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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thank you to @julialaite.bsky.social, Guy Beiner and Suzan Meryem Rosita for stimulating such a great discussion about memory, forgetting, silencing and periwinkles last Wednesday. Join us this week for Michaela Kalcher on French Revolutionary Diaries
Purple blue periwinkle flowers
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Very much looking forward to our Roundtable on Memory & Forgetting in the Long 19th Century with the amazing line-up of @julialaite.bsky.social, Guy Beiner & Meryem Kalayci - Fitzhugh Auditorium, Exeter Cohen Quad Wednesday 20/04, 11.10am
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Today!!
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This week, join us to hear Elizabeth Edwards talking about 'the multiple times of memorialisation in a family album' - I've had a preview of the slides & think we're in for a really rich discussion of familial material culture; Weds 13th, 11.10-12.30, Exeter Cohen Quad or online.
Programme for the term - Week 1, Weds 29th April, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	James Koranyi (Durham): Arrival and Exodus: Stefan Jäger’s 'Migration Triptych' and Banat Swabian Memories
Week 2, Weds 6th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Joshua Jacobs (Oxford): Heinrich Leo's conservative nationalism and the politics of the Völkerwanderung
Emily Grenon (Oxford): “When Anglo-Saxon energy blends with French savoir vivre”: Nations and Empires at Home and Abroad at the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908
Week 3, Weds 13th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room 	Elizabeth Edwards (Oxford): Folded in History: the multiple times of memorialisation in a family album
Week 4, Weds 20th May, 11.10
FitzHugh Auditorium
	Roundtable: Memory and Forgetting in the Long Nineteenth Century
•	Guy Beiner (Boston College)
•	Julia Laite (Birkbeck, University of London)
•	Meryem Kalayci (Oxford)
Week 5, Weds 27th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Michaela Kalcher (Oxford) Living the French Revolution day by day: examining revolutionary experience, memory, and forgetting through personal diaries, 1789-1799
Week 6, Weds 3rd June, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Maria Fabrega Mercader (Oxford): The Memory of the Event in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literatura de Cordel
Anna Efimova (Oxford): Memory, Colonial Archives, and Homosexuality in the Former Borderlands of the Russian Empire and the USSR
To find out more, join the email list at https://web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/long-19c-seminar or follow us on Bluesky @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social‬. For online access, email christina.debellaigue@exeter.ox.ac.uk for a link.
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This week, join us to hear Elizabeth Edwards talking about 'the multiple times of memorialisation in a family album' - I've had a preview of the slides & think we're in for a really rich discussion of familial material culture; Weds 13th, 11.10-12.30, Exeter Cohen Quad or online.
Programme for the term - Week 1, Weds 29th April, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	James Koranyi (Durham): Arrival and Exodus: Stefan Jäger’s 'Migration Triptych' and Banat Swabian Memories
Week 2, Weds 6th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Joshua Jacobs (Oxford): Heinrich Leo's conservative nationalism and the politics of the Völkerwanderung
Emily Grenon (Oxford): “When Anglo-Saxon energy blends with French savoir vivre”: Nations and Empires at Home and Abroad at the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908
Week 3, Weds 13th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room 	Elizabeth Edwards (Oxford): Folded in History: the multiple times of memorialisation in a family album
Week 4, Weds 20th May, 11.10
FitzHugh Auditorium
	Roundtable: Memory and Forgetting in the Long Nineteenth Century
•	Guy Beiner (Boston College)
•	Julia Laite (Birkbeck, University of London)
•	Meryem Kalayci (Oxford)
Week 5, Weds 27th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Michaela Kalcher (Oxford) Living the French Revolution day by day: examining revolutionary experience, memory, and forgetting through personal diaries, 1789-1799
Week 6, Weds 3rd June, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Maria Fabrega Mercader (Oxford): The Memory of the Event in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literatura de Cordel
Anna Efimova (Oxford): Memory, Colonial Archives, and Homosexuality in the Former Borderlands of the Russian Empire and the USSR
To find out more, join the email list at https://web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/long-19c-seminar or follow us on Bluesky @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social‬. For online access, email christina.debellaigue@exeter.ox.ac.uk for a link.
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Join us today to hear two of our excellent DPhil students Joshua Jacobs on Heinrich Leo's conservative nationalism & Emily Grenon on the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908; 11.10am in the Kloppenburg Room at Exeter Cohen Quad.
Seminar programme for the term: Wednesdays 11.10-12.30
Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton St) and online via Microsoft Teams
All current members of Oxford University are welcome – and please join us for an inexpensive lunch in the Cohen Quad café afterwards.  
Week 1, Weds 29th April, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	James Koranyi (Durham): Arrival and Exodus: Stefan Jäger’s 'Migration Triptych' and Banat Swabian Memories
Week 2, Weds 6th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Joshua Jacobs (Oxford): Heinrich Leo's conservative nationalism and the politics of the Völkerwanderung
Emily Grenon (Oxford): “When Anglo-Saxon energy blends with French savoir vivre”: Nations and Empires at Home and Abroad at the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908
Week 3, Weds 13th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room 	Elizabeth Edwards (Oxford): Folded in History: the multiple times of memorialisation in a family album
Week 4, Weds 20th May, 11.10
