Next year I'll be joining Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies @lias1.bsky.social, who are still hiring (see next post)! I'll join 7 other fellows from across the globe exploring processes of, responses to, and the legacies of 'Transformation' in culture and society www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Cannot recommend enough!

Society for the Study of Labour History@sslh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A small number of tickets are remaining for our annual lecture this Saturday in Manchester at the John Rylands Library. Book your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-joh...

Had an amazing month working at the Huntington Library on extraction paintings and prints, with a short stint in Bloomington for the ‘1776 in the world’ eighteenth-century centre Spring workshop — proceeds of which should appear in ‘The Workshop’ soon!! voltaire.indiana.edu/workshop.html

The lesser spotted LAPASEC (Landau-Paris Symposia on the Eighteenth Century) CFP has arrived!! This year's topic is “Industry and Idleness: Labour, Luxury and the British Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century” (2-4 April 2027 in Essen). Deadline 20 May!

How did workers envisage the environmental impacts of the first Industrial Revolution? Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk, explores how extractive industries gave rise to new ways of writing about the natural world and the forces changing it.

From below: natural resource extraction and working-class resistance, 1767–1842

How did workers envisage the environmental impacts of the first Industrial Revolution? Adam Bridgen explores how extractive industries gave rise to new ways of writing about the natural world and the…

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Join John Goodridge and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social next week as they launch their pioneering new book and look at some of the important issues it raises. Event registration details 👇

Adam Bridgen@adambridgen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Naval surgeons, theatre cleaners, and Ozzy Osbourne - some of the talks we'll be giving at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sat 21st March for our next launch event. Book via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

💥Launch for British Working-Class & Radical Writing Since 1700, an #OpenAccess book edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social, on 21st March in Birmingham, inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition. Tickets available here: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - Book Launch | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums

Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

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Naval surgeons, theatre cleaners, and Ozzy Osbourne - some of the talks we'll be giving at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sat 21st March for our next launch event. Book via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - Book Launch | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums

Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

birminghammuseums.org.uk

Some enticing exhibitions to see in London: late-18thc art, science, and nature, closing in Spring. + www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat... (til 12 April) www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/... (.. 11 May)

A great project with super guidance from the editors, inc. image sourcing! Strongly recommend!

British Association for Romantic Studies@bars.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Call for Contributors! Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830. We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

Interested in a FREE, 2-day symposium on post-extractive visualities? We've organised one @durham.ac.uk Centre for Visual Arts and Culture. Last year was superb - abstracts due 27 Feb. History IS included (the past was 'post' once!) Last year's programme: www.durham.ac.uk/media/durham...

15-16 June 2026 CVAC symposium Post-Extractive Visualities Symposium - Durham University

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Join us in lovely North East England for an MA in English Literary Studies at Durham. Applications now being accepted for 2026/27.

Over the moon to be included in this years #18th #18thc workshop in Bloomington, Indiana. The Theme is, very appropriately - and provocatively! - '1776 in the World'. voltaire.indiana.edu/workshop.html

Spring Workshop: Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Indiana University Bloomington

The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University annually hosts a small workshop-format conference on an announced theme. The Call for Papers is usually published in the fall with a Jan...

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Our next public engagement event will be at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 21 March, where we'll be talking about women theatre cleaners, naval abolitionism, and the poetry that inspired Black Sabbath! Tickets via the link: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/briti...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - Book Launch | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums

Inspired by the ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working-Class Hero’ exhibition, join editors John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen as they launch their pioneering new book of es

birminghammuseums.org.uk

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is now listed in Verso's trade catalogue for 2026. You can find it here: versobooks.com/en-gb/pages/...

if you don’t know what to read over Christmas… uolpress.co.uk/book/british... (free online or print, discount code BWCARW30)

Coming next to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in early 2026!

Adam Bridgen@adambridgen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So grateful to the Birmingham Back to Backs Museum for hosting our Birmingham book launch! A perfect venue to remember our late contributor, Stephen Roberts. Andrew Reekes gave an excellent talk on his life’s work, and the @nationaltrust.org.uk team, volunteers, and audience were amazing. Thanks!

So grateful to the Birmingham Back to Backs Museum for hosting our Birmingham book launch! A perfect venue to remember our late contributor, Stephen Roberts. Andrew Reekes gave an excellent talk on his life’s work, and the @nationaltrust.org.uk team, volunteers, and audience were amazing. Thanks!

Just 5 tickets left for our book launch in Birmingham this Thursday, with talks on naval surgeons and abolition, chartist poetry, and the invisible work of theatre cleaners @sarahinthepark.bsky.social. Free wine, good cheer! book here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

Great launch last night in Nottingham’s amazing @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social bookshop. Such a good crowd. Next week, Birmingham!

Sarah K Whitfield@sarahinthepark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is coming up on Dec 11th, next week!

Tonight in Nottingham! Editors John Goodridge and @adambridgen.bsky.social will be discussing their new book, British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700. You can get the discounted book & a ticket thrown in. Thank you @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social! fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/briti...

If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm. For further details & tickets: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin... @midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social

Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

If you haven't had a chance yet to look at our new book, here it is (for free!): uolpress.co.uk/book/british... The official launch will be in Nottingham next month, with further events to follow in Birmingham next month and London next year: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/briti...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

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Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism Email David Willis if you want a Teams link! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...

Bardic liberties: Bardism and slavery in the poetry of Iolo Morganwg

The Celtic Seminar is held jointly by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays either hybrid (online and in...

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The latest #OA book supported by the Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award is now available! "British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700" (@uolpress.bsky.social) is a collection of essays examining the intersection of British working-class and radical writing: bit.ly/4pRkSK4

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

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Read our latest book online now - topics include the obstacles facing writers, women writers, socialism, feminism, anti-imperialism, & diasporic identities. British Working-Class & Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social: read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/bri...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 | University of London Press

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas are more important than ever, this collection examines the intersection of British working-class and radical ...

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Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social. This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏 'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!' uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

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Steaming this eve (GMT) I'll be speaking on abolitionism and naval medicine in the 1780s at the 'Science and Revolution' conference'. Full programme: www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-... Both days of the conference will be available via livestream here (times EST): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Published today by ​Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social is a new, co-edited, open-access essay collection: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700. Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

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