Mary Fairclough
@maryfairclough.bsky.social
Professor, Department of English and Related Literature and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. Books, running, messiness, cats
I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...
Anna Laetita Barbauld, eighteenth-century polymath, two-hundred years on | My Site
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November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...
Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️
📢 Bookings are open for the 2025 Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture, delivered by our own Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social at CECS & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
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Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture 2025 | Anna Laetita Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns
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October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️
sunset stroll season 🌅
October 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
sunset stroll season 🌅
a small Friday gift
September 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
a small Friday gift
✨intellectually rowdy✨@cecs-york.bsky.social ❤️
Congratulations Rhys!
Congratulations Rhys!
And just in case it sounds like I'm only crediting my old MA supervisor John Barrell with teaching me "some things" - here's the more fulsomely worded and entirely accurate credit I give him (and the rest of @cecs-york.bsky.social) in my acknowledgements!
September 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
✨intellectually rowdy✨@cecs-york.bsky.social ❤️
Congratulations Rhys!
Congratulations Rhys!
Rest in Peace Jack Donovan: outstanding Shelley scholar, wonderful teacher, and delightful human
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Jack Donovan
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our former colleague Jack Donovan.
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September 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Rest in Peace Jack Donovan: outstanding Shelley scholar, wonderful teacher, and delightful human
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long but not forgotten
August 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
long but not forgotten
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BARS First Book Prize: Call for Expressions of Interest in Serving on the Judging Panel
BARS invites expressions of interest from Romanticists who would like to serve on the judging panel for the next BARS First Book Prize.
More information here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6086
BARS invites expressions of interest from Romanticists who would like to serve on the judging panel for the next BARS First Book Prize.
More information here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6086
BARS First Book Prize: Call for Expressions of Interest in Serving on the Judging Panel – BARS Blog
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August 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
BARS First Book Prize: Call for Expressions of Interest in Serving on the Judging Panel
BARS invites expressions of interest from Romanticists who would like to serve on the judging panel for the next BARS First Book Prize.
More information here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6086
BARS invites expressions of interest from Romanticists who would like to serve on the judging panel for the next BARS First Book Prize.
More information here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6086
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Happy Bastille Day! Feline reminder that philosophical patron saint of the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, put a cat on the cover of "The Social Contract" because cats were his “test of character”; those who don’t enjoy cats “have the despotic instinct of men.”
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Happy Bastille Day! Feline reminder that philosophical patron saint of the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, put a cat on the cover of "The Social Contract" because cats were his “test of character”; those who don’t enjoy cats “have the despotic instinct of men.”
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Now on the BARS Blog: Registration is Open for Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print, 1750-1870
A one-day conference at the University of Sussex, Tuesday 16 September, 2025
See the blog and full details/registration link here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6056
Please repost/share!
A one-day conference at the University of Sussex, Tuesday 16 September, 2025
See the blog and full details/registration link here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6056
Please repost/share!
Registration Open: Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print, 1750-1870 – BARS Blog
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July 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Now on the BARS Blog: Registration is Open for Eloquent Voices: Orality in the Age of Print, 1750-1870
A one-day conference at the University of Sussex, Tuesday 16 September, 2025
See the blog and full details/registration link here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6056
Please repost/share!
A one-day conference at the University of Sussex, Tuesday 16 September, 2025
See the blog and full details/registration link here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6056
Please repost/share!
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📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies bursaries - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Thanks to funding from an external donor, we offer up to four bursaries towards fees for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies.
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June 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
Our Barbauld conferences is next week! Still time to register, in-person or online 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Join us in York and online 27-28 June for our conference Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent. Fantastic speakers! Great value registrations, including free registration for York students! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ tinyurl.com/barbauld25
June 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our Barbauld conferences is next week! Still time to register, in-person or online 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Reposted by Mary Fairclough
Many congratulations to Dr Catriona Kennedy @trionakennedy.bsky.social on her new book, Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution, from Oxford University Press. A beautiful and insightful book! 📚💫🎉
Find out more @oxfordunipress.bsky.social: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Find out more @oxfordunipress.bsky.social: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Many congratulations to Dr Catriona Kennedy @trionakennedy.bsky.social on her new book, Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution, from Oxford University Press. A beautiful and insightful book! 📚💫🎉
Find out more @oxfordunipress.bsky.social: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Find out more @oxfordunipress.bsky.social: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Registration is now open for our landmark conference ‘Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent’. We have a wonderful programme of international speakers including the editors of Barbauld’s Collected Works (OUP 2025).
📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June.
More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25
📍 Online and in person at King’s Manor, 27-28 June.
More info: tinyurl.com/barbauld25
Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent Conference - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Join us for a two-day conference celebrating Anna Letita Barbauld's work as the year 2025 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of her death.
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May 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Join us in York and online 27-28 June for our conference Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent. Fantastic speakers! Great value registrations, including free registration for York students! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ tinyurl.com/barbauld25
May 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Join us in York and online 27-28 June for our conference Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent. Fantastic speakers! Great value registrations, including free registration for York students! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ tinyurl.com/barbauld25
Django the cat: roof surfer
(he greeted me with a small squeak)
(he greeted me with a small squeak)
May 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Django the cat: roof surfer
(he greeted me with a small squeak)
(he greeted me with a small squeak)
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“in a lot of towns your university is your car plant, it is your steel mill”
May 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“in a lot of towns your university is your car plant, it is your steel mill”
wanderer above a sea of little birds, just out of reach
[he has never caught and never will catch one; the starlings mock him]
[he has never caught and never will catch one; the starlings mock him]
April 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
wanderer above a sea of little birds, just out of reach
[he has never caught and never will catch one; the starlings mock him]
[he has never caught and never will catch one; the starlings mock him]
Check out the Barbauld:Voicing Dissent conference poster 🗣️🗣️
April 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Check out the Barbauld:Voicing Dissent conference poster 🗣️🗣️
Registration is OPEN for the Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent conference! Join us in York on 27-28 June to celebrate, Barbauld, Dissent, voices of all kinds, and publication of the OUP edition of Barbauld’s Works. More details and registration at the conference webpage: tinyurl.com/barbauld25
Anna Letita Barbauld: Voicing Dissent Conference - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Join us for a two-day conference celebrating Anna Letita Barbauld's work as the year 2025 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of her death.
tinyurl.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Registration is OPEN for the Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent conference! Join us in York on 27-28 June to celebrate, Barbauld, Dissent, voices of all kinds, and publication of the OUP edition of Barbauld’s Works. More details and registration at the conference webpage: tinyurl.com/barbauld25
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Save the date for the Great CECS book sale on 16 & 17 May! We’re raising funds to support the research of our brilliant postgraduate community at York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. Not in York in those dates? You can still lend your support; full details at spsr.me/6Gxx
April 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Save the date for the Great CECS book sale on 16 & 17 May! We’re raising funds to support the research of our brilliant postgraduate community at York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. Not in York in those dates? You can still lend your support; full details at spsr.me/6Gxx
beautiful spring shoots are springing 🌿
April 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
beautiful spring shoots are springing 🌿
2 books, 6 articles, 1 book review 😑
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
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Authors, search your name here:
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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March 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
2 books, 6 articles, 1 book review 😑
I'm looking forward to this talk at UBO in Brest on 21 March! I'll be discussing Dissenting worship, devotion and contagious sociability. It's a double header with DCU's Ross Carroll, as part of the GIS Sociabilities project. You can access the event on Zoom: gis-sociabilites.org/gis-interdis...
GIS Interdisciplinary Seminar: 'The Language of the Sociable Self' | gissociabilite
"The Politics of the 'Sociable Self': Theories and Practices (1650-1850)" - Third thematic session on 'The Language of the Sociable Self', 21 March 2025 at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Facu...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I'm looking forward to this talk at UBO in Brest on 21 March! I'll be discussing Dissenting worship, devotion and contagious sociability. It's a double header with DCU's Ross Carroll, as part of the GIS Sociabilities project. You can access the event on Zoom: gis-sociabilites.org/gis-interdis...
Congratulations @carolineanjali.bsky.social ! ✨
Warmest congratulations to our PhD graduate Caroline Ritchie on the publication of her brilliant monograph "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination", published by Palgrave Macmillan.
March 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Congratulations @carolineanjali.bsky.social ! ✨