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Daniel Reed

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Oxford Brookes University Research Affiliate Author of ‘The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698-1706’ (UWP, 2023)

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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
sumptuous surroundings @unibirmingham.bsky.social to celebrate five years of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Early Career Researchers Network
Great Hall at the University of Birmingham filled with academic researchers Panel boards labelled ‘Images of Research’
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
obligatory back to school photo a pleasure to get the band back together on campus to celebrate the graduation of our PhD student, Deborah
four people in academic dress posing beneath a tree
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📣Out today: for scholars of ecclesiastical history - Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae is the standard authority for identifying the higher clergy of the Church of England from 1066–1857. This volume covers the Welsh dioceses from 1541–1857. Published with @ihr.bsky.social: uolpress.co.uk/book/fasti-e...
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Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: The Welsh Dioceses XIV - University of London Press
The Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae is the standard authority for identifying the higher clergy of the Church of England from 1066–1857. This volume, edited by William H. Campbell and Joyce M. Horn, covers...
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
sound familiar? ‘his Homer is no Homer at all’ Lewis Stephens writing in 1743 about Alexander Pope’s translation
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
where would you least expect to see Laurence Sterne? Outside the gents in a bar in Aberystwyth would be high on my list
a framed caricature group portrait
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
huge congratulations to the Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern conference team for a brilliant two-day event in sunny/rainy/misty @aberuni.bsky.social
poster for ‘A Continent in Conversation’ conference A room of conference delegates listening to a paper
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
it was great to start the Bank Holiday weekend with a return to Epworth Old Rectory… via @warwickuni.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org thanks to @sashahandley.bsky.social 👻
PowerPoint slide introducing ‘The Haunting at the Rectory’Royal Historal Society bannerRoyal Historal Society badges
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Tyneside friends! I'll be giving this talk at St. Joseph's, Gateshead, at 2pm on Thursday 5 March (this week) at the invitation of the North East Catholic History Society - do come along if you're available!
Poster/slide advertising a talk called 'Setting all the County of a Flame: Jaques Sterne and Anti-Catholicism in the Eighteenth Century'
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Biological warfare in eighteenth-century Somerset? "I have write Andrew Cross for a Derection, but it is for that little illconcidderate thiffe looking Hellhound… that I have send this little present: it is a Scab or Two of the Small Pox which I Pick’d of my Arse: hoping it may send thee to Hell"
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
'[I] must advise... that you take Horse forthwith & ride with all possible speed to engage your mighty friends; for tho’ an Arch. Bishoprick may be obtained without any Application I never yet heard yt That Deanry was' William Holman to Moses Cooke on a vacancy of the Deanery of Bocking, 1714
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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
1777: Wet, wet, rain with wind.
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Always a pleasure to visit a new archive - and today it was @kebleoxford.bsky.social to view the Wilson papers Highlights included the extraordinary ‘Episcopalia’ memoranda book of Bishop Thomas Wilson of Sodor and Man Thanks to Peter for being so welcoming and for stimulating archival chat!
Keble College quad in the afternoon Keble College library MS diary alongside its printed version
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
a fantastic few days @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social for @bsecs.bsky.social catching up with friends, hearing some fantastic papers, and presenting on a newly-discovered schoolbook of Laurence Sterne
PowerPoint slide about Laurence Sterne Welcome sign in a college quad 7 participants in a panel discussion A Yale trade book stand
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Great to be back at the Roderic Bowen Library in Lampeter to co-host the Welsh Ecclesiastical History seminar Our speaker was the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, who shone a light on the pioneering Methodist reformer Revd Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902)
St David’s College, LampeterPoster for a seminar about Hugh Price Hughes
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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Author and satirist Laurence Sterne was born #OnThisDay 1713. In 1740 he was given the living of Sutton-on-the Forest, North Yorkshire, and two years later cast his vote in the county by-election, supporting the Whig candidate, Cholmley Turner, who beat his rival by just over 60 votes. #HistParl
Portrait of a man in 18th-century clothes standing sideways on leaning on a chair. He wears black clothes with white frills at the wrists and neck and has a short grey tie-wig on his head.
