Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
Rebecca Anne Barr
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Public artwork at #Cambridge. ‘Together We’, by Mark Titchner, is inspired by 17thc physician William Harvey. Best known for his work on pulmonary circulation, Harvey loved #coffee. 'This little fruit is the source of happiness & wit', he said & left £56 worth of coffee to @rcphysicians.bsky.social
IT'S TIME! The #CFP for #BSECS2027 has been released!
This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity'.
The deadline for submissions is the 15 September 2026.
The conference will by the 6-8 January 2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
LIFE & DEATH of JOHN BUNYAN c1755 WOODCUT Elegy
#books #antiquarian #Bunyan #18thcentury #biography #woodcut #life #death #bookauction
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Love this analysis of free indirect discourse, one of my favorite techniques in fiction from @annakornbluh.bsky.social’s Immediacy:
“Unattributed words and ideas belong to no one and therefore to a kind of everyone-that's what makes them free.”
Bird watching✨
Original linocut print on deckled edge lokta paper/8.5x11
#georgianstyle #18thcentury #birdwatching #linoprint #linocut #artprint #art
Robert Burns & Black Lives
24 June, Alloway – free
Clark McGinn, author & honorary research fellow @glasgowburns.bsky.social, examines Burns’s connections to the transatlantic slave trade, highlighting the paradoxes & moral conflicts of the poet’s time
#C18
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So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
10 years ago, days before the Brexit referendum. There was a deadly terrorist attack in Britain. Afterwards, nothing happened and very few people today will refer to what happened by its name.
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Most academics being interviewed: Blah, bland, meh.
@naomioreskes.bsky.social interviewed: stand back because
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