Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social (Dr) Beth Brigham Dr Laura Robson-Mainwaring We are thrilled with the amazing work of our contributors who made this project such a pleasure, & we hope that our treatment of diverse authors & cultural forms will shed new light on how they engaged with, undermined and shaped c18 & c19 medical discourse. 17!/16

NEW EPISODE: Explore the history of British Sign Language, what kinds of signs existed for Shakespeare's lifetime, and real people from the Deaf community of the 17th century with our guest, Mary Lutze. buff.ly/3uGUHOk

A PhD student and a Senior Research Fellow from Northumbria University have been awarded British Council Venice Fellowships, representing the UK on an international level at the 2024 Venice Biennale 🖌️ 🎨 British Council ADF La Biennale di Venezia orlo.uk/Gyv6X

The Shandean goes online! It’s a joy to be part of the editorial team with the amazing Mary Newbould, Jakub Lipski and Amelia Dale. Check out our new home at Liverpool University Press and consider sending us your work on Sterne and his contexts #18thcentury #laurencesterne

Oral history volunteers needed for my PhD project! ✊ Please read below and share with anyone you think might be interested. Email [email protected] if you have any questions or if you’re unsure that you fit the criteria.

It's official! A new home at Liverpool University Press and a new editorial team with Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social, Mary Newbould, Amelia Dale and Jakub Lipski. Calling on all Sterneans and 18centurysts: send your work to The Shandean!

That's it! The Literature at YSJU students working on the new YSJ Critical Editions version of The Parrot by Eliza Haywood have finished the manuscript & sent it onto @YSJPublishing's Charlotte Tunks to turn into an actual Ebook. Honestly, I'm so impressed. 🙌 More: blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucriticaled…

Black Cultural Archives BCA is the home of Black British history, and one of the most significant cultural institutions in the UK. It is now inviting applications to become the next Chair of our board of Trustees. Apply: bca-chair.co.uk Closing: Sun 14 July 2024

I'm doing a sweeping survey of historic library collection interventions (exhibitions, talks, digital & innovative methods etc.). If you've come across any great examples then please get in touch and/or RT #libraries #twitterstorians #bookhistory #libraryhistory

Excited for our free bookbinding workshops The British Academy Summer Showcase, 12-13 July, sharing findings from our project on women's histories of book production. Register here: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british… The Stationers' Company #18thcentury #phdchat

We are so happy to announce our new cultural partnerships with TWAM Museums and Live Theatre! Together we are improving access to arts and culture across the North East through collaborative research and teaching. northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-…

As we are finalising Vol. 34 of "The Shandean", we're pleased to announce that this year's marbling is our own Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social and Louise Brockman's design created at the "Making and remaking Tristram Shandy" workshop at the Bodleian Library in 2022.

We are currently advertising for a Research Fellow post on Dr Rebecca Wright's Wellcome-funded project, ‘Carbon Bodies: Warmth and Fuelling Health in Britain, 1918 to 2022’. 36 month post from October 2024, full-time, £39,347 to £44,262. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIR074/res…

In the 'Women making books, past and present' workshop, participants are creating take-home notepads using a needle and thread as Dr Helen Williams and Dr Ruth Frendo share their research on women bookbinders before the industrialisation of book production.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! The NCRTJ and Alliance of Working-Class Academics 1 day Conf, 'Class, Race, Place: Exploring Intersectionality for Access to Higher Education Globally': Wadawurrung Country [Ballarat, Aus] & online. 6/12/24. IT’S FREE. Join us✊🏾 Professor Emma-Jaye Gavin 🍉 Pls RT/ share 🫶🏾 eventbrite.com/e/class-race-p…

Would anyone be interested in putting together a roundtable/alternative format session for 18th Century Studies #BSECS2025 on decolonising the long eighteenth-century and/or medievalism and imperialism in the period? Drop me a DM or email [email protected] if interested!

🚨Call for Papers Alert! 🚨 Got a paper you're working on and want some feedback? Want to share some new ideas? Or just want to share what you've been working on! Our work-in-progress seminar sessions offer a supportive environment to share your work Check it out below:

PSA for UK academics: when next you visit the British Library, you’ll need a new reader card. It’s part of their recovery of services after the cyber attack. So take your ID.

The deadline for our postgraduate workshop, Periodicals, History and Change The Leeds Library is on the 27 September 2024. The workshop itself is on 6 December 2024. Full details plus CFP here: periodicalshistory.wixsite.com/periodicalswor…

We are delighted to welcome Rebecca Anne Barr on the 15th October to give our first QMCECS seminar of the semester. She will be speaking on 'Eliza Haywood's She Comedies'. 17:15 start, online and in person, all welcome! Full details can be found here: qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/re…