The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/ https://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mlpyyjc7w22rDon't forget to apply for our #BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship. Travel, accommodation, and related expenses of up to £4,000 to support a visiting scholar of the #18thC at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, deadline 26 June 2026 #skystorians 🗃️ Details below! https://www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-awards/13 May 2026 09:38 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpyyjc7w22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mlpysubmn22rTONIGHT! @naomipullin.bsky.social on the 'Pleasures and Perils of Aloneness' [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpysubmn22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mkozyhyuyc2bThere is only one more session of The North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Seminar for the academic year on the 8 May! Details below: https://northeastforum.wordpress.com/current-schedule-2013-2014/30 Apr 2026 06:58 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkozyhyuyc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mkhvsutrus22CONGRATULATIONS to @amrasharma15.bsky.social who is our #BSECS-Bodleian Visiting Fellow for 2026 🎉 Amrapali will use the fellowship to develop her project 'Daniel Defoe and Plague Discourse in the Long Eighteenth Century', examining how epidemic disease was understood in #18thC Britain27 Apr 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhvsutrus22https://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mjvs3hfwzk2jTomorrow's @cecs-york.bsky.social seminar is being delivered by Dr Harrie Neil on 'The Edgeworths, Ireland's Bogs, and Improvement'. For those of you who can make it in-person, there will be cake but you can also register to attend via zoom here: https://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/all/2026/neal21apr/ #skystorians #18thC20 Apr 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvs3hfwzk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mjvrwp3kkk2jNEW BOOK ALERT! Wednesday 13 May 2026 sees the launch of 'Gender, Science, and Sociability in the diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824) with a stellar list of speakers - in person and online https://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/all/2026/ewbankbooklaunch13may/ @cecs-york.bsky.social #skystorians #18thC20 Apr 2026 05:57 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvrwp3kkk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mjvrsnekjk2jOur friends @cecs-york.bsky.social have a really exciting programme over the next few weeks starting with their Annual Copley Lecture: Prof Ros Ballaster, 'The sense of touch and the shaping of the woman artist in the #18thC' #history #womenshist #skystorians https://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/events/all/2026/copleylectureballaster5may/20 Apr 2026 05:55 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvrsnekjk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mhxqdv2ql22dONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO GO! #CFP #skystorians #18thC [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxqdv2ql22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mhajuzalo22iIf you find yourself in Paris on the 10-12 June 2026, you might like to attend @isecs-sieds.bsky.social 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual & political disputes today', at the Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris Details ⬇️ #skystorians #18thC 🗃️17 Mar 2026 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhajuzalo22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mhahrfjn6k2iCONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/research/research-projects/eighteenth-century-libraries-online/ #skystorians 🗃️17 Mar 2026 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhahrfjn6k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mgwc7mawg22hDEADLINE EXTENDED to the 31 March 2026! Join our PGRs and ECRs in Montpellier this autumn to discuss the theme of 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #PGR #ECR #CFP [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Mar 2026 06:33 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgwc7mawg22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mgwc3rjwe22h [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Mar 2026 06:31 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgwc3rjwe22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mgrfx64dyk2v***DEADLINE ON FRIDAY 13 MARCH*** Don't forget to submit your proposals for our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery! Only two days left to go! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2026 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgrfx64dyk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mdfjauvyys2yYou may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️27 Jan 2026 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdfjauvyys2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mgmphc76222vCONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our second teaching prize, Marine Ganofsky. Her #interdisciplinary course invites students to discover 18thC France's fascination with #magic, imagination, & wonder, challenging the idea that the Enlightenment disenchanted the world. #skystorians 🗃️09 Mar 2026 11:03 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmphc76222vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mgmp4dwjbs2vCONGRATULATIONS 🎉 Angus Sutherland @edinburghnapier.bsky.social, our Boydell & Brewer Career Development Fellow 2026! Angus studies #18thC practical manuals written by & for shepherds/sheep farmers to see how they challenge Enlightenment narratives of agricultural 'improvement' #skystorians 🗃️09 Mar 2026 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmp4dwjbs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mgexrylgxs2z#FeelgoodFriday CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to Emrys Jones who has won one of our #BSECS2026 Teaching Prizes. His prize-winning course introduces students to #18thC Britain's cultures of fame via a wide range of materials to identify parallels between the 18thC public sphere & our own #skystorians 🗃️06 Mar 2026 09:11 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgexrylgxs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mgb4ztthlk2nCongratulations🎉 @breerob-kirk.bsky.social! We can't wait to read it! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgb4ztthlk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mg5kx5k6722nMore CONGRATULATIONS 🎉#BSECS HQ today, this time to Isabel Realyvasquez, winner of our Presidents Prize, awarded for her paper 'Polar Archipelagos: Cook's Voyages at the Ends of the Earth #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #BSEC202603 Mar 2026 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg5kx5k6722nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bsecs.bsky.social/post/3mg3fd3qvoc2tCONGRATULATIONS to our #BSECS-GPP fellow for 2026, @zoescreti.bsky.social 🎉 Zoe's project examines archival loss in the Royal Collections, exploring the ways in which destroying manuscripts preserved reputations, avoided scandal, and shaped legacies at the apex of #18thC society #skystorians 🗃️02 Mar 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:tljgb7epsmdk57uhxia2vbwc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3fd3qvoc2t