Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York
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• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for over 25 years • Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850 • Home to the interdisciplinary in MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
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📣 Our next research seminar is today! @lenaliapi.bsky.social will be presenting a paper titled ‘Contrasting News and Controlling the Narrative: English and French News Reporting in the Wake of the 1696 Conspiracy’.
🗓️ 8 October, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
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Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’.
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Mary Fairclough develops a new approach to Mary Wollstonecraft's rhetoric of devotional feeling.
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This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
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crems-york.bsky.social
Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the academic year! @saragwynbeam.bsky.social will be kicking things off with an excellent paper titled ‘Paradoxes in the History of Torture and the Advent of Modernity in Europe, 1400-1700’.
🗓️ 1 October, 1pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 - Heslington Hall
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merchantshallyork.org
A selection of wigs for your delectation and delight.

Wig 1. Sir Henry Thompson Baronet (not the wig - the man underneath it).

Wig description: Long, curly but clearly in need of some conditioner.
We are looking at a man with a pasty yet ruddy face. He is wearing a long curly mousy brown hair. It's a bit frizzy. He is wearing a red robe trimmed with fur accompanied with a lace cravat and lace cuffs.
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Again and again, the response @laurenworking.bsky.social and I received from #StudentSalon workshops was how much handling objects meant.
As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.'

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Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )
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VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC

The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata.

Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians
Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer - RHS
The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and dev...
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It’s here!! 🎉 The CfP for the FIFTH ANNE-VERSARY Anne Lister Soc’y Mtg, 3-4 Apr 2026 in Halifax! We seek proposals from scholars & researchers across the Listerverse, on any topic from Anne’s life & times to her afterlives. Due 1 Nov. For more details ➡️ english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…
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bsecs.bsky.social
THERE IS STILL TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER PROPOSAL FOR #BSECS2026!

The deadline is MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER and there will be no more extensions!

Come & share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026. It's a lovely way to start the new year!
#skystorians #18thC #academicsky 🗃️
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aksagal.bsky.social
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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Congratulations Dr Garcenot!
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I am so happy to share that I officially graduated with a PhD in English Literature from York this summer!

I am very grateful to my supervisor @maryfairclough.bsky.social for her support til the end and all the staff and friends at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies @cecs-york.bsky.social ❤️
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Thank you! This is lovely to see. We’ll pass this along to John and we promise that we’re still as friendly and intellectually stimulating as ever.
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The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
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BSECS - Submit a Proposal
Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.
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And just in case it sounds like I'm only crediting my old MA supervisor John Barrell with teaching me "some things" - here's the more fulsomely worded and entirely accurate credit I give him (and the rest of @cecs-york.bsky.social) in my acknowledgements!
I’ve been thinking through Welsh cultural revivalism since my MA degree at the University of York. I’m hugely grateful to the English Department at Ysgol Bro Myrddin and everyone at Hertford College, Oxford (in particular, Emma Smith), but CECS at King’s Manor was where the long eighteenth century really caught hold of me: an exciting, open, friendly, generous, ever-so-slightly intellectually rowdy research culture will do that for you. I’m truly thankful to everyone I met there, student or tutor, and my thanks in particular go to John Barrell, who supervised my dissertation, grilled me about harps, wrote me umpteen references, and pointed me towards research funding that made my PhD possible – I’m not sure I’d be writing this without him.
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annelisterforum.bsky.social
Delighted to share our first call for contributions! We are seeking proposals to lead meetings in any format which will promote conversation and debate among junior Lister scholars. Deadline 15th October. See below & please help spread the word!
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Professor Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social is a former contributor to the research seminar at York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. During her visit to York, she also led a fantastic session on journal publication for all arts & humanities PhDs at York.
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I’m a happy camper to have @zugenia.bsky.social ‘s new book A Funny Thing to look forward to reading!
Photo of book A Funny Thing in front of the historic buildings of King’s Manor in York.
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Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne
University of Liverpool, 5-7 Nov 2025
CFP open until 15 Sept 2025
More info: terraqueousglobe.wordpress.com
#18thC #18C #18thCentury #Sterne #LaurenceSterne @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social
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Congratulations to CECS director Chloe Wigston Smith, on being a finalist for the Susanne M. Glasscock prize for interdisciplinary research that reaches academic and wider audiences.
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How exciting to be part of this impressive group of finalists for the 26th Susanne M. Glasscock book prize for my @yalepress.bsky.social This prize recognizes “outstanding, original interdisciplinary research in the humanities that appeals to both academic and wider audiences.”
Poster image of 6 book covers of the finalists for the Glasscock prize. Text description of the books at this link: https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/glasscock/finalists-26th-bp/
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The Huntingdon room was clearly auspicious for you! We hope you’ll come to visit us in York the next time you’re in the UK.
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It’s always so nice to hear from CECS alumni! If you would like to stay in touch with CECS, we have a mailing list sign up at this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Superb final keynote by Scott Krawczyk on Voicing Anti-War Dissent. Our landmark Barbauld conference also featured excellent keynotes by Emma Clery, Elizabeth Kraft & William McCarthy. Thank you to all of our brilliant presenters & to organisers @maryfairclough.bsky.social & Jo Wharton 💫 #Barbauld
Scott Krawczyk delivering his keynote address to conference delegates