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• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 8d
📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
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cecs-york.bsky.social
TODAY our first CECS seminar of 2026, details 👇
cecs-york.bsky.social Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 8d
📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 10 February with Susan Carlile presenting a paper on “Thinking Globally in The Lady's Magazine, or Polite Companion, 1759-1767"
🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall & online
🔗 Register www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Susan Carlile 10 Feb - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
CECS Research Seminar with Susan Carlisle, California State University, Long Beach
www.york.ac.uk
February 10, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Need more #18thC in your life??
OF COURSE YOU DO!

Click below for an incredible programme of events from our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️

www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
All Events - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
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February 10, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
You guuuuyyyys, Reading With The Burneys got reviewed in Women’s Writing!

“A fascinating micro-history in the print ecology of the long Romanticism, reconstructed with critical acuity…a useful lens through which to reinterpret an entire cultural landscape…”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance
Published in Women's Writing (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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February 8, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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bars.bsky.social
Upcoming symposium: 'Uses of Romanticism' at University College Cork, 18-19 Feb 2026

This symposium will explore the uses and relevance of the term 'Romanticism'. More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6312
Symposium: Uses of Romanticism, 18-19 February – BARS Blog
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February 8, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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frankietaylor317.bsky.social
The CFP deadline for our upcoming workshop on 'unwanted non-human life', broadly conceived, here at York has been extended a couple of weeks. Do send in an application if it appeals to you, we've already got a great pair of keynotes lined up!
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
cecs-york.bsky.social
📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
All Events - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
www.york.ac.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
cecs-york.bsky.social
📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 10 February with Susan Carlile presenting a paper on “Thinking Globally in The Lady's Magazine, or Polite Companion, 1759-1767"
🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall & online
🔗 Register www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Susan Carlile 10 Feb - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
CECS Research Seminar with Susan Carlisle, California State University, Long Beach
www.york.ac.uk
February 4, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social
Co-organised by some of our phenomenal @crems-york.bsky.social and @cecs-york.bsky.social PhD students!
asleuki.bsky.social ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · 21d
📢Call for Papers: Yuck?: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Nonhuman Life 🐀 @northernenvhistory.bsky.social

Deadline: 31 January 2026

Further details: tinyurl.com/ynwua3em
January 22, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Register at this link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 2/2
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: HECAA: Turner in 2025 – Reflecting on the Anniversary Year’s Exhibitions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: HECAA: Turner in 2025 – Reflecting on the Anniversary Year’s Exhibitions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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Join CECS & HECAA for an online conversation about #Turner in 2025. CECS staff @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Richard Johns will discuss the #AustenTurner exhibition, and be joined by Lucinda Lax at the Yale Centre for British Art and Melissa Gustin at the Walker Art Gallery. 1/2
January 21, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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voltaire.ox.ac.uk
📣 Come work with us! #18C 📣

This one is for the #DH crowd!
We seek a Content Engineer to assist in maintaining and developing the digital resources of the Voltaire Foundation.

More information and application process on our website:

voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/va...
Vacancy: Content Engineer
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (2 years) Hours: Full time (37.5 hours); part time considered at minimum of 0.6 FTE We are a busy and friendly research department within the Humanities Division…
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January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
cecs-york.bsky.social
Sorry, not sorry.
January 17, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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18th century 📚 on sale from @yalebooks.bsky.social, including postage in the UK #18thcentury
yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 27d
Take 30% off selected 18th century history titles until 31.1.2026 - including books by @fourredshoes.bsky.social and @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social.

Includes free postage in the UK!

Browse online here: yalebooks.co.uk/bsecs26/
January 17, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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🪨 Romantic Elements 🪨 Have a look at this upcoming conference at the Univ of Manchester, 25-26 June, 2026 ⤵️
maryfairclough.bsky.social Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social · 28d
🗣️🗣️🗣️ Brilliant CfP for Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026. Keynotes Jeremy Davies and Stephanie O’Rourke. Organised by two @cecs-york.bsky.social alumni! No conference fee!
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Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026 Keynote Speakers Dr Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds) Dr Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St Andrews) Earth and earthiness are ubiquitous in the period’s many modes of nature writing, but elements of the ground do not flow or yield their depths like water, nor mediate like air. Earth as physical entity obscures, obstructs, and sullies, proving a less tractable ground for what we might still think of as defining Romantic-era postures of idealism and spontaneity. What literary forms, what knowledge practices, does earthly matter press poetics into? Is the geological record hostile to the human and human expression in its radical alterity, as Heringman at times suggests? Or are there underground places of passage, sympathy, even love, as Mary Jacobus, Susan Wolfson, and Tristram Wolff have more recently proposed? Is there a whole spectrum of attachments to rocks and stones, amounting to (in Wolff’s phrase) a ‘gray romanticism’, in which writers can both resist and relish digging in the dirt? ‘Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850’ aims to explore these questions. We seek to go beyond the exhilarating stony subjects of mountains, deep time, and fossils, widening the remit of Romantic-era writing about the earth to include more particulate matter and more conceptual treatments. We want to add soil, dirt, dust, sand, and ashes to the Wordsworthian catalogue of Romantic elements; and we want to expand our theoretical and metaphoric range to excavate the implications of Barbauld’s and Shelley’s ‘unearthly forms’. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on the theme of earth, unearthing, and the unearthly in Romantic-era poetry and prose (1750–1850). When engaging with the theme, prospective speakers may wish to explore topics such as the following: Earth, earthiness, and literary form/genre The subterranean/undercommons The components of earth: mud, soil, clods, dust, sand Earthy elements as sites of affect or criticality Poetic and/or epistemological obscurity Images or forms of burial and concealment Images or forms of unearthing, unveiling, or revelation Earth as generative, fertile, life-giving Earth as a site of labour and resource extraction Earth as gendered, queered/queering, racialized, classed Formalist, ecocritical, queer, and affective approaches to earth, earthiness, and unearthing Please send proposals for 20-minute papers in the form of a 250-word abstract and an author biography (150 words) to James Metcalf (james.metcalf@manchester.ac.uk) and Millie Schurch (millie.schurch@english.su.se) by Friday 30 January 2026. Please note: this will be an in-person meeting only. With thanks to support from the Swedish Research Council, there will be no conference fee for speakers, other than to attend the optional conference dinner at the end of the first day. Food and refreshments will be provided on both days (coffee and pastries; lunch; tea-break snack). We are particularly keen to encourage the participation of early career researchers and scholars on precarious employment contracts. We are pleased to be able to offer up to 10 bursaries to cover accommodation and travel within the UK for those without access to institutional support for research activities. Please indicate with your abstract submission if you do not have access to institutional financial support and would like to be considered for a bursary. We hope to hear from you! Millie and James
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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📣 We’re hiring!
The History of Parliament are seeking a Research Fellow for our House of Lords 1660-1832 project. @georgianlords.bsky.social

We’re looking for a historian with a PhD in 18thC British political or cultural history to join our expert team.

🔗 Details below:
#AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs
Job Vacancy: Research Fellow, 1660-1832 House of Lords - The History of Parliament
The History of Parliament are excited to advertise for a research fellow to join our House of Lords 1660-1832 project.
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January 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
I had a terrific day on Saturday recording a podcast interview and then giving a talk at the Jane Austen Society London branch on Jane Austen, Her Writing and her Craft! It was fantastic turnout with lots of terrific questions.women stood

Photo courtesy of Laura Rocklyn.
Women stood in a hall next to a projector and screen. The screen shows a slide with a portrait of Austen and a shaw she stitched
January 12, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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There's still just over two weeks left to apply to our workshop exploring historical approaches to non-human life.

It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides.

PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!
January 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
cecs-york.bsky.social
Our CECS director will deliver the #BSECS2026 keynote this afternoon.
bsecs.bsky.social BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Jan 8
We are delighted to welcome our keynote speaker @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social to #BSECS2026. Professor Wigton-Smith will be addressing the conference on 'Thinking With and Against Small Things' at 2pm today in the Pichette Auditorium #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
January 8, 2026 at 1:40 PM
cecs-york.bsky.social
We’re having a brilliant time at #BSECS2026. It’s been wonderful to see so much of the CECS community, present and past, at the conference, from our current postgraduates to our MA and PhD alumni.
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM
cecs-york.bsky.social
Happy New Year from CECS! Please enjoy these pictures of the snow dusted topiary garden behind our home in Heslington Hall from this morning. May your year be suitably sprinkled with fresh ideas about the eighteenth century and bright paths forward in your research ❄️🌳❄️ #UKsnow #18thCentury
The 18th century topiary garden at CECS York, with a sculpture, pond and paving stones in front of it, dusted in snow. A path in snow, next to the 18th century brick wall that runs behind the topiary garden.
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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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...
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Christmas came early when this pleasingly chunky lad plopped through the letterbox this morning. So good to hold in my hand the proof of, well, the best part of a decade’s work, really. Hope @bsecs.bsky.social members enjoy reading about Mary & gang over a festive tipple.
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Special issue of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies called ‘Mary Hamilton and her Networks: Gender, Sociability, Manuscript, c.1740-c.1850’, eds. Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
December 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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The art wall brings together our past with our present & includes historic views of York and King’s Manor, a gorgeous print of the 18th c New Walk in York, and an 1833 portrait of Yarburgh Yarburgh, which we brought from the Huntingdon Room at King’s Manor to Heslington Hall, where Yarburgh lived.
CECS staff & students admiring the art wall Prints of York at CECS in Heslington Hall CECS staff at our launch, in front of posters for past seminars & conferences, including our first MA in 1994. Install day!
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
cecs-york.bsky.social
Last week was a big week for CECS at York! We launched our #18thCentury (a very long one) art wall at our new home in Heslington Hall, with help from the Univ of York’s art curator @helenacoxcurator.bsky.social. York’s VC Charlie Jeffery joined us to toast our wall and cut a festive red ribbon.
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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bsecs.bsky.social
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:
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#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
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December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM