Our next speaker is Dr Melissa Bailes (Tulane), 19 June, 7pm (BST), Online via Teams. Melissa will be speaking on ‘’Most Punctual Birds’: Migration, Time and Socio-ecology in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain’. All are welcome! Please contact Paul Whickman for the link.

Long live Sundays

The Radical North 1779-1914 symposium CFP, closing next week. Would be nice to have a good showing of Romanticists (I hear John Goodridge is hoping to attend too...). Please circulate Bars and @EHUNineteen.

Finally sent off our manuscript for British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700, ed. John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen! 2 years, 115,000 words and 18 chapters; just waiting for clearance on cover image - this superb Unity Theatre poster from the 1930s. Workers incoming...

We are back to our usual MEMSA Mondays for our second talk of the term on the 28th Oct to hear from Sarah McAllister, also one of the chairs of MEMSA 2023/4. She will be discussing 'Illustration or Exploration: William Blake's Interpretation of Thomas Gray's Old Norse Odes'

Hello - for anyone based in Oxford, Electronic Enlightenment is running a half-day symposium on the letters and legacy of Charles Ignatius Sancho and his family at the Weston Library on 5 Nov: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/a-sympos… TORCH Oxford 18th Century Studies Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture British Association for Romantic Studies Bodleian Libraries

📣Registration is now open for 'The Radical North, 1779–1914: A Symposium in Memory of Malcolm Chase' ⏲️29 November 2024 🏢Leeds Uni 🎟️Free event with 3 panels of papers, roundtable & book launch eventbrite.com/e/the-radical-… Run by Northern History; support from SHS 📢Please share!

Our Durham IAS Fellows' seminar series is booking up fast. Our next talk on 28 Oct, 1pm 'The Neuroscience of Literary Time-Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance' by Prof Paul Armstrong has a couple of places left. Book now at forms.office.com/e/3U74cPym7N Research in English At Durham

📢Our Minerals Online Roundtable II: 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' happening on Nov 21, 3-4:10 pm (Dublin time)! Join us for a discussion with @danielle_kinsey from Carleton, Dr Rebecca Macklin from Aberdeen, and Dr Nick McGee from Durham. imperialminerals.ie/events/mineral…

Very much looking forward to giving my first departmental talk at Durham (and snippet of forthcoming book!)

Interested in getting your work published #OpenAccess but not sure about the different paths available? Join our free intro to OA publishing training session online on Monday 24th February with our Publisher Dr Emma Gallon. Book your place here: sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Very pleased with my recent collaboration with the superb Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 project !(about slavery, naval medicine, and the early shaping of abolitionism)

You can now register for our twentieth anniversary conference! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/08…

Very much looking forward to presenting, and in the presence of Linda Colley!