@cecs-york.bsky.social
• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for over 25 years • Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850 • Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
We are pleased to launch today a new funding scheme, jointly with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson.
Applied History Fellowships bit.ly/4ijiuII offer financial / practical support to develop the wider impact and application of academic work. £12,000 for 6 months. Closing date: 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians
This is part of the 18th c walled garden behind Heslington Hall, the new home of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York.
20.11.2025 13:31 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📢 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...
Yes, we’re in their former offices in fact.
19.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Front entrance to Heslington Hall with snow
Courtyard of Heslington Hall with snow
Yew topiary garden with snow
Yew topiaries with snow
Lovely snow this morning at our new CECS home at Heslington Hall, including the 18th c Dutch style topiary garden behind the Tudor manor house:
19.11.2025 10:28 — 👍 44 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 2TODAY! We’re very excited at CECS to hear from Dr Rachael King, our British Academy International Visiting Fellow this autumn.
11.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
Bluesky posts from Joseph Rezek explaining that he now loves Jane Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY.
Bluesky post by @profchander describing his newfound appreciation for Alexander Pope.
But on the bright side, the 18thC is clearly winning. @rezekjoe.bsky.social & @profchander.bsky.social bearing witness:
10.11.2025 17:47 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0It was a fantastic 3 days in Liverpool at the conference, ‘Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne’. Well done to the organizers and contributors! I gave a keynote on transatlantic material Marias, with unintended shopping consequences 👇🏻
10.11.2025 09:56 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Part 2!
04.11.2025 17:11 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0📢 Our next seminar is just a week away, with Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social, presenting a paper titled ‘Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives’
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️
28.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0📢📚🎉 We’re excited to share that recent English / CECS PhD @sharonchoe.bsky.social has placed her debut novel under contract with Atheneum. Many congratulations Sharon!! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
24.10.2025 09:03 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.
22.10.2025 08:43 — 👍 38 🔁 45 💬 3 📌 5⭐️⭐️⭐️ Many congratulations to CECS MA student Elizabeth Riddick, who has won first prize in the JASNA essay contest, for her essay on ‘An Open and Shut Case(ment): The Form and Function of Windows in Jane Austen’s Novels’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️
22.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history!
The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
#18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory
AUTUMN 2025 TERM CARD:
We have an exciting range of speakers for the remainder of this term - covering a range of topics relating to Britain in the #18th!
As always, all our seminars take place in person and online. Make sure to register with the following link!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
📢 Bookings are open for the 2025 Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture, delivered by our own Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social at CECS & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Looking forward to this!
14.10.2025 06:38 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0📣 It’s research seminar day! Join us at 5pm to welcome Dr Rachael King (UC Santa Barbara) who will present a paper titled ‘Care Networks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Archives’.
🗓️ Tuesday 14 October, 5.00pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
📣 Our next research seminar is today! @lenaliapi.bsky.social will be presenting a paper titled ‘Contrasting News and Controlling the Narrative: English and French News Reporting in the Wake of the 1696 Conspiracy’.
🗓️ 8 October, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’.
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the academic year! @saragwynbeam.bsky.social will be kicking things off with an excellent paper titled ‘Paradoxes in the History of Torture and the Advent of Modernity in Europe, 1400-1700’.
🗓️ 1 October, 1pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 - Heslington Hall
We are looking at a man with a pasty yet ruddy face. He is wearing a long curly mousy brown hair. It's a bit frizzy. He is wearing a red robe trimmed with fur accompanied with a lace cravat and lace cuffs.
A selection of wigs for your delectation and delight.
Wig 1. Sir Henry Thompson Baronet (not the wig - the man underneath it).
Wig description: Long, curly but clearly in need of some conditioner.
Again and again, the response @laurenworking.bsky.social and I received from #StudentSalon workshops was how much handling objects meant.
As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.'
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Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )
26.09.2025 14:26 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC
The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata.
Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians
