Have you checked out the newest issue of Restoration yet? Restoration 49.2 is available open access on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55568

Project MUSE - Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700-Volume 49, Number 2, Fall 2025

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Today we're thinking about something special – our Special Issue on Eliza Haywood! As its editor Manushag N. Powell wrote, these essays "show the unique vitality of Haywood scholarship."

"John Crowne’s 1682 play City Politiques is arguably the most specific and topical political play staged during the Exclusion Crisis." Read more in Jane Wessel's “Staging the London Charter Crisis and Policing Political Participation in John Crowne’s City Politiques" @janewessel.bsky.social

More excellent book post in these parts: Tommy Leonard-Roy’s Writerly Hate in Eighteenth Century Britain, just out from OUP….on good hating and fun hating and the creativity of animosity in the #18thc literary marketplace. I ❤️ this book!

We're open for submission! We welcome essays that contribute to our understanding of Restoration literature, history, and culture, trace Restoration texts or ideas through adjacent or subsequent periods into our current moment, or explore pedagogical approaches to teaching material from the period.

Tomorrow's state opening of Parliament will be a fresh opportunity for members of the House of Lords to sport their finest. In the 18th century, some peers made a conscious effort to wear tired, old robes, to emphasize the antiquity of their titles: historyofparliament.com/2026/04/01/r... #HistParl

Dressing the part: robes ancient and modern - The History of Parliament

Dr Robin Eagles considers the symbolism of the robes worn by members of the House of Lords both in Parliament and at coronations...

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Happy Mother's Day! We did a key-word search for "motherhood" in previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below:

"[Alexander] Pope, this article contends, was actually one of Ogilby’s closest readers." Read Richard Hughes Gibson's “On Not Overlooking Ogilby’s Homer" from our Spring 2025 Issue, 49.1 doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1353/rst....

Oliver Wunsch’s essay ‘The Aesthetic Redemption of the Black Body in Eighteenth-Century France’, published in the February 2025 issue of Art History has been awarded by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies the 2026 James L. Clifford Prize ⬇️

‘Much depended on men, and it is notable that these artists had supportive fathers and disastrous husbands who spent their money, failed to nurture their careers and in the end became burdensome.’ Rosemary Hill on the work of two eighteenth-century female painters. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Rosemary Hill · Sacred Parallelogram: Women Paint Women

The careers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Maria Cosway required constant, delicate calibration to keep the...

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📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Today we're thinking about our special Pandemic/Post-Pandemic issue, conceived 6 years ago. Edited by David Mazella and Elaine McGirr, these essays offer extensive reflections on the questions posed by a pandemic. Read the introduction here: doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1353/rst....

Do you have published a book or essay that we should include in our “Some Current Publications” section? Please let us know!

We did a special key word search today Here's how "Ireland" shows up in all the previous articles published by Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below:

Unlike today, it has not always been as easy to know what exactly is debated in Parliament. In this latest post for @georgianlords.bsky.social, Dr Charles Littleton explores an example of how someone in the 18th century could keep up with proceedings, without being in the chamber.

'You have this day lost an agreeable entertainment in the House of Lords': Dr John Savage, Lord Cowper's personal parliamentary reporter - The History of Parliament

Dr Charles Littleton explores how Lord Cowper whilst unable to attend Parliament received his news on events from a clergyman, Rev. Dr John Savage.

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"Polwhele is notable among her predecessors and contemporaries not only because she privileges homoeroticism and homosociality, but also due to her subversive use of cross-dressing." Jordan Ivie's “Sexual Subversion and Homoerotic Sanction in Elizabeth Polwhele’s The Faithfull Virgins" link below

Join our "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800" series Monday 9 March, 1pm CET, for a book presentation by @csschmitt.bsky.social (Cornell): "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean". Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #earlymodern #History

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On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary

The Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary is offered with the generous support of the estate of Ian Roy.

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The last few days to get an abstract in for our conference on the 12th of June, run in collaboration with CST's SAFE team. Emotion, Nationalism and Extremism - Contexts and Responses. In person at Northampton, deadline for abstracts 15th March. www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

John Aubrey was born 12 March 1626, an English biographer, natural philosopher, antiquary and folklorist. He is best known for his gossipy and uncritical Brief Lives, a collection of thumbnail biographical sketches. ... 1/6 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Au...

John Aubrey – Wikipedia

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🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI

Time for a key-word search! We searched for "satire" in the previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results from 2020 on in the thread below and in earlier issues on JSTOR or Project MUSE.

“I don’t want to hear more news, no, no, no.” A fascinating essay in the @lrb.co.uk, reviewing books about seventeenth century postal services and the news. Literate Europeans were feeling *overwhelmed* by all the reportage available.

John Gallagher · Quickly Quickly Quickly: Early Modern News

In early modern Europe, news took many forms. It could be words exchanged by the people who haunted Venice’s Rialto....

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Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of literature, history, or culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods? We’re open to any subject and any convincing method! Find more information on our website: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

Courtship, seventeenth-century style, for Valentine’s Day. From ‘The art of making love: or, rules for the conduct of ladies and gallants in their amours’, published in London in 1676. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social U*.8.82(G). #valentinesday

There might be some Other News happening today, but the really important announcement is that... Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be talking about #WrittenWorlds in early modern England at @ihrscb.bsky.social on Thurs March 5th! 🗃️ Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Something extraordinary about holding a book printed almost 350 years ago. "Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna agus ar Slanuigheora Iósa Criosd" (1681) - the New Testament printed for the first time using the old Irish alphabet. Printed on Ave Maria Lane, EC4 & now in St Bride Foundation #IrishLondonHistory

N16Breda Corish@n16breda.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The New Testament was first published in Irish in London, 1681. The famous Irish scientist Robert Boyle (1627-1691) financed the casting of metal type for the Old Irish script by Joseph Moxon in London. The books were printed by Robert Everingham of Ave Maria Lane, London EC4 #IrishLondonHistory ☘️

Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m... #OTD

Have you heard?! We currently have 2 vacancies on the #BSECS Council: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer (working with me!) Posts are voluntary but #BSECS pays travel and accommodation costs, the term of office is 3yrs. Details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

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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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