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Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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📣📣📣 Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 📣📣📣
We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications.
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We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications.
www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...
Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation
We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications. The Voltaire Foundation, originally established thanks to the…
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October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📣📣📣 Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 📣📣📣
We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications.
www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...
We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications.
www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...
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David Hayton once told me that the best thing a historian can do to be immortally relevant is to produce a scholarly edition of a primary source. Our monographs will be superseded, a good primary edition is permanent. Anyway, here's mine, just out.
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Letters from an Old Orangeman (Classics of Irish History): Amazon.co.uk: Mulholland, Marc: 9781068502323: Books
Buy Letters from an Old Orangeman (Classics of Irish History) by Mulholland, Marc (ISBN: 9781068502323) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
David Hayton once told me that the best thing a historian can do to be immortally relevant is to produce a scholarly edition of a primary source. Our monographs will be superseded, a good primary edition is permanent. Anyway, here's mine, just out.
shorturl.at/xJXNU
shorturl.at/xJXNU
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Happy to announce the Enlightenment Workshop Programme 2025-26!
This year convened by Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee (New College).
Come for a packed November!
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This year convened by Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee (New College).
Come for a packed November!
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Enlightenment Workshop
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October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Happy to announce the Enlightenment Workshop Programme 2025-26!
This year convened by Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee (New College).
Come for a packed November!
www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
This year convened by Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee (New College).
Come for a packed November!
www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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How universalist was Enlightenment thought? In our 2025 Besterman Lecture, Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) discusses 'The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment’. Thursday 13 Nov, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social:
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October 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
How universalist was Enlightenment thought? In our 2025 Besterman Lecture, Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) discusses 'The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment’. Thursday 13 Nov, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social:
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/bester...
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/bester...
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The Betty Behrens Seminar resumes at Clare Hall, Cambridge, discussing the works by Benedetto Croce, José de Acosta and Robert Lowth, presented by R. Bellamy, G. Ramos and V. Davis |
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October 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The Betty Behrens Seminar resumes at Clare Hall, Cambridge, discussing the works by Benedetto Croce, José de Acosta and Robert Lowth, presented by R. Bellamy, G. Ramos and V. Davis |
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We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
October 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd
Please let us know if there are gaps.
#Skystorians 1/2
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Happy to share my new blog post on C18 French-Swedish relations for the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History blog @oxfordcih.bsky.social. French-Swedish diplomacy treated cultural alignment as a powerful vehicle for political change in Sweden👇
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Enlightening the king: French-Swedish relations in the letters of Gustaf Philip Creutz with Gustav III
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September 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Happy to share my new blog post on C18 French-Swedish relations for the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History blog @oxfordcih.bsky.social. French-Swedish diplomacy treated cultural alignment as a powerful vehicle for political change in Sweden👇
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/enli...
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/enli...
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Read all about our new digital edition, Oxford University Voltaire, in the newest blog by our research editors!
And ask your librarian for the free trial!
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And ask your librarian for the free trial!
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Calling all librarians – sign up for Oxford University Voltaire free trial
The Voltaire Foundation and Liverpool University Press are delighted to announce that the new online edition of Voltaire’s complete works, including extensive scholarly apparatus, is now available …
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September 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Read all about our new digital edition, Oxford University Voltaire, in the newest blog by our research editors!
And ask your librarian for the free trial!
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/c...
And ask your librarian for the free trial!
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/c...
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Don’t miss our DPhil student Harun Ali's thorough introduction to a posthumous essay by the great J. G. A. Pocock! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
J. G. A. Pocock, essay on the fourth volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall
This essay presents J. G. A. Pocock reflections on Gibbon’s fourth volume and the shift it marks in the Decline and Fall towards a narrative we might consider ‘Byzantine’. It is the work of Gibbon’...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Don’t miss our DPhil student Harun Ali's thorough introduction to a posthumous essay by the great J. G. A. Pocock! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Call for Papers!
A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century
Deadline 31 December 2025
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A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century
Deadline 31 December 2025
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Call for Papers: A social question before the Social Question - Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century
University of Oxford 22-23 October 2026 A pdf file of this call can be found here. Precariousness and hardships were inescapable features of the life of the lower orders in early modern European…
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September 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Call for Papers!
A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century
Deadline 31 December 2025
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...
A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century
Deadline 31 December 2025
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...
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Congratulations to Mrinalini Wadhwa of our MPhil in Intellectual History (and @magdalenoxford.bsky.social) on a fascinating blog post @jhideas.bsky.social!
In today’s think piece, Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa analyzes how historian Sylvia Murr’s discovery of plagiarism in “the most celebrated work of nineteenth-century Indology” led her to develop an approach to historical discourse that challenges received genealogies of the ‘global’ turn.
The Franco-Indian Enlightenment of Sylvia Murr
by Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa
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September 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Congratulations to Mrinalini Wadhwa of our MPhil in Intellectual History (and @magdalenoxford.bsky.social) on a fascinating blog post @jhideas.bsky.social!
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📝 New Blog Post! 📝
Check out this new @voltaire.ox.ac.uk blog post by Nicholas Cronk, celebrating our recent acquisition of a rare printing of Voltaire's Candide, from 1791.
Read on to learn more about the novel itself and the history of its publication, as well as more details on our new edition!
Check out this new @voltaire.ox.ac.uk blog post by Nicholas Cronk, celebrating our recent acquisition of a rare printing of Voltaire's Candide, from 1791.
Read on to learn more about the novel itself and the history of its publication, as well as more details on our new edition!
