Thank you #BARS2026 organisers and student assistants, keynotes, and speakers @bars.bsky.social for a brilliant three days in Birmingham! We missed you @drbeard79.bsky.social 🎶

Last week I graduated from my PhD programme @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who helped make this long-time dream a reality, particularly the wonderful communities of @yorkmedieval.bsky.social and @cecs-york.bsky.social, my supervisors Emma Major and Matt Townend, and my husband.❤️

Huge thanks to recently completed @cecs-york.bsky.social PhD, Rachel Feldberg) for her brilliant walking tour of Georgian York, following in the steps of Jane Ewbank, for @rarebookschool.bsky.social here in York.

On 1 July, we had a wonderful time at our Radical Print symposium, co-organized by CECS director Prof Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, CECS friend Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and Sarah Griffin, special collections librarian @uoyborthwick.bsky.social. 1/3

CfP: 'Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now' (24-26th June 2027, Sheffield) Submit proposals for 20-min papers on any aspect of Radcliffe's life and/or work by 15th Sept. More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6483

We're pleased to offer courses in York, UK, for the first time, including @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social's The Rise of Periodical Print Culture, 1700–1830! There's still space in our other York course, The Culture & Craft of Wood Type w/ Nick Gill & Helen Smith: rarebookschool.org/courses/details/t65

Jennie Batchelor@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thrilled to be putting the final touches on the course work book for my @rarebookschool.bsky.social course. It’s going to be a full and I hope fabulous week at the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social and York Minster. 1/2

On Saturday CECS staff (inc Jennie Batchelor Emma Major, Alison O'Byrne, Chloe Wigston Smith, Lizzy Spencer, Will Tullett & Jim Watt) were thrilled to support a weekend of #heritage talks & a crafting workshop with @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social Credit: York Festival of Ideas/Bec Hudson Smith

We’re always so happy to welcome back former CECS students (and show them our new home at Heslington Hall) & hear about their lives and new adventures after York🧑‍🎓❤️

Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Long ago I did an MA in Writing Women in Britain and North America, 1740-1820 at the fledgling @cecs-york.bsky.social then housed in the shadow of York Minster at King’s Manor. Today I got to see CECS’s new spaces on campus. Now its Director is a peer who used to be near me at UGA.

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/...

BSECS Annual Conference

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

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📣 CECS is thrilled to be joining forces with Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and Special Collections Librarian Sarah Griffin @uoylibrary.bsky.social for our symposium ✨ Radical Print Culture ✨ 🎟️ Booking is essential 🔗 Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Radical Print Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century registration form

1 July 2026 in H/G09 and H/G21, Heslington Hall (9:00-18:00)

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Dr Adam James Smith@elementaladam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨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

Appointed Role Advertisements: The BARS Review Editor and BARS Postgraduate and Early Career Officers 2026-2028 BARS is currently looking to appoint new Postgraduate and Early Career Officers to replace the outgoing role-holders, and a new Editor for The BARS Review. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6454

Many congratulations to friend of CECS, Prof Rachael King, who spent a semester with us in the autumn as a British Academy International Visiting Fellow 👏👏👏

Rachael King@rscar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today my son turned 10 and I turned Full Professor. It's been quite a decade!

It feels very meaningful to be read by a brilliant reader and thinker like @titachico.bsky.social Feeling a bit speechless (if you know me irl, this will come as a surprise) by this amazing review 🙏 📚

Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I had the great honor to write about @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social's utterly brilliant *Novels, Needleworks, and Empire* in Tulsa Studies for Women's Literature. Please do yourself a favor and read Prof Wigston Smith's book. It will change what you know and how you know it. 1/3

📢 Summer Fellowships at York! Excited to announce that applications are now open for York’s Summer Interdisciplinary Research Fellowships based at Heslington Hall. Come visit us for up to a month this June, July or August. #18thCentury (1/2) 🔗 docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Summer Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship scheme (SIRF) Humanities Research Centre, Heslington Hall, University of York Overview The Humanities Research Centre at the University of York invi...

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I am totally bowled over by this review of my book. The book came out nearly four years ago now, but this was totally worth the wait. Truly humbled and pleased the book speaks to people and that the magazine it's about is being enjoyed by so many readers today. www.romtext.org.uk/reviews/rt25...

