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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 22d

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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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you!

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 22d

Big news! Still pinching myself 📚

Northumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social · 22d

📣Two talented Northumbria researchers have today been awarded a share of £120 million from @ukri.org's flagship Future Leaders Fellowship fund to help advance their work in space physics and book history.

🎉Congratulations to Dr @charlottestalks.bsky.social
and Dr @drwilliams.bsky.social

Northumbria researchers announced as winners of Future Leaders Fellowships

Two talented researchers from Northumbria University have been awarded a share of £120 million from UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) flagship Future Leaders Fellowship fund to help advance their wo...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 8

Following on from our pilot event, the Arvon Foundation have launched another writing masterclass for academics creating public-facing material.

16th September 7-9pm, with author and climate scientist Peter Stott MBE, registration £40/£20 concessions.

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Masterclass: from Academic to General Non-Fiction | Writing that connects | Arvon

If you have an academic background, how do you find a place for creativity in your writing? Academics often capture fascinating stories in their research and archival work, but they don’t necessarily ...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 30

Not jealous at all 😆

Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 30

I haven’t been, nor have I read anything recent on it.

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 30

There’s still time 🕰️

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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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 30

Deadline 31 August 💚

BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Jul 23

***Engagement Officer Vacancy***
We're looking for an engagement officer to act as primary point of contact for #18thC centres across the UK, and to oversee our outreach and engagement. It's a voluntary role, but associated travel & accommodation expenses are paid...
www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

Vacancies - BSECS

Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 17

Free event on Republican Bodies: Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Politics. Durham, 18 September. Register here:
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Republican Bodies: Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Politics

7 Owengate, Durham University, DH1 3HB

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 17

This looks amazing!

Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh announces the launch of a new website, The People’s Dispensary featuring a digitised and transcribed collection of 18th century case notes of the Edinburgh Public Dispensary from its foundation in 1776.
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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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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Jun 4

Audiobook listeners! Please could you complete our 5-min survey on northern voices? And please share widely!

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

Northern Audiobooks

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Apr 24

Fully-funded PhD with the @britishlibrary and @NorthumbriaUni

'The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place'

Deadline 31 May for an October start

www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/pos...

Northern Bridge Consortium (NBC) Doctoral Training Partnership

Northumbria University is a member of the Northern Bridge Consortium, a doctoral training partnership in which we collaborate with Durham, Newcastle, Queen's Belfast, Sunderland, Teesside and Ulster U...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · May 16

The Brief Lives 2025 Essay Award is open to UK and Ireland based writers under 35 - deadline 30 September, word limit 3,000. The biographical subject, or subjects, should be historical figures of significance.

See elhb.uk/brieflives for more details about the Award, including eligibility.

Brief Lives Essay Award - ELHB

Elizabeth Longford Brief Lives 2025 Essay Award for Historical Biography is open to UK residents aged 35 and younger

elhb.uk

Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · May 16

The BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship offers up to £4000 to research the history, culture, literature, and/or identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Deadline for applications is 31 May 2025. Find out more at www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Prizes and awards Archive - BSECS

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · May 16

Our book is out now, online open-access!

Literary Heritage: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Literary Heritage: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic

Literary Heritage examines the literary heritage sector in the post-pandemic moment. The book argues that this is a unique time for literary heritage management and demonstrates that the key to unders...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Apr 24

Fully-funded PhD with the @britishlibrary and @NorthumbriaUni

'The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place'

Deadline 31 May for an October start

www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/pos...

Northern Bridge Consortium (NBC) Doctoral Training Partnership

Northumbria University is a member of the Northern Bridge Consortium, a doctoral training partnership in which we collaborate with Durham, Newcastle, Queen's Belfast, Sunderland, Teesside and Ulster U...

www.northumbria.ac.uk

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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · Apr 4

“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”

My NEH grant has been terminated

Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars

You can’t say history isn’t relevant

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Apr 5

Looking on in horror right now - this thread is a tonic. Thank you, Kate x

Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · Apr 5

My dream book history course would pair Raddus's chapter with @drwilliams.bsky.social with "Craftivism and Cottonian Bindings: “The Handiwork of Greta Hall”" in Criticism (2022) to trace how women created culturally significant bindings of books

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Craftivism and Cottonian Bindings: “The Handiwork of Greta Hall”

Edith Southey, Edith May Southey, and Sara Coleridge Jr. covered Robert Southey’s books in vibrantly printed dress fabrics, creating a collection that came to be called “the Cottonian Library.” This a...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Mar 18

This will be so good! CFP deadline this week.

Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social · Mar 12

Don’t forget our CfP for our long 18thc @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference in Bath 30-31st July on the theme of facades! Closes on 21st March. We can’t wait to welcome you to Bath Spa and the city! #skystorians #18c #19c #17c Please share with anyone interested!

Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Mar 17

Deadline 31 March 📣📣📣

Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Mar 7

Antwerp conference at the wonderful Plantin Moretus and Rubens House Museums

CFP: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade

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Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, University of Antwerp, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University ...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Mar 17

Had a nice chat with my friend Declan about my latest obsession - listen here x

Biographicon: a podcast on the Northern Enlightenment

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10. Sarah Hodgson a radical type, with Helen Williams - Biographicon

In this episode I am joined by Helen Williams, a specialist in eighteenth-century book history to find out about the Newcastle-upon-Tyne printer-publisher, newspaper editor and radical Sarah Hodgson. ...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Mar 7

Antwerp conference at the wonderful Plantin Moretus and Rubens House Museums

CFP: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade

museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, University of Antwerp, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University ...

museumplantinmoretus.be

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Mar 7

Please can people who listen to audiobooks fill in our survey? It's about hearing northern voices.

This is a project we're running with
New Writing North to celebrate their new audiobook recording studio on campus.

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · Jan 22

So interesting but hadn’t come across it!

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