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jharrimansmith.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature (especially theatre) at Newcastle University; trustee of BSECS; likes cats and learning languages.
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CONGRATULATIONS to the winner of the #BSECS2025 President's Prize, Zoe Copeman! Zoe's paper 'Women's access to anatomical knowledge in #18thC Britain and France' used Anne Lister's diaries to show how women had access to surgical imagery, but often didn't interpret it correctly or fully 🗃️ 1/2

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to [email protected] by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

One to broadcast @bsecs.bsky.social 💧💧💧💧

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Hello lovely #BSECS2025 delegates. The registration desk is now closed. We will reopen at 8.30am for payments, programmes & I can’t think of another thing beginning with ‘p’. But you get the idea! @bsecs.bsky.social

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Important update🚨 online panels will now take place in the art gallery and not Steinway Room. If in doubt ask me at reception, which is close to both @bsecs.bsky.social #BSECS2025

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Important update from #BSECS2025 🧳 @bsecs.bsky.social

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

We love the sense of anticipation on the day before the conference, as brilliant #18thC scholars start heading to Oxford from across the country. Post us your travel pics and tag us @bsecs.bsky.social #BSECS2025

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Happy New Year! Wishing you a peaceful and prosperous 2025. As always, #BSECS25 is here to kickstart your year & we're hugely excited to welcome you to Pembroke College next week. If you are unable to attend in person, check out our virtual papers & keep an eye on our BlueSky account #18thC 🗃️

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Only a week left until #BSECS2025 I’ve set up this Dropbox folder for anyone who wishes to share an accessible copy of their paper ahead of time: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tiq6d... Ahead of time can be interpreted as you wish! Please do consider access in how you present your work @bsecs.bsky.social

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

REGISTRATION FOR #BSECS2025 CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER!!!! We can't wait to see you all in January. #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Give thanks—The Rambling is out! From Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading our latest issue, now live at the-rambling.com.

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We are delighted to be able to offer the BSECS/Georgian Papers fellowship again this year. £1,000 to support a project drawing on the papers of the Georgian Papers Programme. **DEADLINE 1 FEBRUARY 2025** #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ #history www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

You have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to apply for one of our bursaries. Details below. HURRY HURRY HURRY! #18thC 🗃️ #skystorians #history

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Hello Bluesky! Did you know that we have 17 bursaries available for the BSECS Annual Conference? To find out more and apply, please use this form: (forms.office.com/e/ZJAmgxRHLd Applications close at midnight UK time on 20th November @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thC

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking at Cambridge's Early Modern French seminar today on cards, performance, and romance. They made me a lovely poster! #18thC

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

My second book was published this week! It's called What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: bloomsbury.com/uk/what-woul... I'd like to tell you a little bit about it... 1/7 #18thc #theatre #acting '#wwgd' #c18

submitted 403 days ago • 2 comments

Happy New Year #skystorians! We're excited to see you all in Oxford this week for our 53rd annual conference! And if you can't come to Oxford, follow along with our live-skeets here #18thC

submitted 427 days ago • 0 comments

The submission portal for the 53rd Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, to be held in Oxford on 3-5 Jan 2024, is open with an extended deadline. Please submit your proposal by Monday 30 October 2023! 😃 www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

submitted 503 days ago • 1 comment

#18thc peeps! #BSECS2024 registration is open! Spread the word & don’t forget to submit your paper abstracts! You can find all the details here >>> www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

submitted 504 days ago • 1 comment

Some new #18thc and #19thc people to follow, recently arrived from t’other place: @drannaburton.bsky.social, @jharrimansmith.bsky.social, @elizaspakman.bsky.social, @iha.bsky.social, @voloshkova.bsky.social, @gladlib.bsky.social, @bradders953.bsky.social

submitted 514 days ago • 0 comments

In my efforts to give away as much of BSECS's money as possible, I have updated the Society's awards pages. All members are eligible for this funding, so do take a look: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

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