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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you don’t like the running down of arts degrees you can sign this petition, it’s very easy c.org/XbNrQnjfVW

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Mary Novakovich @marynovakovich.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Seriously thrilled to be on the panel for tonight's episode of Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4 on the subject of travel. I'll be joining host Shahidha Bari and historians Bettany Hughes, Lucy Powell and Alun Withey and philosopher Julian Baggini. It's also on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Travel

Travel past and present and broadening the mind? Travel journalists and historians debate.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

'Responding to the decision, Devine, 80, said: “In principle I am opposed to changing historic artefacts to suit today’s tastes. To do so is presentism, imposing 20th-century values on those of the distant past.' '20th-century'? Bit of an own goal Sir T.

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Historian attacks ‘ludicrous’ changes to statues with slavery links

Professor Sir Tom Devine, an emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, said he was opposed to changing artefacts to suit modern sensibilities

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Very excited indeed to be speaking at this tomorrow. Do come by if you are in Cambridge at 5pm. I'll be rioting with Austen (and sure, obliquely with Dickens, too), at the English Faculty. @universitypress.cambridge.org, @cam.ac.uk, @bsecs.bsky.social

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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

So delighted that this long-gestated brain child is now out and in the real world. I'll be talking about it at the English Faculty in Cambridge, @cam.ac.uk on Thursday of next week at 5pm. Do please come along if you're in town!

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 10/08/2025

@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you :)

Private eye article about “Austen novel finally being adapted for screen”, “stopped the constant adaptations of Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, William Makepeace Thackeray and Ann Radcliffe”

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It's not fair I mean when was the last time a white male novelist won a Booker. You'd have to go all the way back to 2023

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Check out our upcoming April titles, including "Unruly Comparison" by Alvin K. Wong, "Hemispheric Blackface" by Danielle Roper, and "The Future of Futurity" by Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta. buff.ly/0pkTAfs

Cover of Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone by Alvin K. Wong. Cover features a sculpture by Jes Fan against a soft white background. The sculpture consists of a stack of organic shapes in marbled pastel shades of green, pink, and brown. A clear bubble sits atop one of the shapes.

Cover of Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas by Danielle M. Roper. The cover features art by Leasho Johnson, Banshee #2. The artwork contains a black silhouette of a human figure, which appears to have its back to the viewer. A conglomerate of colorful, textured swirls covers the figure's neck and the lower half of its head. The swirls include blue, red, orange, yellow, light green, and pink streaks. Amidst the swirls, there is a golden shape that resembles a lyre.

Cover of The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City by Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta. Cover has a black and dark gray background. The title is written in blue capital letters. The author's names are written in green capital letters. The subtitle is written at the bottom in a small white font.

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Certainly another stimulating BBCFreeThinking from @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social & guests. Though I have my ‘Yes, but-s’ from the start for the guests inc @askwilliamblake.bsky.social @ljpowell.bsky.social Kathleen Burk, Jim Hoare, Catherine Coldstream www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Isolation

Matthew Sweet explores ideas about being on your own.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

On tonight’s BBC Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4 right now we go into isolation (and isolationism) with Carmelite nuns, North Koreans and Covid citizens. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Returning to The Prelude today, and finding there a lovely dismissal of AI and discovering too a new spot of time: a magical Roman restaurant with excellent isecs colleagues...

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

At CECS, 2025 is a big year for us because 1775 was, too. We’ve been co-curating a 250th exhibition on Jane Austen and JMW Turner at Harewood House. More info in the coming weeks, so watch this space. #AustenTurner #18thC #JaneAusten Ticket info: harewood.org/events/auste...

Poster for the Austen Turner exhibition at Harewood House, co-curated by CECS.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We're delighted to welcome Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social, Chief Sports Writer for The Guardian, to the English Faculty on 3 March. He'll be in conversation w/ Prof David Taylor discussing everything from the politics of sport to the changing nature of Britain’s media landscape. All welcome!

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Desperate to visit the new Byron museum in Ravenna, I read that: "one of the rooms contains tokens of love kept by the countess, including letters, jewellery, locks of the poet's curly hair and shards of his sunburned skin." Shards of what now? Shards of his burned skin? kept as tokens of ... love?!

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James Harriman-Smith @jharrimansmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hello Bluesky! Did you know that we have 17 bursaries available for the BSECS Annual Conference? To find out more and apply, please use this form: (forms.office.com/e/ZJAmgxRHLd Applications close at midnight UK time on 20th November @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thC

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Trust TJ Clark to immediately notice that Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, which he'd never read, begins with (another) fall of Icarus... ... ...

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

🔔 Please share widely! A call for contributions for an edited collection _Reading the Queer Eighteenth Century_ which will be published by De Gruyter in early 2026. Submit a proposal or pass on to interested scholars! #Skystorians #18C #Queer #Disability #Ecocriticism #trans #transnational

Call for proposals:
Reading the Queer Eighteenth Century: Historiography, Epistemology, and Embodiment
Edited by Declan Kavanagh, University of Kent, U.K.
Reading the Queer Eighteenth Century presents essays, which explore queerness broadly conceived in the
anglophone long eighteenth century.
Contributors offer the latest overview of key debates in queer eighteenth-century studies by zoning in on
current trends in queer historiography, multi-scalar queer epistemologies, intersections between queerness
and class, race, indigeneity, as well as engaging in questions of queer pedagogical practice and future
directions for the field. A connective theme of the collection will be the question of ‘presentism’ in queer
engagements with the long eighteenth century period. Essays will explore trans, bi, queer, gay, lesbian and
other approaches to eighteenth-century materials whilst also showcasing the period’s ramifications for
present day debates in LGBTQIA+ studies.

