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Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
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If you’re attending the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference in Bristol this summer (or thinking about it), please consider signing up to our (not-really-a-)seminar, ‘Mechanick Exercises in the History of the Book’. You can find a description and sign up link here: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem... 1/3

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Don’t forget to sign up for these exciting seminars! Deadline 22 January #RenSoc25 #EarlyModern #Skystorians

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So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Am starting to wonder if some members of UCU HEC are in the pay of Civica Election Services.

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18th century historians: if you have an article nearing completion that you'd like a round of detailed feedback on in a friendly London setting, consider applying to join our '4* Society' on 19 February. Funding available to cover childcare, travel, and free lunch adamcrymble.org/cfp-18th-cen...

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#C18 Given fact I spent much of autumn writing about Swift’s /Lady’s Dressing Room/ and Montagu’s response (‘The Reason’s that Induc’d Dr Swift…’ &c.), I might include them in my unit The Author as Character, because Montagu’s response weaponises the authorial fallacy: Swift = Strephon, etc. 1/2

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Watch out, it’s another handbook: global.oup.com/academic/pro... Come for essays by the luminaries of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies, be momentarily distracted by me arguing that ‘Bites and Shams’ are a bit like surprise parties.

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This is beautifully done.

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A good couple of days work in the print shop at the end of this week.

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They’ve put a Low Traffic Neighbourhood in on a trial basis near where I live. It took a few weeks for me to realise that I should probably cycle through it, given fact that it is parallel to the first bit of my normal cycle commute, which was now a bit fuller of angrier-than-usual motorists 1/2

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On the plus side yesterday I think I cracked paper dampening and inking levels. On the other hand, now the end matter of the book looks nicer than the main text!

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

The dog just sniffed the baby and started crying and we were all ‘oh no that must be a really bad nappy’ but it turned out he just had two crusts of bread inside his baby grow.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

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

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🔔 Please share widely! A call for contributions for an edited collection _Reading the Queer Eighteenth Century_ which will be published by De Gruyter in early 2026. Submit a proposal or pass on to interested scholars! #Skystorians #18C #Queer #Disability #Ecocriticism #trans #transnational

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We’re lucky to have some splendid linocuts by our collaborator Victoria Barton of Press Genepy (www.instagram.com/press.genepy). This is Benjamin Franklin showing off by carrying formes of locked up type in each hand, instead of one at a time like the British Weaklings he worked with

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Our dog Judy x Francis Bacon. Photo credit: our excellent dogsitter, Liv.

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We at Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress) are making a book with some friends. Here are some proofs of the title page. My question to you is: should we have the horizontal rule at the top as well as the middle, or just one?

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

For those who are new, clearsky.app will show you what lists (including starter packs) you have been added to in case you’re wondering. Note: it also displays anyone blocking you, which I strongly encourage you to ignore as a general rule (all of us use socials differently, especially right now)

submitted 114 days ago • 23 comments

i want to create a starter pack of ECRs and grad students in humanities fields (all above terms broadly understood). if that’s you, and you’re into it, like this skeet and i’ll include you. if that’s not you, please reskeet (and do not like), so we can collect accounts we could be following!

submitted 126 days ago • 9 comments

"It is not merely that we have been here before: we have seldom been anywhere else."

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12-month MHRA postdoc working on digital edition of the letters of Hannah More at Bristol: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...

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