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Adam Bridgen

@adambridgen.bsky.social

Late Blu-mer LeverhulmeTrust ECF at Durham 2024-27 Early-career researcher interested in working-class poetry on empire & extractivism in long 18thc bread & brewing hobbyist -- https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/adam-j-bridgen/

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British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

25.09.2025 13:54 — 👍 32 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2

Steaming this eve (GMT) I'll be speaking on abolitionism and naval medicine in the 1780s at the 'Science and Revolution' conference'. Full programme: www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...

Both days of the conference will be available via livestream here (times EST): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

25.09.2025 12:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Published today by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social is a new, co-edited, open-access essay collection: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700.
Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

25.09.2025 08:36 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Looking forward to kicking off the 'Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions' conference next week @amphilsociety.bsky.social, on the 'Science on the Front Lines' panel.

I'll be tackling naval medicine + abolition

It's free and open to the public!
www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...

18.09.2025 10:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Summer School 2024 Film Animal Thinkers: Celebrating the Pioneers of Ethical Sensitivity to Animals. A film of the 2024 Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School in partnership with our…

Blessed sunshine at last to accompany the start of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Summer School today! + found out I'm in a video about last year's conference on 'Animal Thinkers': vimeo.com/1094757932?f...

04.08.2025 17:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Massive congrats Rhys - super to see it at last and I shall be perusing forthwith!

10.06.2025 15:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The forgotten poet of Fordham Unique handwritten verses from a nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire poet – who died destitute and in relative obscurity despite royal patronage – have been saved for future generations by Cambridge Uni...

Super news! Cambridge University Library have saved the papers of another working-class poet, James Withers (1812-92). How rare it is to have this kind of material preserved - bravo! www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Forg...

10.06.2025 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Twentieth Anniversary Conference, 26-27 June – Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre

Very much looking forward to presenting at this upcoming conference - and so excited to finally meet Linda Colley! Free to register: blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/...

10.06.2025 10:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

16-18 June 2025 Visuality and Extraction Symposium - Durham University

Join Leverhulme Early Career Fellows @adambridgen.bsky.social ‬and Rebecca Macklin who will be speaking at an event next week on the multi-faceted dimensions of extraction through visual media, storytelling, creative and interpretive practices @durham-university.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/nkvsd9xp

09.06.2025 10:28 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Ahoy Bluesky! Teaching is done for the year, blessed be. Thanks to @fierengraw.bsky.social and @maryfairclough.bsky.social for the invite, and apols for the delay... Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends in pastures pleasant and new!

28.03.2025 09:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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John Sutton
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Carl Thompson
@carlethompson

Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.

University of London Press
@uolpress

Opening up humanities research. Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books. https://uolpress.co.uk

Sarah K Whitfield
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British History Online
@bho

British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/

American Council of Learned Societies
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Institute of English Studies
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Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ies.sas.ac.uk/

Durham University
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American Philosophical Society
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
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Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
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Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery Department of History, University College London ucl.ac.uk/history/cslbs

Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge
@18thcenturycam

University of Cambridge’s workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century | Providing opportunities for postgraduate students to present papers at the University of Cambridge's History Faculty https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-long-eighteenth-century

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies
@sheffieldcems

The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield. Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk

BAVS
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Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies

Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met
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Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.

American Philosophical Association
@apaphilosophy

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
@19birkbeck

Online open access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. https://19.bbk.ac.uk/

19 Century Studies Association
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Studies in Romanticism
@studiesinrom

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