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Dr Hillary Burlock

@hillaryburlock.bsky.social
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#18thc historian of dance, political culture, sociability, and embodiment, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Liverpool (Assembly Rooms) Thesis on dance and political culture in late Georgian Britain linktr.ee/hillary.burlock

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16/02/2026
An international conservation group has selected Belfast's Assembly Rooms as one of 21 sites across the world it will fund this year.
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Funding boost announced for historic building in Belfast
An international conservation group has selected one of Belfast's most historic buildings as one of 21 sites across the world it will fund this year.
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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century edited by Hillary Burlock, Ian Newman & Mark Philp shows how dance shaped the social, emotional, and intellectual life of the Enlightenment across Europe and the Atlantic world. Out now! bit.ly/49JzUKp
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Happy publication day to "Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century"! So many thanks to Bloomsbury and all of the contributing authors who worked with Mark, Ian, and me to bring this volume together! We could not have done it without you! #dancehistory #18thcentury
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
(Social) murder on the dancefloor! Find out why not knowing all the right moves could seriously damage your rep in Regency Britain, with @hillaryburlock.bsky.social #Bridgerton
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Bridgerton: why not knowing how to dance could ruin your reputation in Regency Britain
Dancing masters were crucial to transforming girls and boys into ladies and gentlemen.
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
☃️ Open up door number 5 on our #AcademicAdvent and join a world of 18th century refinery and poise. Let Dr @hillaryburlock.bsky.social take you on whirl around the etiquette of Georgian assembly rooms and indulge your Austenesque dreams theconversation.com/inside-the-r...
Dr Hillary BurlockMatthew Macfadyen and Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice.
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Delighted that my short piece on Jane Austen and dance has been published in The Conversation! theconversation.com/inside-the-r... #assemblyrooms #dancehistory #18thc
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Inside the Regency ballroom: what you’d experience on a night out with Jane Austen
Ball-goers needed months to prepare for these events.
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
If you find yourself in Brighton on Friday evening, why don't you join me for an In Conversation at Brighton Pavilion about Jane Austen, balls and assemblies, and the Christmas season. #assemblyrooms #janeausten #christmas brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/jane-a...
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Jane Austen at Christmas - In Conversation
Jane Austen at Christmas - In Conversation
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
💃 Explore the politics of dancing in the 18th century and the crucial role played by assembly rooms in Georgian Britain with our latest 'researcher in focus' podcast featuring @hillaryburlock.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... #AcademicSky #DanceSky
Dr Hillary BurlockDance scene from the Kiera Knightley Pride & Prejudice. She was good but he was a bit mis-cast don't you think?
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Don't let anything come between you and our latest podcast featuring @hillaryburlock.bsky.social exploring the politics of dance in Regency society, and how those Austenesque balls were scenes of more than just flirting creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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a woman wearing a red hat and a brown jacket is standing in front of a building .
ALT: a woman wearing a red hat and a brown jacket is standing in front of a building .
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Even though I was not able to be in Ascona in person for the Feminist Enlightenment and Politics conference, I was able to patch in via Zoom to talk about the role of women in #18thc elections, in processions and mock elections, and at election balls. #dancehistory #assemblyrooms #politicalhistory
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I can get on board with Macaulay's course of treatment... Bring on the ice cream!
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Office for the day at the British Academy! Ready for the Academic Book Publishing Conference...
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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Good to see these out in the wild at last. Many thanks to my co-editors, @hillaryburlock.bsky.social and Tatjana LeBoff for their sterling efforts, and to all of the contributors for bringing this together. #HistParl #skystorians
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Office for the next two days in Oxford... Ready for the Oxford Dance Symposium to commence!
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It's #PublicationDay for Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room! Get your copy on Routledge or Amazon... #assemblyrooms We finally made it @georgianlords.bsky.social and Tatjana LeBoff! 🎉🎉 www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey...
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Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room
This book re-examines spa and assembly culture as key venues for sociability in the eighteenth century. Focused chiefly on the eighteenth century, this book looks forward into the nineteenth and early...
