@LeverhulmeTrust ECF @READenglish| Studying working-class writing on empire & extractivism in 18thc British literature | Prev. @Staenglish, @LeedsAHRI & @engfac
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What do naval surgeons, theatre cleaners, and Ozzy Osbourne have in common? - to find out come and listen to us at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sat 21st March!!! Book via the link:
birminghammuseums.org.uk/eve…
Interested in a FREE, 2-day symposium on post-extractive visualities? We've organised one
@durham_uni's Centre for Visual Arts and Culture.
Last year was superb - abstracts due 27 Feb.
CFP: durham.ac.uk/research/instit…
History IS included (the past was 'post' once!)
Just 5 tickets left for our book launch in Birmingham this Thursday, with talks on naval surgeons and abolition, chartist poetry, and the invisible work of theatre cleaners. Free wine, good cheer! book here: nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/b…
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Next month, Leverhulme Early Trust Career Fellow Adam Bridgen, with John Goodridge, unveil their new book, British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700, published by @UoLPress 🎉
The talk is arranged by @nationaltrust.
Read more here:
👉 tinyurl.com/557pz96s
If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory
Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm.
For further details & tickets:
nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/b…
@MidlandHistory @TheIronRoom @brumhippodrome @BM_AG
Not to forget the book: open-access and free to read/download! uolpress.co.uk/book/british-…
Steaming this eve (GMT) I'll be speaking on abolitionism and naval medicine in the 1780s at the 'Science and Revolution' conference'. Full programme: amphilsoc.org/science-and-so…
Both days of the conference will be available via livestream here (times EST): youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Looking forward to kicking off the 'Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions' conference next week @amphilsociety, on the 'Science on the Front Lines' panel.
I'll be tackling naval medicine + abolition
It's free and open to the public!
amphilsoc.org/science-and-so…
Blessed sunshine at last to accompany the start of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Summer School today! + found out I'm in a video about last year's conference on 'Animal Thinkers': vimeo.com/1094757932?fl=pl&f…
Very much looking forward to presenting, and in the presence of Linda Colley!
You can now register for our twentieth anniversary conference! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/…
ALT Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26-27 June 2025, Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre
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You can now register for our twentieth anniversary conference! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/…
ALT Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26-27 June 2025, Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre
Very pleased with my recent collaboration with the superb @MMoR_KCL project !(about slavery, naval medicine, and the early shaping of abolitionism)
Check out the latest blog in our series, Adam Bridgen on 'Thomas Trotter’s Observations on the Scurvy (1786)', now live on the MMoR website here bit.ly/3YRjQle #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory
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Interested in getting your work published #OpenAccess but not sure about the different paths available? Join our free intro to OA publishing training session online on Monday 24th February with our Publisher @emma_gallon.
Book your place here:
sas.ac.uk/news-events/events…
Very much looking forward to giving my first departmental talk at Durham (and snippet of forthcoming book!)
Our next research seminar of the term for current postgrads and academic staff will be taking place 28 Nov, 4-5pm, in ER155. Dr Adam Bridgen from @durham_uni will be talking about 'Covert Challenges: Antislavery before Abolition and Work at Sea.'
👉durham.ac.uk/departments/aca…
ALT A poster advertising Dr Adam Bridgen's talk on 'Covert Challenges: Antislavery before Abolition and Work at Sea.' For more information, please follow the link in the post.
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📢Our Minerals Online Roundtable II: 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' happening on Nov 21, 3-4:10 pm (Dublin time)! Join us for a discussion with @danielle_kinsey from Carleton, @RebeccaMacklin_ from Aberdeen, and Dr Nick McGee from Durham. imperialminerals.ie/events/m…
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Our @DurhamIAS Fellows' seminar series is booking up fast. Our next talk on 28 Oct, 1pm 'The Neuroscience of Literary Time-Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance' by Prof Paul Armstrong has a couple of places left. Book now at forms.office.com/e/3U74cPym7…
@READEnglish
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We are back to our usual MEMSA Mondays for our second talk of the term on the 28th Oct to hear from Sarah McAllister, also one of the chairs of MEMSA 2023/4.
She will be discussing 'Illustration or Exploration: William Blake's Interpretation of Thomas Gray's Old Norse Odes'
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📣Registration is now open for 'The Radical North, 1779–1914: A Symposium in Memory of Malcolm Chase'
⏲️29 November 2024
🏢Leeds Uni
🎟️Free event with 3 panels of papers, roundtable & book launch
eventbrite.com/e/the-radical…
Run by @NorthernHist; support from SHS
📢Please share!
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Hello - for anyone based in Oxford, Electronic Enlightenment is running a half-day symposium on the letters and legacy of Charles Ignatius Sancho and his family at the Weston Library on 5 Nov: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac…
@TORCHOxford @BSECS @EngFac18thC @BARS_official @bodleianlibs
