 @northumbriauni) will join us in York to share their expertise on the power & politics of print 1/5

Thinking of publishing a book on women's mobility? We'd love to hear from you! 👇👇

December Issue: Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... @kingshistory.bsky.social

I just want to lament the death of haberdashery. Even John Lewis has more-or-less given up.

Mapmaking 18thC style: ‘A chain, 66ft long, a surveyor's wheel and a notebook, and they would go over, for example, a field, and they would measure it on all its sides, and they would draw that as accurately as they could’ Amazing London map to be reprinted 280 years on www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the 18th century British elites travelling to see the sights of Europe often brought their servants in tow. What was the Grand Tour like for the help? 🔒 Richard Ansell’s April cover feature is now in the archive www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

It’s been out a while now, but Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thcentury British travel to Spain and Portugal that is free to download here! uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...

A research query for the #herbook community. I'm working on a short piece about a law book with a girl's signature ("her book!") -- an extension of a blog post. Anyone w other examples of early modern woman's provenance on law books? Esp British/ British American? karinwulf.com/tidbits/abig...

A fantastic paper I encourage people to watch if they missed it

Do join us next Wednesday at the IHR, London for Baz Bowdler's paper ‘So much approved of by all inquisitive persons’: News Management and Diplomacy in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1685-1713'. In person (Tube strike has been called off) and online; free and open to the public. Registration below.

The History of Parliament is excited to announce a new 8-week internship position for postgraduate-level researchers, working with the House of Lords 1640-60 section. Follow the link below for more details on the role, and how to apply!