Dr Helen Williams

Naming and Classifying cfp final CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you!

Big news! Still pinching myself 📚

Masterclass: from Academic to General Non-Fiction | Writing that connects | Arvon If you have an academic background, how do you find a place for creativity in your writing? Academics often capture fascinating stories in their research and archival work, but they don’t necessarily ...

Following on from our pilot event, the Arvon Foundation have launched another writing masterclass for academics creating public-facing material.

16th September 7-9pm, with author and climate scientist Peter Stott MBE, registration £40/£20 concessions.

www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Not jealous at all 😆

I haven’t been, nor have I read anything recent on it.

There’s still time 🕰️

Deadline 31 August 💚

Republican Bodies: Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Politics 7 Owengate, Durham University, DH1 3HB

Free event on Republican Bodies: Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Politics. Durham, 18 September. Register here:
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This looks amazing!

📚 Most read in The Shandean this week:
'The Life of Books in Tristram Shandy' by Judith Hawley
Read it online: bit.ly/Books-Shandean
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Northern Audiobooks Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

Audiobook listeners! Please could you complete our 5-min survey on northern voices? And please share widely!

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Northern Bridge Consortium (NBC) Doctoral Training Partnership Northumbria University is a member of the Northern Bridge Consortium, a doctoral training partnership in which we collaborate with Durham, Newcastle, Queen's Belfast, Sunderland, Teesside and Ulster U...

Fully-funded PhD with the @britishlibrary and @NorthumbriaUni

'The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place'

Deadline 31 May for an October start

www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/pos...

The Brief Lives 2025 Essay Award is open to UK and Ireland based writers under 35 - deadline 30 September, word limit 3,000. The biographical subject, or subjects, should be historical figures of significance.

See elhb.uk/brieflives for more details about the Award, including eligibility.

The BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship offers up to £4000 to research the history, culture, literature, and/or identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Deadline for applications is 31 May 2025. Find out more at www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Literary Heritage: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic Literary Heritage examines the literary heritage sector in the post-pandemic moment. The book argues that this is a unique time for literary heritage management and demonstrates that the key to unders...

Our book is out now, online open-access!

Literary Heritage: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic

www.routledge.com/Literary-Her...

Northern Bridge Consortium (NBC) Doctoral Training Partnership Northumbria University is a member of the Northern Bridge Consortium, a doctoral training partnership in which we collaborate with Durham, Newcastle, Queen's Belfast, Sunderland, Teesside and Ulster U...

Fully-funded PhD with the @britishlibrary and @NorthumbriaUni

'The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place'

Deadline 31 May for an October start

www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/pos...

“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”

My NEH grant has been terminated

Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars

You can’t say history isn’t relevant

Looking on in horror right now - this thread is a tonic. Thank you, Kate x

This will be so good! CFP deadline this week.

Deadline 31 March 📣📣📣

10. Sarah Hodgson a radical type, with Helen Williams - Biographicon In this episode I am joined by Helen Williams, a specialist in eighteenth-century book history to find out about the Newcastle-upon-Tyne printer-publisher, newspaper editor and radical Sarah Hodgson. ...

Had a nice chat with my friend Declan about my latest obsession - listen here x

Biographicon: a podcast on the Northern Enlightenment

biographicon.net/podcast/09-s...

Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, University of Antwerp, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University ...

Antwerp conference at the wonderful Plantin Moretus and Rubens House Museums

CFP: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade

museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

Please can people who listen to audiobooks fill in our survey? It's about hearing northern voices.

This is a project we're running with
New Writing North to celebrate their new audiobook recording studio on campus.

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

So interesting but hadn’t come across it!

Delighted to have a piece in this on the gendered posthumous legacy of printer-poet Constantia Grierson

Sarah Hodgson’s Arabic Bible: Gender, Empire and the History of the Book | Bibliographical Society Lecture

On 21 Jan I’m giving a hybrid lecture about amazing Geordie printer Sarah Hodgson who produced a Bible in Arabic in Newcastle in 1811, fighting off the Oxford dons to keep it in the north 🙌
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/sarah...

Making and remaking Tristram Shandy How does it change our understanding of a book when we come physically close to the materials it was created from? How does it change your perception to reflect not just on the words but the skills…

Thank you! The marbling is from a workshop with the wonderful Louise Brockman blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/...

Very proud of our relaunch of The Shandean journal, now published by @livunipress.bsky.social: check it out!

Always knew you were a BSECSer, Beth - so glad we’ve claimed you! And ee the F word 😂❤️