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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Impeccable timing! My article on reassigning identites for portraits of Marie-Antoinette and her sister is just out in the @burlingtonmagazine.bsky.social just as the MAH @villedegeneve.bsky.social exhibition is about to open: www.mahmah.ch/expositions/...

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A helpful AI summary when you put a name in to google...

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IfG Academy @ifgacademy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📣 Arts & humanities researchers: applications are open for the AHRC Engaging with Government Course 2027. Learn how policymaking works, engage effectively with government, and boost your policy impact. Apply by 29 Oct 2026. 🔗 www.ukri.org/events/engag...

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Engaging with government course 2027

This course will:

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🧵Early subscription libraries in Yorkshire emerged in the 18th century. These libraries allowed middle-class members to pool money to buy and preserve books. The most important example is The Leeds Library, founded in 1768 and the oldest surviving proprietary subscription

The Leeds Library, founded in 1768 and the oldest surviving proprietary subscription library in the country. Image: Michael D Beckwith, Public Domain.

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Any Wagner fans with great core muscles out there? I have a spare ticket to the rehearsal of Parsifal (5.5 hrs) at Covent Garden, Mon 28 Sept, 5pm, an amphitheatre seat with no armrests...if that sounds appealing to anyone I'm happy to give it to you!

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🚨🚨 Job Klaxon 🚨🚨 Early modern Frenchies!! UVA French is hiring an asst prof of French and francophone global literature and culture 1500-1700!! We’d love someone historically minded :). 🗃️🇫🇷 apply.interfolio.com/192507

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Neil Jeffares @neiljeffares.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"La Tour, c'est tout le XVIIIe siècle français." Born #otd 1704, the catalogue raisonné is freely available online www.pastellists.com/LaTour.htm You can find every known work by him, fact about him or document concerning him in the numerous fascicles

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anyone for a kebab? An unexpected takeaway from viewing the #BayeuxTapestry...

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Submissions for #BSECS2027 close on the 15 September this year. Yes, this is earlier than usual... This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity' but (as always) we welcome proposals on any #18thC topic. GET WRITING #skystorians 🗃️ See our Website for details: www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

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BSECS Annual Conference

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A real privilege to be @britishmuseum.bsky.social yesterday to see the #BayeuxTapestry beautifully displayed. Compliments to All who were involved in the process.

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Registration has started in the courtyard of University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry for this years BSECS PG/ECR conference! @sfeds-bs.bsky.social @doctorants1718.bsky.social

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Good role here for someone - to lead the Friends Provident Foundation which funds ideas for an economy that works for everyone. £110k. York based (hybrid) starfishsearch.com/jobs/fpf-ceo/

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Chief Executive Officer - Starfish Search

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Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Geneviève-Louise Bouillat worked as a flower and landscape painter at Sèvres from 1776 to 1798. Her husband was also a porcelain painter there, they share the same 'Y' painter's mark. This is a cup and saucer she decorated, a lovely scene; the cup depicts a resting dog in a garden.

Coffee cup and saucer (gobelet litron), 1786
GENEVIÈVE-LOUISE BOUILLAT
BORN VINCENNES 14 FEBRUARY 1738 - died after 1798
ACTIVE 1776 - 1798
MARK: Scrolling y, usually to the left of the interlaced L’s.
Geneviève-Louise Bouillat was born to become a painter and decorator at Sèvres for she may have been born at the Vincennes factory. Her father, Louis-Jean Thévenet, was among the first painters hired there, while her mother Françoise-Elisabeth Thévenet was a painter of molded flowers, the factory’s top-selling item at the time. Both of her parents were employees for three decades, and later even her brother Jean-Baptiste became a flower painter beginning in 1752.
After the family moved with the factory from Vincennes to Sèvres, Geneviève met a new hire in the workshop, Edme-François Bouillat, and married him when she turned 20 in 1768. Though Bouillat had a longer and more successful career, Geneviève spent even more years surrounded by a family of dedicated flower painters and decorators. She and Edme-François had at least two children: François Bouillat fils, a flower, landscape and bird painter at Sèvres, active from 1785-93, and a daughter, Mlle. Rachel Bouillat, also a painter of flowers during three periods: 1783-92, 1796-98 (after becoming Mme. Maqueret, née Bouillat) and later in 1816-20.
Since her father, mother and husband were two of the best decorators at Vincennes/Sèvres Geneviève could achieve her potential with the instruction of some of the best teachers available. Based on her dates of employment against those of her children she may have waited to join the painters’ workshop after they reached their teenage years only to became employees on their own.

