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Dr Meg Kobza

@fancyhistorian.bsky.social
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Historian & Author 📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026 🏃🏼‍♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast

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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Help! Does anyone, by chance, have either photos or transcriptions of Thomas Parsons's diary? In whole or part? He was a stonecutter in Bath in 1769. It's at the Huntington and all I can find a handful of articles :/ #18thc #skystorians
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Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Reading: "The Masquerade" by @fancyhistorian.bsky.social Delightful
Book cover with excellent illustrative cover art
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
For the British Georgian elite, the masquerade was an opportunity like no other to gather, flirt, and consume. For everyone else it was notorious for mischief and misbehaviour. What a feast to have @fancyhistorian.bsky.social with us on Thurs 27th August to hear all about it. See you there!
A cream, orange and green banner which reads "Meghan Kobza on the history of the masquerade." In the middle is a photo of the book The Masquerade and a headshot of Meg, wearing glasses with a Book Fringe 2026. Lighthouse, 12 noon, Thursday 27th.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Leverhulme Trust, as part of its major (£100 million) centenary investment in UK research, has announced 3 new partnerships designed to enhance opportunities for underrepresented groups at the early stages of research careers. @leverhulme.ac.uk Terrifically good news, and sorely needed. 1/3
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Investing in the future of UK research | The Leverhulme Trust
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Prof Rob Dover @robdover.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
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Rebecca Olds @rebeccaolds.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Calling all historical fashion students, costume makers and re-enactors! I am delighted to announce a new series of 18th Century Gown-Making Workshops in Scotland next spring. Please spread the news... and start stitching those undergarments! 😉 www.timesmith.co.uk/scotland-wor...
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
18thC friends. Do we have any idea what the Ace of Spades might have symbolised? Asking for any and all knowledge on this because I have none. ♠️♠️♠️ #skystorians #18thc #playingcards
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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
No matter how cringey you find occult stuff, asking a tarot deck a question will always be more dignified than asking ChatGPT
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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I double checked. This is true.
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Thanks everyone--secret was my first reading of it too, but other people in the room doubted it bc of the phrase 'do a secret'.
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Friends! Historians! What is this word?? I have a guess but will keep it to myself so as not to cloud your reading of it. #skystorians #18thc #historians
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Haven't been on in a while, so in case you missed it...Masquerade is out now and you can find her in a good bookshop near you (or online!) 💖✨ #18thC #history #nonfiction @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
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Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The girls took pics of Bess chasing bubbles.
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
IT'S TIME! The #CFP for #BSECS2027 has been released! This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity'. The deadline for submissions is the 15 September 2026. The conference will by the 6-8 January 2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ 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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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Next Weds 10 June we welcome @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (KCL) to our seminar, who will present their paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship’ Register below to join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the marvellous Meg Kobza about her new book on the history of the masquerade ball in Georgian Britain. 🎭 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO GO! #CFP #skystorians #18thC
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
So given this is Season 4, and Season 1 was in 1813, it must be the Seditious Meetings Act 1817, which means they're *definitely* trailing Bridgerton Season 6: The Peterloo Massacre, where Eloise's forgotten radical tradesman boyfriend reappears only to die in her arms at the hands of the Yeomenry
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Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Well played, London Underground.
Photo of a Poem on the Underground piece on the tube in London titled Epitaph on a Tyrant by W.H. Auden. Poem: "Pefection, of a kind, was what he was after. And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand. And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter; And when he cried the little children died in the streets." January 1939
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.
A poster that reads: you can’t spell hatred without red hat accompanied by a drawing of a red hat
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This Author has the privilege of sharing the tale of Mrs Catherine Perceval with avid readers & riotous revellers alike. The Author hopes this will satiate the ton's boundless appetite for gossip. For now. yalebooks.co.uk/the-real-mas...
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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This works for Masquerade pre-orders too 😘
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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Including Novels, Needleworks, and Empire by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, and a preview of Masquerade by @fancyhistorian.bsky.social! Free postage in the UK. Offer runs until 31/1/26. Not available in North/South America & Australia/NZ.
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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 19/12/2025
This thread. The lack of acknowledgement of luck is a constant in the humanities. I have had a really successful career, made a living as a writer. And I am a pretty good researcher, I can present interesting ideas in a way people want to read them. Is that why I'm successful? 1/3
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life! More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...
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Vacancies - BSECS
Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Evenings and mornings.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We have a whole report on this www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...
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University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report
A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.
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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It’s my birthday! A really wonderful gift would be if you could listen, like and share my new podcast series, Uprising: The Civil Wars (and, if you have enjoyed it, give it 5 ⭐️) In the words of Henrietta Maria, Merci. 🎧 play.megaphone.fm/quvuyhkqs66t...
Poster for the podcast UPRISING: THE CIVIL WARS. A picture of Charles I is in the centre with battle scenes in the background. Along with the podcast title are the words ‘Listen wherever you get your podcasts’.
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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Congratulations to Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, Nicholas Draper and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Teaching Slavery published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/48vnDdJ #Education #Colonialism #Slavery #Racism
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Teaching Slavery
Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
TODAY! We’re looking forward to this in-person CECS seminar with the always wonderful Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A movie that takes place where you're from.
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two men wearing hats and sunglasses are sitting in a diner .
ALT: two men wearing hats and sunglasses are sitting in a diner .
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This is the most frustrating and exhausting thing about academia. When I mentioned it to a headhunter who was asking about things that could change, they said, “you are the first person to bring this up” — but two other women in the room backed me up.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
15 depts in College of Humanities and Social Sciences will be completely eliminated and replaced by ~ School of Human Behavior & Well-Being ~ Center for Interdisciplinary Programs & Writing Studies ~ Institute for Y (e.g. Intelligence, Value, and Societal Structures) Wth? Sounds like BBC show W1A.
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The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not. They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today. They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
NYT opinion:

