#18thC job working with The National Archives on the anniversary of the American Revolution. 1yr contract, salary of £31k+, deadline 1st Sept.

Thus harvest ends its busy reign, And leaves the fields their peace again; Where Autumn’s shadows idly muse And tinge the trees in many hues: Amid whose scenes I’m fain to dwell, And sing of what I love so well. - John Clare, ‘September’ #September #Autumn

V A C A N C Y Assistant Professor in the Literature and Cultures of the British/Global Long 18th Century Philadelphia, PA More info: h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…

Termcard - everyone interested in things 18th century in Oxford is very welcome. Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture

Wreath-laying service for John Keats at Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey 💐

‘“There is no friend as loyal as a book,” Hemingway said. Reliance on Instagram influencers can only get you so far. We still need Our Mutual Friend.’ theguardian.com/education/2024…

Very glad to have received my copy of the new book Thomas Gray Among the Disciplines, edited by Ruth Abbott and Ephraim Levinson, ft my chapter on Gray and Meteorology 🌦️

Reminder: How did British abolitionists come to view the slave trade as a "dread perversion" of nature? To answer this, I'll be reading from and discussing my new book The Unnatural Trade at the The Linnean Society of London, London, on Thurs 20 February, 6pm. Book at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1111773116319

Gin & Georgian London: A Spirited Evening 🍸 Enjoy gin, history, and tasting at Dr Johnson’s House. Sip, learn, and explore gin’s role in Georgian London. A spirited evening awaits! Wednesday 26 March 6pm - 8pm tinyurl.com/y5z592d8

📢 JOB OPENINGS! 📢Come work with me at Oxford! As part of my ERC project UNSEEN, I am recruiting a full-time 5-year project admin, two 3-year post-docs and one fully-funded PhD. The first position is already advertised, the others will follow shortly my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

We have added facsimiles of Mary Collier's #Poems on Several Occasions (1762) and Ambrose Philips' #Pastorals (1708, in Dryden's Poetical Miscellanies), to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive. eighteenthcenturypoetry.org #c18th #18thC #poetry #c18dh #DigitalHumanities

Our Easter term CfP is now open! Send us your abstracts by 28 April 🌿

Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968 A one-day symposium on 24 June which aims to investigate how & why artists & writers imagined the earth as a whole before the age of space travel & neoliberal globalisation. sites.google.com/view/before-ea…

Please sign this campaign to save a wonderful literary house in the Lakes. ‘Rydal Mount, the beloved home of Wordsworth for nearly 4 decades, is now for sale — and at risk of disappearing into private hands.’ saverydalmount.org.uk (pictures from my last visit a few years ago)

Thanks JASAL (journal of ASAL) for this kind review of our book Georgic Literature and the Environment 📖🍃openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/…

My article ‘Fossil Fuel Romanticism: Earth History, Industry, and Catastrophic Futurity in Jago’s Edge-Hill’ has just been published in ISLE 📖🔥🗻 track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=zT…

Very grateful for this thorough and thoughtful review by Melissa Schoenberger, in Eighteenth-Century Life, of my book /Reading Time in the Long Poem/ 📖📚 read.dukeupress.edu/eighteenth-cen…