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

The more involved I get with administrative work, the more I empathize with Francis Douce's absolute banger of a resignation letter.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

You know how we suffer psychologically when people deny our reality and keep making up stuff; how disorientating that is? That, but on university-level. Our finances are fine. The urgency and crisis mode is not needed. (sure, let's think how we do this thing, but we don't need the STRESS & lies)

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Applications now open for our @BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship. £4000 available to support a visiting scholar researching the culture, history, and identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the #18thC. DEADLINE 31 May. www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship Application - BSECS

The Institute of the Humanities at Northumbria University, in association with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, invites applications for the 2022/23 BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship. Th...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

If you edit a UK Humanities book series, publish UK Humanities books, represent/belong to a Humanities scholarly society or hold a research advocacy role at your UK university, it's time to engage with REF 2029 Open Access Consultation - UK Research and Innovation - Citizen Space (ukri.org)

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 01/02/2024

60s futurists: everything will be great, technology will help all humanity live in dignity and equality current state of things:

mug saying the future is with the bottom part covered by a sign saying reduced for quick sale 2 dollars

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Opening in London on Tuesday, the Linnean Society Library's 'Lovely as a Tree': An exhibition on the culture of trees explored through our collections. www.linnean.org

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Communicating Nature Since 1788

The Linnean Society of London is working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected. We're the world's oldest active biological society.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 28/11/2023

Please share - New Prize for non-fiction for black women writers, amplifying us as knowledge-makers and critical thinkers. Global scope with a $20,000 award for exceptional work by black cis, trans and genderqueer women. Details here. Judged by Bernadine Evaristo.

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MANUSCRIPT PRIZE

Cassava Republic Press’s Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize is dedicated to exceptional works of non-fiction by Black women.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Congratulations to Nandini Das as her book 'Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire' wins the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2023 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/courtin...

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'Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire' by Nandini Das wins the £25,000 B...

The British Academy announces the winner of the 11th British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

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Guillaume Candela @guillaumecandela.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the language, culture, politics, natural science, and the History of the Mexica and other Indigenous People of Mesoamérica is online, after seven years of work! Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu

Florentin Codex, Book 11, de las hierbas medicinales

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

The Financial Times editorial board calls for a humanitarian ceasefire. This is significant. “Israel’s collective punishment of the 2.3mn people trapped in Gaza — almost half of them children — must stop.”

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The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza

Israel must stop the bombing, and allow more aid into the besieged strip

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

A Very British 2023...

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Have just discovered that the treatment of duck feathers for commercial use in coats, duvets, pillows etc is called... ... ... "ennoblement". Why, then, do the ducks complain so? Does this not mean in duck what it means in plain English? Are the ducks republicans?

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

so vastly exciting to finally! see Jane Parminter's signature and sassy as heck seal on these docs pertaining to the purchase of A la Ronde. Almost everything with her name on it has disappeared from the archives.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

"Ballads, Ballrooms, and Burlesque: Political Participation in Georgian England", hybrid seminar & Q&A, 11 October 2023, at the slightly later than usual starting time of 5:45 PM (IHR London & online) #c18th All welcome: register in advance here: www.history.ac.uk/events/balla...

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Ballads, Ballrooms, and Burlesque: Political Participation in Georgian England

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Stuck, stuck, stuck on a piece of writing, I got out the really big paper and the best colouring pencils and lo! Progress! Can highly recommend to anyone else unable to see a blinking cursor as anything other than a blinkin' curse...

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

So sure that Locke is the most sensible old man of enlightenment letters, until you get to the bit about detachable body parts, walking off with a man's mind...

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Day 6 of covid. The child has now come down with it and will not go to school therefore. Am increasingly irked by the universalising dicta of Adam Smith.

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Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Am holed up with covid. Last time, I read The Man of Feeling and shed real tears, which was pretty rad. Am reading Theory of Moral Sentiments this time, to see what happens. Here, meanwhile is what my tea bag wld like you all to take into account, today ...

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Let's Read ECF this Monday morning: "Satire and Embodiment: Allegorical Romance on Stage and Page in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain," by Ros Ballaster muse.jhu.edu/article/584628 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Thank you for reading the journal at Project MUSE.

Abstract: Theatrical presentation of character relies on embodiment and mimesis where the novel constructs plausible character through the diegetic presentation of consciousness and action. This article argues that, with the introduction of stage censorship in the 1730s, allegorical prose romance mediates the transition from theatrical to novelistic modes of rendering plausible embodied character. Theatre and the novel in the mid-eighteenth century share a preoccupation with the relation of embodiment to allegorical abstraction, often represented in the figure of the Quixote, who mistakes one for the other. This essay charts the translation of techniques found in Henry Fielding’s satirical allegory in his short stage plays of the 1730s with three allegorical romances of 1736 that take Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his new bride, Princess Augusta of Saxa-Gothe-Altenburg, as the hero and heroine ...

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