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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Will Self is a pompous bore and his prose is awful, but he is absolutely right on every point here. Well worth reading

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Professor Whittle is one of four colleagues in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Exeter elected to Fellowship of the British Academy this year. 🗃️ ALL FOUR of these outstanding scholars were placed at risk of redundancy last month. Here's their statement:

A written statement from from University of Exeter scholars just elected to the British Academy Fellowship 2026. There are photos of each scholar at the side of the text.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Devaluation and extraction go together and have done a number on the humanities. It would great to find a way to stop feeding the beast before we're all consumed. Anyway, just talked myself into my own quit-lit so we will leave it at that.

Being a scholar isn’t my vocation, nor am I curing cancer with my research on 19th century Catholic women. But more importantly, no one is owed my work. People say “But you should still write your book – you just have to.” I know they mean well, but actually, no, I don’t. I don’t owe anyone this book, or any other books, or anything else that’s in my head.

“But your work is so valuable,” people say. “It would be a shame not to find a way to publish it.”

Valuable to whom? To whom would the value of my labor accrue? And not to be too petty, but if it were so valuable, then why wouldn’t anyone pay me a stable living wage to do it?

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B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Excited to announce that Dr @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social and I will co-host our 4th annual conference this year at the John Rylands Library in Manchester. Call for papers is now alive. Please help us to spread the news. Grateful for the support of ASCH and AFCBS.

Conference Poster, “Voices for the Margins,” a day conference of the British Nonconformity in the long 18th century work group. Conference will be held at the John Rylands Library in Manchester on June 22, 2026.

Call for papers. Narratives of British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century often centre on key characters, further amplifying the voices which are already the loudest. This conference seeks to give attention to those who are situated on the peripheries of these narratives.This will include family members and
colleagues of more established figures, enslaved peoples, non-Western perspectives, the heterodox and heretical, the radical, and those engulfed in scandal. This conference aims to
consider a diverse range of social, economic,
racial, and
theological perspectives, giving attention to those who were
either
marginalised
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their own lifetimes, or have been
marginalised by subsequent historiographies.
We invite proposals for papers on any subject pertainting to this theme, which may include: The poor
• Women
• Family and friends of famous figures
• Overlooked figures
• Enslaved peoples
• Non-Western lives and perspectives
• Heterodox and heretical figures or views
• Radicals
• Scandalous figures
The conference is hosted by the British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century, co-convened by Drs Baiyu Andrew Song and Daniel Johnson, under the auspices of the American Society for Church History.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief biography by May 25, 2026 to c18.nonconformity@gmail.com.

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Why did clergymen marry? What did a wife offer them in serving their parishes? Why on earth would Charlotte Lucas marry Mr Collins? Answers to these questions, & much more, at this talk using the @thejohnrylands.bsky.social collections with curator Paul Carlyle. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clerical-c...

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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027. Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

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Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid

The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.

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UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) is excited to announce 3 new roles on our groundbreaking Valuable Lives project! 🔍 Open roles: • 2 x Research Assistant (Digital Humanities) • 1 x Research Fellow (Digital Humanities) 🗓 Closing date: 23 Jan 2026 shorturl.at/OCpLP

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Opportunities

Find opportunities to join UCL History in academic, research, teaching and learning, admin and other capacities below.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026. Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now. #booksky

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Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

My review of @benltjackson.bsky.social's excellent book!

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I'm going to @thenacbs.bsky.social this November (wahoo) in Montreal. My own funds are quite tight, does anyone know of funds available to ECRs to support attending I'd be really grateful!

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Really chuffed to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society today

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅 Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world. #WorldEnvironmentDay #BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️

Book cover for Vanished. Features a nineteenth-century print with a fossilised mastodon skeleton, Asian elephant being ridden by a turbaned man, Native and colonial figures looking on. In the background is a mountainous landscape and there is also a single passenger pigeon in the sky. The whole scene is framed by an ornate frame and foliage.

Below the book is the following text: A love letter to the astonishing ways of being that have survived past extinctions, and an exhortation to create a worthwhile world.

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Have just heard that a university has drawn up a policy excluding trans staff & students on campus from using single-sex spaces. Does anyone else know of any other UK unis doing this? Please let me know

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Had a wonderful conversation earlier this week with Miranda Melcher from the New Books Network about 'Material Masculinities' (out now with MUP! 😉) newbooksnetwork.com/material-mas...

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Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

New today from our GENDER IN HISTORY series 📣 Material Masculinities by @benltjackson.bsky.social explores how material objects were integral for men in forming their identities and shaping experiences in the eighteenth-century. Endorsed by @historymatt.bsky.social #GenderinHistory #18thCentury

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

'Material Masculinities' will be out in a couple of months! A labour of love, & sometimes hatred, it's about what does it mean to be a man and to possess things in the tumults of the eighteenth century. available to pre-order and 30% off at MUP manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/

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Manchester University Press - Material masculinities

Material masculinities - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Material masculinities by Ben Jackson

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Does anyone I know on here have a copy (electronic or physical) of Jennifer V. Evan's 'The Queer Art of History' so that I could read the introduction? BL hasn't got it catalogued, my library doesn't have it, and I haven't $88 to buy my own copy!

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Can anyone recommend some good transcribed and printed eighteenth-century women's diaries or letters - am hoping to find some gems in the BL this week!

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

A copyediting question! Should you capitalise 'T/town' for London for the 18C?

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

Just under a week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conference at Manchester in September 2024. We welcome any paper proposals exploring the 17 and 18C clergy in Britain and their experiences/identities at clericallives@gmail.com CfP below!

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Has anyone ever written a covering letter for a journal to be book review editor (AND) would be willing to share it with me please?

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Now that I've signed the contract... 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' will be coming out sometime in 2025 with @manchesterup.bsky.social - Delighted, excited, nervous, and scared.

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

I'm currently setting up a research database for my new project. Has anyone good suggestions for software to manage primary and secondary sources? Is Zotero (long abandoned now) my best bet?

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Going to use the final day of welcome to ignore absolutely anything not desperately urgent and start work on a book chapter. Trying to think through what did it mean to be 'mobile' in the eighteenth century

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Our #earlymodern IHR seminar has a REALLY cool line-up for this first term! Everybody very welcome to join. If you can't make it to London, you can sign up to get a zoom link (all times are UK) www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur... 🗃️ #18thc

A really cool programme for Autumn 2023
2 October: The Early Modern in Public History
23 October: Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola – a History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality
6 November: the view from the kitchen
27 november: was there a global absolutist movement?

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Job 🚨—👇 The History Dept at Duke University is hiring “a tenure-track, assistant professor in the history of the 18th-century Atlantic World. We esp welcome scholars whose work engages histories of the transatlantic slave trade, enslavement, or the Black Atlantic.” www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Delighted to have left the old place! I've missed communing with colleagues and friends in a non-toxic place!

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