Detail of the saucer.
Geneviève mostly painted simple flower decoration, but her work may sometimes be confused with the very similar work by her husband, especially since they both used variants of the Y/y mark in the same location relative to the factory mark. She dabbled in painting landscapes after her husband, and may have tried other decoration as well. She disappears from the factory employment rolls in 1798 after a 22-year-long career in a second generation of three.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

‘Historically, some less common forms of heart attack, which evidence shows typically affect women far more than men, have been coded as less important, with treatment and care often worse as a result.’ Glad to see this being corrected www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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New heart attack definition promises better care for women

Leading cardiovascular health groups reclassify overlooked causes and introduce sex-specific diagnostic thresholds

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Do any of you know someone who would be a great new Director of Finance & Resources for @britishacademy.bsky.social? It's a fantastic role reporting directly to me and a part of the top team that helps steward the whole organisation. Please pass through your networks allenlane.co.uk/job/director...

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Director of Finance & Resources

Allen Lane is helping The British Academy recruit for a new Director of Finance & Resources. Discover more and apply today.

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The list of submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 is now available on our webpage. The prize is in its 10th year and we're delighted to have received a record number of submissions from a record number of languages! 🎉 tinyurl.com/32ms3tsy

An image of a pile of books on a blue background with the text at the top: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; List of Submissions 2026.

Orange and dark blue text on a blue background which reads: Record submissions in our 10th year; 164 titles; 37 languages; link in bio.

Dark blue and orange text on a blue background, reading: The languages: French 23; Spanish 23; Japanese 15; Danish 11; Korean 11; German 10; Chinese 8; Italian 8; Swedish 8; Dutch 6; Norwegian 5; Portuguese 4; Czech 3; Russian 3; Arabic 2; Catalan 2; Finnish 2; Hindi 2; Hungarian 2; Slovak 2; Asturian 1; Belarusian 1; Bulgarian 1; Croatian 1; Didxazá 1; Farsi 1; Greek 1; Kannada 1; Macedonian 1; Maltese 1; Mapudungun 1; Persian 1; Polish 1; Taiwanese Mandarin 1; Tamil 1; Ukrainian 1; Vietnamese 1.

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lazy sunny summer mornings (seen through a mosquito net) seem far away now back in Oxford's greyness and sprinkle of welcome rain.

A French cockerel-shaped weather vane against a bright orange sky seen through a mosquito net

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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The UK urgently needs a clear plan for data centres. The current free-for-all isn't sustainable or sensible. They place huge demands on electricity and water, with major impacts on communities, nature and our climate if their growth isn't properly managed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iimh...

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The controversial place a data centre may be built | In Case You Missed It

YouTube video by BBC News

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Asso Mnémosyne @assomnemosyne.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#PrixMnémosyne #ESR Chèr•e•s étudiant•es, vous avez soutenu votre M2 ds 1 université 🇫🇷 entre le 16/07/2025 & 15/07/2026, votre M2 porte sur l’histoire des femmes et/ou du genre, n’hésitez pas à nous envoyer votre mémoire avant le 30 septembre ! ⬇️

Annonce de l’ouverture de la campagne du prix de l’association Mnémosyne

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#chimneychewsday from Pilrig House in Edinburgh, mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Catriona

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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Calling all playwrights! The IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship for 2027 is open now for applications. * £12,000 commission * Private office at IASH for 10 months * Dramaturgical support from the Traverse * Closing date: Fri 2 Oct, 17:00 UK time www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iashtraverse...

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IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship | IASH

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lawks a lumme! A permanent literary studies job in the UK! In British Romantic literature! ‘Earth has not anything to show more fair’!

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

UMD's Department of English is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization in Poetry. Please spread the word. Best consideration date October 15, 2026. If you have any questions about the position, don't hesitate to reach out.

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Assistant Professor

Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The mission of the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) is to prepare versatile and visionary leaders equipped to address the complexities of...

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UK Parliament @ukparliament.parliament.uk · 23/08/2026

Tonight the Palace of Westminster is illuminated in the colours of the Ukrainian flag to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day and show Parliament’s support for the people of Ukraine.

Houses of Parliament illuminated in blue and yellow at night, reflected on the River Thames

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 20/08/2026

In Oxford on Thursday 27 August? Join us for an exclusive 'Origins of the University of Oxford Tour'! 📖 Explore Duke Humfrey's Library ⛪ Visit the University Church of St Mary the Virgin 🎶 Enjoy drinks and a choral performance ℹ️ visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tours/origi…

Duke Humfrey's Library: Interior view of a historic library with high wooden shelves filled with books. The ornate ceiling features intricate designs, and large windows at the far end allow natural light to illuminate the space. The atmosphere is grand and scholarly, showcasing traditional architecture.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