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Is anyone familiar with an eighteenth-century dance treatise or conduct book that has several plates of women gesturing with fans? I remember seeing such a book, but can’t recall what the title was… Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! #18thc #dancehistory
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Yesterday's office for the day was the Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel, where I gave a talk to a Jane Austen tour group on "Experiencing Austen’s Assembly Rooms". It was a great group, and they had so many wonderful questions! #assemblyrooms
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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Sir William Beechey, portrait of a young Kenneth Dixon playing shuttlecock (c1790), SMK, Copenhagen #c18th #c18 #18thc
Young boy outdoors, about to hit a shuttlecock with a small paddle. He is wearing black trousers and a tight-fitting black jacket, with a flouncy shirt billowing out at the top and a completely impractical broad-brimmed black hat trimmed with matching ostrich feathers
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Office for the day! Not a bad view before the funding bid-recycling workshop...
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Good reading on the train to Liverpool this morning...
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
My first edited collection with @georgianlords.bsky.social and Tatjana LeBoff is now available for preorder! Eek! #assemblyrooms #18thc www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey...
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Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room
This book re-examines spa and assembly culture as key venues for sociability in the eighteenth century. Focused chiefly on the eighteenth century, this book looks forward into the nineteenth and early...
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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Good to see this volume coming together - the result of a hugely enjoyable conference involving @profelainechalus.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.bsky.social and @hillaryburlock.bsky.social - and a lot of work since by Hillary Burlock and Tatjana LeBoff... #HistParl www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey...
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A new #18thc resource! kingsbench.engagedhumanities.org?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Site of some of English legal history’s most important trials, this project seeks to bring back to life this lost courtroom and the cases it heard.
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No Character Limit @nocharacterlimit.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Philip Dawe - The Oyster Woman (1769) #oysters #art #woman #night #lamp #18thcentury
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Poring over proofs this week! 💻📖 #18thc #assemblyrooms
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
For Black History Month in the US, one of the most haunting things I've ever encountered at a museum: the silhouette of Flora, a 19 year old enslaved woman, made from life around 1796. I don't think I've ever seen a shadow carry such weight or sorrow. On display at New York Historical Museum.
A paper silhouette of Flora, a 19 year old enslaved woman from Connecticut, made from life around 1796.
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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The next Centre for Midlands History & Cultures organised by the Friends will be online 🗓️Thurs 20 Feb 🕰️7:00-8:00pm Join researcher Jen Dixon to learn more about 'Variety & Choice: Birmingham Buttons and New Modes of making' All welcome! #18thCentury
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Variety and Choice: Birmingham Buttons and New Modes of Making
Buttons were an important fashion adornment on eighteenth-century clothing, especially men’s clothing.
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Pamphlets and Patrons @papaerc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
February 3rd, fourth edition of our Workshop: Databases on the Eighteenth-Century Francophone World : Cooperation and Exchange Two papers will be in English et un en français. The discussion will be in English et en français. #BlueSkyStorians #skystorians #earlymodern #frenchhistory #18thc #ESR
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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We are four scholars whose work in some form deals with corporeality and being in the premodern period (early #medieval to #earlymodern). We are unhinged about our work. Check us out and feel free to email us details about your events and CFPs for our events page. #AcademicSky bodiesandbeing.com
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Bodies and Being
The Pre-Modern Body Project
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
That's a wrap! It was fantastic to organise #BSECS2025 this year's conference with @fancyhistorian.bsky.social and @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social, with fantastic help from @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social! Many thanks to Dione Dietrich and Richie Stubbs at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social for their support...
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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Professor Matthew McCormack delivers his first banquet address as President of @bsecs.bsky.social #BSECS2025 - big thank yous to Dione Dietrich & all the team @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social for making our move so seamless!
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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Luggage can be stored in the Rookery - the lodge will give you directions 🙂 #BSECS2025 @bsecs.bsky.social
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Tom Whitfield @tjlwhitfield.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
What a fabulous few days at #BSECS2025, wonderful conversations, great venue and it is utterly staggering the amount of exciting research that people are doing! Already excited to be back next year!
