📢 Our first seminar of the academic year is nearly here! Declan Kavanagh, University of Kent, will be presenting a paper on: "‘The Fear You Had for Your Eyes’: The Terror of Sight Loss in Gulliver’s Travels (1726)" 🗓️ Tuesday 6 Oct, 5pm 📍 H/G09, Heslington Hall 🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Just a reminder that if you're a member of the University of York, there's no additional costs to any of our services. Use the 3D printers in our maker space for free. Use our podcasting studio for free. Come on our in-person and online training sessions for free. Borrow equipment for free.

***BREAKING NEWS*** We have extended the deadline on our #CFP by 5 days to give those of you that missed our early deadline another chance! New deadline: 20 September 2026 Get writing! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ 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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**The Georgian Group Dunscombe-Colt Bursary** #BSECS & the Georgian Group are offering a NEW bursary for #PGR & #ECR speaking on the architecture or material culture of the long #18thC at the BSECS annual conference. #skystorians 🗃️ Details can be found at: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social

Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at University of Oxford

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Congratulations to our CECS colleague Dr Will Tullett on the publication of his new book! 📚👃

Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 3w ago

More positively I am really pleased that SNIFF: A HISTORY OF SMELLS is out today!! Published by @yalebooks.bsky.social and out in all good bookshops. It's a history of smell across time and space that takes in a panoply of pongs and perfume from paper and ink to stink bombs and whale oil.

What a thrill yesterday to see #topiary trimming in action behind Univ of York’s @york.ac.uk Heslington Hall, home to our Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. The original topiary design dates from the early #18thCentury & was inspired by Dutch gardens.

Applications are open for two 2027–28 JHI Postdoctoral Fellowships in the humanities & qualitative social sciences. Spend a year advancing your research as part of JHI’s interdisciplinary Circle of Fellows. Deadline: Oct. 27 https://uoft.me/calls #Postdoc #AcademicSky

Closing Monday, 9 August at 9am 🚨 We're hiring for 2 Archive roles: 📜 Explore Centre Team Leader (Permanent, full-time) 📜 Project Archivist (12-month, full-time) Details and application link in comments 👇 #archives #jobs

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 · 4mo 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@ecfriedman.com · 4mo 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 · 4mo 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 · 4mo 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 🙏 📚

📢 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 · 5mo 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 · 5mo 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...