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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 10d

‘the gauntlet of interruptions’

Robert Heath describes travelling from Fleet Street to Piccadilly, 1768

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 16d

Archbishop Drummond x2

the autograph of Archbishop Drummond (re)united with a print of the man himself

Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Aug 24

@bsecs.bsky.social correspondent of Pope, Swift - hoping someone has been down this path already!

Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Aug 24

Does anyone have access to example of the handwriting of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684-1775)? Thanks in advance!

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’

Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jul 30

We are delighted to be co-hosting the Laurence Sterne Conference this year from 5th - 7th November 2025 at @sotauol.bsky.social🌍
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
@lsternetrust.bsky.social

The Laurence Sterne Conference 'Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne' from 5-7 Nov 2025 in the School of the Arts Library. Registration deadline 1/09/25, proposal deadline 15/08/25.

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jul 26

What, no mention of Mr Nanny?

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jul 1

oops, exceeded my daily views limit on FindMyPast - first time that’s happened!

Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 28

Probate copy of the last will of Caesar Ward, bookseller and printer of York, dated 10 November 1759 - his wife and executrix Ann Ward continued his trade and printed the first volumes of Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’ just weeks later

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 21

which by-the-by is the sort of thing Dave Mustaine would call him when reminiscing about 1983

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 21

yeah, used to be in Metallica with James Hurtfeels

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 17

The nation’s favourite physics-defying adulterer

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 17

apparently today is #CrocodileDay, which is the perfect excuse to post this plate from Samuel Wesley’s ‘Dissertations on the Book of Job’ from 1736

Eighteenth-century engraving of a crocodile

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Hull History Centre @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social · Jun 16

16-22 June is Refugee Week. #Hull, like elsewhere in the UK received citizens from abroad because of the instability and upheaval caused by the French Revolution and resulting Napoleonic rule, like Samuel Jacobs of Poland mentioned here
@hulllibraries.bsky.social

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · May 30

IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS!
Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June!
Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
Click on the link for the full CFP

www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS Annual Conference

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 15

Read my essay ‘Patronage, Performance, and Reputation in Sterne’s Early Clerical Career, 1737-42’ (2022) for free @livunipress.bsky.social !

Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Feb 25

Interested in Literary Studies? Read free issues of The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism and The Byron Journal via the LUP website: bit.ly/FREE-ISSUES-LUP
@lsternetrust.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social @profdanielcook.bsky.social‬ @asecsoffice.bsky.social

An image of four stacked journal issues containing The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism, and The Byron journal on a beige background.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jun 15

📚 Most read in The Shandean this week:
'The Life of Books in Tristram Shandy' by Judith Hawley
Read it online: bit.ly/Books-Shandean
‪‪ @drwilliams.bsky.social ‪ @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social‬ @llc-rhul.bsky.social‬

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 14

Wonderful to be back at The Bar Convent to speak about Jaques Sterne and his campaign of nastiness against Catholics in York after the ‘45

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 12

partying like it’s 1765 courtesy of @gilbertwhites.bsky.social

a bottle of Gilbert’s 1765 sat beside a half pint glass tankard

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 9

“motley emblem of my work!” as Sterne said

Museum of North Craven Life @ The Folly, Settle @thefollysettle.bsky.social · Jun 6

Did you know that marbling is considered an endangered craft?
Our Friday Club have been busy this morning creating their own marbled paper, inspired by books and ledgers in our museum collection.

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Gilbert White's House & Gardens @gilbertwhites.bsky.social · Jun 6

We’ve had a wonderful time hosting an international conference this week ‘Gilbert White and his Contexts’.
Truly interdisciplinary much like White himself with literary historians, ecologists, educators, biologists, theologians and historians and everything in between!

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 5

Cheers to the organisers, hosts, and participants of #GilbertWhiteConference for a really stimulating few days! And what better way to toast this success than with a nanobrew from @gilbertwhites.bsky.social made to his own recipe!

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 3

our papers on White’s clerical contexts safely delivered, we’re looking forward to getting closer to @gilbertwhite.bsky.social at @gilbertwhites.bsky.social tomorrow, and seeing the @curioustravellers.bsky.social exhibition

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · Jun 3

an intrepid start for me and my co-panellists on our way to #GilbertWhiteConference in (usually) sunny Selborne, with thanks to our hosts @stephholtnh.bsky.social @brycchancarey.bsky.social

A sign in the foreground reads ‘Conference Delegates This Way’ pointing across a rainswept meadow

Assembled delegates inside a timber framed barn

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · May 29

You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).

A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.

Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/

An illustration of a man riding a horse while blowing a horn, with a yellow sun above. The illustration is laid over faded text on a blue backdrop.

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · May 27

Delighted to have chaired the John Wesley Lecture last week @lincoln.ox.ac.uk - a really excellent presentation by @markkirby.bsky.social

youtu.be/2C6jwsAgbZo?...

Mark Kirby - John Wesley and the Architecture of Early Methodism (John Wesley Lecture 2025)

YouTube video by Westminster Oxford Research Network

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