Join John Goodridge and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social next week as they launch their pioneering new book and look at some of the important issues it raises. Event registration details 👇

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - Book Launch | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

💥Launch for British Working-Class & Radical Writing Since 1700, an #OpenAccess book edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social, on 21st March in Birmingham, inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition.
Tickets available here:
www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - Book Launch | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

Naval surgeons, theatre cleaners, and Ozzy Osbourne - some of the talks we'll be giving at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sat 21st March for our next launch event. Book via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

Some enticing exhibitions to see in London: late-18thc art, science, and nature, closing in Spring.

+ www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat... (til 12 April)

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/... (.. 11 May)

A great project with super guidance from the editors, inc. image sourcing! Strongly recommend!

15-16 June 2026 CVAC symposium Post-Extractive Visualities Symposium - Durham University

Interested in a FREE, 2-day symposium on post-extractive visualities? We've organised one @durham.ac.uk Centre for Visual Arts and Culture. Last year was superb - abstracts due 27 Feb.

History IS included (the past was 'post' once!)

Last year's programme: www.durham.ac.uk/media/durham...

Join us in lovely North East England for an MA in English Literary Studies at Durham. Applications now being accepted for 2026/27.

Spring Workshop: Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Indiana University Bloomington The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University annually hosts a small workshop-format conference on an announced theme. The Call for Papers is usually published in the fall with a Jan...

Over the moon to be included in this years #18th #18thc workshop in Bloomington, Indiana. The Theme is, very appropriately - and provocatively! - '1776 in the World'. voltaire.indiana.edu/workshop.html

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - Book Launch | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

Our next public engagement event will be at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 21 March, where we'll be talking about women theatre cleaners, naval abolitionism, and the poetry that inspired Black Sabbath! Tickets via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is now listed in Verso's trade catalogue for 2026.

You can find it here: versobooks.com/en-gb/pages/...

if you don’t know what to read over Christmas… uolpress.co.uk/book/british... (free online or print, discount code BWCARW30)

Coming next to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in early 2026!

So grateful to the Birmingham Back to Backs Museum for hosting our Birmingham book launch! A perfect venue to remember our late contributor, Stephen Roberts. Andrew Reekes gave an excellent talk on his life’s work, and the @nationaltrust.org.uk team, volunteers, and audience were amazing. Thanks!

Just 5 tickets left for our book launch in Birmingham this Thursday, with talks on naval surgeons and abolition, chartist poetry, and the invisible work of theatre cleaners @sarahinthepark.bsky.social. Free wine, good cheer! book here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

Great launch last night in Nottingham’s amazing @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social bookshop. Such a good crowd. Next week, Birmingham!

Tonight in Nottingham! Editors John Goodridge and @adambridgen.bsky.social will be discussing their new book, British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700.

You can get the discounted book & a ticket thrown in. Thank you @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social!

fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/briti...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

Not to forget the book: open-access and free to read/download!
uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory

Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm.

For further details & tickets:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

@midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social

Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:

www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

If you haven't had a chance yet to look at our new book, here it is (for free!): uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

The official launch will be in Nottingham next month, with further events to follow in Birmingham next month and London next year: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/briti...

Bardic liberties: Bardism and slavery in the poetry of Iolo Morganwg The Celtic Seminar is held jointly by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays either hybrid (online and in...

Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism

Email David Willis if you want a Teams link!

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

The latest #OA book supported by the Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award is now available!

"British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700" (@uolpress.bsky.social) is a collection of essays examining the intersection of British working-class and radical writing: bit.ly/4pRkSK4

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 | University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas are more important than ever, this collection examines the intersection of British working-class and radical ...

Read our latest book online now - topics include the obstacles facing writers, women writers, socialism, feminism, anti-imperialism, & diasporic identities.

British Working-Class & Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social:

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British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

Steaming this eve (GMT) I'll be speaking on abolitionism and naval medicine in the 1780s at the 'Science and Revolution' conference'. Full programme: www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...

Both days of the conference will be available via livestream here (times EST): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

Published today by ​Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social is a new, co-edited, open-access essay collection: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700.
Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

Looking forward to kicking off the 'Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions' conference next week @amphilsociety.bsky.social, on the 'Science on the Front Lines' panel.

I'll be tackling naval medicine + abolition

It's free and open to the public!
www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...

Summer School 2024 Film Animal Thinkers: Celebrating the Pioneers of Ethical Sensitivity to Animals. A film of the 2024 Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School in partnership with our…

Blessed sunshine at last to accompany the start of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Summer School today! + found out I'm in a video about last year's conference on 'Animal Thinkers': vimeo.com/1094757932?f...

Massive congrats Rhys - super to see it at last and I shall be perusing forthwith!

The forgotten poet of Fordham Unique handwritten verses from a nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire poet – who died destitute and in relative obscurity despite royal patronage – have been saved for future generations by Cambridge Uni...

Super news! Cambridge University Library have saved the papers of another working-class poet, James Withers (1812-92). How rare it is to have this kind of material preserved - bravo! www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Forg...