I am chipping away at my project of writing to everyone I've met since about the age of four--the next batch will be high school teachers--in an effort to get my daughter to Cambridge. I've learnt that the people I sensed were unambiguously good people, whatever their politics, are just that.

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Is she my daughter? Yes! Can I afford to send her to Cambridge? No. I can do my part, but that's not enough. Since the age of 16, Nora's schooling has been international--though entirely via scholarships. That disqualifies her from most Spanish funding (she's Spanish). gofund.me/c47916a6f

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Enlightenment and (In)equality 17th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies Zaragoza, Spain 12-16 July 2027 The submission period for for thematic sessions and roundtables is now open! All the information is available on the Congress website: www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/

For the record: in a scholarly world that very nearly ignores the past, Nora wants to work on the past. Her period runs from the 17th to the early 19th century. Her work isn't modish. It's solid.

Is she my daughter? Yes! Can I afford to send her to Cambridge? No. I can do my part, but that's not enough. Since the age of 16, Nora's schooling has been international--though entirely via scholarships. That disqualifies her from most Spanish funding (she's Spanish). gofund.me/c47916a6f

Is she my daughter? Yes! Can I afford to send her to Cambridge? No. I can do my part, but that's not enough. Since the age of 16, Nora's schooling has been international--though entirely via scholarships. That disqualifies her from most Spanish funding (she's Spanish). gofund.me/c47916a6f

Who is this eighteenth-century Spanish reader marking up English dramatic criticism in an early C18 Tonsons editions of the works of #Addison?

In 2014 I published an article on (among other things) the library of John Hunter, a Scottish merchant and consul in C18 Spain. Part of his library made its way to the library at the @RealAcademiaES, where his 1787 Burns *Poems* has since been digitised: www.rae.es/archivo-digi...

Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect

by Robert Burns.

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18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026. Please see the poster for further information!

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 2. Hugo Simberg, "The Wounded Angel." Oil on canvas, 1903. Helsinki Ateneum.

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 8mo ago

1. William Blake, "I want, I want." Engraving from _The Gates of Paradise_, 1793.

Typo alert! It's 8 February 2026!

John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My university is hiring up to twenty full professors in three broadly defined fields, including Humanities. Candidates will be screened by heads of department, who will vet applicants for the next phase. The deadline is 8 February 2025. seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublic...

Ok, networked academics, show me your magic. What does "M.F.L." stand for? Given the number of Irish churchmen and other Irish immigrants in C18 Spain, the bookplate could be Spanish or Irish. @Bookhistory @IrishDiaspora

My university is hiring up to twenty full professors in three broadly defined fields, including Humanities. Candidates will be screened by heads of department, who will vet applicants for the next phase. The deadline is 8 February 2025. seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublic...

In a moany-groany sort of voice, #becauseHalloween: My specialty is nearly dead in Spanish academe, according to anecdotal if reliable data. In the annual #AEDEAN conference, the number of panel talks on the #eighteenthcentury has, apparently (I could squint a bit longer), dropped to zero.

Seems to be a tiny mouse (other suggestions gratefully received) hitching a ride on this fifteenth-century manicule. In a copy of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, printed at Barcelona c. 1473. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.H.3.3[3472].

***World Shakespeare Congress Pre-Registration Deadline Extended*** Dear colleagues, Come join @DMWShakespeare (aka @dmwillshakespr) and me in Verona! In keeping with the conference theme on Planetary Shakespeare, and as part of our project @DiasporicBooks, we are co-organizing...

On the back of one of those pasted-down sheets you wish had never seen paste, in a 1703 Compleat English Scholar (part of a diasporic library in #PalmadeMallorca). what might be a #dog.

I am fascinated by #diasporas and #onomastics. Here is Edmond Costello, an Irishman living in Palma de Mallorca in the 18th century, signing his name in Latin. No surprise here, but..... #Irishdiaspora #IrishinSpain #diasporicbooks #exlibris #Mallorca

Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, in a 1763 Edinburgh edition, from the library of the Menorcan clergyman Miquel Rosselló, with no glossary! The sammelband's ex libris is dated 1802. Perhaps Rosselló has visited Scotland! #ScottishprintontheContinent #Edinburghprinttrade #Ciutadella

Miguel or Miquel Rosselló y Flores, showing proper respect for future researchers by dating his acquisition of a sammelband--six plays in English in Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh editions--in 1802. The book is in Palma but I suspect his library was in Ciutadella. #Englishbooksonthecontinent

From a MS geometry textbook, early C18, now at the BPE Palma in beautiful downtown and sunny Palma de Mallorca. #manuscriptculture #mallorca #glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting

With another Canadian, in Coruña.

C18 friends, this object is one of many eighteenth-century artefacts I saw at a lovely museum in #Valencia. Can you guess what it is? #18thcentury #eighteenthcentury

The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain? #condesdeOsuna #LazaroGaliano #miniatures #womenandbookhistory

And I encourage other Canadians living abroad to do so.

From the life of Behn in *All the Histories and Novels*: crossed out is "and for which reason the very Jesuits deny 'em Baptism." The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries! #AphraBehn #diasporicreaders #recusants #Jesuits

From a 1698 copy of Locke's *Two Treatises* on government, now at the BPE Toledo, one of a series of pages of MS notes designed to drive me to blindness or madness. #humbledbyatinyhand

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a fantastic medieval map of Ireland from a 15th-century navigational chart, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1352, f. 3r ☘️🎉