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Twf you re-read anything you wrote 3+ years ago: "It is a crude production and I do not very willingly put it in the way of people whose good opinion, as a writer, I wish for." - Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797.

All new lecture on LIT5015 The Romantic Imagination today.

"A treacherous friend is the most dangerous enemy." Henry Fielding. Tom Jones, Book 3, Ch 4. #Acontinuation25

Calling all theatre lovers!! 18th Century Studies Criticks needs your reviews — if you’re interested in reviewing any of the productions on this list, prithee DM me. Gratefully, Your most humble Criticks Theatre Editor 🪶🎭

"Persons who suspect they have given others offence are apt to conclude they are offended..." Henry Fielding. Tom Jones, Book 4, Ch3. #Acontinuation25

I'm one of the organisers of the Gilbert White and his Contexts conference this June, celebrating the author of the Natural History of Selborne. We've got some great keynote speakers and many brilliant papers. Proposal submission is open until 4 April . gilbertwhite.org.uk

"What a strange unpleasant thing that is." Listen now to find out what Jo is describing 🤣 (Also featuring a poem printed in an Eighteenth-Century newspaper in Sheffield about a heroic dog named Dash.) #comedystudies #talkaboutsatire

"There is, undoubtedly, no Sexes in Souls, and [Women] are as able to receive and practise the Impressions, not only of Virtue and Religion, but also of those Sciences which Men engross to themselves. " Eliza Haywood, Female Spectator (4 Nov 1745)

Serious post-conference blues after attending the wonderful LAPASEC conf in Essen this weekend. An incredible three days hearing about class in the 18thc (while gorging on Haribo). Lovely to reunite with last year’s attendees, and meet new ones-there’s no friendlier bunch 🥹🫶🏼

Published this month — so thrilled to be a part of this exciting new collection ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley in Context’, brilliantly edited by Ross Wilson Cambridge University Press cambridge.org/us/universityp…

YORK GEORGIAN BOOK CLUB Launching in York on 8 August 2025 (to coincide with the York Georgian Festival) All welcome First text: Jane Austen, Persuasion This bi-monthly in-person reading group will be led by Jemima Hubberstey in association with the York Georgian Society

"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience." #OTD in 1759, pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft was born. She is best known for her 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Woman - a founding text of modern feminism.

My book The Unnatural Trade came out late last year. It shows how evidence provided by naturalists was crucial to the way British abolitionists were able to cast the slave trade as unnatural, a "dread perversion of nature". Find out more and look inside - brycchancarey.com/bookshop/unnat…

Just two days left to register for the ISHS conference 2025! Don't miss your chance to listen to great presentations and take part in serious discussions about humour! And let's not forget that the view from the conference venue are gorgeous :)

so delighted to be part of this 'Tasting Funny' EJHR special issue ed. by Anne-Sophie Bories and Nils Couturier. My article 'Sex comedy: the new vulva and dick jokes' is available now, open access europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/v… #HumourStudies

🚨Job Alert🚨 YSJU is seeking a permanent part time Lecturer in Liberal Arts, with expertise in modern history, politics and international relations, and a strong commitment to widening participation in higher education. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Come for the lively & wide-ranging discussion featuring Juvenal, The Inbetweeners, The American Office, Half-Man Half Biscuit, The Divine Comedy, The Beautiful South, The Lancashire Hotpots... ...but stay to hear Jo Waugh perform 'The Way I Am' by Eminem 🙌 #ComedyStudies