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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

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✊🏾 @Prof_EmJ 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 @R_A_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…

In Part 3: Editorial Interventions, the inimitable combination of Charley Matthews and Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social tackles the legacies of women’s labour as editors, anthologisers, and polymaths by looking at Mary Hays and Constantia Grierson.

Thank you Dr Elise Watson and Jessica Farrell-Jobst for supporting this through the press ❤️

Do you listen to audiobooks? Could you fill out a 5-10 minute survey? In collaboration with New Writing North, we Northumbria Uni are researching northern voices in audiobooks. We'd be grateful for your contribution and any shares! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbria/… #AudiobookLovers

Fully-funded PhD with the British Library and Northumbria Uni 'The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place' Deadline 31 May for an October start northumbria.ac.uk/research/postg…

The BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship offers up to £4000 to research the history, culture, literature, and/or identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Deadline for applications is 31 May 2025. bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-awa…

The Brief Lives 2025 Essay Award is open to UK and Ireland based writers under 35 - deadline 30 September, word limit 3,000. The biographical subject, or subjects, should be historical figures of significance. See elhb.uk/brieflives for more details about the Award