Dr Jo Edwards
@joedwards.bsky.social
18th c. social networks, abolition and history of education | Trustee Hannah More Trust hannahmoreletters.org | President NDLHS | Chair of Trustees Nailsea Tithe Barn | Continuing Education Tutor and examiner.
Thank you to @olliejakes.bsky.social for fielding questions for us on 18th c theatre on the @hannahmore.bsky.social ‘Herstory History Walk’ as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @engagebristol.bsky.social. Thanks Ollie!
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thank you to @olliejakes.bsky.social for fielding questions for us on 18th c theatre on the @hannahmore.bsky.social ‘Herstory History Walk’ as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @engagebristol.bsky.social. Thanks Ollie!
Margot, Head of Public Engagement for @hannahmore.bsky.social @engagebristol.bsky.social enjoying @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Margot, Head of Public Engagement for @hannahmore.bsky.social @engagebristol.bsky.social enjoying @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
A slightly soggy start to today’s @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @hannahmore.bsky.social ‘Herstory Walking Tour’ of significant Bristol women writers, but an enthusiastic audience! @engagebristol.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A slightly soggy start to today’s @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @hannahmore.bsky.social ‘Herstory Walking Tour’ of significant Bristol women writers, but an enthusiastic audience! @engagebristol.bsky.social
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Hello Bluesky! My name is Oliver, I’m an English DPhil student at University of Oxford. I work on 18th century theatre, particularly dramatic representations of debt. I am also a writer for National Geographic and The American Library Project. Please reach out if you’d like to connect!
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Hello Bluesky! My name is Oliver, I’m an English DPhil student at University of Oxford. I work on 18th century theatre, particularly dramatic representations of debt. I am also a writer for National Geographic and The American Library Project. Please reach out if you’d like to connect!
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Thought for the day:
On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).
On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thought for the day:
On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).
On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).
A brilliant sunny day for our @hannahmore.bsky.social @beinghumanfest.bsky.social ‘Herstory History Walking tour of Georgian Bristol’ ☀️
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A brilliant sunny day for our @hannahmore.bsky.social @beinghumanfest.bsky.social ‘Herstory History Walking tour of Georgian Bristol’ ☀️
Great evening at Nailsea Tithe Barn with ‘Grace Shall Lead Me Home’ for BHM. Thanks @hannahmore.bsky.social for introducing the performance with context about More, Newton and Wilberforce from their letters.
November 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Great evening at Nailsea Tithe Barn with ‘Grace Shall Lead Me Home’ for BHM. Thanks @hannahmore.bsky.social for introducing the performance with context about More, Newton and Wilberforce from their letters.
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On 8&15 Nov we're running "A Herstorical Walking Tour of Georgian Bristol" as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @engagebristol.bsky.social. Led by an actor it tells the stories of Bristol's women writers.
Find out more & sign up for free: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/a-her...
Plz repost
Find out more & sign up for free: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/a-her...
Plz repost
A Herstorical Walking Tour of Georgian Bristol
Join Hannah More on an interactive walking tour through the streets of Bristol in 1807. Hannah, one of the most successful writers of the Georgian period, will bring to life the rich history of women ...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
On 8&15 Nov we're running "A Herstorical Walking Tour of Georgian Bristol" as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @engagebristol.bsky.social. Led by an actor it tells the stories of Bristol's women writers.
Find out more & sign up for free: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/a-her...
Plz repost
Find out more & sign up for free: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/a-her...
Plz repost
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Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Please follow and repost for updates!
Please follow and repost for updates!
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Please follow and repost for updates!
Please follow and repost for updates!
Excited about helping with the Hannah More Herstory Walking tour from The Georgian House Museum and finishing at the M Shed’s new Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans Gallery. Such a great programme of different events planned in Nov @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
💥 The @beinghumanfest.bsky.social returns 6-15 Nov at venues across Bristol!
We have EIGHT events on everything from beer & music with @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social & @petebrownbeer.bsky.social to LEGO printing with @johnjoemctague.bsky.social
For more 👇
www.beinghumanfestival.org/being-human-...
We have EIGHT events on everything from beer & music with @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social & @petebrownbeer.bsky.social to LEGO printing with @johnjoemctague.bsky.social
For more 👇
www.beinghumanfestival.org/being-human-...
September 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Excited about helping with the Hannah More Herstory Walking tour from The Georgian House Museum and finishing at the M Shed’s new Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans Gallery. Such a great programme of different events planned in Nov @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
And excited to unbox this new textbook for the Cambridge 9489/9981 syllabus! With grateful thanks to @davidandress.bsky.social Colin Storer and Christopher Read for their help, and to Will for making it happen @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
And excited to unbox this new textbook for the Cambridge 9489/9981 syllabus! With grateful thanks to @davidandress.bsky.social Colin Storer and Christopher Read for their help, and to Will for making it happen @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social
Finally enough exams marked to start planning my new ContEd course for Sept, starting with this rather brilliant stick of dynamite from @davidandress.bsky.social to set things off.
