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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 2d

And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just a few more days to apply to join the editorial team at Restoration! #earlymodern #academic #journals

Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 is looking for an Associate Editor to join our editorial team. 📢

Deadline is Sept. 5 and more info is linked below. Academic friends please share widely. DM @drerinnerung.bsky.social with questions.

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Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with
@dukepress.bsky.social in October!

Book cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 26

Officers of the Saint Hadrian company of the Haarlem civic guard, having a grand old time in 1627 and immortalized doing so by Frans Hals. Cheers!

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 is looking for an Associate Editor to join our editorial team. 📢

Deadline is Sept. 5 and more info is linked below. Academic friends please share widely. DM @drerinnerung.bsky.social with questions.

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Associate Editor Opening at Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700

Associate Editor Opening at Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 Restoration is looking for an Associate Editor to join Editors Dr. Laura Rosenthal and Dr. Erin Keating and Book ...

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks for letting me know! Will delete and re-post with proper link.

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

"[W]e hope to further illuminate the links between Behn, early ‘scientific’ collecting practices, and the colonizing process."

Discover Oroonoko’s insects in John Kuhn & Carolyn Arena's “Strange American Flies": Oroonoko and the Royal Society’s Early Surinamese Collections doi.org/10.1353/rst....

Image shows the Broadview Anthology of British Literature cover of Oroonoko by Aphra Behn. The image features artwork with a bright pink, red, and yellow flower with green leaves and several insects on and around it. The title and author are in a white box with blue outline at the bottom of the page.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · Aug 19

Publication day!!

Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more

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Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819

Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 18

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) English Restoration era playwright, fiction writer, and poet who was the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing #womensart

Painted portrait of a white woman head and shoulders facing slight left with ringlet dark hair, pearl necklace and low cut dress

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 9

@hernandez-sau.bsky.social (CHAM – Universidade Nova de Lisboa) reviews "Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders" (Palgrave, 2024) edited by @mboluferp.bsky.social, Laura Guinot-Ferri, & Carolina Blutrach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The cover of the book. An image on the cover is a woman looking through a looking glass.

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of the literature, history, and culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700/the adjacent periods? Or tracing Restoration texts, ideas, and culture anytime up to our current moment? Submit! blog.umd.edu/restorationstudiesjournal/submissions/

Submissions – Restoration

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adamxmcneil.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social · Aug 12

The faculty of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia campus, invites applications for two 9-month, full-time, tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 16, 2026.

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · Aug 10

Tugging further on this fascinating historical thread...

This painting shows Sir Harry Harper with a favourite horse, Furiband, and an unnamed groom, c. 1774: could this be a portrait of "Jockey Jack"? I certainly hope so! #18c

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · Aug 8

Although dating back to the 17th century, this map appears quite modern in style. John Ogilby’s Britannia marked the peak of a varied career from court dancer to Cosmographer to Charles II. Published in 1675, it was one of Britain’s first and most 1/3

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · Aug 8

The new Scottish Literary Review is out on Project Muse! A Special Issue, guest edited by Gioia Angeletti and Marina Dossena, it features articles on Early Modern ScotLit, Mary, Queen of Scots, Scottish Picturebooks, migration writings and drama. You can access it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55288

The yellow cover for the journal, Scottish Literary Review. It features a black and white line drawing of a stylised thistle growing from the open pages of a book.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Aug 8

Postdoctoral Research Associate (16th-18th century focus) - Inclusive Histories - Royal Holloway #skystorians 🗃️#earlymodern #c18th jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Associate (16th-18th century focus) - Inclusive Histories

Full-time, Fixed Term (12 months)Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Humanities.Inclusive Histories is a collaborative research and schools engage...

