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long18thsem.bsky.social IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · Jun 3
Next Weds 10 June we welcome @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (KCL) to our seminar, who will present their paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship’

Register below to join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
www.history.ac.uk
June 5, 2026 at 8:22 AM
boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Attention #NACBS2025: we have conference displays copies looking for a good home! If you're an #ECR stop by our stand anytime tomorrow morning to claim yours. @thenacbs.bsky.social #BritishStudies

If you do miss out, you can still grab a bargain with conference code BB154: buff.ly/U9twdID
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
sunypress.bsky.social
Congrats to @drdominicdean.bsky.social on KILLING CHILDREN IN BRITISH FICTION being named a Co-Winner for the 2025 Monograph Prize presented by the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies

#WinnerWednesday #ReadUP tinyurl.com/ytzduwbj

#BritishStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryCriticism
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
alrogers.bsky.social
Putting together a roundtable for #NACBS2025. Topic is Public History and Its Relevance to British Studies. MA graduate students are welcome to submit for this roundtable. Contact me for more info.
#NCPH #publichistory #publichistorians #britishstudies @thenacbs.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Snapshots from today’s trip to the Lewis Walpole Library.

If you’re interested in any aspect of British society in the long 18th century—including the history of science—I highly recommend a visit!

walpole.library.yale.edu

#histSTM #sciart #speccolls
#BritishStudies #libraries 🗃️📜📚
Selfie in front of the Lewis Walpole Library sign. The Lewis Walpole Library’s reading room. John Inigo Richards, [Sir William Herschel exhibiting his great telescope to George III], Watercolor and ink, c. 1782 Lewis Walpole Library Illustrations of insects made by Maria Sibylla Merian Lewis Walpole Library
August 18, 2026 at 3:12 AM
thenacbs.bsky.social
🚨Just a few more days to get those applications in🚨

Does your research involve #envhist and #britishstudies? Check out the IAHI-NACBS Fellowship, which provides affiliation and library privileges at IAHA to fellows.

📅Applications due June 20
Info here: www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...
June 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Multi-layered insights into how the #European tragedy of #Brexit happened: @nonistacey.bsky.social captures the moods around the #Leave #Referendum, its impact & protests against it w photos, essays & ephemera

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#CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #BritishPolitics
Noni Stacey's book Leave to Remain on a yellow-green chair
April 15, 2024 at 6:14 AM
chendirl.bsky.social
📌 😍 #BritishStudies #IrishStudies #Skystorians
April 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Greetings from #Anglistiktag2025 starting today in Essen! 👋 We're excited for the programme. The organisers did a great job at signage & ordering crisp, sunny autumn weather! 🍂
Please say hello if you're here too! 😊

#conference #BritishStudies #AnglophoneStudies #EnglishLiterature #Linguistics
A sign with an arrow pointing the way to Anglistiktag 2025 A chalked arrow on the cobblestones pointing the way to Anglistiktag 2025
September 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
What better time is there to enjoy a good literary #Adaptation than autumn?! 🍂
Here's 2 newcomers in our collection, on #AdaptationStudies: one on #AgathaChristie #FilmAdaptations & one on #PennyDreadful!

#FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #BritishStudies #EnglishLiterature
The books "Agatha Christie on Screen" and "Penny Dreadful and Adaptation" on a cream-coloured surface, with three autumn leaves strewn about
November 4, 2024 at 8:01 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
A social & cultural #history of consumerism in 20 c Britain, Ben Highmore's "Lifestyle Revolution" tracks changes of taste & how they influenced the British class system, from #cookbooks #ads & TV shows to shops like Habitat

#CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #ConsumerCulture

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The book "Lifestyle Revolution" by Ben Highmore on a blue velvet chair
May 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
dasmith.bsky.social
A new study of James VI and I is now available, just in time for the anniversary of the reign's end. Corruption! Religious strife! Devious diplomacy! All in one paperback @routledgehistory.bsky.social @kathrynmarshalek.bsky.social #EarlyMod #history #britishstudies
www.routledge.com/James-VI-and...
James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion
James VI and I: Politics, Government and Religion brings together early career and established scholars with a range of approaches to the reign. Their original, research-based essays on a series of br...
www.routledge.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#BritishStudies #BritishTelevision #BBC #DavidAttenborough #DavidAttenborough100 #BOTD #MediaStudies
Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments
He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary...
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2026 at 8:41 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Today is, however, not only #MonsterMonday but also Margaret #Thatcher was #BOTD 100 years ago
Find arguments against #Thatcherism in the #BritishStudies & #PoliticalStudies literature in our collection
2 bookstacks of books on Margaret Thatcher on a bookshelf
October 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Wouldn't a #roadtrip be fun? 🛣️
Let #Shakespeare come with you - as a #radioplay
"Shakespeare on the Radio" by @audioandrea.bsky.social
takes a tour of 100 years of #BBC radioplays by the Bard, 1923-2023

