Ben Jackson
@benltjackson.bsky.social
Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
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My review of @benltjackson.bsky.social's excellent book!
October 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My review of @benltjackson.bsky.social's excellent book!
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Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy
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October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
I'm going to @thenacbs.bsky.social this November (wahoo) in Montreal. My own funds are quite tight, does anyone know of funds available to ECRs to support attending I'd be really grateful!
August 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I'm going to @thenacbs.bsky.social this November (wahoo) in Montreal. My own funds are quite tight, does anyone know of funds available to ECRs to support attending I'd be really grateful!
Really chuffed to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society today
July 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Really chuffed to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society today
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Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅
Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️
Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️
June 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅
Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️
Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️
Have just heard that a university has drawn up a policy excluding trans staff & students on campus from using single-sex spaces. Does anyone else know of any other UK unis doing this? Please let me know
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Have just heard that a university has drawn up a policy excluding trans staff & students on campus from using single-sex spaces. Does anyone else know of any other UK unis doing this? Please let me know
Had a wonderful conversation earlier this week with Miranda Melcher from the New Books Network about 'Material Masculinities' (out now with MUP! 😉) newbooksnetwork.com/material-mas...
Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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May 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Had a wonderful conversation earlier this week with Miranda Melcher from the New Books Network about 'Material Masculinities' (out now with MUP! 😉) newbooksnetwork.com/material-mas...
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New today from our GENDER IN HISTORY series 📣
Material Masculinities by @benltjackson.bsky.social explores how material objects were integral for men in forming their identities and shaping experiences in the eighteenth-century.
Endorsed by @historymatt.bsky.social
#GenderinHistory #18thCentury
Material Masculinities by @benltjackson.bsky.social explores how material objects were integral for men in forming their identities and shaping experiences in the eighteenth-century.
Endorsed by @historymatt.bsky.social
#GenderinHistory #18thCentury
April 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
New today from our GENDER IN HISTORY series 📣
Material Masculinities by @benltjackson.bsky.social explores how material objects were integral for men in forming their identities and shaping experiences in the eighteenth-century.
Endorsed by @historymatt.bsky.social
#GenderinHistory #18thCentury
Material Masculinities by @benltjackson.bsky.social explores how material objects were integral for men in forming their identities and shaping experiences in the eighteenth-century.
Endorsed by @historymatt.bsky.social
#GenderinHistory #18thCentury
'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:
April 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:
'Material Masculinities' will be out in a couple of months! A labour of love, & sometimes hatred, it's about what does it mean to be a man and to possess things in the tumults of the eighteenth century. available to pre-order and 30% off at MUP manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
Manchester University Press - Material masculinities
Material masculinities - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Material masculinities by Ben Jackson
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February 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
'Material Masculinities' will be out in a couple of months! A labour of love, & sometimes hatred, it's about what does it mean to be a man and to possess things in the tumults of the eighteenth century. available to pre-order and 30% off at MUP manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
Does anyone I know on here have a copy (electronic or physical) of Jennifer V. Evan's 'The Queer Art of History' so that I could read the introduction? BL hasn't got it catalogued, my library doesn't have it, and I haven't $88 to buy my own copy!
February 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Does anyone I know on here have a copy (electronic or physical) of Jennifer V. Evan's 'The Queer Art of History' so that I could read the introduction? BL hasn't got it catalogued, my library doesn't have it, and I haven't $88 to buy my own copy!
Can anyone recommend some good transcribed and printed eighteenth-century women's diaries or letters - am hoping to find some gems in the BL this week!
December 4, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Can anyone recommend some good transcribed and printed eighteenth-century women's diaries or letters - am hoping to find some gems in the BL this week!
A copyediting question! Should you capitalise 'T/town' for London for the 18C?
September 11, 2024 at 5:32 AM
A copyediting question! Should you capitalise 'T/town' for London for the 18C?
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Just under a week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conference at Manchester in September 2024. We welcome any paper proposals exploring the 17 and 18C clergy in Britain and their experiences/identities at clericallives@gmail.com
CfP below!