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Had a great time at @uniofhull.bsky.social with an old friend to mark 20 years since starting my BA in History - fortunate to be there on an Open Day for an ‘all access’ visit!⏳
the entrance to the University of Hull campus a white male with blonde hair poses next to the History department signHistory department corridor at the University of Hull
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
what would a Sterne conference be without subplots and serendipity? After hearing @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social fascinating keynote about the author and transatlantic material culture, I stumbled across this 1779 Angelica Kauffman print of Maria… thank/blame the fates
1779 Angelica Kauffman print of ‘Maria’MS commentary on Maria (c1768)
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
a wonderful few days in Liverpool with a digression of Sternean colleagues exploring the Terraqueous Globe - left with new ideas, and new friends
PowerPoint screen announcing the Sterne conference in a library setting
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
great to be back at my old workhouse East Riding Archives - first time since the building was remodelled. Some reassuring constants though - first document ordered has a reference no. written by yours truly some 15 years ago!
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Has anyone out there worked on the periodical editor Robert Heath (d. 1779)? Ladies Diary, British Palladium, etc. Currently working on a 1768 letter from Heath and turning up lots of biographical leads for his (obscure) early life, and would like to make sure I’m not wayyy off the mark
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
‘the gauntlet of interruptions’ Robert Heath describes travelling from Fleet Street to Piccadilly, 1768
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Archbishop Drummond x2
the autograph of Archbishop Drummond (re)united with a print of the man himself
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Does anyone have access to example of the handwriting of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684-1775)? Thanks in advance!
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
oops, exceeded my daily views limit on FindMyPast - first time that’s happened!
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Probate copy of the last will of Caesar Ward, bookseller and printer of York, dated 10 November 1759 - his wife and executrix Ann Ward continued his trade and printed the first volumes of Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’ just weeks later
Vellum will of Caesar Ward of YorkVellum will of Caesar Ward of York
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
apparently today is #CrocodileDay, which is the perfect excuse to post this plate from Samuel Wesley’s ‘Dissertations on the Book of Job’ from 1736
Eighteenth-century engraving of a crocodile
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Hull History Centre @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
16-22 June is Refugee Week. #Hull, like elsewhere in the UK received citizens from abroad because of the instability and upheaval caused by the French Revolution and resulting Napoleonic rule, like Samuel Jacobs of Poland mentioned here @hulllibraries.bsky.social
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS! Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June! Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ Click on the link for the full CFP 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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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Read my essay ‘Patronage, Performance, and Reputation in Sterne’s Early Clerical Career, 1737-42’ (2022) for free @livunipress.bsky.social !
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
📚 Most read in The Shandean this week: 'The Life of Books in Tristram Shandy' by Judith Hawley Read it online: bit.ly/Books-Shandean ‪‪ @drwilliams.bsky.social ‪ @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social‬ @llc-rhul.bsky.social‬
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Wonderful to be back at The Bar Convent to speak about Jaques Sterne and his campaign of nastiness against Catholics in York after the ‘45
PowerPoint presentation with a lectern Interior of a Georgian Catholic chapel
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
partying like it’s 1765 courtesy of @gilbertwhites.bsky.social
a bottle of Gilbert’s 1765 sat beside a half pint glass tankard
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“motley emblem of my work!” as Sterne said
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Gilbert White's House & Gardens @gilbertwhites.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We’ve had a wonderful time hosting an international conference this week ‘Gilbert White and his Contexts’. Truly interdisciplinary much like White himself with literary historians, ecologists, educators, biologists, theologians and historians and everything in between!
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Cheers to the organisers, hosts, and participants of #GilbertWhiteConference for a really stimulating few days! And what better way to toast this success than with a nanobrew from @gilbertwhites.bsky.social made to his own recipe!