French explorer Lapérouse met with Louis XVI in 1785, just before his ill-fated Pacific voyage to continue Cook’s explorations. Last seen alive in Botany Bay in 1788; his voyages were published posthumously in 1801. Lapérouse born #OTD 1741; Louis XVI born #OTD 1754 Painting Monsiau 1817, Versailles

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Do I happen to know anyone who knows about hats in France during the reign of Louis XIII...? 🗃️

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CSECS/SCEDHS @csecsscedhs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Le prochain congrès de la SCEDHS aura lieu à Trois-Rivières, Québec (20-23 octobre 2027), sous le thème «Plaisirs et sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle». La date limite pour soumettre une proposition est le 11 janvier 2027. tr2027.csecs.ca

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026

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Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am hiring a Research Associate to join my team at Scholars at Risk: apply.interfolio.com/191007. Great way to get started in international human rights work, particularly if you have an interest in academic freedom

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you work on the 19th-c press and are looking at bills for travel, repro fees, etc., applying for a Curran Fellowship should be a no-brainer. Not a lot of hoops to jump through, and the folks making the decisions are researchers just like you. These are open to anybody, of any age, anywhere. #C19

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

(2) 65% of students now take on paid employment, up from 36% a decade ago. (One in 10 students works for more than 20 hours each week)

The proportion of students in some form of paid employment has increased significantly
Proportion of students in any paid employment (%)

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Particularly looking forward to meeting Penelope and Gabrielle! #GoingToOxford #ModernLanguages #ALevelResultsDay 👏

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This says a lot of philanthropic money is about to drop & a key bottleneck is capacity of orgs to get the money out. So just to say genuinely if any rich folk want to channel £ to humanities & social science research that @britishacademy.bsky.social is open to a chat www.ft.com/content/938b...

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Fortunes from AI revive effective altruism after Sam Bankman-Fried turmoil

Expected IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI are set to mint a new generation of philanthropists wedded to ‘effective giving’

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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The 2026 A-level results bring some welcome news for languages. Professor Marcela Andrea Cazzoli takes a closer look at what the numbers tell us and what they mean for the future of language learning. Explore her insights in this infographic.

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

Call for Papers
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade
University of Edinburgh
6-7 May 2027

Over the past two decades, women’s book history and feminist bibliography have exploded with renewed interest. Even so, women’s work is still to an extent seen as an exception or curiosity. It examines them from a gender history perspective, asking to what extent their relationships were influenced or determined by constructions of femininity. Proposals should therefore involve a dimension of gender analysis beyond simply the inclusion of female subjects.

This conference will seek to explore (but is not limited to) to the following themes and questions:

*Gendered Networks. To what extent were professional book trade networks gendered? How did these networks intersect with other types of women’s networks, whether they be familial, friendly, religious, political, or intellectual?
*Identity and Representation. Did women express professional solidarity with other women, and how did this manifest? How did women’s self-representation in imprints and paratext differ from men’s?
*Legal and Structural Considerations. In what ways were women’s professional networks dependent on legal structures of inheritance in their region, or participation in guilds? How did these networks stretch across economic and class divisions?
*Digital Approaches. Can digital humanities tools such as network visualisation effectively help document these relationships?

The conference will also host the launch of a new collaborative database sourcing biographical information about women in the early modern book trade.

Contributions will be published in a volume of conference proceedings, to be submitted by the end of 2027.

Proposals for papers of maximum 20 minutes, including title, an abstract of up to 300 words, and a biography of up to 150 words should be sent to Dr Elise Watson, elise.watson@ed.ac.uk, by 20 December 2026. While all papers will be delivered in person, virtual attendance will be available as well.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For A level results day, the British Academy has looked at two decades of data on take-up of SHAPE subjects across the UK. Although SHAPE subjects still make up the majority of entries, there is an evolving picture beneath that headline figure. Read the full analysis here: bit.ly/4xE87FQ

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Who studies what subjects at school and why does it matter?

Alfie Denness, Policy Adviser & Almendra Guzman Rivas, Policy and Data Analyst discuss why subject take up isn't all about student choice - curriculum requirements, subject availability and prior attainment all shape the routes open to young people, aff...

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ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) is offering 5 part time positions as part of the “Politics of the Enlightenment” Research Training Group as a Research Associate (m-f-d), for a fixed term of up to 4 years. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

'languages are often unavailable to students in schools and colleges before they make their subject choices at university. Limited opportunities have suppressed demand. But interest in languages is not limited, and it is important not to forget the joy and vitality of languages too.'

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The joy and vitality of languages - HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by Fiona Devine (Manchester) and Jo Fox (Newcastle), on behalf of the N8 subgroup on Modern Languages. We are very familiar with the story that languages are in decline a...

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School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Congratulations to all our incoming students on their A-level results today 🎉 We can’t wait to welcome you to the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in September!

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