FitzHugh Auditorium
	Roundtable: Memory and Forgetting in the Long Nineteenth Century
•	Guy Beiner (Boston College)
•	Julia Laite (Birkbeck, University of London)
•	Meryem Kalayci (Oxford)
Week 5, Weds 27th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Michaela Kalcher (Oxford) Living the French Revolution day by day: examining revolutionary experience, memory, and forgetting through personal diaries, 1789-1799
Week 6, Weds 3rd June, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Maria Fabrega Mercader (Oxford): The Memory of the Event in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literatura de Cordel
Anna Efimova (Oxford): Memory, Colonial Archives, and Homosexuality in the Former Borderlands of the Russian Empire and the USSR
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Very excited about our programme this term on Memory and Forgetting in the Long Nineteenth Century, featuring some of our wonderful students, as well as @julialaite.bsky.social, Guy Beiner, James Koranyi, Meryem Kalyci and Michaela Kalcher
Programme for the Long 19thC Seminar, Memory and Forgetting in the Long 19thC; with an image of a funerary monument. 
Wednesdays 11.10-12.30
Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton St) and online via Microsoft Teams
All current members of Oxford University are welcome – and please join us for an inexpensive lunch in the Cohen Quad café afterwards.  
Week 1, Weds 29th April, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	James Koranyi (Durham): Arrival and Exodus: Stefan Jäger’s 'Migration Triptych' and Banat Swabian Memories
Week 2, Weds 6th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Joshua Jacobs (Oxford): Heinrich Leo's conservative nationalism and the politics of the Völkerwanderung
Emily Grenon (Oxford): “When Anglo-Saxon energy blends with French savoir vivre”: Nations and Empires at Home and Abroad at the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908
Week 3, Weds 13th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room 	Elizabeth Edwards (Oxford): Folded in History: the multiple times of memorialisation in a family album
Week 4, Weds 20th May, 11.10
FitzHugh Auditorium
	Roundtable: Memory and Forgetting in the Long Nineteenth Century
•	Guy Beiner (Boston College)
•	Julia Laite (Birkbeck, University of London)
•	Meryem Kalayci (Oxford)
Week 5, Weds 27th May, 11.10
Kloppenburg Room	Michaela Kalcher (Oxford) Living the French Revolution day by day: examining revolutionary experience, memory, and forgetting through personal diaries, 1789-1799
Week 6, Weds 3rd June, 11.10
Ruskin Room	Maria Fabrega Mercader (Oxford): The Memory of the Event in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literatura de Cordel
Anna Efimova (Oxford): Memory, Colonial Archives, and Homosexuality in the Former Borderlands of the Russian Empire and the USSR
To find out more, join the email list at https://web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/long-19c-seminar or follow us on Bluesky @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social‬. For online access, email christina.debellaigue@exeter.ox.ac.uk for a link.
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This looks wonderful !
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Very very excited that @julialaite.bsky.social will be joining us too
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Starting to plan our Summer Term series, on the theme of 'Memory and Forgetting', so very exciting speakers lined up including the amazing Guy Beiner - watch this space
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
For our final session of this term we have Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena, talking about: 'Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy'. Join us 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds 3rd Dec for what promises to be a fascinating session and a great end to the term
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Join us this Wednesday 26th Nov, 11.10am in the Kloppenburg Room at Exeter Cohen Quad - to hear Matilda Eriksson talking about Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage - continuing our lively term-long conversation about art & craft in the 19thC
Programme for the term - coming up - our final session of the term, 3rd Dec, Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena on 'Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy' 3rd Dec, Weds, 11.10am Exeter Cohen Quad
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This week, we have Eric Storm presenting his new book: Nationalism: a World History, with comments from Faisal Devji and Abigail Green, Weds 19th Nov, 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad - Join Us!
Seminar programme for the term: coming up after this week, 26.11 Matilda Eriksson - Anders Zoren and Vernacular Craft; 3.12 Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena - Jews, handicrafts and ethnography in Liberal Italy
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
After a great discussion on lace workers last week, join us this Wednesday 12 Nov to hear Melissa Percival (Uni of Exeter) on 'Toile de Jouy - French printed textiles in cultural memory', 11.10am Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad
Programme for the rest of the term: Weds 19 Nov - Eric Storm: Nationalism: a world history, discussants Faisal Devji & Abigail Green; 26 Nov - Matilda Eriksson, Anders Zorn and the collecting of vernacular craft; 3 Dec, Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena - Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This week - join us to hear our own David Hopkin talk about Flemish lace, craft, gender and religion. 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds November 5th.
Programme for the term: coming up 12th Nov, Melissa Percival on French Printed Textiles, 26th Nov Eric Storm on Nationalism: a world history, 3rd Dec Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena on Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Today!!
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards
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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Great start to the term! Octavia Young talking about collaborative work & the weavers, dyers, and dye-makers who are obscured by the focus on Morris & Burne-Jones, opening questions around definitions of art/craft/vocation/amateur/professional /technical knowledge/book knowledge and design
