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The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. bsecs.org.uk
- Congratulations to our QMCECS-BSECS 2025 Fellow @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social! The fellowship will support Amy to complete her forthcoming (Autumn 2025 @livunipress.bsky.social) edition of the letters of Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) #BSECS #skystorians 🗃️ 1/5
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- Reposted by BSECSExtended deadline: still time to send your proposals to the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference 2025! You have until May 31st —open topic proposals are welcome! #eighteenthcentury @csecsscedhs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @isecs-sieds.bsky.social
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- Reposted by BSECSIt finally arrived! 💪 @manchesterup.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @saesfrance.org @bsecs.bsky.social @sfeds-bs.bsky.social #Jacobite #Lorraine #History #Travel
- Reposted by BSECSLook forward to welcoming the @bsecs.bsky.social Council to Northampton today for our spring meeting! Our first ever meeting in the east midlands I think?
- Congratulations to @xinyiwenhps.bsky.social, BSECS-Bodleian Fellow for 2025 for their research exploring how extra-illustration – the practice of pasting images onto books – transformed the transmission of natural knowledge through the Bodleian Libraries’ collections www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen
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- **CLOSING DATE TOMORROW** The extended deadline for our PG/ECR conference call for papers closes tomorrow. #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
- We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to postgrad@bsecs.org.uk by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
- Reposted by BSECSDue to several requests (we all know you are all super busy), we are extending our CfP until Wednesday 26th March. So if you are interested in joining us for 18th c shenanigans in Bath in July, please submit a proposal! Full details below ⬇️ #skystorians #18thc @bsecs.bsky.social
- We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to postgrad@bsecs.org.uk by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
- #FeelGoodFriday The winner of the #BSECS2025 Digital Prize is the Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830 database! The database contains borrowing records from 18 Scottish Libraries, 43,000 register pages, 162,000 borrowing acts #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ @books-borrowing.bsky.social borrowing.stir.ac.uk
- #FeelGoodFriday Congratulations to Jake Bransgrove who is our 2025 GPP/BSECS Fellow. His project explores the social functions of paper silhouettes within cultures of elite sociability in the Georgian court. #18thC #skystorians 🗃️
- Russborough House, Co. Wicklow, are organising a study day to celebrate the return home of Murillo's Prodigal Son series on 10 April 2025. The cross-disciplinary discussions will consider the evolving life of Country House Display. Link below #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.russborough.ie/whats-on/the...
- Reposted by BSECSDon’t forget our CfP for our long 18thc @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference in Bath 30-31st July on the theme of facades! Closes on 21st March. We can’t wait to welcome you to Bath Spa and the city! #skystorians #18c #19c #17c Please share with anyone interested!
- The proceedings of the SEAA 17-18's 2022 #PGR #ECR conference have now been published. The theme was 'Teaching and Education in France & the British Isles during the #17thC & #18thC' Full details here: carnet1718.hypotheses.org/2174
- The British Society for Literature and Science Conference is 20! And to celebrate they are holding a #online conference, 8-9 May 2025. Sign up here: online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/product-cata... Full programme available online: www.bsls.ac.uk/events/confe...
- Updated deadline: QMCECS/BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship to facilitate research in London libraries & archives. £500 travel/living expenses + accommodation in Mile End. Applications + 2 page CV to m.ellis@qmul.ac.uk by 31 March 2025 #18thC #skystorians #ecr 🗃️ www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...
- Date for your diaries: 'Keats and LSD' 27 March, 6.30pm, Keats House, London This talk takes a fresh look at one of Keats’s best-known & well-loved poems, ‘On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer’ (1816) #18thC #skystorians #keats #BSECS 1/4
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- We are delighted to announce the winner of our inaugural @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social BSECS Career Development Fellowship: Madeleine Saidenberg #18thc #postdoc #skystorians 🗃️ 1/2
- We are delighted to announce the winner of our #Teaching Prize, awarded to Prof Julia Prest @sta-modlangs.bsky.social for their course 'Translating French Opera' running with support from Birds of Paradise Theatre Company #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ 1/5
- The Canadian Society for #18thC Studies & the US & UK Burney Societies are establishing a new fellowship named after Peter Sabor. Funds raised will be used to establish a research fellowship promoting editing projects #skystorians #funding 🗃️ 1/2
- Still a couple of weeks to go until the deadline for our @BSECS #postgrad conference. Some funding is available to help with attendance costs. Details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
- We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to postgrad@bsecs.org.uk by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
- Applications for the @BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship are now open - up to £4,000 to support a visiting scholar to research the culture, history, and identity of NE England & Scottish boarders. Deadline 31 May 2025, details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...