Jennie Batchelor, The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History (2022)

Visit the post for more.

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Calling A-level English teachers! Do you teach Austen, Brontë, or other 18thc stuff? Could you use a set of free research-informed teaching materials, which support students' historical, literary, & linguistic understanding, & foster debate about misogyny, consent, & healthy relationships? (1/?)

Gorgeous alliums at Heslington Hall, home of York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. #alliums

Congratulations to co-editors Rachel Feldberg, Matthew Daniel Eddy @bookscribbler.bsky.social & Jane Rendall on their excellent book. What a treat it was to celebrate this new publication, full of new and old friends of CECS, including recent PhD Dr Roseanna Kettle @roseannakettle.bsky.social

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York@cecs-york.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📚 🥳 All welcome at our hybrid book launch for Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824), edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Rachel Feldberg and Jane Rendall (Boydell Press: 2026) 📚🥳 🗓️ Wednesday 13 May, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 🎟️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

One of our favourite #18thcentury spots behind our new home in Heslington Hall is the two-story summerhouse, part of an eighteenth century garden design that originally included canals, topiary, and a garden wall. #topiary #summerhouse

Don't forget to apply for our #BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship. Travel, accommodation, and related expenses of up to £4,000 to support a visiting scholar of the #18thC at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, deadline 26 June 2026 #skystorians 🗃️ Details below! www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

📚TODAY: our book launch & celebration of Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824) 👇

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York@cecs-york.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📚 🥳 All welcome at our hybrid book launch for Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824), edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Rachel Feldberg and Jane Rendall (Boydell Press: 2026) 📚🥳 🗓️ Wednesday 13 May, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 🎟️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

We're very pleased to announce that the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture will be given by Prof Rebecca Earle (Warwick) on Weds 1 July bit.ly/4eF0DMp. Rebecca's lecture, ‘The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’, is now open for booking. All welcome #Skystorians

Rebecca Earle to give the the Society's 2026 RHS Prothero Lecture - RHS

The Society’s 2026 Prothero Lecture will be given by Rebecca Earle FBA, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Warwick. Rebecca's lecture, which takes place at 6.00pm on Wednesday 1 Ju...

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Looking forward to this event on Wednesday the 13th 👇

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York@cecs-york.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📚 🥳 All welcome at our hybrid book launch for Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824), edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Rachel Feldberg and Jane Rendall (Boydell Press: 2026) 📚🥳 🗓️ Wednesday 13 May, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 🎟️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

UK friends: Yale UP is offering a 50% discount on many books, including mine 🤗 with the code MAY26. 🔗 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Novels, Needleworks, and Empire - Yale University Press London

The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism  Finalist, Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize   In the e...

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We’re very pleased to share news of this research fellowship position, working with our wonderful CECS / English Literature colleague Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social on the collected works of Mary Wollstonecraft: 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...

Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft at University of York

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Such a pleasure to be in the audience for Prof Ros Ballaster’s superb Copley lecture for @cecs-york.bsky.social at Heslington Hall earlier this week. Prof Ballaster was talking about touch and the 18th century woman artist in a brilliant and archivally rich presentation.

📚 🥳 All welcome at our hybrid book launch for Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824), edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Rachel Feldberg and Jane Rendall (Boydell Press: 2026) 📚🥳 🗓️ Wednesday 13 May, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 🎟️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

📢 PhD Funding alert: 'Exporting JMW Turner, c. 1910-1966'. This HRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership is co-supervised by Dr Amy Concannon (Tate) and Dr Richard Johns (York, History of Art / CECS). 🔗 www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/study/funding/exporting-jmw-turner/ ⏱️ 27 May, 2026 Please share!

TODAY 👇

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York@cecs-york.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Our annual Stephen Copley Lecture is scheduled for Tuesday 5 May with Prof Ros Ballaster (Oxford) presenting a paper on: "The Sense of Touch and the Shaping of the Woman Artist in the Eighteenth Century" 🗓️ Tuesday 21 April, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Such a pleasure to be one of the interviewees on episode 7 of Michael Kramp’s brilliant podcast, Jane Austen and the Future of Humanities. Episode 7 is about Emma: and the challenges of living in community. Downloadable wherever you get your podcasts!