Funding boost announced for historic building in Belfast An international conservation group has selected one of Belfast's most historic buildings as one of 21 sites across the world it will fund this year.

An international conservation group has selected Belfast's Assembly Rooms as one of 21 sites across the world it will fund this year.

Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century edited by Hillary Burlock, Ian Newman & Mark Philp shows how dance shaped the social, emotional, and intellectual life of the Enlightenment across Europe and the Atlantic world.

Out now! https://bit.ly/49JzUKp

Happy publication day to "Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century"! So many thanks to Bloomsbury and all of the contributing authors who worked with Mark, Ian, and me to bring this volume together! We could not have done it without you! #dancehistory #18thcentury

Bridgerton: why not knowing how to dance could ruin your reputation in Regency Britain Dancing masters were crucial to transforming girls and boys into ladies and gentlemen.

(Social) murder on the dancefloor! Find out why not knowing all the right moves could seriously damage your rep in Regency Britain, with @hillaryburlock.bsky.social
#Bridgerton

Dr Hillary Burlock

Matthew Macfadyen and Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice.

☃️ Open up door number 5 on our #AcademicAdvent and join a world of 18th century refinery and poise. Let Dr @hillaryburlock.bsky.social take you on whirl around the etiquette of Georgian assembly rooms and indulge your Austenesque dreams theconversation.com/inside-the-r...

Inside the Regency ballroom: what you’d experience on a night out with Jane Austen Ball-goers needed months to prepare for these events.

Delighted that my short piece on Jane Austen and dance has been published in The Conversation! theconversation.com/inside-the-r... #assemblyrooms #dancehistory #18thc

Jane Austen at Christmas - In Conversation Jane Austen at Christmas - In Conversation

If you find yourself in Brighton on Friday evening, why don't you join me for an In Conversation at Brighton Pavilion about Jane Austen, balls and assemblies, and the Christmas season. #assemblyrooms #janeausten #christmas

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Dr Hillary Burlock

Dance scene from the Kiera Knightley Pride & Prejudice. She was good but he was a bit mis-cast don't you think?

💃 Explore the politics of dancing in the 18th century and the crucial role played by assembly rooms in Georgian Britain with our latest 'researcher in focus' podcast featuring @hillaryburlock.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... #AcademicSky #DanceSky

a woman wearing a red hat and a brown jacket is standing in front of a building . ALT: a woman wearing a red hat and a brown jacket is standing in front of a building .

Don't let anything come between you and our latest podcast featuring @hillaryburlock.bsky.social exploring the politics of dance in Regency society, and how those Austenesque balls were scenes of more than just flirting creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Even though I was not able to be in Ascona in person for the Feminist Enlightenment and Politics conference, I was able to patch in via Zoom to talk about the role of women in #18thc elections, in processions and mock elections, and at election balls. #dancehistory #assemblyrooms #politicalhistory

I can get on board with Macaulay's course of treatment... Bring on the ice cream!

Office for the day at the British Academy! Ready for the Academic Book Publishing Conference...

Good to see these out in the wild at last.
Many thanks to my co-editors, @hillaryburlock.bsky.social and Tatjana LeBoff for their sterling efforts, and to all of the contributors for bringing this together.
#HistParl #skystorians

Office for the next two days in Oxford... Ready for the Oxford Dance Symposium to commence!

I really enjoyed working on this with you, Robin!

Many thanks to our contributors: @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, @jemimahubberstey.bsky.social, @rachelbynoth.bsky.social, @drdan.bsky.social, @philbonjour.bsky.social, @vaughnscribner.bsky.social, Amy Frost, Rachael Johnson, Tim Moore, Rupert Goulding, Isabelle Eve Carlotti Davier, and Tom Boden!

Thank you for contributing a great chapter to the collection!

Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room This book re-examines spa and assembly culture as key venues for sociability in the eighteenth century. Focused chiefly on the eighteenth century, this book looks forward into the nineteenth and early...

It's #PublicationDay for Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room! Get your copy on Routledge or Amazon... #assemblyrooms

We finally made it @georgianlords.bsky.social and Tatjana LeBoff! 🎉🎉

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Thanks so much! I'll definitely send them an email!

Is anyone familiar with an eighteenth-century dance treatise or conduct book that has several plates of women gesturing with fans? I remember seeing such a book, but can’t recall what the title was… Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! #18thc #dancehistory

Yesterday's office for the day was the Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel, where I gave a talk to a Jane Austen tour group on "Experiencing Austen’s Assembly Rooms". It was a great group, and they had so many wonderful questions! #assemblyrooms

Young boy outdoors, about to hit a shuttlecock with a small paddle. He is wearing black trousers and a tight-fitting black jacket, with a flouncy shirt billowing out at the top and a completely impractical broad-brimmed black hat trimmed with matching ostrich feathers

Sir William Beechey, portrait of a young Kenneth Dixon playing shuttlecock (c1790), SMK, Copenhagen #c18th #c18 #18thc

Office for the day! Not a bad view before the funding bid-recycling workshop...

Thank you, Richard! It's been a long journey for this book!

Good reading on the train to Liverpool this morning...

Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room This book re-examines spa and assembly culture as key venues for sociability in the eighteenth century. Focused chiefly on the eighteenth century, this book looks forward into the nineteenth and early...

My first edited collection with @georgianlords.bsky.social and Tatjana LeBoff is now available for preorder! Eek! #assemblyrooms #18thc

www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey...

Good to see this volume coming together - the result of a hugely enjoyable conference involving @profelainechalus.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.bsky.social and @hillaryburlock.bsky.social - and a lot of work since by Hillary Burlock and Tatjana LeBoff...
#HistParl
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I have! The Sophia Banks collection in the British Museum is incredible!

Site of some of English legal history’s most important trials, this project seeks to bring back to life this lost courtroom and the cases it heard.

A new #18thc resource! kingsbench.engagedhumanities.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

Philip Dawe - The Oyster Woman (1769) #oysters #art #woman #night #lamp #18thcentury