DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social
@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.
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Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
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Really pleased that the lecture I gave on disability in history for @histassoc.bsky.social is now live and #openaccess #DisabilityHistoryMonth #CriptheCurriculum #18C #WilliamHay #LifeWriting Link: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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OBR estimates that abolition of two-child cap will reduce child poverty by 450,000 and benefit 560,000 families by an average of £5,310 per year.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
OBR estimates that abolition of two-child cap will reduce child poverty by 450,000 and benefit 560,000 families by an average of £5,310 per year.
Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!
DON'T FORGET to register for #BSECS2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026.
Early bird rates apply until tomorrow (Saturday 15 November 2025)
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
Early bird rates apply until tomorrow (Saturday 15 November 2025)
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
www.bsecs.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!
Tell me you’re doing essay feedback sessions without telling me you’re doing essay feedback sessions #UKHigherEd
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Tell me you’re doing essay feedback sessions without telling me you’re doing essay feedback sessions #UKHigherEd
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New Publication Alert
Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722
Published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New Publication Alert
Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Palmer, Russell, et al. "A Roundtable Discussion of Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-14.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Whomever decided to push the budget to a month before Christmas just to edge out the misery and drip feed scare stories really needs to give their head a wobble. I am so tired of hearing about ‘the budget’ that is yet to be. Why must we suffer so much? #UKPolitics
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Whomever decided to push the budget to a month before Christmas just to edge out the misery and drip feed scare stories really needs to give their head a wobble. I am so tired of hearing about ‘the budget’ that is yet to be. Why must we suffer so much? #UKPolitics
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Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Nigel Farage asked former Conservative MP Enoch Powell to back Ukip
Despite his ‘rivers of blood’ speech, the Ukip leader has said the central thrust of Powell’s immigration arguments hold true
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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The @nlireland.bsky.social is inviting people to step back into the #kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old #winter #recipes for food lovers and amateur cooks to recreate at home: www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Recreate 18th and 19th-century warming winter recipes at home
The National Library of Ireland (NLI ) is inviting people to step back into the kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old winter recipes for food l...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The @nlireland.bsky.social is inviting people to step back into the #kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old #winter #recipes for food lovers and amateur cooks to recreate at home: www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Food for thought: students don’t want ‘cheap AI’ instruction (anyone with half a brain cell knows this already). But worth telegraphing to a sector being tapped for AI investment: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Food for thought: students don’t want ‘cheap AI’ instruction (anyone with half a brain cell knows this already). But worth telegraphing to a sector being tapped for AI investment: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The film is absorbing and I enjoyed several of the performances, including both Woodall & Malek. The Soviets were also involved in the Nuremberg trials but you wouldn’t know that from this film, which says something interesting about filmic representation and the limits of accommodation.
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The film is absorbing and I enjoyed several of the performances, including both Woodall & Malek. The Soviets were also involved in the Nuremberg trials but you wouldn’t know that from this film, which says something interesting about filmic representation and the limits of accommodation.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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We read a LOT of books for the Nero Book Awards Fiction category and it was hard to whittle it down to four.
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We read a LOT of books for the Nero Book Awards Fiction category and it was hard to whittle it down to four.
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
The script of the new #Frankenstein has the complexity of a middling rank undergraduate essay.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The script of the new #Frankenstein has the complexity of a middling rank undergraduate essay.
A queer special collections archival trip for students on my #QueerLit course today. We are reading Evaristo’s #MrLoverman so lots of #Windrush material on display, too. Particularly interesting were House of Commons notes from the Race Relations Act 1965 debate written by then MP Bernard Weatherill
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A queer special collections archival trip for students on my #QueerLit course today. We are reading Evaristo’s #MrLoverman so lots of #Windrush material on display, too. Particularly interesting were House of Commons notes from the Race Relations Act 1965 debate written by then MP Bernard Weatherill
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
every company in 2025
Cycling really is like walking with your thumb on the fast forward button.
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Cycling really is like walking with your thumb on the fast forward button.
A beautiful film about addiction & love.
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A beautiful film about addiction & love.
Really pleased that the lecture I gave on disability in history for @histassoc.bsky.social is now live and #openaccess #DisabilityHistoryMonth #CriptheCurriculum #18C #WilliamHay #LifeWriting Link: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Really pleased that the lecture I gave on disability in history for @histassoc.bsky.social is now live and #openaccess #DisabilityHistoryMonth #CriptheCurriculum #18C #WilliamHay #LifeWriting Link: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Take a look at the elegant 'Recovery Histories' website for how ideas about trauma and recovery from child sexual abuse have developed over the 2nd half of the C20th: shra.bbk.ac.uk/projects/rec... @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @crispp.bsky.social @cultsochistory.bsky.social
Recovery Histories – Sexual Harms Research Alliance
shra.bbk.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Take a look at the elegant 'Recovery Histories' website for how ideas about trauma and recovery from child sexual abuse have developed over the 2nd half of the C20th: shra.bbk.ac.uk/projects/rec... @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @crispp.bsky.social @cultsochistory.bsky.social
For literary historians of political rhetoric and sodomy this is, in fact, not so bizarre a claim from him.
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
For literary historians of political rhetoric and sodomy this is, in fact, not so bizarre a claim from him.
Had a birthday meal with friends last night and this condensed milk ice cream with caramel sauce and cashew nuts made me feel alive again. Too much to share? I apologise.
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Had a birthday meal with friends last night and this condensed milk ice cream with caramel sauce and cashew nuts made me feel alive again. Too much to share? I apologise.