🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

‼️ Call for Applications: BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship 2024-2025 ‼️ The Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship will provide the successful applicant with affiliation at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Oct 2024 to Sept 2025. bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5387

The lastest issue of Library & Information History is live online - the first of two Books & Borrowing, 1750-1830 specials feat. articles from Dr Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell Kelsey Jackson Williams Dr Elise Watson and more! CILIP Library and Information History Group euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/2

Huge thanks to guest editors Kit Baston Joshua Smith and Katie Halsey for not only putting together a great selection of papers, but also making it a fitting tribute to the late John Crawford, whose own contributions to LIH were immense.

Join us on 31 July for a free online talk with Scott Wilcox. Scott, who came to The University of Edinburgh in 1974 before going on to Yale, returns to the topic of the panorama from his Edinburgh thesis. Register here to attend via Zoom: edin.ac/4din7ia

It was a pleasure to co-edit this, along with Kit Baston and Katie Halsey, with articles by Dr Jessica G. Purdy, Zachary Brookman (he/him), Dr Elise Watson, Dr Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell, and Kelsey Jackson Williams. Enjoy! (thanks to Jill Dye and LIH for making it happen!)

Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies - AC2507NB at University of St Andrews jobs.ac.uk/job/DIR608/lec…

IES is accepting Expressions of Interest for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme! Themes: 📖 Book history & studies of the book 📖The book trade 📖Publishing 📖Collections & archives in galleries, museums, & libraries Deadline : 5/08/2024 buff.ly/4cTCm1s

I had the pleasure of mentoring on this scheme last year. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone looking to pursue a SGSAH-funded PhD next year to gain insights and support from a current PhD researcher in Scotland and to receive bespoke feedback on an application draft… /1

It's coming soon! Out this December: the latest and (I hope!) best study of Thomas Gray's polymathy, with a chapter by yours truly on his oriental scholarship. #twitterstorians #historyofscholarship routledge.com/Thomas-Gray-Am…

Just under 2 weeks to get your applications in for this year’s British Association for Romantic Studies/BAVS-funded C19 Matters Fellowship. All unaffiliated ECRs working on long C19 welcome to apply - don’t hesitate to reach out with questions. Deadline 12 Aug - we look forward to hearing from you!

So sad to see this. #LibrariesMatter💔😢 📚

📢 We are thrilled to share our CFP for the Romanticism Across Borders International Conference, 24–25 March 2025, Université Paris Cité, Hôtel de Lauzun. Proposals by 1 Nov romanticismacrossborders.com/a-propos/

🗓📖 For #BookLoversDay today, enjoy new videos highlighting just a few of significant books in Dunblane's historic Leighton Library, Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library created from gift of just one man ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?list=… .../👇

To find out more about 'The Cottagers of Glenburnie' and Elizabeth Hamilton this #WorldBookLoversDay see Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman's blog for @Books_Borrowing at borrowing.stir.ac.uk/forgotten-best… It's a forgotten best seller that's well worth seeking out.

Still a few days to apply for this year’s BARS/BAVS C19 Matters Fellowship Royal Holloway - deadline Monday 12 Aug; don’t delay! 📢📢📢 British Association for Romantic Studies BAVS

Attend! Attend! Attend! theatreroyal.org/events/staged-… #JoannaBaillie #18thCTheatre 18th Century Studies British Association for Romantic Studies Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds The R/18 Collective Criticks East 15’s BA Acting & Contemporary Theatre

Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels—Marriage, The Inheritance, & Destiny—are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary #JaneAusten, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious… A 🎂🧵 1/7 scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to REALLY meet a 18th-century poet? Now here's your chance! Check out The Real Mary King's Close's new 'Meet the Poet: Robert Fergusson' for a tour underneath historic Edinburgh, poetry session, and dram of whisky! realmarykingsclose.com/event/meet-rob…

Grateful thanks to all who attended the presentation in Cromlix on Sunday about visitors to Dunblane in centuries past who came to take therapeutic waters of Cromlix (taking out a subscription to Dunblane's historic Leighton Library). The highly informative presentation.../👇

/...You can explore Books & Borrowers project, related to Dunblane's historic Leighton Library at "Books & Borrowing: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers, 1750-1830" website database accessible from the Leighton Library website leightonlibrary.org.uk/books-and-borr… .../