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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ending our PG/ECR conference with a tour of Faculté de médecine de Montpellier! It’s been a great couple of days, with brilliant papers and discussions. Thanks to all those attending and to our French collaborators @doctorants1718.bsky.social @sfeds-bs.bsky.social

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Had a great time in Montpellier at my first BSECS PG/ECR conference as PG rep! I had the opportunity to chair two brilliant panels and ran a workshop with my BSECS team. Looking forward to next year and continuing the @bsecs.bsky.social @sfeds-bs.bsky.social @doctorants1718.bsky.social collab ☀️

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Submissions for #BSECS2027 close on the 15 September this year. Yes, this is earlier than usual... This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity' but (as always) we welcome proposals on any #18thC topic. GET WRITING #skystorians 🗃️ See our Website for details: www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Registration has started in the courtyard of University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry for this years BSECS PG/ECR conference! @sfeds-bs.bsky.social @doctorants1718.bsky.social

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our PG/ECR conference in collaboration with @sfeds-bs.bsky.social @doctorants1718.bsky.social kicks off tomorrow in Montpellier! Very excited to welcome our delegates soon.

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Looking forward to the next few days attending my first BARS conference and presenting my research on drinking cultures in Romantic travel narratives! 🍻 #BARS2026

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Had a great time in York yesterday attending/presenting at @cecs-york.bsky.social ‘Radical Print Symposium’. Thanks to @elementaladam.bsky.social, @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, and Sarah Griffin at the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social for putting it together and for the morning workshop on the archives!

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So grateful! Excited to be able to learn more about the Maid of Buttermere (who I will be talking about at BARS this year!) & the Queen of Patterdale, two Lake District locals who have different connections to drink but are both mentioned in Budworths travel guide and are connected to Wordsworth!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

2026 Stephen Copley Awardees!! 🎉 Many congratulations to Megan D Bennett (@megandanielle.bsky.social), Elena Bonacini (@elebonacini.bsky.social), Katie MacLean (@katiemaclean.bsky.social), and Rachel Xhemajli (@rachelxhemajli.bsky.social)! 🥳 Read about their projects: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6485

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Stephen Copley Research Awards 2026 (Round One): Awardees Announced – BARS Blog

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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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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🚨RADICAL PRINT CULTURE SYMPOSIUM 🚨 The Programme is now live (see 🧵), and the symposium will also feature two amazing keynote speakers, a print exhibition and a handling workshop. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social

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Ellesse Patterson 🐝 @elpatterson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In October 2026, the upcoming PGR-led conference, Dark Enchantments: Gothic Folklore and the Monstrous Fairy-Tale, will be held at the University of Sheffield. Interested in getting involved? Follow the QR code and send us your abstracts by the end of July! 🦇👻

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷

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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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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

***DEADLINE ON FRIDAY 13 MARCH*** Don't forget to submit your proposals for our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery! Only two days left to go!

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

You may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference
Improvement
Degeneration
Stagnation
University of Montpellier
3-4 September 2026 Paul-Valery

We invite proposals for papers for this year’s collaborative Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference between the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Société d’Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles and the Société Française d’Études du XVIIIe siècle, held at the University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry.

Topics considering improvement, degeneration and stagnation could include, but are not limited to:

· The materiality of any of, or all, these terms
· Social, economic, moral and physical wellbeing
· Medical perspectives, including the development of psychiatric and psychological medicine and alternate (pseudo-)scientific endeavours such as alchemy or spiritualism
· Ideas around taste, attitudes, values and class, both in the social and literary domains
· Debates and evolutions regarding language
· National identities and comparisons
· The pace of improvement and/or degeneration
· Science, innovation and the improvement of knowledge
· Colonisation and slavery
· Religion, secularisation and Enlightenment thought
· Gender, sexuality and the perception of the female body
· Conceptions of improvement or degeneration in art, design and architecture; as well as in literature and philosophy
· The notion of change and teleological narratives of progress
· The ambiguities surrounding the notion of progress and the uncertain boundaries between improvement, stagnation and degeneration All submissions should be sent to montpellierconference2026@gmail.com for consideration. Submissions can be in either French or English. For individual papers, please send abstracts of 250 words and a short biography. For fully formed panels, (3-4 speakers), roundtables or workshops please send abstracts of 250 words for each paper along with brief details of the proposed theme, biographies of speakers, and proposed chair. CFP opens 7th January 2026 and closes 13th March 2026.

En lien avec le rôle joué par Montpellier dans le développement des connaissances médicales en Europe, le colloque de cette année étudiera les notions de progrès, de dégénérescence et de stagnation.