OPINION
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
Mamdani Isn’t the Future of the Democrats. This Guy Is

The picture is of PA Gov Josh Shapiro
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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
For colleagues in the UK: Yale UP is running a 50% discount through November, using the promo code FIFTY. Lots of books at much better prices, including my own: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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Novels, Needleworks, and Empire - Yale University Press London
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism  Finalist, Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize   In the e...
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Early Bird Registration for #BSECS2026 closes on the ***15 NOVEMBER 2025*** www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
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BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I have fallen victim to the craze.
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Sally Oliphant @sallytalksbooks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Had an interesting lunchtime talk today at @yalebooks.bsky.social from Dr Meghan Kobza about her upcoming book The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue. Now I want to go to a Masquerade 🎭 find out more about the book here yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Dr Meghan Kobza in black trousers and a sparkly top front of a screen with her book cover on
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/11/2025
Anthony Blinken was explicitly calling the actions of the RSF and SAF in Sudan a genocide all the way back in January. Which people who’d actually been paying attention to the situation in Sudan before now (when it’s handy to use it Sudan as a rhetorical gotcha against Gaza protesters) would know.
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Genocide Determination in Sudan
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T H E VV O R S T @milfparade.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
When no one at the école noticed your work
A brindle pit bull style dog sits on a mat inside a front door, wearing a Halloween costume consisting of a black and white horizontally striped shirt with foam “arms” at the sides, one holding a painter’s palette, one holding a paint brush, she also has a beret on
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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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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
‪ Great to see Mary Newbould's new book on #Sterne and networks of reception out and open access rom @universitypress.cambridge.org! Lots of rich #18thcentury material here, including oral recitals & naughty Sternean poetry @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social
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Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Networks of Reception in the Eighteenth-Century British Press and Laurence Sterne
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social. Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Applied History Fellowship launch Event- 19 November 2025: 2.30pm - 4.00pm.

Register to join us online: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/applied-history-fellowships
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
These lovely new books are for work. I promise. #18thc
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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
PSA: I have now become THAT person who blabs on about pre-ordering her book. Tbf, it is 25% off online @waterstones.bsky.social w/code OCTOBER25 (only through Friday!) so you might as well treat yourself 💅🏻 #18thc #skystorians #history @yalepress.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/the-mas...
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The Masquerade by Meghan Kobza | Waterstones
Buy The Masquerade by Meghan Kobza from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Caroline Churcher @newforestchild.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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