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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.gofundme.com/f/help-nora-... One last pitch, and push! We are enormously grateful to the friends who have got my daughter Nora Stone-Roig this far. She hasn't quite met her goal. But she's fairly close. If she got 24 one-euro donations in 24 hours she'd be at 16k, which sounds lovely, eh!

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Donate to Nora Got Into Cambridge and the Warburg. Help Her Get There., organized by Nora Stone Roig

(Spanish translation further down) Hi everyone! My nam… Nora Stone Roig needs your support for Nora Got Into Cambridge and the Warburg. Help Her Get There.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am chipping away at my project of writing to everyone I've met since about the age of four--the next batch will be high school teachers--in an effort to get my daughter to Cambridge. I've learnt that the people I sensed were unambiguously good people, whatever their politics, are just that.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Hum-drum academic tries his hand at DJing.

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ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Enlightenment and (In)equality 17th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies Zaragoza, Spain 12-16 July 2027 The submission period for for thematic sessions and roundtables is now open! All the information is available on the Congress website: www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

For the record: in a scholarly world that very nearly ignores the past, Nora wants to work on the past. Her period runs from the 17th to the early 19th century. Her work isn't modish. It's solid.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Is she my daughter? Yes! Can I afford to send her to Cambridge? No. I can do my part, but that's not enough. Since the age of 16, Nora's schooling has been international--though entirely via scholarships. That disqualifies her from most Spanish funding (she's Spanish). gofund.me/c47916a6f

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Who is this eighteenth-century Spanish reader marking up English dramatic criticism in an early C18 Tonsons editions of the works of #Addison?

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

In 2014 I published an article on (among other things) the library of John Hunter, a Scottish merchant and consul in C18 Spain. Part of his library made its way to the library at the @RealAcademiaES, where his 1787 Burns *Poems* has since been digitised: www.rae.es/archivo-digi...

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Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect

by Robert Burns.

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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026. Please see the poster for further information!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 2. Hugo Simberg, "The Wounded Angel." Oil on canvas, 1903. Helsinki Ateneum.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Typo alert! It's 8 February 2026!

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Ok, networked academics, show me your magic. What does "M.F.L." stand for? Given the number of Irish churchmen and other Irish immigrants in C18 Spain, the bookplate could be Spanish or Irish. @Bookhistory @IrishDiaspora

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

My university is hiring up to twenty full professors in three broadly defined fields, including Humanities. Candidates will be screened by heads of department, who will vet applicants for the next phase. The deadline is 8 February 2025. seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublic...

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Universitat de Barcelona - seu electrònica

Seu electrònica

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

In a moany-groany sort of voice, #becauseHalloween: My specialty is nearly dead in Spanish academe, according to anecdotal if reliable data. In the annual #AEDEAN conference, the number of panel talks on the #eighteenthcentury has, apparently (I could squint a bit longer), dropped to zero.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Seems to be a tiny mouse (other suggestions gratefully received) hitching a ride on this fifteenth-century manicule. In a copy of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, printed at Barcelona c. 1473. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.H.3.3[3472].

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

***World Shakespeare Congress Pre-Registration Deadline Extended*** Dear colleagues, Come join @DMWShakespeare (aka @dmwillshakespr) and me in Verona! In keeping with the conference theme on Planetary Shakespeare, and as part of our project @DiasporicBooks, we are co-organizing...

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

On the back of one of those pasted-down sheets you wish had never seen paste, in a 1703 Compleat English Scholar (part of a diasporic library in #PalmadeMallorca). what might be a #dog.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I am fascinated by #diasporas and #onomastics. Here is Edmond Costello, an Irishman living in Palma de Mallorca in the 18th century, signing his name in Latin. No surprise here, but..... #Irishdiaspora #IrishinSpain #diasporicbooks #exlibris #Mallorca

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, in a 1763 Edinburgh edition, from the library of the Menorcan clergyman Miquel Rosselló, with no glossary! The sammelband's ex libris is dated 1802. Perhaps Rosselló has visited Scotland! #ScottishprintontheContinent #Edinburghprinttrade #Ciutadella

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Miguel or Miquel Rosselló y Flores, showing proper respect for future researchers by dating his acquisition of a sammelband--six plays in English in Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh editions--in 1802. The book is in Palma but I suspect his library was in Ciutadella. #Englishbooksonthecontinent

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

From a MS geometry textbook, early C18, now at the BPE Palma in beautiful downtown and sunny Palma de Mallorca. #manuscriptculture #mallorca #glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

With another Canadian, in Coruña.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

C18 friends, this object is one of many eighteenth-century artefacts I saw at a lovely museum in #Valencia. Can you guess what it is? #18thcentury #eighteenthcentury

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain? #condesdeOsuna #LazaroGaliano #miniatures #womenandbookhistory

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

And I encourage other Canadians living abroad to do so.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

From the life of Behn in *All the Histories and Novels*: crossed out is "and for which reason the very Jesuits deny 'em Baptism." The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries! #AphraBehn #diasporicreaders #recusants #Jesuits

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

From a 1698 copy of Locke's *Two Treatises* on government, now at the BPE Toledo, one of a series of pages of MS notes designed to drive me to blindness or madness. #humbledbyatinyhand

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a fantastic medieval map of Ireland from a 15th-century navigational chart, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1352, f. 3r ☘️🎉

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Thinking on this Women's Day about my English grandmother, Winnie Howes, who, in 1917, attained a new freedom by enlisting in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Thinking, too, about the story that, appalled by their lack of femininity, other women spat on the Corps when they saw them in the streets.

