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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Today we're thinking about something special – our Special Issue on Eliza Haywood! As its editor Manushag N. Powell wrote, these essays "show the unique vitality of Haywood scholarship."

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"John Crowne’s 1682 play City Politiques is arguably the most specific and topical political play staged during the Exclusion Crisis." Read more in Jane Wessel's “Staging the London Charter Crisis and Policing Political Participation in John Crowne’s City Politiques" @janewessel.bsky.social

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

More excellent book post in these parts: Tommy Leonard-Roy’s Writerly Hate in Eighteenth Century Britain, just out from OUP….on good hating and fun hating and the creativity of animosity in the #18thc literary marketplace. I ❤️ this book!

Cover shows Dr Syntax asleep in his armchair surrounded by anthropomorphic books with wings , flying about above his head, sniping at each other

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We're open for submission! We welcome essays that contribute to our understanding of Restoration literature, history, and culture, trace Restoration texts or ideas through adjacent or subsequent periods into our current moment, or explore pedagogical approaches to teaching material from the period.

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Tomorrow's state opening of Parliament will be a fresh opportunity for members of the House of Lords to sport their finest. In the 18th century, some peers made a conscious effort to wear tired, old robes, to emphasize the antiquity of their titles: historyofparliament.com/2026/04/01/r... #HistParl

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Dressing the part: robes ancient and modern - The History of Parliament

Dr Robin Eagles considers the symbolism of the robes worn by members of the House of Lords both in Parliament and at coronations...

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day! We did a key-word search for "motherhood" in previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below:

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"[Alexander] Pope, this article contends, was actually one of Ogilby’s closest readers." Read Richard Hughes Gibson's “On Not Overlooking Ogilby’s Homer" from our Spring 2025 Issue, 49.1 doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1353/rst....

Scanned title page of Ogilby's version of Homer's Iliad sourced from University of Rochester's River Campus Library https://www.library.rochester.edu/rbscp/blog/homer

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · 17/04/2026

Oliver Wunsch’s essay ‘The Aesthetic Redemption of the Black Body in Eighteenth-Century France’, published in the February 2025 issue of Art History has been awarded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies the 2026 James L. Clifford Prize ⬇️

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/04/2026

‘Much depended on men, and it is notable that these artists had supportive fathers and disastrous husbands who spent their money, failed to nurture their careers and in the end became burdensome.’ Rosemary Hill on the work of two eighteenth-century female painters. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Rosemary Hill · Sacred Parallelogram: Women Paint Women

The careers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Maria Cosway required constant, delicate calibration to keep the...

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Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - USYD UofG Joint PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Today we're thinking about our special Pandemic/Post-Pandemic issue, conceived 6 years ago. Edited by David Mazella and Elaine McGirr, these essays offer extensive reflections on the questions posed by a pandemic. Read the introduction here: doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1353/rst....

Black and white cover of Restoration with plague image print

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Do you have published a book or essay that we should include in our “Some Current Publications” section? Please let us know!

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We did a special key word search today Here's how "Ireland" shows up in all the previous articles published by Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below:

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Unlike today, it has not always been as easy to know what exactly is debated in Parliament. In this latest post for @georgianlords.bsky.social, Dr Charles Littleton explores an example of how someone in the 18th century could keep up with proceedings, without being in the chamber.

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'You have this day lost an agreeable entertainment in the House of Lords': Dr John Savage, Lord Cowper's personal parliamentary reporter - The History of Parliament

Dr Charles Littleton explores how Lord Cowper whilst unable to attend Parliament received his news on events from a clergyman, Rev. Dr John Savage.

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"Polwhele is notable among her predecessors and contemporaries not only because she privileges homoeroticism and homosociality, but also due to her subversive use of cross-dressing." Jordan Ivie's “Sexual Subversion and Homoerotic Sanction in Elizabeth Polwhele’s The Faithfull Virgins" link below

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Join our "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800" series Monday 9 March, 1pm CET, for a book presentation by @csschmitt.bsky.social (Cornell): "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean". Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #earlymodern #History

Image: Book Cover "The Predatory Sea" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025).

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

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IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary

The Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary is offered with the generous support of the estate of Ian Roy.

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Extreme Right Research Network @errnetwork.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The last few days to get an abstract in for our conference on the 12th of June, run in collaboration with CST's SAFE team. Emotion, Nationalism and Extremism - Contexts and Responses. In person at Northampton, deadline for abstracts 15th March. www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

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Call for Papers and Presentations – Emotion, Nationalism and Extremism: Contexts and Responses | UON

University of Northampton, Waterside Campus 12 June 2026 This one-day conference will bring together academics and practitioners to consider the...

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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

John Aubrey was born 12 March 1626, an English biographer, natural philosopher, antiquary and folklorist. He is best known for his gossipy and uncritical Brief Lives, a collection of thumbnail biographical sketches. ... 1/6 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Au...

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John Aubrey – Wikipedia

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI

A close-up of a person wearing teal gloves holding a small metal type punch engraved with an ampersand symbol. In the background, part of the person’s face is softly out of focus.

A bearded man wearing teal gloves uses a green rubber air blower to clean a small metal type punch. He sits at a desk with an open wooden case filled with neatly arranged metal punches, while a computer monitor displaying a magnified image is visible in the background.

