Daniel Reed
@dreedhistory.bsky.social
Oxford Brookes University Research Affiliate
Author of ‘The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698-1706’ (UWP, 2023)
Author of ‘The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698-1706’ (UWP, 2023)
what would a Sterne conference be without subplots and serendipity? After hearing @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social fascinating keynote about the author and transatlantic material culture, I stumbled across this 1779 Angelica Kauffman print of Maria… thank/blame the fates
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
what would a Sterne conference be without subplots and serendipity? After hearing @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social fascinating keynote about the author and transatlantic material culture, I stumbled across this 1779 Angelica Kauffman print of Maria… thank/blame the fates
a wonderful few days in Liverpool with a digression of Sternean colleagues exploring the Terraqueous Globe - left with new ideas, and new friends
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
a wonderful few days in Liverpool with a digression of Sternean colleagues exploring the Terraqueous Globe - left with new ideas, and new friends
great to be back at my old workhouse East Riding Archives - first time since the building was remodelled. Some reassuring constants though - first document ordered has a reference no. written by yours truly some 15 years ago!
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
great to be back at my old workhouse East Riding Archives - first time since the building was remodelled. Some reassuring constants though - first document ordered has a reference no. written by yours truly some 15 years ago!
Has anyone out there worked on the periodical editor Robert Heath (d. 1779)? Ladies Diary, British Palladium, etc.
Currently working on a 1768 letter from Heath and turning up lots of biographical leads for his (obscure) early life, and would like to make sure I’m not wayyy off the mark
Currently working on a 1768 letter from Heath and turning up lots of biographical leads for his (obscure) early life, and would like to make sure I’m not wayyy off the mark
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Has anyone out there worked on the periodical editor Robert Heath (d. 1779)? Ladies Diary, British Palladium, etc.
Currently working on a 1768 letter from Heath and turning up lots of biographical leads for his (obscure) early life, and would like to make sure I’m not wayyy off the mark
Currently working on a 1768 letter from Heath and turning up lots of biographical leads for his (obscure) early life, and would like to make sure I’m not wayyy off the mark
‘the gauntlet of interruptions’
Robert Heath describes travelling from Fleet Street to Piccadilly, 1768
Robert Heath describes travelling from Fleet Street to Piccadilly, 1768
September 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
‘the gauntlet of interruptions’
Robert Heath describes travelling from Fleet Street to Piccadilly, 1768
Robert Heath describes travelling from Fleet Street to Piccadilly, 1768
Archbishop Drummond x2
September 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Archbishop Drummond x2
Does anyone have access to example of the handwriting of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684-1775)? Thanks in advance!
August 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Does anyone have access to example of the handwriting of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684-1775)? Thanks in advance!
Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’
We are delighted to be co-hosting the Laurence Sterne Conference this year from 5th - 7th November 2025 at @sotauol.bsky.social🌍
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
@lsternetrust.bsky.social
Deadline for registration: 1st September
Deadline for proposals: 15th August
Find out more and how to register: bit.ly/SterneConference25
@lsternetrust.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Thrilled to be joining a digression of Sternean colleagues later in the year - I’ll be presenting a paper titled ‘’Travelling Is To Be Recncil’d To Mankind In General’ - An Early Reading of A Sentimental Journey’
oops, exceeded my daily views limit on FindMyPast - first time that’s happened!
July 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
oops, exceeded my daily views limit on FindMyPast - first time that’s happened!
Probate copy of the last will of Caesar Ward, bookseller and printer of York, dated 10 November 1759 - his wife and executrix Ann Ward continued his trade and printed the first volumes of Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’ just weeks later
June 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Probate copy of the last will of Caesar Ward, bookseller and printer of York, dated 10 November 1759 - his wife and executrix Ann Ward continued his trade and printed the first volumes of Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’ just weeks later
apparently today is #CrocodileDay, which is the perfect excuse to post this plate from Samuel Wesley’s ‘Dissertations on the Book of Job’ from 1736
June 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
apparently today is #CrocodileDay, which is the perfect excuse to post this plate from Samuel Wesley’s ‘Dissertations on the Book of Job’ from 1736
Reposted by Daniel Reed
16-22 June is Refugee Week. #Hull, like elsewhere in the UK received citizens from abroad because of the instability and upheaval caused by the French Revolution and resulting Napoleonic rule, like Samuel Jacobs of Poland mentioned here
@hulllibraries.bsky.social
@hulllibraries.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
16-22 June is Refugee Week. #Hull, like elsewhere in the UK received citizens from abroad because of the instability and upheaval caused by the French Revolution and resulting Napoleonic rule, like Samuel Jacobs of Poland mentioned here
@hulllibraries.bsky.social
@hulllibraries.bsky.social
Reposted by Daniel Reed
IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS!
Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June!
Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
Click on the link for the full CFP
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June!
Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
Click on the link for the full CFP
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
www.bsecs.org.uk
May 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS!
Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June!
Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
Click on the link for the full CFP
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June!
Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
Click on the link for the full CFP
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
Read my essay ‘Patronage, Performance, and Reputation in Sterne’s Early Clerical Career, 1737-42’ (2022) for free @livunipress.bsky.social !
Interested in Literary Studies? Read free issues of The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism and The Byron Journal via the LUP website: bit.ly/FREE-ISSUES-LUP
@lsternetrust.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social @profdanielcook.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social
@lsternetrust.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social @profdanielcook.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Read my essay ‘Patronage, Performance, and Reputation in Sterne’s Early Clerical Career, 1737-42’ (2022) for free @livunipress.bsky.social !
Reposted by Daniel Reed
📚 Most read in The Shandean this week:
'The Life of Books in Tristram Shandy' by Judith Hawley
Read it online: bit.ly/Books-Shandean
@drwilliams.bsky.social @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social
'The Life of Books in Tristram Shandy' by Judith Hawley
Read it online: bit.ly/Books-Shandean
@drwilliams.bsky.social @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
📚 Most read in The Shandean this week:
'The Life of Books in Tristram Shandy' by Judith Hawley
Read it online: bit.ly/Books-Shandean
@drwilliams.bsky.social @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social
'The Life of Books in Tristram Shandy' by Judith Hawley
Read it online: bit.ly/Books-Shandean
@drwilliams.bsky.social @shandyhall.bsky.social @lsternetrust.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social
Wonderful to be back at The Bar Convent to speak about Jaques Sterne and his campaign of nastiness against Catholics in York after the ‘45
June 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Wonderful to be back at The Bar Convent to speak about Jaques Sterne and his campaign of nastiness against Catholics in York after the ‘45
partying like it’s 1765 courtesy of @gilbertwhites.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
partying like it’s 1765 courtesy of @gilbertwhites.bsky.social
“motley emblem of my work!” as Sterne said
Did you know that marbling is considered an endangered craft?
Our Friday Club have been busy this morning creating their own marbled paper, inspired by books and ledgers in our museum collection.
Our Friday Club have been busy this morning creating their own marbled paper, inspired by books and ledgers in our museum collection.
June 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
“motley emblem of my work!” as Sterne said
Reposted by Daniel Reed
We’ve had a wonderful time hosting an international conference this week ‘Gilbert White and his Contexts’.
Truly interdisciplinary much like White himself with literary historians, ecologists, educators, biologists, theologians and historians and everything in between!
Truly interdisciplinary much like White himself with literary historians, ecologists, educators, biologists, theologians and historians and everything in between!
June 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We’ve had a wonderful time hosting an international conference this week ‘Gilbert White and his Contexts’.
Truly interdisciplinary much like White himself with literary historians, ecologists, educators, biologists, theologians and historians and everything in between!
Truly interdisciplinary much like White himself with literary historians, ecologists, educators, biologists, theologians and historians and everything in between!
Cheers to the organisers, hosts, and participants of #GilbertWhiteConference for a really stimulating few days! And what better way to toast this success than with a nanobrew from @gilbertwhites.bsky.social made to his own recipe!
June 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Cheers to the organisers, hosts, and participants of #GilbertWhiteConference for a really stimulating few days! And what better way to toast this success than with a nanobrew from @gilbertwhites.bsky.social made to his own recipe!
an intrepid start for me and my co-panellists on our way to #GilbertWhiteConference in (usually) sunny Selborne, with thanks to our hosts @stephholtnh.bsky.social @brycchancarey.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
an intrepid start for me and my co-panellists on our way to #GilbertWhiteConference in (usually) sunny Selborne, with thanks to our hosts @stephholtnh.bsky.social @brycchancarey.bsky.social
Reposted by Daniel Reed
You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
May 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
Delighted to have chaired the John Wesley Lecture last week @lincoln.ox.ac.uk - a really excellent presentation by @markkirby.bsky.social
youtu.be/2C6jwsAgbZo?...
youtu.be/2C6jwsAgbZo?...
Mark Kirby - John Wesley and the Architecture of Early Methodism (John Wesley Lecture 2025)
YouTube video by Westminster Oxford Research Network
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Delighted to have chaired the John Wesley Lecture last week @lincoln.ox.ac.uk - a really excellent presentation by @markkirby.bsky.social
youtu.be/2C6jwsAgbZo?...
youtu.be/2C6jwsAgbZo?...
Who is an archivist’s favourite Happy Days character?
The Fondz
The Fondz
May 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Who is an archivist’s favourite Happy Days character?
The Fondz
The Fondz
British Methodist Buildings update! 167 striking new photographs added mostly from 1960s-80s, originating with the former Home Mission Division. Can we reach 1 million views this year..? Explore now:
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NEW - HOME MISSION 1
Wesley Historical Society
flic.kr
April 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
British Methodist Buildings update! 167 striking new photographs added mostly from 1960s-80s, originating with the former Home Mission Division. Can we reach 1 million views this year..? Explore now:
flic.kr/s/aHBqjC7Mah
flic.kr/s/aHBqjC7Mah