October 31, 2026 at 8:22 AM
CAVEAT I’m not an expert AND mostly answering #FightClubNov from memory so plz don’t take me as an authority
The gentleman's signature weapon is a "sword", which in context means a transitional rapier—not quite the 18thC smallsword.
www.artic.edu/artworks/117...
Almost a pure thrusting weapon—
The gentleman's signature weapon is a "sword", which in context means a transitional rapier—not quite the 18thC smallsword.
www.artic.edu/artworks/117...
Almost a pure thrusting weapon—
November 3, 2026 at 7:51 PM
CAVEAT I’m not an expert AND mostly answering #FightClubNov from memory so plz don’t take me as an authority
The gentleman's signature weapon is a "sword", which in context means a transitional rapier—not quite the 18thC smallsword.
www.artic.edu/artworks/117...
Almost a pure thrusting weapon—
The gentleman's signature weapon is a "sword", which in context means a transitional rapier—not quite the 18thC smallsword.
www.artic.edu/artworks/117...
Almost a pure thrusting weapon—
New from the Getty, a monograph on Anne Vallayer-Coster shop.getty.edu/products/ann... #c18 #c18th #18thc
Anne Vallayer-Coster
The first English-language monograph on Vallayer-Coster in two decades offers a renewed feminist lens on one of eighteenth-century France's most celebrated painters.
shop.getty.edu
November 1, 2026 at 12:15 PM
New from the Getty, a monograph on Anne Vallayer-Coster shop.getty.edu/products/ann... #c18 #c18th #18thc
It's often used in the 18thC on gravestones and memorials and I've always assumed it represents resurrection and eternity in that setting.
October 31, 2026 at 2:42 PM
It's often used in the 18thC on gravestones and memorials and I've always assumed it represents resurrection and eternity in that setting.
👍
It looks a lot older to me.
Could be mid 18thC - mid 19thC?
I've been to #Connemara in my youth, a wonderful landscape and m & it reminds me of #Cornwall & #WestHighlands.
🛖🌊🇮🇪🏴🏴
#Ireland
#England
#Scotland
It looks a lot older to me.
Could be mid 18thC - mid 19thC?
I've been to #Connemara in my youth, a wonderful landscape and m & it reminds me of #Cornwall & #WestHighlands.
🛖🌊🇮🇪🏴🏴
#Ireland
#England
#Scotland
Thatched cottage, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, mid-20th century, photo by John Hinde, English postcard photographer.
November 3, 2026 at 7:10 PM
👍
It looks a lot older to me.
Could be mid 18thC - mid 19thC?
I've been to #Connemara in my youth, a wonderful landscape and m & it reminds me of #Cornwall & #WestHighlands.
🛖🌊🇮🇪🏴🏴
#Ireland
#England
#Scotland
It looks a lot older to me.
Could be mid 18thC - mid 19thC?
I've been to #Connemara in my youth, a wonderful landscape and m & it reminds me of #Cornwall & #WestHighlands.
🛖🌊🇮🇪🏴🏴
#Ireland
#England
#Scotland
#31DaysofGraves
Day 29: Fruit & Vegetables
pinecone or pineapple… The first a symbol of rebirth the second of hospitality. This grave is the supposed resting place of Rosalie Duthé a grand courtesan of the 18thC and definitely very hospitable “A companion of kings and nobility”
Day 29: Fruit & Vegetables
pinecone or pineapple… The first a symbol of rebirth the second of hospitality. This grave is the supposed resting place of Rosalie Duthé a grand courtesan of the 18thC and definitely very hospitable “A companion of kings and nobility”
October 29, 2026 at 9:52 AM
#31DaysofGraves
Day 29: Fruit & Vegetables
pinecone or pineapple… The first a symbol of rebirth the second of hospitality. This grave is the supposed resting place of Rosalie Duthé a grand courtesan of the 18thC and definitely very hospitable “A companion of kings and nobility”
Day 29: Fruit & Vegetables
pinecone or pineapple… The first a symbol of rebirth the second of hospitality. This grave is the supposed resting place of Rosalie Duthé a grand courtesan of the 18thC and definitely very hospitable “A companion of kings and nobility”
We're approaching the Nov. 2 deadline for fellowships and travel grants to conduct research at the Lewis Walpole Library! Please share and consider applying. #18thc 🗃️
Working on a book, article, or dissertation on #18thc British world? The Lewis Walpole Library offers 4-week visiting fellowships and 2-week travel grants for scholars. The deadline for applications is November 2. 🗃️ More info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants
| Lewis Walpole Library
walpole.library.yale.edu
October 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
We're approaching the Nov. 2 deadline for fellowships and travel grants to conduct research at the Lewis Walpole Library! Please share and consider applying. #18thc 🗃️
I have been saying this to the students in my #18thc class all semester. You will learn more about the formal possibilities of fiction from a curriculum of these books--Clarissa especially-- than (I'll go out on a limb here) you will from a class on Middlemarch.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
Philippa Gregory: ‘I read 100 of the best 18th century novels – the perfect author’s apprenticeship’
The British novelist on discovering Molly Keane, coming to Dickens late, and the books that taught her the importance of writing about history
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2026 at 12:01 PM
I have been saying this to the students in my #18thc class all semester. You will learn more about the formal possibilities of fiction from a curriculum of these books--Clarissa especially-- than (I'll go out on a limb here) you will from a class on Middlemarch.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
November 3, 2026 at 10:41 AM
#CFP The Georgian Revival in Interwar Britain: Conservation, Campaigning, and Collections
12 May 2027
Please email proposals to anya@georgiangroup.org.uk with a
250 words abstract + brief bio by 7 December 2026 using subject line ‘Georgian Revival CFP’.