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This week - come to a new part of William Morris' old college to hear Octavia Young on "Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co" - our first seminar of the year on Wednesday 15/10, 11.10am, in the Ruskin Room at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St
Seminar programme for the term:
Week 1, 15 Oct	Octavia Young (University of Cambridge) [note Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad]
Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co
Week 3, 29 Oct	Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter)
The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts
Week 4, 5 Nov	David Hopkin (Hertford)
Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
Week 5, 12 Nov	Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Week 6, 19 Nov	Eric Storm (University of Leiden) [note Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad]
Discussants: Faisal Devji (Balliol) and Abigail Green (Brasenose).
Book Talk: Nationalism: A World History 
Week 7, 26 Nov	Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall) 
Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
Week 8, 3 Dec	Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford) 
Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Lots of 19thC activity at the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood this term!
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Hello! Looking forward to an exciting term of the Oxford Long 19thC Seminar, on the theme of Arts, Crafts & the People: the Social and the Aesthetic in the Long Nineteenth Century. We meet on Wednesdays 11.10-12.30 at Exeter Cohen Quad on Walton St, all welcome.
Image of the seminar programme for the term: 
Week 1, 15 Oct	Octavia Young (University of Cambridge) 
Art Workers: The Labourers and Artisans of Morris & Co
Week 3, 29 Oct	Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter)
The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts
Week 4, 5 Nov	David Hopkin (Hertford)
Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
Week 5, 12 Nov	Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Week 6, 19 Nov	Eric Storm (University of Leiden) 
Discussants: Faisal Devji (Balliol) and Abigail Green (Brasenose).
Book Talk: Nationalism: A World History 
Week 7, 26 Nov	Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall) 
Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
Week 8, 3 Dec	Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford) 
Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Today, for our final seminar of the term we have Rashel Zemlinskaya talking about the Renaissance as an ideological construct in 19thC Russia - join us!
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
TODAY! Please join us
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This week we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory", Weds 04/06 11.10am Ruskin Room, Exeter College, Oxford and online
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
After great discussion about global history prompted by @poldalmau.bsky.social, very much looking forward to this time next week, when we'll hear from Rebecca Gould about "Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory"
Image of programme for the term, email Christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk for text version
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Today! Join us
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This Wednesday join us to hear @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
Image of full programme for the term. Contact Christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk for text version.
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Coming up next week: @poldalmau.bsky.social talking about 'Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives', 21/05/25 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad and online. #Iberianists #SkyStorians #GlobalHistory #NineteenthCentury - join us for what promises to be a great session!
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Coming up soon! @csloanox.bsky.social will be kicking off our series 'Writing Histories/Histories of Writing' with a talk on 'Written developments: literacy, child development & young writing lives in mid-19thC-England'. Weds 07/05, 11.10-12.30 in person at Exeter Cohen Quad, or online via Teams
Programme for a seminar series on 'Writing Lives/Histories of Writing': 
Week 2, 
Weds 7th May, 11.10	
Catherine Sloan (Oxford) Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England


Week 4, 
Weds 21st May, 11.10	
Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra) Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives


Week 6, 
Weds 4th June, 11.10	
Rebecca Gould (SOAS) Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory


Week 8, 
Weds 18th June, 11.10
	
Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford) The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction

To find out more, join the email list at https://web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/long-19c-seminar or follow us on
Bluesky @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social. For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the mailing list in
advance or email christina.debellaigue@exeter.ox.ac.uk for a link.
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Join us in Oxford or online a week tomorrow to hear @csloanox.bsky.social on "Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England" - the first talk in this term's series on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing.
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!
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oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
First post of Oxford Long 19thC Seminar bluesky acct to announce our exciting upcoming programme on Writing Histories / Histories of Writing; with papers by @csloanox.bsky.social, @poldalmau.bsky.social, @rrgould.bsky.social, & Rashel Zemlinskaya - join us on Wednesday mornings!
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