We’re delighted to share a new book by our Steering Committee member @deborahsimonton.bsky.social. Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Working Girl explores the lives and labour of working girls in the eighteenth century.

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Planning a monograph or collection essays on some aspect of #C18th #history & culture? If so, get in touch with @deborahsimonton.bsky.social or me about publishing in our series, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies. #skystorians 🗃️www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count.

'“This paper will be really interesting to history buffs,” says Anne Stone, who researches anthropological genetics at Arizona State University in Tempe. “This study was done beautifully.”

There are simplistic 'history buffs', and then there are 'scientists', who get the complexity of the past. 1/2

Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications. The Voltaire Foundation, originally established thanks to the…

📣📣📣 Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 📣📣📣

We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications.

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Painting view of Piazza San Marco showing corner of Loggetta and facing away from Basilica San Marco towards church of San Geminiano with white stone facade, classicizing.

Aerial shot of Piazza San Marco showing facade of the now Museo Correr, Napoleonic ballroom.

Photograph interior of ballroom, cream colored, ceiling paintings, stone floor, empty and lifeless just like Napoleon

Venice used to have a second church on Piazza San Marco: S. Geminiano designed by Sansovino you can see in this Canaletto painting. It was kind of a big deal; shows up in a ton of artwork. It was destroyed by Napoleon — to build a ballroom.

Napoleon occupied Venice 1806-1814, eight years.

Mr 'Justice' Sc*lia's 'contribution' to American law, of course

This workshop is based on my research into slow comms, 18thc anxiety, + distant relationships and what we can learn about emotion + well-being today.

It’s all about slowing down and making meaningful comms + connections, ideal thinking for different relationships and situations today. 3/3

Unite and Rise 8.5: An Initiative to Defend Democracy | League of Women Voters Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, we’ve seen increased attacks on our democratic systems and a failure by Congress to intervene. This came to a head in early April, when the ...

League of Women Voters:
“Unite & Rise 8.5 aims to build a movement of 8.5 million individuals to unite and rise up against the anti-democratic actions of this administration. Launching in May 2025 and running until the 2026 midterm elections”
#USDemocracy #Pinks #MomSky

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Coming in time for Christmas!
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New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...

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Deborah Simonton’s (@deborahsimonton.bsky.social) review of Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing (@lauragowing.bsky.social) (published by @cambridge.org)

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Quietly celebrating new manuscript sent to Routledge on eighteenth century working girls and their experience of girlhood

Did you know that it used to be impossible to buy an Aberdeen Angus based meal in Aberdeen? Not even sure if it has changed.

But not British historians living in France?

Just wish it were so easy. Scotland would be away in a shot

Map of London, East. Colour coded.

Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

Fabulous!

Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO rese...

Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade:

Conference is in November 2025

CfP open until March 2025

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Enlightened Nightscapes: Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through different mediums and in different geographical contexts. S...

Out in paperback this week in our Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies > Enlightened Nightscapes: Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night
Edited By Pamela F. Phillips
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Hanoverian Succession Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.

I will be one of the three guests discussing the Hanoverian Succession tomorrow morningn on 'In Our Time' on BBCR4. Looking forward to hearing the programme! #skystorians #c18th
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For more information on the Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies, see here. If you have a project you would like us to consider, do contact me or @deborahsimonton.bsky.social
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Huge thanks to #NanSpowart and the @scotnational.bsky.social on Sunday for this substantial piece about #DuncanMacrae and A Noble Clown.

So pleased with this,I thought I would post it again

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Collections Researcher at The National Archives Recruiting now: Collections Researcher on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Collections Researcher
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