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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 · 09/06/2026

As a Catalan speaker by adoption I find it very familiar (and yet not).

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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 · 09/06/2026

I am showing off my ignorance: Is this medieval Catalan?

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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 · 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

Mysteriously--for an open call of international scope--the documents for applicants are almost entirely exclusively in Catalan. Still: trust the Force, and Google Translate, and give it a go. My own department has only one member of teaching staff specialised in anything pre-1830s. We need more.

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Universitat de Barcelona - seu electrònica

Seu electrònica

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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

It tilts heavily towards the present; and the older periods are spotted, in their panels, with talks relating something very old to something very new (neo-Victorian fiction, new productions of C16 plays). aedeangasteiz.com/programme/ #disciplinarity #C18

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Programme — AEDEAN Gasteiz

EVENT SCHEDULE Programme FULLPROGRAMME DOWNLOAD FULL PROGRAMME – DAY BY DAY November 12th DOWNLOAD November 13th DOWNLOAD November 14th DOWNLOAD SHORTPROGRAMME DOWNLOAD SHORT PROGRAMME – DAY BY DAY No...

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

(AEDEAN is the national English Studies association.) Perhaps fewer than 10% of the literature talks are on pre-1600 topics, about 15% on the 19th century, and 75% on everything after 1900.

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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

from the early modern period to the present day, d) Shakespeare’s role in the dialogue between English-speaking diasporas and Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the territories where they settled. wsc2026.org/seminars-works…

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

b) Spanish, Portuguese, and Luso-Hispanic influences on the work and performance of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, c) other forms of dialogue about Shakespeare and the performance of Shakespeare on the Iberian peninsula and in the broader Luso-Hispanic world....

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

Description: This seminar welcomes work exploring all aspects of Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic world, including a) the reading and performance of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Spain, Portugal, and the Luso-Hispanic world,

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

a seminar on "Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic Planet" (see below)—and there are still some spaces available. The deadline has been extended to the 15th of December. Hope to see you there ! S20. Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic Planet Organisers: John Stone, Deanne Williams

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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

On another leaf in the same book, he signed his name in English using the Spanish/Catalan naming custom: two surnames joined by a conjunction! #bicultural #binational

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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 · 14/04/2025

Northrop Frye would be listening!

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

If I had deep pockets in US higher ed, I'd be scrambling to set up satellite institutions abroad.

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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 · 28/03/2025

Un fort aplaudiment! (In the absence of euskera, I'm saying it in Catalan.)

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

#IcanreadthenumbersbutImnotgoodatmath But seriously, I just stopped squinting and moved on!

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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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