CfP below!
May 24, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Just under a week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conference at Manchester in September 2024. We welcome any paper proposals exploring the 17 and 18C clergy in Britain and their experiences/identities at clericallives@gmail.com
CfP below!
CfP below!
Just under a week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conference at Manchester in September 2024. We welcome any paper proposals exploring the 17 and 18C clergy in Britain and their experiences/identities at clericallives@gmail.com
CfP below!
CfP below!
May 24, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Just under a week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conference at Manchester in September 2024. We welcome any paper proposals exploring the 17 and 18C clergy in Britain and their experiences/identities at clericallives@gmail.com
CfP below!
CfP below!
Has anyone ever written a covering letter for a journal to be book review editor (AND) would be willing to share it with me please?
January 9, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Has anyone ever written a covering letter for a journal to be book review editor (AND) would be willing to share it with me please?
Now that I've signed the contract... 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' will be coming out sometime in 2025 with @manchesterup.bsky.social - Delighted, excited, nervous, and scared.
October 20, 2023 at 8:06 AM
Now that I've signed the contract... 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' will be coming out sometime in 2025 with @manchesterup.bsky.social - Delighted, excited, nervous, and scared.
I'm currently setting up a research database for my new project. Has anyone good suggestions for software to manage primary and secondary sources? Is Zotero (long abandoned now) my best bet?
September 25, 2023 at 9:48 AM
I'm currently setting up a research database for my new project. Has anyone good suggestions for software to manage primary and secondary sources? Is Zotero (long abandoned now) my best bet?
Going to use the final day of welcome to ignore absolutely anything not desperately urgent and start work on a book chapter. Trying to think through what did it mean to be 'mobile' in the eighteenth century
September 22, 2023 at 7:11 AM
Going to use the final day of welcome to ignore absolutely anything not desperately urgent and start work on a book chapter. Trying to think through what did it mean to be 'mobile' in the eighteenth century
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Our #earlymodern IHR seminar has a REALLY cool line-up for this first term!
Everybody very welcome to join. If you can't make it to London, you can sign up to get a zoom link (all times are UK) www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur... 🗃️ #18thc
Everybody very welcome to join. If you can't make it to London, you can sign up to get a zoom link (all times are UK) www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur... 🗃️ #18thc
September 20, 2023 at 3:46 PM
Our #earlymodern IHR seminar has a REALLY cool line-up for this first term!
Everybody very welcome to join. If you can't make it to London, you can sign up to get a zoom link (all times are UK) www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur... 🗃️ #18thc
Everybody very welcome to join. If you can't make it to London, you can sign up to get a zoom link (all times are UK) www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur... 🗃️ #18thc
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Job 🚨—👇
The History Dept at Duke University is hiring “a tenure-track, assistant professor in the history of the 18th-century Atlantic World. We esp welcome scholars whose work engages histories of the transatlantic slave trade, enslavement, or the Black Atlantic.”
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
The History Dept at Duke University is hiring “a tenure-track, assistant professor in the history of the 18th-century Atlantic World. We esp welcome scholars whose work engages histories of the transatlantic slave trade, enslavement, or the Black Atlantic.”
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
www.h-net.org
September 21, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Job 🚨—👇
The History Dept at Duke University is hiring “a tenure-track, assistant professor in the history of the 18th-century Atlantic World. We esp welcome scholars whose work engages histories of the transatlantic slave trade, enslavement, or the Black Atlantic.”
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
The History Dept at Duke University is hiring “a tenure-track, assistant professor in the history of the 18th-century Atlantic World. We esp welcome scholars whose work engages histories of the transatlantic slave trade, enslavement, or the Black Atlantic.”
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
Delighted to have left the old place! I've missed communing with colleagues and friends in a non-toxic place!
September 21, 2023 at 7:25 PM
Delighted to have left the old place! I've missed communing with colleagues and friends in a non-toxic place!