WINTER Term Card:
We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics.
Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
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New post now up on the After Love website on this year’s “Cabinets of Curiosity” student-led project at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social - how can we trace the pain of heartbreak through objects? www.afterlove.uk/newwriting/c... ❤️🩹
@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
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#history #envhistory #earlymodern
The way this made me laugh 🤣
Does anyone recognise this scene in the background of a print I am using? #SkyStorians #c18th please help! 🙏🏻
A cabinet full of cakes
Chocolate cake!
In my second month of new job and I have finally located the crucial bit of campus
'Despite AI’s widespread use, 62% of the students said it has had a negative impact on their skills and development at school, while one in four of the students agreed that AI “makes it too easy for me to find the answers without doing the work myself”.' 1/2
S Hutchinson, English: Slave Traffic (1793). Royal Museums Greenwich, PR1979-11 This painting refers to the story of Inkle and Yarico, first published in 1711. In the story, the 'native' woman, Yarico, rescues an Englishman Mr Inkle after a shipwreck. They fall in love and live together in the woods, before a passing ship brings them to Barbados. The picture shows Inkle at the moment that he sells Yarico into slavery. She has just told him that she is pregnant with his child, in the hope that this will make him change his mind. Inkle asks the trader for more money instead. Sentimental stories like this often exposed the cruelties of slavery, and they were used in the growing art and literature of the abolition movement. It is signed by the artist and dated.
Join us tonight for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.'
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."
Look what we have here then.
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What an amazing story! Do you still have their letters?!
Oh wow! That’s fascinating
Very much looking forward to speaking at the Oxford Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850 this term, on my latest article project on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage. We’ll be on Teams, and at Lincoln College, on 2 December talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series... ✍️
We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
Conference bundle for the event “Inscribing Love” in Koblenz
In Koblenz for the next few days to talk about love letters across time, countries, and disciplines ✍️
A cabinet of curiosity
This year I will be leading the Cabinets of Curiosity project for History undergraduates at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social - find out more about the project here, and come and join us! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
During my research leave I'm trying to read as much as possible, so I thought I could do a thread where I share nice things about the things I'm reading. Let's see how long I keep up with it!
This is England.
Programme for conference in Koblenz in Sept/Oct 2025 ft. René Magritte’s painting The Lovers, where two lovers kiss with their heads covered by fabric
Abstract for conference on love in Koblenz
Really looking forward to visiting Koblenz in a few weeks, where I’ll be presenting my work on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage
No worries! SquareSpace is so easy to navigate and I think produces really visually appealing pages 👌🏻 It’s quite addictive tinkering with it though…
That’s so kind, thank you! I started with Wix which I found impossible to navigate and gave up, then switched to SquareSpace, which I LOVE
So sorry to hear this news. Frank O'Gorman was an outstanding historian and his work on voters and voting in the 18C was foundational for many of us. #c18th #skystorians 🗃️www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
After a long time thinking about it, I finally have a ✨shiny new website✨ where you can find all of my research, current projects, publications and media work in one place www.sallyholloway.co.uk
I once read a source in which a British captain, after the anguish cries of a FOUR YEAR OLD enslaved girl bothered him so much on the voyage, went below deck and stabbed her to death just for quiet.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
Simon Jenkins, mouthpiece for what is also said to be Reform UK's university policy. 'For most courses, two years should be enough, as the former universities minister, Jo Johnson, has proposed. The number of institutions claiming fully-fledged university status should be slashed.' Unsurprised sigh.
Early-Career Research Fellowship University of Cambridge - Corpus Christi College
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"How may a man reclaim a headstrong or unruly wife?
The surest way of all is being a good husband yourself, for bad husbands are very often the cause that wives are no better."
My @irishtimes.com review of Mary Beth Norton's collection of romantic advice from the 1690s.
📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025.
• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History
Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A lot of good ideas in this thread. For comp students I’ve been using Fridays as workshop days so the Friday reflections could pair well with that. Also I am making a course pack rather than putting readings on Bb so that students can annotate (they will not annotate digitally)
