John Stone

18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP

Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026.

Please see the poster for further information!

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

2. Hugo Simberg, "The Wounded Angel." Oil on canvas, 1903. Helsinki Ateneum.

Typo alert! It's 8 February 2026!

Ok, networked academics, show me your magic.

What does "M.F.L." stand for? Given the number of Irish churchmen and other Irish immigrants in C18 Spain, the bookplate could be Spanish or Irish.

@Bookhistory
@IrishDiaspora

Mysteriously--for an open call of international scope--the documents for applicants are almost entirely exclusively in Catalan. Still: trust the Force, and Google Translate, and give it a go.

My own department has only one member of teaching staff specialised in anything pre-1830s. We need more.

My university is hiring up to twenty full professors in three broadly defined fields, including Humanities. Candidates will be screened by heads of department, who will vet applicants for the next phase.

The deadline is 8 February 2025.

seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublic...

It tilts heavily towards the present; and the older periods are spotted, in their panels, with talks relating something very old to something very new (neo-Victorian fiction, new productions of C16 plays).

aedeangasteiz.com/programme/

#disciplinarity
#C18

(AEDEAN is the national English Studies association.)

Perhaps fewer than 10% of the literature talks are on pre-1600 topics, about 15% on the 19th century, and 75% on everything after 1900.

In a moany-groany sort of voice, #becauseHalloween:

My specialty is nearly dead in Spanish academe, according to anecdotal if reliable data. In the annual #AEDEAN conference, the number of panel talks on the #eighteenthcentury has, apparently (I could squint a bit longer), dropped to zero.

Seems to be a tiny mouse (other suggestions gratefully received) hitching a ride on this fifteenth-century manicule. In a copy of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, printed at Barcelona c. 1473. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.H.3.3[3472].

The conveners!

from the early modern period to the present day, d) Shakespeare’s role in the dialogue between English-speaking diasporas and Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the territories where they settled.

wsc2026.org/seminars-works…

b) Spanish, Portuguese, and Luso-Hispanic influences on the work and performance of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, c) other forms of dialogue about Shakespeare and the performance of Shakespeare on the Iberian peninsula and in the broader Luso-Hispanic world....

Description: This seminar welcomes work exploring all aspects of Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic world, including a) the reading and performance of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Spain, Portugal, and the Luso-Hispanic world,

a seminar on "Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic Planet" (see below)—and there are still some spaces available. The deadline has been extended to the 15th of December. Hope to see you there !

S20.
Shakespeare and the Luso-Hispanic Planet

Organisers: John Stone, Deanne Williams

***World Shakespeare Congress Pre-Registration Deadline Extended***

Dear colleagues,

Come join @DMWShakespeare (aka @dmwillshakespr) and me in Verona! In keeping with the conference theme on Planetary Shakespeare, and as part of our project @DiasporicBooks, we are co-organizing...

On the back of one of those pasted-down sheets you wish had never seen paste, in a 1703 Compleat English Scholar (part of a diasporic library in #PalmadeMallorca). what might be a #dog.

Edmond Costello and Dowell

On another leaf in the same book, he signed his name in English using the Spanish/Catalan naming custom: two surnames joined by a conjunction!

#bicultural
#binational

Ex libris Edmondi Costello

I am fascinated by #diasporas and #onomastics. Here is Edmond Costello, an Irishman living in Palma de Mallorca in the 18th century, signing his name in Latin. No surprise here, but.....

#Irishdiaspora
#IrishinSpain
#diasporicbooks
#exlibris
#Mallorca

Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, in a 1763 Edinburgh edition, from the library of the Menorcan clergyman Miquel Rosselló, with no glossary! The sammelband's ex libris is dated 1802. Perhaps Rosselló has visited Scotland!

#ScottishprintontheContinent
#Edinburghprinttrade
#Ciutadella

Spanish ex libris dated 1802.

Miguel or Miquel Rosselló y Flores, showing proper respect for future researchers by dating his acquisition of a sammelband--six plays in English in Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh editions--in 1802. The book is in Palma but I suspect his library was in Ciutadella.

#Englishbooksonthecontinent

From a MS geometry textbook, early C18, now at the BPE Palma in beautiful downtown and sunny Palma de Mallorca.

#manuscriptculture
#mallorca
#glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting

With another Canadian, in Coruña.

C18 friends, this object is one of many eighteenth-century artefacts I saw at a lovely museum in #Valencia. Can you guess what it is?

#18thcentury
#eighteenthcentury

Northrop Frye would be listening!

If I had deep pockets in US higher ed, I'd be scrambling to set up satellite institutions abroad.

The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain?

#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory

And I encourage other Canadians living abroad to do so.

From the life of Behn in *All the Histories and Novels*: crossed out is "and for which reason the very Jesuits deny 'em Baptism."

The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!

#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits

Un fort aplaudiment! (In the absence of euskera, I'm saying it in Catalan.)

#IcanreadthenumbersbutImnotgoodatmath

But seriously, I just stopped squinting and moved on!