Dr Meg Kobza
@fancyhistorian.bsky.social
Historian & Author 📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026 🏃🏼♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast
The Leverhulme Trust, as part of its major (£100 million) centenary investment in UK research, has announced 3 new partnerships designed to enhance opportunities for underrepresented groups at the early stages of research careers. @leverhulme.ac.uk Terrifically good news, and sorely needed. 1/3
Investing in the future of UK research | The Leverhulme Trust
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The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
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Calling all historical fashion students, costume makers and re-enactors! I am delighted to announce a new series of 18th Century Gown-Making Workshops in Scotland next spring. Please spread the news... and start stitching those undergarments! 😉 www.timesmith.co.uk/scotland-wor...
18thC friends. Do we have any idea what the Ace of Spades might have symbolised? Asking for any and all knowledge on this because I have none. ♠️♠️♠️ #skystorians #18thc #playingcards
No matter how cringey you find occult stuff, asking a tarot deck a question will always be more dignified than asking ChatGPT
Thanks everyone--secret was my first reading of it too, but other people in the room doubted it bc of the phrase 'do a secret'.
Dr Meg Kobza@fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 4w agoFriends! Historians! What is this word?? I have a guess but will keep it to myself so as not to cloud your reading of it. #skystorians #18thc #historians
Friends! Historians! What is this word?? I have a guess but will keep it to myself so as not to cloud your reading of it. #skystorians #18thc #historians
Haven't been on in a while, so in case you missed it...Masquerade is out now and you can find her in a good bookshop near you (or online!) 💖✨ #18thC #history #nonfiction @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
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/...
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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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Next Weds 10 June we welcome @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (KCL) to our seminar, who will present their paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship’ Register below to join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the marvellous Meg Kobza about her new book on the history of the masquerade ball in Georgian Britain. 🎭 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
So given this is Season 4, and Season 1 was in 1813, it must be the Seditious Meetings Act 1817, which means they're *definitely* trailing Bridgerton Season 6: The Peterloo Massacre, where Eloise's forgotten radical tradesman boyfriend reappears only to die in her arms at the hands of the Yeomenry
Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”
Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...
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This Author has the privilege of sharing the tale of Mrs Catherine Perceval with avid readers & riotous revellers alike. The Author hopes this will satiate the ton's boundless appetite for gossip. For now. yalebooks.co.uk/the-real-mas...
Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.
This works for Masquerade pre-orders too 😘
Yale University Press London 📖@yalebooks.bsky.social · 7mo agoTake 30% off selected 18th century history titles until 31.1.2026 - including books by @fourredshoes.bsky.social and @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social. Includes free postage in the UK! Browse online here: yalebooks.co.uk/bsecs26/
Including Novels, Needleworks, and Empire by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, and a preview of Masquerade by @fancyhistorian.bsky.social! Free postage in the UK. Offer runs until 31/1/26. Not available in North/South America & Australia/NZ.
This thread. The lack of acknowledgement of luck is a constant in the humanities. I have had a really successful career, made a living as a writer. And I am a pretty good researcher, I can present interesting ideas in a way people want to read them. Is that why I'm successful? 1/3
Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 8mo agoAnyway. I'm a tenured history professor, a white cisgender heterosexual man, I teach a 4-4 base and I'm half of my history department. I make, I think, 62k a year. I have 80k in student loan debts. I have a state school PhD and I was incredibly lucky to get both full time jobs I've had.
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Duncan Bell@duncanbell.bsky.social · 8mo agoPost-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life! More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...
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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We have a whole report on this www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...
University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report
A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.
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It’s my birthday! A really wonderful gift would be if you could listen, like and share my new podcast series, Uprising: The Civil Wars (and, if you have enjoyed it, give it 5 ⭐️) In the words of Henrietta Maria, Merci. 🎧 play.megaphone.fm/quvuyhkqs66t...
Congratulations to Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, Nicholas Draper and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Teaching Slavery published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/48vnDdJ #Education #Colonialism #Slavery #Racism
Teaching Slavery
Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...
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TODAY! We’re looking forward to this in-person CECS seminar with the always wonderful Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York@cecs-york.bsky.social · 9mo ago📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 25 November with Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social, presenting a paper on ‘James Tassie: A Maker of the Scottish Enlightenment’. 🗓️ Tuesday 25 November, 5pm 📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
