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Excited to share the cover of my book coming out early 2025!! 🌱

And it's LIVE!!! With our new Swatch Search, you can explore our collection of #textiles swatches (and a few larger items), either by historic textile name (if they were labeled) or by attributes like color, pattern, process, weave structure, and fiber. dutchtextiletrade.org/projects/swatc…

I have just had to ask how to return a book to the library despite working here since January. It's a wonder librarians let academics & their hoarding tendencies anywhere near books! #twittetstorians #18thC

Do you research / teach book history or 18thc literature/history? No £ to purchase books for your institution? Once again I am obliged to demurely note that my recently published Element about Burneys, books and bibliomania is available for FREE.

We welcome applications to The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme for research projects from any discipline that are linked to the world-class Special Collections of the University of Manchester Library. Deadline 04/11/24: library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/resear…

Published on 19 Sept: the next title in Royal Historical Society's New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians: 'Mapping the State' by Martin Spychal bit.ly/4dRJwUq As for all NHP books, published University of London Press, Martin's book will be available #OpenAccess

Just a reminder that there are a couple of days left for abstracts to discuss mobility and encounter in Bristol next year! #cfp #RenSoc25 #Twitterstorians #EarlyModern

Call for Film/TV/Video Game Reviewers.📢 The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19 Journal) call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/27…

I have not heard this discussed much, but this point is spot on. Colleges and universities cannot sell themselves as bastions of environmental sustainability while also encouraging students and faculty to see ChatGPT as a learning tool they should integrate into their work.

Putting the final touches to it before heading down to London. It would be lovely to see you there #twitterstorians #18thC

My article on touch, comfort & the eighteenth-century private madhouse is now published open access in The Senses and Society, part of the "Senses and Health/Care Environments" Special Issue. Many thanks to Victoria Bates & the wonderful editorial team... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thanks to past me, who seems to have written a pretty decent lecture on #19thC urbanisation and migration and then entirely forgotten about it! #amteaching

Such a delight to present my research IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar last night. It is such a supportive & challenging forum of senior scholars - presenting here never fails to improve the quality of my work. Thank you to everyone who came, & all those who asked questions #twitterstorians #18thC

Here’s my short piece on a mid-C18th Black voter I came across by chance. I’ll be writing about him more fully in an article to be published next year

'after the book was published, I was regularly contacted by broadcasters and even movie producers who had found me by reading the book online.' Our next post for #OAWeek with Sarah Fox is on the blog now! uolpress.co.uk/2024/10/reflec… #OpenAccess Open Institutional Publishing Association School of Advanced Study, University of London Institute of Historical Research

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” ― Sir Francis Bacon "Please do not chew the books." ― The Gladstone's Library Team

After more than 4 years of work, the The Scottish Privy Council, 1692-1708 online database is officially live! Providing a searchable edition of the Privy Council record for 1692-1708, it is a major milestone in Scottish historical scholarship. Check it out here: spcr.ac.uk

Today's #BSECS2025 plenary panel brings together historians, heritage professionals & political scientists Matthew Grenby, Prof Elaine Chalus, Kendra Packham, Robert Saunders, Susan Banducci, Joanna Tinworth & Sir John Curtice to discuss elections and democracy.