July 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Finally enough exams marked to start planning my new ContEd course for Sept, starting with this rather brilliant stick of dynamite from @davidandress.bsky.social to set things off.
Huge thanks to the always excellent @catlodge.bsky.social for being our speaker to celebrate 50 years of Nailsea & District Local History Society. Brilliant to hear of all the projects included in Cat’s remit as Regional Archaeologist @nattrustarch.bsky.social. Thanks for always supporting us!
June 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Huge thanks to the always excellent @catlodge.bsky.social for being our speaker to celebrate 50 years of Nailsea & District Local History Society. Brilliant to hear of all the projects included in Cat’s remit as Regional Archaeologist @nattrustarch.bsky.social. Thanks for always supporting us!
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
Flâneusing around Dublin
March 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Flâneusing around Dublin
A grand day out #eighteenthcenturyists
March 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A grand day out #eighteenthcenturyists
Sunny Bristol with a walk via Windsor Terrace, No.4 home to Hannah More and No. 5 abolitionist clergyman Rev Peter Guillebaud in the 1830s #HannahMoreLetters
March 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Sunny Bristol with a walk via Windsor Terrace, No.4 home to Hannah More and No. 5 abolitionist clergyman Rev Peter Guillebaud in the 1830s #HannahMoreLetters
A shoutout on #IWD for a couple of real champions of others. I’m indebted to @katiehall.bsky.social and @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social for their mentorship and encouragement, & opportunities for which I am extremely thankful. Brilliant people. I’m proud to know you both and hope to pay it forward!
March 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A shoutout on #IWD for a couple of real champions of others. I’m indebted to @katiehall.bsky.social and @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social for their mentorship and encouragement, & opportunities for which I am extremely thankful. Brilliant people. I’m proud to know you both and hope to pay it forward!
Sunny cargo cranes and the replica of ‘The Matthew’. Always seems a bit small to me for a Newfoundland trip …
March 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sunny cargo cranes and the replica of ‘The Matthew’. Always seems a bit small to me for a Newfoundland trip …
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*NEW COURSE*
Pendle & Salem: Witchcraft in 17th-Century England and Colonial America
Starts: Thurs 17 April
Duration: 4-week online course
Fee: £40 (+ booking fee)
Tutor: Rebecca Rideal
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pendle-sal...
Pendle & Salem: Witchcraft in 17th-Century England and Colonial America
Starts: Thurs 17 April
Duration: 4-week online course
Fee: £40 (+ booking fee)
Tutor: Rebecca Rideal
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pendle-sal...
February 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
*NEW COURSE*
Pendle & Salem: Witchcraft in 17th-Century England and Colonial America
Starts: Thurs 17 April
Duration: 4-week online course
Fee: £40 (+ booking fee)
Tutor: Rebecca Rideal
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pendle-sal...
Pendle & Salem: Witchcraft in 17th-Century England and Colonial America
Starts: Thurs 17 April
Duration: 4-week online course
Fee: £40 (+ booking fee)
Tutor: Rebecca Rideal
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pendle-sal...
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On the anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine we have made out Historian 'Ukraine edition' open access - learn about culture and history as well as politics of conflict. www.history.org.uk/publications...
The Historian 163: Ukraine
www.history.org.uk
February 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
On the anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine we have made out Historian 'Ukraine edition' open access - learn about culture and history as well as politics of conflict. www.history.org.uk/publications...
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February 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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We really enjoyed having the team from STV with us, who did a fantastic job and were huge fun with it.
February 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We really enjoyed having the team from STV with us, who did a fantastic job and were huge fun with it.
We had fun filming this section about Hannah More and the Hannah More letters project last summer with the Antiques Road Trip team. Now available on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Antiques Road Trip - Series 30: 7. West Country Antiques Haul
Rookie road tripper Danny Sebastian challenges Irita Marriott to round two. The competitive pair are both determined to win, but will Danny be derailed by his large bench buy?
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February 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We had fun filming this section about Hannah More and the Hannah More letters project last summer with the Antiques Road Trip team. Now available on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
My entry on Hannah More in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing has been published online. (Drop me a line if you don't have institutional access) link.springer.com/referencewor... Many thanks to Natasha Duquette for inviting me to contribute.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing
link.springer.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My entry on Hannah More in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing has been published online. (Drop me a line if you don't have institutional access) link.springer.com/referencewor... Many thanks to Natasha Duquette for inviting me to contribute.