Reading ‘Candide’ during the French Revolution
The Taylor Institution Library (Bodleian Libraries) has recently acquired a rare printing of Candide dating from the Revolutionary period: this edition of 1791 was not known to the principal biblio…
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September 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
📝 New Blog Post! 📝
Check out this new @voltaire.ox.ac.uk blog post by Nicholas Cronk, celebrating our recent acquisition of a rare printing of Voltaire's Candide, from 1791.
Read on to learn more about the novel itself and the history of its publication, as well as more details on our new edition!
Check out this new @voltaire.ox.ac.uk blog post by Nicholas Cronk, celebrating our recent acquisition of a rare printing of Voltaire's Candide, from 1791.
Read on to learn more about the novel itself and the history of its publication, as well as more details on our new edition!
Don’t miss our DPhil student Harun Ali's thorough introduction to a posthumous essay by the great J. G. A. Pocock! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
J. G. A. Pocock, essay on the fourth volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall
This essay presents J. G. A. Pocock reflections on Gibbon’s fourth volume and the shift it marks in the Decline and Fall towards a narrative we might consider ‘Byzantine’. It is the work of Gibbon’...
www.tandfonline.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Don’t miss our DPhil student Harun Ali's thorough introduction to a posthumous essay by the great J. G. A. Pocock! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ah, the seventeenth century, when the dream was not artificial but Human General Intelligence, revealed by art.
August 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Ah, the seventeenth century, when the dream was not artificial but Human General Intelligence, revealed by art.
Congratulations to Mrinalini Wadhwa of our MPhil in Intellectual History (and @magdalenoxford.bsky.social) on a fascinating blog post @jhideas.bsky.social!
In today’s think piece, Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa analyzes how historian Sylvia Murr’s discovery of plagiarism in “the most celebrated work of nineteenth-century Indology” led her to develop an approach to historical discourse that challenges received genealogies of the ‘global’ turn.
The Franco-Indian Enlightenment of Sylvia Murr
by Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa
web.sas.upenn.edu
September 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Congratulations to Mrinalini Wadhwa of our MPhil in Intellectual History (and @magdalenoxford.bsky.social) on a fascinating blog post @jhideas.bsky.social!
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The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Ingrid Schreiber: "Egoism and Sociability in the Kantian Public Sphere" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
August 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The recent issue of the JHI includes an article by Ingrid Schreiber: "Egoism and Sociability in the Kantian Public Sphere" muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Our August issue, 29.4, is now available online! This issue opens with an open-access article by Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci, "Material Culture and Early Modern Archivality: A Dialogue." brill.com/view/journal...
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August 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Our August issue, 29.4, is now available online! This issue opens with an open-access article by Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci, "Material Culture and Early Modern Archivality: A Dialogue." brill.com/view/journal...
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📢 New Blog
Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies'
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Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies'
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'Dropping Out' as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies
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July 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📢 New Blog
Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies'
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/drop...
Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies'
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📢 New on FirstView!
Faridah Zaman (@faridahzaman.bsky.social) examines portraits of Indian pan-Islamists who advocated for more lenient terms for the Ottoman Empire in Europe in 1920, showing how the Muslim world emerged as a heterotopic space.
Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Faridah Zaman (@faridahzaman.bsky.social) examines portraits of Indian pan-Islamists who advocated for more lenient terms for the Ottoman Empire in Europe in 1920, showing how the Muslim world emerged as a heterotopic space.
Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
The Muslim world as heterotopia: Global encounters in interwar Europe | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
The Muslim world as heterotopia: Global encounters in interwar Europe
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August 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📢 New on FirstView!
Faridah Zaman (@faridahzaman.bsky.social) examines portraits of Indian pan-Islamists who advocated for more lenient terms for the Ottoman Empire in Europe in 1920, showing how the Muslim world emerged as a heterotopic space.
Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Faridah Zaman (@faridahzaman.bsky.social) examines portraits of Indian pan-Islamists who advocated for more lenient terms for the Ottoman Empire in Europe in 1920, showing how the Muslim world emerged as a heterotopic space.
Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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Congrats to Ingrid Schreiber, a recent DPhil @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, on the publication of her fascinating article in the august @jhideas.bsky.social, re-examining recent attempts to view Kant as a social (or proto-sociological) thinker. doi.org/10.1353/jhi....
August 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Congrats to Ingrid Schreiber, a recent DPhil @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, on the publication of her fascinating article in the august @jhideas.bsky.social, re-examining recent attempts to view Kant as a social (or proto-sociological) thinker. doi.org/10.1353/jhi....
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The Eighteenth-Century Studies Collection offers over 700 volumes from two perpetual access digital collections and includes a complete archive of all content published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series between 1955–2021.
Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...
Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...
June 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Eighteenth-Century Studies Collection offers over 700 volumes from two perpetual access digital collections and includes a complete archive of all content published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series between 1955–2021.
Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...
Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...
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An honor and a pleasure to meet @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social at last and to talk about the slipperiest of topics, civility!
Tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 9am on BBC Radio 4 — In Our Time discusses civility with Teresa Bejan (@tmbejan.bsky.social), Phil Withington, and me! Listen live or after broadcast at the link below.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Civility: talking with those who disagree with you
On the value of keeping conversations going with opponents, from the Reformation onwards
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July 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
An honor and a pleasure to meet @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social at last and to talk about the slipperiest of topics, civility!
📢 New Blog
Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies'
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/drop...
Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies'
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/drop...
'Dropping Out' as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📢 New Blog
Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies'
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/drop...
Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies'
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/drop...
