Emma Stanbridge

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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I’m very happy to see that these letters are now published. It was great to work on this with @nick-seager.bsky.social ✉️ ✍️

In their introduction to these papers, Seager and Stanbridge draw attention to Montagu's esteem for her friend, writing on his death in 1772: "I feel the loss of a Person who sincerely loved me, & never lost an opportunity of doing me any service of pleasure."

These letters have been edited by the wonderful Nicholas Seager and @emmastanbridge.bsky.social, and explore the candid yet intellectual friendship Montagu and Stillingfleet shared.

Letters from Elizabeth Montagu to Benjamin Stillingfleet - at Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO) A digital edition of the complete letters of Elizabeth Montagu 1718-1800 - ISSN 2753-9091

📣📣 We're very excited to share the publication of a new set of letters between Elizabeth Montagu and Benjamin Stillingfleet, now available on our website:
emco.swansea.ac.uk/emco/corresp...

Reconstruction of Mary Hamilton's social network Dec 1782 – July 1785. See https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/networks/

Mary Hamilton and her networks: Gender, sociability, manuscript. Important (we would think so, wouldn't we?) special issue of JECS, now in copy-editing. Intro + 4 research papers by the team (see www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/further-read...) + 5 outside contributions. #18thC #langsky

Call for interested parties in a panel for @bsecs.bsky.social January 2026! Theme this year is Big/Small. My paper will focus on small comforts + large discomforts in 18th c. letter writing. Let me know if you are interested #18c @cecs-york.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social

CFP for Sex in the #19thC (deets in alt)

Abstracts (300 words), biographies (100 words), and should be submitted on Monday 22d September 2025 to rrr @ soton.ac.uk. Please
indicate if you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, and include your full name, discipline & institution.

Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October. We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. Martial identities, values and motivations. Notions of gender, race, class and religion. Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. Maritime violence and naval warfare. The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18

This is a tremendously important thread about the reality of precarity and ECR life. The effects of precarity affect every single aspect of life and wellbeing: mental and physical health, friendships, family, stability.

Absolutely. While of course it puts pressure on staff to provide feedback for a large number of applicants, the labour involved in applying for jobs repeatedly by ECRs on precarious contracts is incredibly heavy, given the uncertainty, the stress, the hours that go into an application. (1/)

This is an excellent thread that speaks to the exhausting stress of academic precarity

The Scottish Government doing a much better job than its southern counterpart at holding University leaders to account

Please do sign and share this petition, put together to save Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections from job cuts that will see 3 of 4 archivists made redundant. @cilip.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social

The list of university sackings below must now include Coventry, Derby, Hull and Lincoln. That's twelve universities getting rid of staff... in just ten days. Still nothing is done. 🇬🇧

USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections

Exciting (fully funded) PhD 📢 ! Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Keele (me!) and the British Library. Beyond the Burger: USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections

www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr... (see “advert and details” for full info)

Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection

Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...

There is still time to submit a proposal for the 8th biennial @defoesociety.bsky.social Defoe Society Conference, which is happening in beautiful Lichfield, U.K., 3-5 July 2025. All details here:
www.defoesociety.org/conference/

Stop Suffolk County Council wrecking our fabulous local libraries! Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Now on the BARS Blog: a new online resource in the Collected Letters of Thomas Beddoes!

See the full post/link here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5843

And please share/repost!

Samuel Johnson Papers Digital Editions

Back online: The Yale digital edition of Samuel Johnson's work, free to read and view:

yalejohnson.com

#History 🗃️

We are looking for feedback to help improve the Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online website - we'd love to know what features you like, and how the functionality can be improved, as well as any suggestions that might improve your ability to research!

Universities: obtaining your PhD means you are a scholar for the rest of your life.

Also universities: three days after your PhD defense, access to the library will be cut off.

English Heritage plans up to 200 redundancies and winter closures of some sites Exclusive: At least 7% of workforce could be affected with curators targeted as part of charity’s restructuring

Terribly sad news.

Curators are important. Staff are important. Volunteers are important. Culture and history are important.

A horrible (yet all too common) sign of stripping the essential stuff and leaving the excess.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688–1820 Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688–1820

Excited to share that my new book, Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1830 with @CambridgeUP's Elements series is available for free download for the next 72 hours. Written with non-specialists in mind as well as Jacobite scholars. #jacobites #18th-c
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

As part of Reading the Room I've been running workshops with stakeholders on NT library collections - how to search them, how to respond to the needs of different audiences & stories they hold.

Any #skystorians or others know of any journals where we might publish our methodological approach?

My final conference as a PhD student and a pleasure to be part of this panel on life-writing. Very grateful to @bsecs.bsky.social for a bursary which enabled me to attend.