Nous invitons les participants à interpréter les termes de progrès, de dégénérescence et de stagnation de façon large, sans restrictions géographiques, étymologiques ou conceptuelles. Les propositions pourront s’intéresser aux questions suivantes:

· La matérialité de ces termes
· Le bien-être social, moral et économique
· Les perspectives médicales, incluant le développement de la médecine psychologique ou psychiatrique et des (pseudo-)sciences comme le spiritualisme ou l’alchimie
· La question du goût, des mentalités, des valeurs et des distinctions entre groupes, tant dans le domaine social que littéraire
· Les débats et évolutions concernant le langage
· Les identités et comparaisons nationales
· Le rythme du progrès et/ou de la dégénérescence
· Science, innovation et développement des savoirs
· Exploitation coloniale et esclavage
· Religion, sécularisation et pensée des Lumières
· Genre, sexualité et perception du corps féminin
· Conception du progrès et de la dégénérescence dans l’art, le design et l’architecture
· La notion de changement et la vision téléologique du progrès
· Les ambiguïtés autour de la notion de progrès et les frontières incertaines entre le progrès, la dégénérescence et la stagnation

Les propositions de communication, en français ou en anglais, sont à envoyer à l’adresse montpellierconference2026@gmail.com, sous la forme d’un résumé de 250 mots assorti d’une courte biobibliographie. Les propositions d’ateliers, de tables rondes ou de séances complètes (entre 3 et 4 intervenants) doivent être accompagnées d’un résumé pour chaque proposition et d’une courte présentation du thème, des intervenants, et du/de la président.e de séance pressenti.e. Les propositions sont à envoyer avant le 13 mars 2026.

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I’m excited and grateful to share that I have been selected to be a BSECS PG Representative @bsecs.bsky.social. Looking forward to working with everyone over the coming years 🫶🏻

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Craziest thing about Katabasis is that Kuang did all this academic research but didn’t think to google when the first Wetherspoon opened in Oxford

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The rush I feel when I receive my £3 delay repay refund is unmatched

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

‘Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.’- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein ✨

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Had a great time in Oxford for my first #BSECS2026. Thanks to @elementaladam.bsky.social for having me on and chairing the panel ‘Bodies Politic, Bodies Satiric: Satirical Embodiment in Georgian Britain and Ireland’ where I talked all things Fielding, drink, and Jacobite!

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Happy New Year #18thCists #skystorians! We can't wait to welcome you to @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social NEXT WEEK for #BSECS2026. You can register FOR THE CONFERENCE ONLY [no accommodation or meals] at the registration desk from 8am, 7 January. Programme available here: www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

‘Everyday, give yourself a present’. The Twin Peaks cross stitch is DONE!! ✨🫶🏻

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It’s my last week at my current retail job meaning I’ll no longer be lovingly known as “curtain lady” 🫡

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Please help. Please sign & share. I work on a degree programme known as ELCE for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. Bristol uni has decided to close it. Bristol was set up to serve this community & now we are losing our most accessible degree. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Paperback edition of 'Made in Manchester', due near the end of this month, has a new cover illustration. I'll be signing copies at Waterstones Oldham, Saturday 23rd August 12-2pm. All welcome. www.waterstones.com/events/brian...

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My poem ‘Desiderium’ is in the recent issue of Twisted Ink! Read it (and everyone else’s lovely work) here >> twistedinks.wordpress.com ✨🫶🏻

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

LOVE studying literature until I’m walking around with 7 books and my laptop in my bag and my backs trying not to snap in half

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Went to the National Museum of Scotland and just had to take some time appreciating all the Jacobite drinking glasses 🍷🍷

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Had a fantastic time at my first @defoesociety.bsky.social conference! I presented my research on drink, class, and narrative in Fielding and Defoe 🍻 Big thanks to @nick-seager.bsky.social for organising & the board who awarded me the John Richetti Student Bursary to enable me to go 🫶🏻

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Phoebe Anson • 🎬📚✈️ @phoebejanson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

First post 🥳 A little intro to my PhD project. I'm currently researching surrealist aesthetics and tendencies in contemporary world cinema. My current focus is on the Surrealist documentary of Jean Painlevé and the docufiction of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 🎬

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing! cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #danieldefoe #defoe

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Had a great couple days attending the Drinking Studies Network’s Women and Alcohol Cluster’s #dangerouspleasure conference in Dublin 🍻 some great discussions from a range of disciplines and I got to present my own research on the Georgian pub landlady in art and literature!

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Panel 5 of #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasure leads off with Megan Bennett, exploring figures of the Georgian landlady in Fielding & others, and the extraordinary figure of Mary Robinson, the Maid of Buttermere, who became something like a tourist attraction in the Lakes for Coleridge & others 1/3

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Panel two reflects on visualizing pleasures. Megan Bennett starts with a brilliant reading of the land lady in literary and visual cultures of 18C

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

In true drinking studies fashion, I’m ending today at the University Arms after a jam-packed workshop talking about publishing ✨ Organised with my fellow PGRs on behalf of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at @uos-artshumanities.bsky.social Grateful for everyone who came and who spoke 🫶🏻

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

A great day attending and presenting my research on Margaret Harkness at today’s Sheffield PGR Colloquium on Archive and Preservation!

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Took grandad to Old Trafford as an early bday present ❤️❤️

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

My 18thC reading does sometimes make my reading tracker a tad bit skewiff

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Queen Mill, Dukinfield, by Edna Lumb (1931-92). #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

a very book-ish day exploring london (managed 13 bookshops!!!!)

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

living the retired lifestyle by spending all day looking forward to my tea package and spending the night knitting a jumper 😎😎

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Registration for our biennial conference, "Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740," is open! Please visit our conference page for details, including links to our registration form and payment page. Register by Friday, May 16 to take advantage of our early bird rate! www.defoesociety.org/conference/

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Conference, The Defoe Society

The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society Discoveries and Improvements, 1660–1740 Thursday, July 3–Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Lichfield...

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Just started re-reading Joseph Andrews- ‘but Life every where furnishes an accurate Observer with the Ridiculous.’ (Preface)

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Just realised I used 3 exclamation marks in one email and that’s what I call being an anxious emailer ✌️

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