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Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social · Aug 8

This silver shilling of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is one of the earliest coins minted in what would become the USA. It depicts a pine tree & was struck in Boston sometime between c.1667 & 1682. This specimen is from the collection of the Hunterian museum.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 8

Twa Cats anes on a Cheese did light,
To which baith had an equal Right,
But Disputes, sic as aft arise,
Fell out at sharing of the Prize…

—Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), “The twa Cats & the Cheese”
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#C18th #Scots #poem #InternationalCatDay
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The twa Cats and the Cheese
Fable IX
by Allan Ramsay

Twa Cats anes on a Cheese did light,
To which baith had an equal Right,
But Disputes, sic as aft arise,
Fell out at sharing of the Prize;
Fair Play said ane, Ye bite o’er thick
Thae Teeth of yours gang wonder quick:
Let’s part it, else lang or the Moon
Be chang’d, the Kebuck will be done.

But wha’s to do’t,—They’re Parties baith,
And ane may do the other Skaith,
Sae with Consent away they trudge,
And laid the Cheese before a Judge,
A Monkey with a campsho Face,
Clerk to a Justice of the Peace,
A Judge he seem’d in Justice skill’d,
When he his Master’s Chair fill’d;
Now Umpire chosen for Division,
Baith sware to stand by his Decision.
Demure he looks.—The Cheese he pales,—
He prives it good,—Ca’s for the Scales,
His Knife whops throw’t,—In twa it fell,
He puts ilk Haff in either Shell;
Said he, We’ll truly weigh the Case,
And strickest Justice shall have Place,
Then lifting up the Scales, he fand
The tane bang up, the ither stand;
Syne out he took the heaviest Haff,
And ate a Knoost o’t quickly aff,
And try’d it syne,—It now prov’d light,
Friend Cats, said he, We’ll do ye right.
Then to the ither Haff he fell,
And laid till’t teughly Tooth and Nail,
Till weigh’d again it lightest prov’d:
The Judge wha this sweet Process lov’d,
Still weigh’d the Case, and still ate on,
Till Clients baith were weary grown,

And tenting how the Matter went,
Cry’d, Come, come Sir, We’re baith content.
Ye Fools, quoth he, and Justice too
Maun be content as well as you.
Thus grumbled they, thus he went on,
Till baith the Haves were near hand done;
Poor Pousies now the Daffine saw
Of gawn for Nignyes to the Law:
And bill’d the Judge that he wad please
To give them the remaining Cheese:
To which his Worship grave reply’d,
The Dues of Court maun first be paid.
Now Justice pleas’d,—What’s to the Fore
Will but right scrimply clear your Score;
That’s our Decreet,—Gae Hame and Sleep,
And thank us ye’re win aff sae cheap.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Aug 8

Shen Fuzong Michael Alphonsus of Nanjing, d. 1691. Shen toured Europe with plans for new #Jesuit missions in #China. In 1687 James II requested Godfrey Kneller to paint Shen's portrait which is still in The Royal Collection. Kneller was b. #otd 8 Aug 1646.

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · Aug 8

📢 Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 is looking for an Associate Editor to join our editorial team. 📢

Deadline is Sept. 5 and more info is linked below. Academic friends please share widely. Feel free to DM with questions.

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Associate Editor Opening at Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700

Associate Editor Opening at Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 Restoration is looking for an Associate Editor to join Editors Dr. Laura Rosenthal and Dr. Erin Keating and Book ...

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Dueling Discourses: The Erotics of Female Friendship in Mary Pix's Queen Catharine" by Dawn M. Goode
Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 37-60
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Project MUSE - Dueling Discourses: The Erotics of Female Friendship in Mary Pix's Queen Catharine

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

"'If I Appear to Any One Like a Counterfeit': Liminality in Rochester's Alexander Bendo's Brochure" by Don Bourne
Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 3-17
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Project MUSE - "If I Appear to Any One Like a Counterfeit": Liminality in Rochester's Alexander Bendo's Brochure

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Forsaken Justice: Thomas Shadwell’s The Libertine and the Earl of Rochester’s Lucina’s Rape Or the Tragedy of Vallentinian" by Anne Hermanson
Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 3-26
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Project MUSE - Forsaken Justice: Thomas Shadwell’s The Libertine and the Earl of Rochester’s Lucina’s Rape Or the Tragedy of Vallentinian

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