Emma Stanbridge
ECR Fellow @ Institute of English Studies. | C18 Life-writing, literary biography, Anna Seward.
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
- Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeGreat news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
- Reposted by Emma Stanbridge“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️
- I’m very happy to see that these letters are now published. It was great to work on this with @nick-seager.bsky.social ✉️ ✍️
- 📣📣 We're very excited to share the publication of a new set of letters between Elizabeth Montagu and Benjamin Stillingfleet, now available on our website: emco.swansea.ac.uk/emco/corresp...
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeIn their introduction to these papers, Seager and Stanbridge draw attention to Montagu's esteem for her friend, writing on his death in 1772: "I feel the loss of a Person who sincerely loved me, & never lost an opportunity of doing me any service of pleasure."
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeThese letters have been edited by the wonderful Nicholas Seager and @emmastanbridge.bsky.social, and explore the candid yet intellectual friendship Montagu and Stillingfleet shared.
- Reposted by Emma Stanbridge📣📣 We're very excited to share the publication of a new set of letters between Elizabeth Montagu and Benjamin Stillingfleet, now available on our website: emco.swansea.ac.uk/emco/corresp...
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeMary Hamilton and her networks: Gender, sociability, manuscript. Important (we would think so, wouldn't we?) special issue of JECS, now in copy-editing. Intro + 4 research papers by the team (see www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/further-read...) + 5 outside contributions. #18thC #langsky
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeCall for interested parties in a panel for @bsecs.bsky.social January 2026! Theme this year is Big/Small. My paper will focus on small comforts + large discomforts in 18th c. letter writing. Let me know if you are interested #18c @cecs-york.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeCFP for Sex in the #19thC (deets in alt) Abstracts (300 words), biographies (100 words), and should be submitted on Monday 22d September 2025 to rrr @ soton.ac.uk. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, and include your full name, discipline & institution.
- We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE! We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates. Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeWe are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeThanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeThis is a tremendously important thread about the reality of precarity and ECR life. The effects of precarity affect every single aspect of life and wellbeing: mental and physical health, friendships, family, stability.
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeAbsolutely. While of course it puts pressure on staff to provide feedback for a large number of applicants, the labour involved in applying for jobs repeatedly by ECRs on precarious contracts is incredibly heavy, given the uncertainty, the stress, the hours that go into an application. (1/)
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeThis is an excellent thread that speaks to the exhausting stress of academic precarity
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeThe Scottish Government doing a much better job than its southern counterpart at holding University leaders to account
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgePlease do sign and share this petition, put together to save Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections from job cuts that will see 3 of 4 archivists made redundant. @cilip.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeThe list of university sackings below must now include Coventry, Derby, Hull and Lincoln. That's twelve universities getting rid of staff... in just ten days. Still nothing is done. 🇬🇧
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeExciting (fully funded) PhD 📢 ! Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Keele (me!) and the British Library. Beyond the Burger: USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr... (see “advert and details” for full info)
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeFully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeThere is still time to submit a proposal for the 8th biennial @defoesociety.bsky.social Defoe Society Conference, which is happening in beautiful Lichfield, U.K., 3-5 July 2025. All details here: www.defoesociety.org/conference/
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeNow on the BARS Blog: a new online resource in the Collected Letters of Thomas Beddoes! See the full post/link here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5843 And please share/repost!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeBack online: The Yale digital edition of Samuel Johnson's work, free to read and view: yalejohnson.com #History 🗃️
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeWe are looking for feedback to help improve the Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online website - we'd love to know what features you like, and how the functionality can be improved, as well as any suggestions that might improve your ability to research!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeUniversities: obtaining your PhD means you are a scholar for the rest of your life. Also universities: three days after your PhD defense, access to the library will be cut off.
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- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeExcited to share that my new book, Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1830 with @CambridgeUP's Elements series is available for free download for the next 72 hours. Written with non-specialists in mind as well as Jacobite scholars. #jacobites #18th-c www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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- My final conference as a PhD student and a pleasure to be part of this panel on life-writing. Very grateful to @bsecs.bsky.social for a bursary which enabled me to attend.