#BritishStudies #EnglishLiterature #BritishRadio #AdaptationStudies

(sadly not our car!)
Holding the book "Shakespeare on the Radio" next to a red and white vintage car
August 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
dasmith.bsky.social
Looking forward to this conference on corruption in the early modern world starting today, June 5! #history #edusky #EarlyMod 📗 #britishstudies
www.eventbrite.com/e/corruption...
June 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
This empowering #memoir by @hackneyabbott.bsky.social details her way as a child of the #WindrushGeneration to her becoming Britain's 1st Black female MP

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#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #BritishStudies #autobiography #BlackStudies #WomensHistory #WomensStudies
the book "A Woman Like Me" by Diane Abbott in the grass, next to a bunch of purple and yellow crocuses
March 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
#BritCult has published a #CfP #CallForPapers for their conference in November 2025

Deadline: 19 March 2025
Topic: Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today

www.britcult.de/cate...

#GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CulturalStudies #BritishStudies
March 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
socialhistarchive.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be participating in North American Conference on British Studies 2025.

This annual gathering offers scholars and professionals a vital chance to engage with cutting-edge research and foster dialogue in British Studies.

#NACBS2025 #BritishStudies #Academicsky
A red London bus in front of a grey building
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Already binged the new #Bridgerton episodes & can't get enough of the British upper class?
May we suggest some further reading on #Diana & #QueenVictoria ? Details on each book in the replies! 👑

#BritishStudies #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #Anglistik
The books "Dianaworld - An Obsession" by Edward White and "Victoria's Secret" by Fern Riddell propped up on a green chair
February 27, 2026 at 11:25 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Today starts the joint #conference "Concepts of Freedom and the Development in Democracy in Great Britain in Historical Comparison" by the German Association for #BritishStudies #AGF & the Institute for Social Movements in Bochum - w rep.s N. Fabian, S. Berger & M. Guderjan welcoming us

#History
N. Fabian & S. Berger N. Fabian & S. Berger & M. Guderjan
July 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
New week, new book alert! 🚨
This mighty tome on #EnglishHistory by Susan Doran traces the dynastic change from #QueenElizabeth to #KingJames - from #Tudor to #Stuart in #RenaissanceEngland - on over 600 page, citing sources from #Literature to #MaterialCulture

#BritishStudies #Renaissance
The book "From Tudor to Stuart" by Susan Doran resting on a wooden bench in front of a tree
July 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
thenacbs.bsky.social
This #GivingTuesday, help us support the next generation of scholars in British Studies! All donations today will go to support our Dissertation and Diversity and Inclusion Fellowships.

👉 www.nacbs.org/75th-capital...
#GivingTuesday #SupportScholarship #BritishStudies
75th Capital Campaign | NACBS
Join us in celebrating 75 years supporting excellence in British Studies scholarship.
www.nacbs.org
December 3, 2024 at 8:06 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
British #Euroscepticism in 8 #dystopian novels by British authors, published in the wake of the #Brexit referendum is the focus of Lisa Bischoff's 2023 monograph "British Novels and the European Union - DisEUtopia"

#EnglishLiterature #BritishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #EuropeanUnion
Holding Lisa Bischoff's book "British Novels and the European Union" in front of a black-and-white-scene of our library, with an "exit" sign above it, with colours changed so the sign is red instead of green
July 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
"Rites of Passage" by Judith Flanders has arrived at our library - providing a deeply researched analysis of the weird & wonderful mourning customs, beliefs around death and dying & burial rites of #VictorianCulture.

#VictorianStudies #BritishStudies #BritishHistory
A black and white rendition of a photo holding Judith Flanders's book "Rites of Passage: Death & Mourning in Victorian Britain" in the Botanical Gardens, the background shows stone stairs next to a dark and looming wall of ivy A colour rendition of a photo holding Judith Flanders's book "Rites of Passage: Death & Mourning in Victorian Britain" in the Botanical Gardens, the background shows stone stairs next to a dark and looming wall of ivy (same photo as the left, but in colour)
July 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM