The Women's Print History Project collects bibliographic data on printed objects associated with women's production. I've been itching to query the data not limited by the UI, and ✨ I finally get to ✨ Here are some things I've been able to surface...

womensprinthistoryproject.com

Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with @nicolaparsons.bsky.social and at Glasgow with me.

Full details here: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships....

Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions.

Applications due 21 April

More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️

V excited to be delivering this online talk for the wonderful @chawtonhouse.bsky.social on the evening of April 23rd. Book tickets now if you want to hear more about why I think Fanny Knight was the prototype for Sir Walter Elliot!
chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl...

Happy to field any questions. Please share!

#c18 #18thc #bookhistory

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions.

Applications due 21 April

More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland.

Deadline April 21st - please circulate!

www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

It’s very cool! And to do it as a repeated out and back is especially epic. That takes such focus and discipline.

We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here!

www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Full-time Academic positions Inspired by a strong tradition of social responsibility and an enduring commitment to the advancement of women, Mount Saint Vincent University promotes academic excellence and the pursuit of knowledge...

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.

www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

David Bowie’s final project was 18th century musical, new V&A exhibition reveals A forthcoming display of the singer’s archive includes sticky notes detailing a theatrical work called The Spectator, about a petty thief and high-class gangs in London David Bowie’s final project prior to his death in 2016 was an 18th-century musical called The Spectator, a forthcoming extensive exhibition of Bowie’s archive at the V&A East Storehouse has revealed. The work was based around a daily newspaper of the same name that ran between 1711 and 1712, documenting the mores of society in London. Bowie’s notes reveal that he considered the publicly beloved petty thief Jack Sheppard as a potential lead character, as well as Jonathan Wild, the vigilante who was responsible for Sheppard being arrested and executed. He also focused on the Mohocks, a notorious gang of high-class young men who would get drunk and attack people on the streets. Continue reading...

David Bowie’s final project was 18th century musical, new V&A exhibition reveals

Deadline for abstracts extended until 15 Sept!

Earlier today, Patrick J. Kearney emailed me to tell me that he fabricated five letters allegedly written from James Campbell Reddie to Henry Spencer Ashbee, a transcription of which he has posted on his website +

scissors-and-paste.net/pdf/Reddie_L...

Late to this ESTC news, but very excited

DEADLINE EXTENDED *** CALL FOR PAPERS

There is still time to submit an abstract for this timely conference on #Neohistorical #Fiction at #2025! #PrizedTemporalities and #ContestedProgress!

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#AcademicChatter #academicbluesky #academic
#LiteraryStudies #NeoVictorian

The book Material Literacy in 18th Century Britain, posed before the King’s Manor building in York.

Hello, new followers! CECS is delighted to share a book giveaway: Material Literacy in 18th c Britain, co-edited by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social (CECS’s new director) and @serenadyer.bsky.social (CECS alum). To enter: reply to our post with your favourite #18thC material object / skill

This is amazing! So enlightening to see the letter variations altogether.

Wonderful news!

An oil blot background in mid blue, orange and yellow with the new cover of The Shandean journal at the forefront with the same pattern on its cover on top of a blue banner at the bottom.

We are delighted to share the inaugural online issue of The Shandean, with work on Sterne’s fiction, graphic satire & biography by @drwilliams.bsky.social @ian-higgins.bsky.social, @barkerjoannam.bsky.social & @nicolaparsons.bsky.social. @lsternetrust.bsky.social Browse: bit.ly/Shandean-34 📚