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
12 May 2027
Please email proposals to anya@georgiangroup.org.uk with a
250 words abstract + brief bio by 7 December 2026 using subject line ‘Georgian Revival CFP’.
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
October 28, 2026 at 8:53 AM
#CFP The Georgian Revival in Interwar Britain: Conservation, Campaigning, and Collections
12 May 2027
Please email proposals to anya@georgiangroup.org.uk with a
250 words abstract + brief bio by 7 December 2026 using subject line ‘Georgian Revival CFP’.
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
12 May 2027
Please email proposals to anya@georgiangroup.org.uk with a
250 words abstract + brief bio by 7 December 2026 using subject line ‘Georgian Revival CFP’.
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
My review of Eleanor Johnson's MONSTROUS BITCH: A History of Terrifying Women (Princeton University Press, 2026) is out in @draftingthepast.bsky.social!
💙📚🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histmed #politics #gender
💙📚🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histmed #politics #gender
An Incomplete Guide to the Female Monster
A new but limited history of the women who have always terrified men
www.draftingthepast.com
October 27, 2026 at 11:10 AM
My review of Eleanor Johnson's MONSTROUS BITCH: A History of Terrifying Women (Princeton University Press, 2026) is out in @draftingthepast.bsky.social!
💙📚🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histmed #politics #gender
💙📚🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histmed #politics #gender
October 26, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Wow! See this report on a Black linguistics prof who recorded Creoles speaking their unique language during the ‘30s: “The language they spoke traces its roots to 18thC New Orleans, when the city was a French-Spanish colony on the fringes of the early US republic.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/u...
Oldest Recording of Louisiana’s Vanishing Creole Language Is Published (Gift Article)
The rediscovery of a forgotten recording from 1935 sheds light on a language rooted in the state’s history of slavery and French colonialism.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Wow! See this report on a Black linguistics prof who recorded Creoles speaking their unique language during the ‘30s: “The language they spoke traces its roots to 18thC New Orleans, when the city was a French-Spanish colony on the fringes of the early US republic.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/u...
I’m writing a book about 18thC Australian immigrants. The stench is certainly a factor even for folk used to a stinky world.
October 30, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I’m writing a book about 18thC Australian immigrants. The stench is certainly a factor even for folk used to a stinky world.
October 27, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Tate has announced it has acquired 50 artworks from 18thC and 19thC India, gifted by the art historian Charles Greig. A highlight is Johan Zoffany’s 1784 portrait of Prince Jawan Bakht, one of three portraits of Indian sitters by Zoffany in UK public collections
October 26, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Tate has announced it has acquired 50 artworks from 18thC and 19thC India, gifted by the art historian Charles Greig. A highlight is Johan Zoffany’s 1784 portrait of Prince Jawan Bakht, one of three portraits of Indian sitters by Zoffany in UK public collections
Well, I just figured out who James Sutherland is/was... And he is not who everyone claimed him to be. Writing about the Corris = fun detective work. #18thc #skystorians
October 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Well, I just figured out who James Sutherland is/was... And he is not who everyone claimed him to be. Writing about the Corris = fun detective work. #18thc #skystorians
Look forward to November!
Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #18thc
Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #18thc
October 27, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Look forward to November!
Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #18thc
Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #18thc
From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Fashionable Blues of the 18th century' - wp.me/p3JTNy-2h0 #18thc
October 25, 2026 at 7:47 AM
From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Fashionable Blues of the 18th century' - wp.me/p3JTNy-2h0 #18thc
See also www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... “The enduring authority of Female cheesemakers in the 18thC” - shouldn’t this be in the history curriculum given the popularity of the product? 🙂
November 2, 2026 at 12:36 PM
See also www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... “The enduring authority of Female cheesemakers in the 18thC” - shouldn’t this be in the history curriculum given the popularity of the product? 🙂
Rabbit-hole French word of the day is 'sifflement' in the context of the whistling / hissing sound of projectiles on the early 18thC battlefield.
October 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Rabbit-hole French word of the day is 'sifflement' in the context of the whistling / hissing sound of projectiles on the early 18thC battlefield.
📣New on the blog: LSDB live! We'll be at the April 2027 American Society for 18th Century Studies ( #ASECS ) conference in Portland, City of Roses -- with multiple(!) presentations bloghttps://blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/2026/10/29/keep-the-lsdb-weird/
#digitalhumanities #18thcentury #18thc #18c
#digitalhumanities #18thcentury #18thc #18c
October 29, 2026 at 6:56 PM
📣New on the blog: LSDB live! We'll be at the April 2027 American Society for 18th Century Studies ( #ASECS ) conference in Portland, City of Roses -- with multiple(!) presentations bloghttps://blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/2026/10/29/keep-the-lsdb-weird/
#digitalhumanities #18thcentury #18thc #18c
#digitalhumanities #18thcentury #18thc #18c
Submit an underrated screen ghost
October 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Submit an underrated screen ghost