We're exploring Susanna Blamire's life and manuscripts with @CuratorWT @historylitmed Clark Lawlor @Harry_MckSm Laurence Sullivan tonight! This is also the final outing of ManuscriptCam 1.0 before we introduce its shiny new replacement next month...

Looking forward to giving my talk on Monday in the exciting and more than topical Idea of Contagion series at the University of Groningen! James Kennaway Writing Doctors

Important work by Robert McKenzie sociolinguist and Andrew McNeill on accent prejudice to feature in the The British Academy Summer Showcase. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…

Refreshing news for a long summer day: 📚⛲ Murky Waters: British Spas in 18th cent. Medicine and Literature is out today Manchester University Press! Thank you SEAA1718; LARCA and the wonderful directors of 17th & 18thC MUP collection (and @EditorialMAC!) page.hn/6rn0yj

By sheer serendipity, I happened to be on my The Huntington fellowship at the exact moment that the corpse flower was blooming! A capricious plant, it blooms every four-ish years, and then only for between 24-36 hours! 🌺 It smelled like what the Scottish might term ‘foosty’…

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve passed with PhD Viva with no corrections! 🎉 Many thanks to my supportive team: Clark Lawlor, @historylitmed and Allan Ingram, my wonderful examiners Noelle Gallagher and @ClaudvanH, and my excellent chair A Einhaus! #PhDone #AcademicTwitter

Check out Mind Your Grammar! A #Biographicon podcast about Anne Fisher - writer, teacher, feminist icon of the Northern Enlightenment! Barbara Crosbie Durham History CECS (York) Sheridan Project North East Coffeehouse podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bio… biographicon.net/podcast/4-anne…

Gosh! The Times Higher Education’s Impact 2023 ratings are out and Northumbria Uni is sitting at an impressive number 79 of the top 100 universities globally! 🎉🎉🎉 timeshighereducation.com/student/best-u…

Preparing a #Biographicon🎙️with Rachel Hammersley on radical preacher & writer James Murray biographicon.net/podcast And checking out Prof Hammersley's Experiencing Political Texts exhibition Newcastle University CECS (York) York-CREMS Durham History North East Coffeehouse RomanticTextualities

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Water Works: The Arts of Water Management, 1550-1800  Editors: Rosie Paice 🇺🇦 & @ClaudvanH of Northumbria Uni Institute of Humanities_Northumbria University Deadline: 15/12/2023 Details at: rosamundpaice.com/waterworks.html #WaterWorks #EnvHum #envhist asleuki @ASLE_US The BSLS

We are delighted to announce that the CfP is now ✨live✨ for our upcoming conference, 'Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century' | Southampton, UK | 5-6 Jan 2024. We can't wait to read your submissions - get them over to us by the 30th Oct! tinyurl.com/5dzb4udm

Publication day! Excited to see my article on Daniel Defoe's Review and networks of correspondence and advertising in the new issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies doi.org/10.1353/ecs.20…

We'd love for you to take a look at our online exhibitions – there's a few to choose from. They can be found on our website: wordsworth.org.uk/online-exhibit…

A whirlwind 24 hours where I graduated from NorthEnglishes with my PhD, and then arrived home to a delivery of my first academic publication! Thank you to Clark Lawlor, Dr Ashleigh Blackwood and Harry Lofthouse for the special day; and to @jonesrichardj1 for making Smollett happen!

📢CfP closing tomorrow - get your abstracts in now!! Make sure to also check out the session calls to see if your paper would fit there! 📢

Call for papers-the annual John Keats Conference, May '24: "Prospects and Retrospections." Send 200-250 word proposals by Sat 17 Feb 12pm UK time. Presented by John Keats and hosted Keats House Museum Hampstead. k-saa.org/blog/call-for-…. Speakers include K-SAA's own Jonathan Mulrooney.

Join the editor and contributors of Tobias Smollett After 300 Years – a new Clemson University Press volume reflecting on Smollett’s life, writing and reputation – at the book’s online launch event, hosted by OU Arts & Social Sciences. Register here bit.ly/rjjoneslaunch 📚 #TobiasSmollett #BookLaunch

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Anne Fisher - first female grammarian of modern English and a feminist icon! #IWD24 biographicon.net/podcast/04-ann… Barbara Crosbie NECulture Durham History @CECS North East Coffeehouse podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/min…

Yess! Our The Leverhulme Trust project's book, Myth & (Mis)information: Constructing Medical Practice & Practitioners in 18th- & 19th-Century English Literature and Culture, ed. by Allan Ingram, Clark Lawlor & Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social is out now with Manchester University Press! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526166821/ 1/16