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Time for a key-word search! We searched for "satire" in the previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results from 2020 on in the thread below and in earlier issues on JSTOR or Project MUSE.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 23/02/2026

“I don’t want to hear more news, no, no, no.” A fascinating essay in the @lrb.co.uk, reviewing books about seventeenth century postal services and the news. Literate Europeans were feeling *overwhelmed* by all the reportage available.

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John Gallagher · Quickly Quickly Quickly: Early Modern News

In early modern Europe, news took many forms. It could be words exchanged by the people who haunted Venice’s Rialto....

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of literature, history, or culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods? We’re open to any subject and any convincing method! Find more information on our website: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Courtship, seventeenth-century style, for Valentine’s Day. From ‘The art of making love: or, rules for the conduct of ladies and gallants in their amours’, published in London in 1676. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social U*.8.82(G). #valentinesday

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

There might be some Other News happening today, but the really important announcement is that... Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be talking about #WrittenWorlds in early modern England at @ihrscb.bsky.social on Thurs March 5th! 🗃️ Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England
Who wrote in early modern England? What did they write and why did they write it? How did their writing fit into the wider worlds that they inhabited? In this talk, Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell and Michael Powell Davies – all from Birkbeck University of London – will address these questions by introducing their ongoing Leverhulme-funded collaborative project on non-elite writers in England from c.1570 to 1730. Our research explores the writing practices of people below the level of the gentry and clergy, considering their biographical contexts, their motivations and their contributions to written culture. In addition to giving a bird’s eye view of the sorts of writers and texts we are studying, each of the three speakers will discuss a couple of specific examples of particular writers, including the notebooks of a midland villager, the spiritual diary a London wigmaker, and the confessions of a condemned widow.

Hybrid | IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, or Online-via Zoom.
5 Mar 2026
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Slide titled Written World with a seventeenth-century painting of a woman writing in a book.

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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Something extraordinary about holding a book printed almost 350 years ago. "Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna agus ar Slanuigheora Iósa Criosd" (1681) - the New Testament printed for the first time using the old Irish alphabet. Printed on Ave Maria Lane, EC4 & now in St Bride Foundation #IrishLondonHistory

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Title page of the 1681 Irish-language book "Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna agus ar Slanuigheora Iósa Criosd"

Photo of the City of London Corporation street name for Ave Maria Lane EC4

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m... #OTD

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Have you heard?! We currently have 2 vacancies on the #BSECS Council: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer (working with me!) Posts are voluntary but #BSECS pays travel and accommodation costs, the term of office is 3yrs. Details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

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Vacancies - BSECS

Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly. www.ecis.ie/news-events/

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

29 Nov 1678: Eleven peers ask Charles II to remove Queen Catherine of Braganza from #Whitehall Little wonder this 1678 portrait is as regalia-ed as it is (GAC)

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Time for a key-word search! We searched for "queer" in all the previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below:

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Mirror Showing King Charles II, Queen Catherine of Braganza, and Scenes from the Old Testament c. 1665 (Art Institute Chicago) Catherine was born #otd 25 Nov 1638 on the feast of St Catherine of Alexandria.

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Do you have an essay that contribute to our understanding of Anglophone literature/history/culture,1660-1700 or explores how the Restoration impacts other periods, including our current moment? We encourage submissions from scholars at any career stage, with or without university affiliation.

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

If you're near Limerick, Dr. Harald E. Braun (University of Liverpool) will speak in the Hunt Museum on 5 November, 6-8pm, on: ‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

CfP📢Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies : "Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today" 📆10-12 June 2026 |🌍Paris ⏰Application deadline: 26 October 2025 🔗 sissd.it/wp-content/u... @isecs-sieds.bsky.social

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history! The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/10/2025

The Society now invites applications for its Workshop Grants programme 2026: bit.ly/4oPyUdZ Grants provide funding for groups of historians to come together for a day event to work collaboratively on a shared project. Closing date for applications: Friday 23 January 2026 #Skystorians

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RHS Workshop Grants, 2026 - call now open to fund day events on historical projects - RHS

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the next call for its RHS Workshop Grants for projects to take place in 2026. This scheme provides funding of £1,000 per Grant to enable historians ...

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

In October 1660, many of the 59 commissioners who signed Charles I's death warrant were executed, after the monarchy was restored. Richard Ingolsby was not one of those men, claiming that Oliver Cromwell forced him to sign it. But was this true? historyofparliament.com/2024/01/30/r...

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Richard Ingoldsby – Reluctant Regicide? - The History of Parliament

On 29 January 1649, Charles I's death warrant was signed by 59 men. One of these men, Richard Ingoldsby, later claimed during the restoration of the monarchy

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Do you have published a book or essay that we should include in our “Some Current Publications” section? Please let us know! Contact us at restorationjournal@umd.edu.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Charles I & Henrietta Maria, miniatures by John Hoskins c.1589/90 - 1664 (Rijksmuseum)

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Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

(Call for abstracts) Gender and labour in healthcare infrastructure in the long eighteenth century histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/10/genr... #histSTM #histgender

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Time for a key-word search! We searched for "libertinism" in all the previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below:

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Born on this day in 1593, in London but to Dutch parents, Cornelis Johnson. Painter of portraits including, here, his own.

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

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The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

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Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with @dukepress.bsky.social in October!

Book cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

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