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Submissions are welcome for the London Topographical Society's Anne Saunders Prize: £1,000 for an original & unpublished research essay on the topography, development, or buildings of #London in any period. Details here: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann... #skystorians 🗃️

Leading a creative writing workshop on Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) in Special Collections at Kent, writing objects and subjects big and small. Wed 28 Oct, 2pm until 4pm, Templeman Library. Email D.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk to reserve a place. #CreativeWriting #GulliversTravels

**The Georgian Group Dunscombe-Colt Bursary** #BSECS & the Georgian Group are offering a NEW bursary for #PGR & #ECR speaking on the architecture or material culture of the long #18thC at the BSECS annual conference. #skystorians 🗃️ Details can be found at: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

***BREAKING NEWS*** We have extended the deadline on our #CFP by 5 days to give those of you that missed our early deadline another chance! New deadline: 20 September 2026 Get writing! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

DON'T FORGET that our #CFP for #BSECS2027 closes TOMORROW. Submit your abstracts on the conference theme of 'Authenticity & Artifice' or on any other subject relating to the #18thC here: www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/... #skystorians 🗃️

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! Only 4 days left to submit your abstract for #BSECS2027 We'd love to see you @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social in January! #skystorians #cfp #ecr #phd 🗃️

For those who missed it, here’s the two pages of the @bsecs.bsky.social conference programme for 1988: no parallel sessions and a field trip to Kenwood House. This and four boxes of other documents I am transferring from my shed to a new BSECS archive at the @voltaire.ox.ac.uk Foundation in Oxford.

Submissions for #BSECS2027 close on the 15 September this year. Yes, this is earlier than usual... This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity' but (as always) we welcome proposals on any #18thC topic. GET WRITING #skystorians 🗃️ See our Website for details: www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Ending our PG/ECR conference with a tour of Faculté de médecine de Montpellier! It’s been a great couple of days, with brilliant papers and discussions. Thanks to all those attending and to our French collaborators @doctorants1718.bsky.social @sfeds-bs.bsky.social

Today’s workshop at our PG/ECR conference — challenges and opportunities in international research!

Starting our PG/ECR conference today with discussion of plants and natural histories!

Registration has started in the courtyard of University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry for this years BSECS PG/ECR conference! @sfeds-bs.bsky.social @doctorants1718.bsky.social

Submissions for #BSECS2027 close on the 15 September this year. Yes, this is earlier than usual... This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity' but (as always) we welcome proposals on any #18thC topic. GET WRITING #skystorians 🗃️ See our Website for details: www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

We have INCREASED the value of 2 of our awards! The BSECS-Bodleian Fellowship is now worth £2,000, & the BSECS-Georgian Papers Fellowship is now £1,250. The deadline is the 1 February 2027. #18thC #skystorians #PGR #ECR Details of all our awards available here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Our PG/ECR conference in collaboration with @sfeds-bs.bsky.social @doctorants1718.bsky.social kicks off tomorrow in Montpellier! Very excited to welcome our delegates soon.

Le programme des prochaines JDJC est officiellement dispo 👀👇 RDV à Montpellier les 3 et 4 septembre ! @bsecs.bsky.social @sfeds-bs.bsky.social

#skystorians #history #academia #DEI 🗃️

#BSECS supports the work of #18thC scholars from all backgrounds & career stages, working in all disciplines. The Society reaffirms its commitment to #equality, #diversity & #inclusion in all its activities, & its opposition to bullying and harassment. www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

A full day at the York Georgian Festival with talks by @historymatt.bsky.social & @brycchancarey.bsky.social & the launch of a new student-led edition of the correspondence between Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne. #18C #18thCentury @bsecs.bsky.social

When Elizabeth Carter wittily attacks 'La metaphysique', is she commenting on a specific work or on a whole strand of French scholarship in general? Does anyone happen to know? (Editor out of his comfort zone here.) See www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/EX-HOUG... #18thC

'This ... makes 'Innovations in Teaching History' a timely publication that should be at the top of any list of reading materials, not just for scholars teaching the 18th century but those teaching history in any capacity.' uolpress.co.uk/book/innovat... #OpenAccess Thanks @bsecs.bsky.social!

At the IHR for a @royalhistsoc.org meeting of scholarly societies. I'm representing @bsecs.bsky.social and talking about our wonderful journal and book series

It's a good day when you get to bust out a sentence like this. #18C

New #18thC scholarship ahoy and entirely open access! (and for those of you who know the face behind the #BSECS socials, a little bit of shameless self-promotion!) #skystorians

The @ecisociety.bsky.social is on Bluesky. A must follow for all things and disciplines eighteenth-century Ireland. Please help spread the word. @isecs-sieds.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social @csecsscedhs.bsky.social

#skystorians #cfp #18thC 🗃️

Not only is the #CFP for #BSECS2027 out, the @isecs-sieds.bsky.social #CFP has also been released. 'Enlightenment and (in)equality' will take place in Zaragoza, Spain on the 12-16 July 2026.

🚨RADICAL PRINT CULTURE SYMPOSIUM 🚨 The Programme is now live (see 🧵), and the symposium will also feature two amazing keynote speakers, a print exhibition and a handling workshop. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social

Applications are open for the 2026/27 BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship, offering expenses up to the value of £4000 to support a visiting scholar undertaking research into the long eighteenth century. More information and apply at bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... @bsecs.bsky.social

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/...

My review of @rosscarroll.bsky.social excellent book on Edmund Burke in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. @bsecs.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1754...

The next @isecs-sieds.bsky.social #ECR Seminar is taking place at Trier on 17-19 June. Details below:

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

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...

TONIGHT! @naomipullin.bsky.social on the 'Pleasures and Perils of Aloneness'

There is only one more session of The North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Seminar for the academic year on the 8 May! Details below: northeastforum.wordpress.com/current-sche...

Lovely to host everyone at Darwin College @kent.ac.uk for our @bsecs.bsky.social council Spring Away Day. Wonderful discussions in person and online with some exciting #18century related developments in the offing. Safe home everyone!

Tomorrow's @cecs-york.bsky.social seminar is being delivered by Dr Harrie Neil on 'The Edgeworths, Ireland's Bogs, and Improvement'. For those of you who can make it in-person, there will be cake but you can also register to attend via zoom here: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #skystorians #18thC

NEW BOOK ALERT! Wednesday 13 May 2026 sees the launch of 'Gender, Science, and Sociability in the diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824) with a stellar list of speakers - in person and online www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... @cecs-york.bsky.social #skystorians #18thC

Our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social have a really exciting programme over the next few weeks starting with their Annual Copley Lecture: Prof Ros Ballaster, 'The sense of touch and the shaping of the woman artist in the #18thC' #history #womenshist #skystorians www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...