If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory

Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm.

For further details & tickets:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

@midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social

Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:

www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

If you haven't had a chance yet to look at our new book, here it is (for free!): uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

The official launch will be in Nottingham next month, with further events to follow in Birmingham next month and London next year: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/briti...

Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism

Email David Willis if you want a Teams link!

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...

The latest #OA book supported by the Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award is now available!

"British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700" (@uolpress.bsky.social) is a collection of essays examining the intersection of British working-class and radical writing: bit.ly/4pRkSK4

Read our latest book online now - topics include the obstacles facing writers, women writers, socialism, feminism, anti-imperialism, & diasporic identities.

British Working-Class & Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social:

read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/bri...

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

Steaming this eve (GMT) I'll be speaking on abolitionism and naval medicine in the 1780s at the 'Science and Revolution' conference'. Full programme: www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...

Both days of the conference will be available via livestream here (times EST): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Published today by ​Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social is a new, co-edited, open-access essay collection: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700.
Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

Looking forward to kicking off the 'Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions' conference next week @amphilsociety.bsky.social, on the 'Science on the Front Lines' panel.

I'll be tackling naval medicine + abolition

It's free and open to the public!
www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...

Blessed sunshine at last to accompany the start of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Summer School today! + found out I'm in a video about last year's conference on 'Animal Thinkers': vimeo.com/1094757932?f...

Super news! Cambridge University Library have saved the papers of another working-class poet, James Withers (1812-92). How rare it is to have this kind of material preserved - bravo! www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Forg...

Very much looking forward to presenting at this upcoming conference - and so excited to finally meet Linda Colley! Free to register: blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/...

Join Leverhulme Early Career Fellows @adambridgen.bsky.social ‬and Rebecca Macklin who will be speaking at an event next week on the multi-faceted dimensions of extraction through visual media, storytelling, creative and interpretive practices @durham-university.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/nkvsd9xp

Ahoy Bluesky! Teaching is done for the year, blessed be. Thanks to @fierengraw.bsky.social and @maryfairclough.bsky.social for the invite, and apols for the delay... Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends in pastures pleasant and new!