Writing Early Modern Loneliness (@Palgrave, 2025), ed. by Hannah Yip and @ThomasCliftonA5. Both tweeting here about loneliness and precarity, past & present.
London and Coventry, UK
Joined January 2021
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Our ‘Loneliness’ project is not only concerned with the history of loneliness in the early modern world. It also considers pressing matters relating to the loneliness, ostracism, and isolation – social and physical – of unaffiliated researchers in early modern studies.
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There's still time to register for our next colloquium with
@naomipullin, taking place online at 11AM (US Mountain Time) / 6pm (GMT) tomorrow! Find more information and the access link below ✨
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: @NACHEmotion will be holding its next colloquium on 10 December at 11am (US Mountain Time): "The Labour of Solitude and Emotional Experience of Aloneness in Early Modern Britain" with @naomipullin ✨ Register/save the Zoom link here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-labou…
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University English, along with the English Association and Institute of English Studies, has written a letter in protest at the proposed closure of English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University, and the redundancy of our excellent colleagues: universityenglish.ac.uk/engl…
'The Independent Historian' - online meeting @WarwickHistory on 2 December at 5pm, focusing on how independent historians maintain academic excellence and rigour without institutional affiliation. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-indep…
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What's the experience of independent historians when it comes to research & journal publishing? bit.ly/3NpBbf1
In this new 'Transactions @royalhistsoc' article, John Sanders assesses historical precedents and current realities of life beyond the academic mainstream 1/2
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@wallyberry 's keynote at our Early Modern Loneliness conference (back in the depths of 2020 lockdown) had us all laughing and increasingly pensive as we considered what it is to be an academic, and why we take the torture. It is all the more relevant in light recent events.
@ThomasCliftonA5 I’m going to make my keynote from the conference public on YouTube on Friday. Any publicity you could give it would be greatly appreciated
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She's here! She's the green emotionally sensitive solution to your modern day and early modern day lonelinesses.
Spring 2020 and the genesis of this project feels so close and yet so far. Thank you too all involved.
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I'm really excited to finally share this piece of work for the @WHO_Europe BCI-HUB. Written with sixteen (!) other scholars, it makes the case for historical practice as an indispensable component of interdisciplinary research on loneliness going forward.
bci-hub.org/documents/histor…
As I won’t be paying to keep this account open, I want to end on a high note: we have submitted our collection, Writing Early Modern Loneliness, for @Palgrave. Too many people to tag but we want to thank our collaborators and supporters over the past 2+ years! @ThomasCliftonA5
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The 2023 Bríd McGrath Fellowship for Independent Scholars, a joint fellowship scheme with @MarshsLibrary courtesy of our former fellow @BridMcGrath, is open for applications. Find out more at edwardworthlibrary.ie/resear…
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PLEA FOR HELP
Twitter: who is currently doing work on the history of loneliness? Broadly defined, any time, anywhere?
I'm across quite a lot of it, particularly the major works and anyone who has a chapter in the recent Routledge volume, but don't want to miss anything!
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We're putting together a special issue of the journal 'English' on the topic of 'Precarity in Perspective' and want your articles, think-pieces, and book reviews! CfP: academic.oup.com/english/pag… // Deadline: 15th July.
A little late for 💞 Valentine's Day 💞 (not to mention the #ucuRISING strikes that day), but we are pleased to have been mentioned in @BostonGlobe! bostonglobe.com/2023/02/14/o…
Our edited collection, contracted for publication with Palgrave, features Catholic exiles, Protestant clergymen separated from their wives, redundant statesmen, modern-day therapeutic writing practices compared with early modern counterparts, and much more. @ThomasCliftonA5
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A lot's been happening on the Nashe project and its spinoff, 'Penniless?'. Here's a summary of what the team have been up to: look out for more coming soon.
medium.com/@a.cornish/pennil…
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Huzza! We now have an image of the front cover and a publication date for the end of Feb. -- the Routledge History of Loneliness @KatieEBarclay @SimontonDeborah
routledge.com/The-Routledge-… #twitterstorians
Seven years earlier, he had written his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions during convalescence: ‘As Sicknesse is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes is solitude.’ #Englishpoets #loneliness
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Brilliant 🧵 but many of the replies/retweets associate this situation only with “young academics”. I was made redundant 3 years ago and have since been losing my savings working hourly-paid. Precarity in unis is now issue even for “permanent” staff. @ucu #ucu
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As the #UCUstrike @ucu has been announced, it seems fitting to dig up the following pieces by @chakrabortty and @sweale in the short-lived @guardian series, The New World of Work, published 6 years ago. Sadly, not much has changed. #precarity