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- There's still time to submit your abstract to our postgraduate conference - on the theme of facades OR any other aspect of the long #18thC - by the 21 March #skystorians 🗃️
- We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to postgrad@bsecs.org.uk by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
- The call for applications for Being Human Festival 2025 is open! Funding available for public engagement with research activities to take place in November. Deadline 4 July 2025. www.beinghumanfestival.org/get-involved #18thC #skystorians 🗃️
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- #CFP #18thC #skystorians 'Gilbert Whilte and his Contexts', 3-5 June 2025 at Selbourne (Hampshire) Proposals welcomed for 20min papers, panels of 3 speakers, or roundtables of 5 speakers. Please submit abstracts (300 words) by 4 April 2025 to conference@gilbertwhite.org.uk gilbertwhite.org.uk
- CONGRATULATIONS to the winner of the #BSECS2025 President's Prize, Zoe Copeman! Zoe's paper 'Women's access to anatomical knowledge in #18thC Britain and France' used Anne Lister's diaries to show how women had access to surgical imagery, but often didn't interpret it correctly or fully 🗃️ 1/2
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- **CANCELLATION** Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event will sadly no longer be going ahead. Those of you with tickets through Eventbrite should have been informed already.
- Date for your diaries: Weds 5 Feb, 6pm, at KCL, London 'The Tory Rising: Insurrection in the Revolutionary South' #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ For more information and to book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mount-vern...
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- Date for your diaries: Weds 5 Feb, 6pm, at KCL, London 'The Tory Rising: Insurrection in the Revolutionary South' #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ For more information and to book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mount-vern...
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- We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to postgrad@bsecs.org.uk by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
- We are very proud to be able to offer a number of fellowships and awards this year. Many of them have a deadline of the 1 February. Find all the details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... #BSECS2025 #18thC
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- If you had a great time at #BSECS2025 & would like to play a more active role in our society, we have a vacancy for Assistant Treasurer. Council members get subsidised attendance at the conference + some travel & accommodation expenses #18thC #skystorians www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...
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- And that’s it for another year. Every year we are amazed at the range, scope and quality of our member’s research. The conference is both reliant on, and testament to, your scholarship and collegiality. Thanks so much for joining us for #BSECS2025, and see you for #BSECS2026!
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- Reposted by BSECSHi everyone enjoying #BSECS2025 @bsecs.bsky.social , the German Society for the Study of the 18th Century is advertising its first Dissertation Prize. Applications (& dissertations) in English, en français & auf Deutsch welcome. Deadline 31/1/2025. Details in image & alt-text. #C18 Please share. 🙏
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- Session II today covers transatlantic bodies, military bodies, performing bodies, inscribed bodies AND a workshop on ‘creative journalling and self-care practices for the purposeful researcher’ run by the winner of #BSECS2024 President’s Prize @emmamitchell #BSECS2025
- For delegates checking out today, you can leave your bags in The Rookery, staircase 6 on the map, in the corner of the main quad #BSECS2025
- Don’t forget to submit your nomination for the President’s Prize before you leave us? Forms are available at the registration desk, in your conference programme, or there is also a QR code in the programme for you to complete your nomination online #BSECS2025 #18thC
- It's our final day, but there is still so much to see, hear, and think about. This morning we have panels on materialities, challenging stereotypes, gothic bodies, lifecycles, satirical bodies, Laurence Sterne, #18thC poetry & embodied emotions #BSECS2025
