"I might likewise mention a Paper-Kite, from which I have received great Improvement"

JournaLists has won a Cambridge Uni Vice Chancellor's Public Engagement award! 🍾 t.co/iaJ6osTbrO?ssr…

Proto-brexiteering from Steele #otd? "There hath been a long Endeavour to transform us into Foreign Manners and Fashions"

Sir Roger de Coverley back in the Spectator #OTD "the Tamest and most Human of all the Brutes in the Country".

'One would think...Mt Blanc, like the god of the Stoics, was a vast animal, and...frozen blood for ever circulated through his stony veins'

Percy Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, Chamounix #OTD in 1816, as Mary Shelley works on Frankenstein (via JournalLists)

#OTD in the Spectator, Steele on Cant..."derived from one Andrew Cant...a Presbyterian Minister in some illiterate Part of Scotland"

'A jealous Husband has a particular Aversion to Winks and Whispers' - marriage advice from Addison #OTD in the Spectator.

Addison topical today: "There are but few Men, who are not ambitious of distinguishing themselves in the Nation or Country where they live"

Preparing Clough's 'Amours de Voyage', as pub'd in the Atlantic Monthly, Feb–May 1858. Our 1st poetry list! sign up: tinyurl.com/hswrbfl

Great article in the The Economist on a JournalList style resource for the Russian Revolution! economist.com/news/europe/21…

#otd in 1712 the 300th issue of the Spectator was published, on 'the Subject of Love' ❤️

Fleuron is nominated for a Digital Humanities Award! please consider voting at dhawards.org/dhawards2016/v… DH Awards is on BlueSky

Prepping 'The Old Curiosity Shop' for April serialisation. Subscribers keep an eye on inbox for info. Phil Gurney The Dickens Society The Dickens Society

From 2 April we're serialising Benjamin Franklin's "Silence Dogood" letters, our first foray into Americana. Sign up tinyurl.com/lhhmscq

Jane Austen letter from JournalLists: "Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead" 😂

A fascinating CFP: 'Colour in the Anglophone World in the 17th & 18th Centuries'. #arthistory #18thCentury 1718.fr/appel-a-commun…

Happy birthday to Frances Burney, Madame D'Arblay, born 265 years ago in King's Lynn.