Adam Bridgen

if you don’t know what to read over Christmas… uolpress.co.uk/book/british... (free online or print, discount code BWCARW30)

Coming next to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in early 2026!

So grateful to the Birmingham Back to Backs Museum for hosting our Birmingham book launch! A perfect venue to remember our late contributor, Stephen Roberts. Andrew Reekes gave an excellent talk on his life’s work, and the @nationaltrust.org.uk team, volunteers, and audience were amazing. Thanks!

Just 5 tickets left for our book launch in Birmingham this Thursday, with talks on naval surgeons and abolition, chartist poetry, and the invisible work of theatre cleaners @sarahinthepark.bsky.social. Free wine, good cheer! book here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

Great launch last night in Nottingham’s amazing @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social bookshop. Such a good crowd. Next week, Birmingham!

Tonight in Nottingham! Editors John Goodridge and @adambridgen.bsky.social will be discussing their new book, British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700.

You can get the discounted book & a ticket thrown in. Thank you @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social!

fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/briti...

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...

Not to forget the book: open-access and free to read/download!
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If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory

Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm.

For further details & tickets:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

@midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social

Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:

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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...

If you haven't had a chance yet to look at our new book, here it is (for free!): uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

The official launch will be in Nottingham next month, with further events to follow in Birmingham next month and London next year: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/briti...

Bardic liberties: Bardism and slavery in the poetry of Iolo Morganwg The Celtic Seminar is held jointly by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays either hybrid (online and in...

Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism

Email David Willis if you want a Teams link!

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...

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...

The latest #OA book supported by the Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award is now available!

"British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700" (@uolpress.bsky.social) is a collection of essays examining the intersection of British working-class and radical writing: bit.ly/4pRkSK4

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 are more important than ever, this collection examines the intersection of British working-class and radical ...

Read our latest book online now - topics include the obstacles facing writers, women writers, socialism, feminism, anti-imperialism, & diasporic identities.

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

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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!'

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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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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

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...

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/...

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

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!