Poster for the WAAC, showing a woman in uniform comprising a belted grey dress and wide brimmed grey hat. It reads "Women Urgently wanted for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps/ Work at Home and Abroad with the Forces/ Cooks, Clerks, Waitresses, Driver-Mechanics, All Kinds of Domestic Workers and Women in Many other capacities to take the place of men"

photo of my grandmother around the time of her wedding, in 1920 or so; her dark hair pulled back, with kiss curls on either side of her face; she is wearing a white blouse trimmed with crochet lace on the sleeves.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Catalan history for IWD! Founded in 1909 by Francesca Bonnemaison (after whom it is now named), the Biblioteca Popular de la Dona, part of a wider effort to open continuing education to women, was Europe's first women's library. Closed in 1936, it reopened as part of the Espai Bonnemaison in 2004.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Don't skimp on editors -- or coffee!

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

You can see some other examples of surviving Joug Collars in one of our recent blogs, along with some other information about this form of coercive social control exerted by Scottish Kirk Sessions in the 17th and 18th centuries 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/the-pla... #IronWorkThursday

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek this week is Spott Parish Church in East Lothian. At its door you will find an historic "Joug Collar", in which the Kirk Session would tether those they deemed sinners to humiliate them as their friends and neighbours filed past. #IronworkThursday

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ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The journal Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo (University of Cádiz) is seeking articles for its 2026 issue on "Censorship in 18th century Spain". Full details here: revistas.uca.es/index.php/ci...

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Convocatoria de monográfico para número de 2026

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In your opinion, what’s a cover version of a song that not only holds up to the original but wildly exceeds it? Here’s mine: youtu.be/yXNJnUbv7OA?...

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When Doves Cry

YouTube video by Patti Smith - Topic

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Just a bit of censorship in an often bawdy book which once belonged to a recusant collection in Spain, in the seventeenth century. Crossed out: "On Rome. Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread, Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:" The second half of the epigram is untouched!

On Rome.

Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread,
Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read :

(Crossed out.)

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

From the back of a 1616 Ben Jonson folio; or the moment a C18 person wonders why we now sometimes get called #earlymodernists. This stuff is worse than Boswell!

Early seventeenth-century scribbles which only a few friends can read.

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If AI could do any one useful thing, it would be reading whatever's been crossed out, smudged, torn or singed. #stillwaiting #BenJonson #DuquesdeOsuna #Madrid #EnglishPrintinSpain

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In Part 1 of "All Fellowships are Connected," a C18 recipe for "Spanish Olio" attributed to George Keith, who also sent recipes to the Boswells: the Folger meets the Beinecke! Found in Aberdeen in the early C20: the owner was connected to the Forbes of Pitsligo. #FolgerFinds #cocido #ollapodrida

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Priced at 125 pesetas by a twentieth-century bookseller (Vindel?) and donated to the Folger by a German-born collector. No marginalia in Spanish yet! #FolgerFinds #Shakespeare #EnglishPrintinEarlyModernSpain

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article "Whatever the case, Portugal's special relationship with *Othello* most likely begins not with French mediation, but with a Portuguese reader of English print." (doi.org/10.1093/note...)

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Othello Goes to Lisbon, 1765

This note1 documents the shipment of two copies of Shakespeare’s Othello to Lisbon in 1765. If the copies arrived—and there is no reason to believe that th

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The Universitat de Barcelona has advertised three tenure-track posts in English literature, two in the very ambiguously worded "literatura moderna i contemporània" (the advertisement is in Catalan). To see the posts--two out of 226!--you'll need to open the third PDF. tinyurl.com/mtv6y4ak

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Universitat de Barcelona - seu electrònica

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Quote and tell me (because I'm always curious about what people are reading): what are you reading just now that you would recommend? I am only 50 pages into Peter Burke's *Ignorance*: I will be a bit dodgy and report that his *Exiles and Expatriates* was my right book at the right time. #diasporas

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

1. Portrait of John Geddes, Rector of the RSC, now at the RCSA, #Valladolid: lower left. 2. Part of the Royal #Scots College library (now in #Salamanca), much of which bears notes in Geddes's hand. Same books? Same binding? #bookhistory #ScotsinSpain #SigloXVIII #eighteenthcentury #18thcentury

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