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A full house in Pembroke College's Chapel for the annual BSECS concert! This year, the programme features the Warleggan Village Band who will be performing #18thc dance music. Many thanks to Richard Heacock, Matthew Coatsworth, and @greenmatthewsuk.bsky.social! #BSECS2025
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Today's #BSECS2025 plenary panel brings together historians, heritage professionals & political scientists Matthew Grenby, @profelainechalus.bsky.social, Kendra Packham, @robertsaunders.bsky.social, Susan Banducci, Joanne Tinworth & Sir John Curtice to discuss elections and democracy.
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Next up in the hybrid stream is a panel on New Directions in the History of Knowledge, with Susan Whyman, @leoniehannan.bsky.social, and Sarah Easterby-Smith! #BSECS2025
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Ready for another hybrid panel at #BSECS2025 - this time on Science and Anatomy!
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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Have you seen the wonderful 18thC exhibit organised by @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social librarians? They’ve done this especially for us @bsecs.bsky.social and the exhibit changes every day! Come browse at reception #BSECS2025
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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Editor Elizabeth McDonald @drpastonsrus.bsky.social imparting her publishing wisdom to #C18th studies PhD students yesterday at #BSECS2025. If you're an #ECR hoping to turn your research into a book, stop by tomorrow with your questions! @bsecs.bsky.social
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Proof that I was virtually "present" at #BSECS2025, welcoming delegates to the conference and presenting at the AGM despite injury... Hurrah for hybridity!
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A fantastic paper by Charlotte MacKenzie on the Society of Skilful Aunts in Cornwall in #BSECS2025 online panel!
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
#BSECS2025 is trialling hybridity this year at Pembroke. Our first hybrid panel is on "Complicating Maternal Bodies and Motherhood", enabling Chandini Jaswal to join in from Panjab University, alongside Aditi Upmanyu, Clementine Garcenot, and Rebecca Ford.
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The first paper in the online stream of #BSECS2025 is by Jingyue Wu on "Dunton's Athenianism and Gildon's 'The Post Boy Rob'd His Mail' (1692)"!
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Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
And #BSECS2025 has begun! Gutted to miss it due to my ankle injury, but tech support at Pembroke College has been brilliant, allowing me to welcome delegates from snowy Canada! We are starting with David Turner's keynote lecture on "Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency, and Embodiment".
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CNN @cnn.com · 07/01/2025
Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.
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Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines | CNN Business
Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updat...
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We love the sense of anticipation on the day before the conference, as brilliant #18thC scholars start heading to Oxford from across the country. Post us your travel pics and tag us @bsecs.bsky.social
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Charlie Holland @charlieholland.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I hope the conference goes well. Some #BSECS2025 attendees might be interested in the 1st European Circus History Conference, covering 1760s-1860s, in London 28/2-2/3. Details and a list of speakers and topics at circusconference.org
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1st European Circus History Conference
London, 28th February - 2nd March 2025
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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Fellow #academicsky profs working on syllabi & looking for assignments that AI can't complete--check out my book hunt assignment. Students have to search for & check out a book from the library. It was a hit with my survey course this fall! /1 cassandragoodhistorian.com/2024/11/12/t... 🗃️
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The Book Hunt Assignment
This semester, I knew I wanted to swap out the short primary source analysis papers I’d been using in my US History to 1877 survey class. First, it was challenging to prevent AI cheating (whi…
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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Vienna! Porcelain centrepiece for Zwettl monastery (1768 & earlier), MAK #c18th #c18 #18thc
Dozens of white, unpainted figures on a long, porcelain-edged mirror designed to run the length of a long dining table. Not perhaps what we expect in a monastic setting!
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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 10/12/2024
🎉🎉 Our Digital Enlightenment Studies: Issue 2 is now live! 🎉🎉 #18C #DH This issue includes reports on digital projects currently underway, showcasing a range of varied possibilities offered by digital scholarship in the Enlightenment. More information: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/di...
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Digital Enlightenment Studies: Issue 2 now live
The Voltaire Foundation and Liverpool University Press are delighted to announce the second issue of Digital Enlightenment Studies, the open-access, international, peer-reviewed online scholarly…
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