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Dr Helen Williams
@drwilliams.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Literature & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
📚 Author of Laurence Sterne & the C18 Book (CUP, 2021)
📚 Co-editor of John Cleland’s Letters (CUP, 2024)
📚 Working on a global history of women in book production
Each year, Liverpool University Press offers a free issue of each journal. This year's free Shandean is volume 32 (2021), featuring philosophy, translation, travel, double entendre, the provincial book trade, and Whig politics, & gorgeous images.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/shandean...
February 4, 2026 at 8:27 PM
We're in paperback! And we have a discount code!

*Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture*

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195425/
January 24, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Last Chance: Pandemic Artefacts

We've extended the deadline for our call for objects to 30 Jan. Our project features items acquired by members of the public, across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with their personal stories.

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
January 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
*The Shandean* top-read articles in December:
The amazing Amelia Dale got a Christmas number one!
The top three are open access and you can read more at:
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/shan...
January 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Call for Objects: Pandemic Artefacts

We would like to feature items acquired by members of the public, across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with their personal stories.

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
December 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Excited for the forum tomorrow - everyone welcome!

northeastforum.wordpress.com/current-sche...
December 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trades - a very special conference in the most amazing printing/historic house museum, The Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
📣 Fully funded AHRC collaborative PhD studentship working with Tyne and Wear Archives 📣

'Wholesaler of the North: The Bewick-Beilby Enterprise and Newcastle Print History'

www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/pos...
December 2, 2023 at 11:04 AM