A bottle of ale called ‘Gilbert’s 1765’
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
an intrepid start for me and my co-panellists on our way to #GilbertWhiteConference in (usually) sunny Selborne, with thanks to our hosts @stephholtnh.bsky.social @brycchancarey.bsky.social
A sign in the foreground reads ‘Conference Delegates This Way’ pointing across a rainswept meadow Assembled delegates inside a timber framed barn
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC). A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world. Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
An illustration of a man riding a horse while blowing a horn, with a yellow sun above. The illustration is laid over faded text on a blue backdrop.
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Delighted to have chaired the John Wesley Lecture last week @lincoln.ox.ac.uk - a really excellent presentation by @markkirby.bsky.social youtu.be/2C6jwsAgbZo?...
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Mark Kirby - John Wesley and the Architecture of Early Methodism (John Wesley Lecture 2025)
YouTube video by Westminster Oxford Research Network
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Who is an archivist’s favourite Happy Days character? The Fondz
The Fonz wearing an ARA badge
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
British Methodist Buildings update! 167 striking new photographs added mostly from 1960s-80s, originating with the former Home Mission Division. Can we reach 1 million views this year..? Explore now: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC7Mah
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Wesley Historical Society
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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We do out best at the archives to uncover #HiddenHistories. Our volunteers index and digitise our records so you can access them more easily. Take the 1905 inebriates register - now digitised for you to search and view on our Flickr page: www.flickr.com/photo... #Archives30
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
To think, these days I have to go out of town to get my ostrich feathers dyed
1881 advertisement for T. Crump of Hull, ostrich feather dyer and furrier
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Hull History Centre @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Viewers of our lunchtime talk today very much enjoyed learning about the Society for the Reformation of Manners by Dr Daniel Green of Oxford Brooks University. Don't miss our next talk on 8 April by Mike Rymer on Hull Grammar School: 1330 to the Present Day!
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
‘Farewell then admirable Yorick!’ Laurence Sterne died on this day 257 years ago
A manuscript addition to a 1768 copy of A Sentimental Journey memorialising the death of Laurence Sterne
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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This #WomensHistoryMonth we're revisiting a post originally shared on @victoriancommons.bsky.social, where Dr Kathryn Rix explored how over half a century before the 1918 Representation of the People Act, Lily Maxwell was able to cast her vote: historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...
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‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867 - The History of Parliament
More than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, cast a parliamentary vote. Dr Kathryn Rix
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
These early 20th century drawings from the Syon Abbey archive are by an anonymous sister, who - despite her 'horror of spiders' - did try her best to like them! 📷 EUL MS 389/CRE/5/3 #SaveASpiderDay #NationalSaveASpiderDay #Spiders #SyonAbbey #Nuntastic #Archives
Rectangular piece of card featuring a pen and ink drawing of a religious sister (possibly a novice) wearing a white veil. Her face is turned to the side and you cannot see her face. She is looking towards her right arm, which is outstretched. A spider is dangling from her fingers. At the bottom left of the drawing is written: 'O you pretty dear!'Drawing of a cobweb in the top left hand corner with a spider sitting in it, and another spider dangling down the page from the web. The handwritten text below the web and above the dangling spider reads: 'Shall I ever overcome my horror of spiders! Well - I must [must underlined]. And perhaps in time to like them & train them to come when I call them, & fetch & carry things. Anyhow, I'd train them not to leave their webs where I can't reach them with a duster.' Below the dangling spider, the handwritten text reads: 'Now why should [should underlined] I have to like them!'.
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Delighted to be at the Central Library in Manchester for the launch of the new @methodist.org.uk archivists’ handbook
A lecture hall set up for a presentation The front cover of the Methodist Archivists’ Handbook
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Daniel Reed @dreedhistory.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thrilled with the bumper turnout for my Lunchtime Talk at the Hull History Centre - nowt puts bums on seats like tales of vagabonds and moral iniquity All the more satisfying to be speaking in a room with the original records on display, no doubt to facilitate real-time fact checking
View from the audience of a speaker delivering a talk in front of a PowerPoint display The exterior of the Hull History Centre300-year old documents in a display case
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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is my Internet Archive Scholar fan art <3
synthwave style image with starry background, grid ground, a prism. It says "man I love archivists preserving the web"
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