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgePlease share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeNot posted about this on here yet BUT the CfP for the @bars.bsky.social 2025 PGR & ECR conference is currently live until 6 January 2025! More info available on our conference website: barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home Please do share widely; options to present in-person in Cambridge or online!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeWe pretty much follow back all PhD candidates 🫡 It’s tough out there 🥺
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeHello, friends! We've made a starter pack. Please give us a nudge if you're a WSG member, colleague, book contributor, or a speaker past or present. We're keen to put our lovely community in touch with each other here. We've started small, so come back and check as we grow! go.bsky.app/88zFAoBat://did:plc:pidm2ktzzqgruljlgbrj6nhe/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbb3oadxey2k
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeI think I made a starter pack? go.bsky.app/fkgPH6at://did:plc:rpymrtblov3t6gf6eeqld2hz/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbcwqk3uoy2t
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeSome lovely new #18thC people who have recently joined the conversation on Bluesky for this week's #FollowFriday: @davidftaylor.bsky.social @katieaske.bsky.social @rubyrutter.bsky.social @spacedolphin93.bsky.social @jameswmorland.bsky.social @ecwliv.bsky.social @drpastonsrus.bsky.social
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeHello Bluesky! Did you know that we have 17 bursaries available for the BSECS Annual Conference? To find out more and apply, please use this form: (forms.office.com/e/ZJAmgxRHLd Applications close at midnight UK time on 20th November @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thC
- Enjoyed this exhibition very much this afternoon!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeOk, this is a start at least! Starter pack for the long eighteenth century and Romantic period - reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/JMDQj4nat://did:plc:lp27scbhcz4sl5eidxkq2l7f/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laha2p2n242p
- It was the final research trip of my PhD to the Birthplace Museum in Lichfield today. So grateful for this CDA partnership (and for an unexpected find in the archive!). #phdlife
- At the NWCDTP conference in beautiful Keele Hall library today. Looking forward to presenting on Anna Seward later.
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeIt’s an honour to have my essay on Samuel Johnson, the Cock Lane Ghost, & disability satire published in _The New Rambler_. The Johnson Society are such a friendly & erudite bunch. If you get a chance to support them please do! #18thC #SamuelJohnson #Disability #Ghosts
- My Anna Seward workshops have concluded. It’s been a pleasure to share Seward’s archive with such enthusiastic audiences!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeYou might have just recovered from #BSECS2024, but we've been thinking about #BSECS2025 for a while! This year's theme is 'Bodies and Embodiment', Pembroke College, Oxford, 8-10 January 2025. Proposals accepted from 1 July #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
- Reposted by Emma Stanbridge#18thC #palaeography #FoodHistory people - my student has come across this abbreviation (we think 'bt') in an 18thC recipe book she is transcribing. Any idea what it stands for? It seems to be a measure of weight/quantity. An alternative figuring of "lb" maybe? Are we missing something obvious?
- I held the first of three workshops on Anna Seward at the Johnson Birthplace Museum in Lichfield today. Researchers from Keele, Birmingham, and Liverpool explored Seward’s identities as a reader, writer, and correspondent using museum collections, and we visited her new plaque!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeReminder: CfP for @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference in Uppsala, Sweden. CLOSES 31 MARCH!!!! See below for details. #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeExcited to be going to this conference at my old alma mater: call for papers still open!
- Home after my first ever in-person @bsecs.bsky.social conference (and first trip to Oxford!). A pleasure to be on this panel on female writers.
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeA thread of episodes from 2023 🧵
- Short but sweet trip to Cambridge for more Seward letters (what else?)
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeAnother rich digital resource for #c18th historians: Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk #skystorians 🗃
- How is it my final day?!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeCrowdfunder for Dr Kiguru - please donate or share if you can 🙏🏽 www.gofundme.com/f/help-reuni...
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeThe programme for the #BSECS 53rd Annual Conference on ‘Work and Play’ is now available here. Register NOW to join us at St Hugh’s, Oxford from the 3-5 January 2024 #18thC #skystorians www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
- It’s the end of the first week of my Houghton library fellowship. Having the best time! 📚🇺🇸
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeCalling all #18thC scholars & enthusiasts, please follow @ecwliv.bsky.social (Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre Liverpool) who have just landed!
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeOur first Paratext Network announcement on Blue Sky: #skystorians please check out a new blog post by Hannah Moss on paratextual framing in the verse of Felicia Hemans. #18thC #19thC #romanticism 18thcparatext.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/t...
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- I’d be grateful for audiobook recommendations to accompany me on some upcoming travels, please. Preferably biography/memoir and bonus points for a nice reading voice! 📚
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeI have a panellist but we need a third person to join us for the BSECS conference, looking at evangelical/religious responses to work and play/leisure. Please share far and wide. Thanks Bluesky
- Reposted by Emma StanbridgeDelighted that my book is one of the first two to be published under this exciting new Open Access initiative! edinburghuniversitypress.com/news/post/ed...
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