Looking forward to the next few days attending my first BARS conference and presenting my research on drinking cultures in Romantic travel narratives! 🍻 #BARS2026
Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️
@megandanielle.bsky.social
PhD on class & alcohol in 18th cent. art & literature / a Manc studying at the University of Sheffield / very grandma-esque / BSECS PGR Representative
Had a great time in York yesterday attending/presenting at @cecs-york.bsky.social ‘Radical Print Symposium’. Thanks to @elementaladam.bsky.social, @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, and Sarah Griffin at the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social for putting it together and for the morning workshop on the archives!
So grateful! Excited to be able to learn more about the Maid of Buttermere (who I will be talking about at BARS this year!) & the Queen of Patterdale, two Lake District locals who have different connections to drink but are both mentioned in Budworths travel guide and are connected to Wordsworth!
British Association for Romantic Studies@bars.bsky.social · 2mo ago2026 Stephen Copley Awardees!! 🎉 Many congratulations to Megan D Bennett (@megandanielle.bsky.social), Elena Bonacini (@elebonacini.bsky.social), Katie MacLean (@katiemaclean.bsky.social), and Rachel Xhemajli (@rachelxhemajli.bsky.social)! 🥳 Read about their projects: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6485
2026 Stephen Copley Awardees!! 🎉 Many congratulations to Megan D Bennett (@megandanielle.bsky.social), Elena Bonacini (@elebonacini.bsky.social), Katie MacLean (@katiemaclean.bsky.social), and Rachel Xhemajli (@rachelxhemajli.bsky.social)! 🥳 Read about their projects: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6485
Stephen Copley Research Awards 2026 (Round One): Awardees Announced – BARS Blog
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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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🚨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
In October 2026, the upcoming PGR-led conference, Dark Enchantments: Gothic Folklore and the Monstrous Fairy-Tale, will be held at the University of Sheffield. Interested in getting involved? Follow the QR code and send us your abstracts by the end of July! 🦇👻
My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷
***DEADLINE ON FRIDAY 13 MARCH*** Don't forget to submit your proposals for our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery! Only two days left to go!
BSECS@bsecs.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
You may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
I’m excited and grateful to share that I have been selected to be a BSECS PG Representative @bsecs.bsky.social. Looking forward to working with everyone over the coming years 🫶🏻
Craziest thing about Katabasis is that Kuang did all this academic research but didn’t think to google when the first Wetherspoon opened in Oxford
The rush I feel when I receive my £3 delay repay refund is unmatched
‘Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.’- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein ✨
Had a great time in Oxford for my first #BSECS2026. Thanks to @elementaladam.bsky.social for having me on and chairing the panel ‘Bodies Politic, Bodies Satiric: Satirical Embodiment in Georgian Britain and Ireland’ where I talked all things Fielding, drink, and Jacobite!
Happy New Year #18thCists #skystorians! We can't wait to welcome you to @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social NEXT WEEK for #BSECS2026. You can register FOR THE CONFERENCE ONLY [no accommodation or meals] at the registration desk from 8am, 7 January. Programme available here: 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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My first post for the V&A blog has gone live. Check it out to see and hear more about the Curators' Lives Archive that I've been researching and cataloguing 😊 www.vam.ac.uk/blog/caring-...
Voices of the V&A: The Curators' Lives Oral Histories Archive • V&A Blog
What is the Curators’ Lives Archive? Within the institutional archives of the V&A sits a little-known collection of oral histories. Aptly named ‘The Curators’ Lives’, this project was devised by Resea...
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‘Everyday, give yourself a present’. The Twin Peaks cross stitch is DONE!! ✨🫶🏻
It’s my last week at my current retail job meaning I’ll no longer be lovingly known as “curtain lady” 🫡
Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.
Please help. Please sign & share. I work on a degree programme known as ELCE for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. Bristol uni has decided to close it. Bristol was set up to serve this community & now we are losing our most accessible degree. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...
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Paperback edition of 'Made in Manchester', due near the end of this month, has a new cover illustration. I'll be signing copies at Waterstones Oldham, Saturday 23rd August 12-2pm. All welcome. www.waterstones.com/events/brian...
My poem ‘Desiderium’ is in the recent issue of Twisted Ink! Read it (and everyone else’s lovely work) here >> twistedinks.wordpress.com ✨🫶🏻
LOVE studying literature until I’m walking around with 7 books and my laptop in my bag and my backs trying not to snap in half
Went to the National Museum of Scotland and just had to take some time appreciating all the Jacobite drinking glasses 🍷🍷
Had a fantastic time at my first @defoesociety.bsky.social conference! I presented my research on drink, class, and narrative in Fielding and Defoe 🍻 Big thanks to @nick-seager.bsky.social for organising & the board who awarded me the John Richetti Student Bursary to enable me to go 🫶🏻
First post 🥳 A little intro to my PhD project. I'm currently researching surrealist aesthetics and tendencies in contemporary world cinema. My current focus is on the Surrealist documentary of Jean Painlevé and the docufiction of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 🎬
Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing! cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #danieldefoe #defoe
