18th Century Studies
@BSECS
The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. We produce @JECSjournal.
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Professor Amanda Vickery
Amanda Vickery writer, TV/radio presenter & Prof of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, U of London is author of 'Behind Closed Doors' & 'Gentleman's Daughter'
The Romanticism blog
A blog from Wordsworth Grasmere exploring the Romantic poets, and the literature and culture of the period. Do get in touch if you'd like to contribute a post
Prof Elaine Chalus
Historian of18-19C British gender, politics & society; opinions my own; RTs not necessarily endorsements #twitterstorian (also @profelainechalus.bsky.social)
Dr Serena Dyer
Associate Professor of Fashion History @DMULeicester | 📖 Material Lives | Dress, Fashion, Shopping and British Identity | 🪡 Recreation & Making | She/her
The Georgian Lords
The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the #Lords in the #C18th; currently working on 1715-90 #Georgian #Parliament #HistParl
Are there any 18th Century Studies members out there living in or near Edinburgh who might be interested in reviewing a forthcoming 'George IV, Style & Society' exhibition at Holyrood Palace for the Fine & Decorative Arts section of Criticks?
The 18th Century Studies Criticks Review of #Napoleon has arrived & nicole cochrane is not here to pull punches.
One week to go to get abstracts in for our special issue on Depicting the Eighteenth Century in Media! 18th Century Studies Eighteenth Century Studies at Stirling Eighteenth-Century Music Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
As the painter who introduced the intellectual female portrait into the United Kingdoms in the 1740s & also personalised images of women with fashion & accessories, this is an important exhibition- delighted to support with lecture on 10 July The Georgian House NTS 18th Century Studies
Our very own James Harriman-Smith is holding a launch event for his new book *What Would Garrick Do?*
7-8.30pm, 11th May 2024 | Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, TW12 2EJ
Free tickets and info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/808830101607
#18thC #twitterstorians
🚨 Calling all mid-career academics in the #humanities 🚨
Join us on the 1 May at History Department, for our #History +Humanities event, as we explore the challenges and opportunities we can provide for peer-support and networking.
Limited bursaries available to enable attendance
We’ve just opened our call for applications to our 2024 Research Bursary: open to postgrad students & precariously employed/independent researchers from anywhere in the world undertaking research on Frances Burney, the Burney family and their wider circle. burneysociety.uk/research-bursa…
With Jon Stobart I am organising a workshop on 'Representations of Country House Servants: Visual, Literary, and Prescriptive' Manchester Metropolitan Uni on 4 June.
The Call for Papers ends today - please do send us an abstract if you are interested in joining us!
London book launch taking place at...
🎉ðŸŽGARRICK'S TEMPLE TO SHAKESPEARE!ðŸŽðŸŽ‰
7pm-8.30pm 11th May; Hampton, TW12 2EJ
Details and *free* tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/808830101607
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Methuen Drama Soc Theatre Research TaPRA The R/18 Collective #18thc
Press release about our project's new exhibition Greenfield Valley. Please share far and wide!
I'm pleased to have played a small part in this report just published by WHO/Europe which gathers a range of (inter)disciplinary perspectives on the history of loneliness to begin to get at what it is, & where it comes from.
Thank you Fred Cooper for shepherding us through!
My second book was published this week! It's called What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century (Methuen Drama/Bloomsbury Books UK)
bloomsbury.com/uk/what-would-…
I'd like to tell you a little bit about it... 🧵1/7
#18thc #theatre #acting ' #wwgd '
New blog alert on the Gordon Riots by Ian Haywood
Good listening for your Friday commute!
#18thC #twitterstorians #BSECS
blogs.univ-tlse2.fr/miroir/2024/03…
Applications now open for our 18th Century Studies-Northumbria Fellowship. £4000 available to support a visiting scholar researching the culture, history, and identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the #18thC . DEADLINE 31 May.
bsecs.org.uk/news-and-event…