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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jun 24

Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing!
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #danieldefoe #defoe

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Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social · May 6

"18th-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection" - Applications for this 4-year funded PhD studentship, supervised between Keele Univ. and the British Library, closes tomorrow!
www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection

www.keele.ac.uk

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · Apr 3

Supervised by myself and Prof Seager!

Deadline 7 May 2025

Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social · Apr 3

Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection

www.keele.ac.uk

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Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social · Apr 3

Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection

www.keele.ac.uk

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Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social · Mar 9

There is still time to submit a proposal for the 8th biennial @defoesociety.bsky.social Defoe Society Conference, which is happening in beautiful Lichfield, U.K., 3-5 July 2025. All details here:
www.defoesociety.org/conference/

Conference, The Defoe Society

The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society Discoveries and Improvements, 1660–1740 Thursday, July 3–Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Lichfield...

www.defoesociety.org

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Feb 6

THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the fascinating project “Visual Cultures of Fascism” - deadline for applications 5pm, Friday, 28 Feb. 2025. Please send applications to my colleague, Roland Clark (clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk)
#skystorians 🗃️www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the project “Visual Cultures of Fascism”

Applications are invited for three fully-funded AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Award (+3) beginning in September 2025. The rising popularity of the 35mm Leica camera and the Parvo video camera i...

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Jan 22

CFP: Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740
The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society
Thursday, July 3 – Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K.)
Deadline: January 31, 2025

www.defoesociety.org/conference/

#18C 18thC

Conference, The Defoe Society

The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740 Thursday, July 3 - Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University,...

www.defoesociety.org

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Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social · Jan 4

In case you missed it Cfp for the Defoe conference - as usual also accepting papers on topics related to Defoe and his times. #18thC www.defoesociety.org/conference/

Conference, The Defoe Society

The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740 Thursday, July 3 - Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University,...

www.defoesociety.org

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