Issue 8: Play in the Long Nineteenth Century
Issue 8 of Romance, Revolution and Reform.
It's here!
We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below.
We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles!
www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8
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Are you already doing A Sentimental Journey? If not, it's short, plenty of bawdy humour, and has plenty of societal and philosophical commentary. The 'caged bird' passage led to a fascinating discussion of abolition when I studied it as an undergraduate.
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Didn't take long. Who would have thought that someone who has long called for the privatisation of Venezuela's energy resources would support the US's violent and illegal takeover?
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Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live
US president says ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’
If there was any doubt about the use of the Nobel Peace Prize as Western soft power... After today, the 2025 selection of the pro-capitalist, pro-Trump, and pro-privatisation María Machado certainly looks a lot more like a preparatory hearts-and-minds move.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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So the New Year starts with horror.
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The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.
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Screenshot that reads “Yule-hole: the furthest hole on your belt that you have to resort to after Christmas dinner (18th-century Scots dialect)” with a cartoon of a belt curled up
Saving.
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I'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱
Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
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About | Eighteenth Century E
The #18thC Ecologies Network, based @cecs-york.bsky.social is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies the period.
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
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All Things Early Modern Literature • Hon. Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Promoting #OpenScience practises (in the Arab States) & #LordByron (everywhere else). Ravenous bibliophage lurking in the desert (with cats)
Chief Academic Officer, Knowledge E | Director, The Byron Society | Director, Forum for Open Research | BARS Exec
"End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Historian, author. Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS. Next: MUSKISM with Ben Tarnoff. Preorder here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 quinnslobodian.com
Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
Advancing the commons. www.Bollier.org. 'Frontiers of Commoning' podcast. Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Land campaigner, former MSP, forester, author The Poor Had No Lawyers. http://andywightman.scot & http://whoownsscotland.org.uk
Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums
#Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism
#walking #birdwatching #naturewriting
Ascending with the Earth 🌍.
A network bringing together postgrads and ECR scholars from universities in northern England and Scotland working in the field of environmental history.
PhD candidate at the University of York, department of history. Researching the microscope in early modern and eighteenth-century knowledge creation and visual culture.
AHRC funded through WRoCAH.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at CHAM, Lisbon | Alumni EUI | Historian of Eighteenth Century Iberian Worlds | Spanish Louisiana | Colonial Mozambique | #MobilityHistory, #PoliticalEcology, #GlobalHistory, #BlueHumanities, | My own views 🇺🇦🇵🇸 | He/him
The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
Find out more: https://hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-century-e
Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
Historian of science, environment, & empire, esp. 19th century. Working on the long history of "critical minerals” & the US.
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Anthropocene History in Stockholm.
Assistant Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
