We study the eighteenth century at the University of Birmingham birmingham.ac.uk/research/ce…

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"Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies." Here's the full call for papers; deadline for proposals is Friday 1 November. blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2024/09/…

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You can now register for our twentieth anniversary conference! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/…
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Our next event features @EmeccWarwick PhD student Kristi Flake, presenting "Who Cares about Homilies?" next Wednesday, 12 March, 1-2pm on campus here at the University of Birmingham.
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This is today! Do join us (online or on campus) at 4pm 🙂
Our first event of the new year is a big one! @AnnaFranJam @knott_sarah @naomipullin and @KHarveyHistory on "Feminist Histories: Care, Loneliness and Embodiment," 4-6pm Tuesday 4 Feb (on campus in Birmingham, or on Zoom) birmingham.ac.uk/schools/his…
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This is next week! We'd love to see you there (or on Zoom--link via the webpage)!
Our first event of the new year is a big one! @AnnaFranJam @knott_sarah @naomipullin and @KHarveyHistory on "Feminist Histories: Care, Loneliness and Embodiment," 4-6pm Tuesday 4 Feb (on campus in Birmingham, or on Zoom) birmingham.ac.uk/schools/his…
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Our first event of the new year is a big one! @AnnaFranJam @knott_sarah @naomipullin and @KHarveyHistory on "Feminist Histories: Care, Loneliness and Embodiment," 4-6pm Tuesday 4 Feb (on campus in Birmingham, or on Zoom) birmingham.ac.uk/schools/his…
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We're particularly delighted to be hosting Professor Sarah Knott, during her first year back in the UK as Hilary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at Oxford.
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This Wednesday, 4-5pm we'll be hosting @chloewigsmith for our annual book club. Do drop us a DM if you'd like to attend in person or by Zoom!
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One more week! Whether your C18th is long, short, or mid-length, British, Atlantic, global, Indigenous, or any other kind, we'd love to hear from you at our twentieth-anniversary conference, 26-27 June 2025.
Replying to @beccbham
"Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies." Here's the full call for papers; deadline for proposals is Friday 1 November. blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2024/09/…
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Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC retweeted
CfP deadline one week away! Submit your abstract for our conference on Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain. CfP Deadline: 1st November Conference: 17th December Full details: kingsearlymodern.co.uk/event…
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Two more weeks to send a proposal for our big 20th anniversary conference, taking place 26-27 June 2025. If you've got a take on the eighteenth century, we'd love to hear from you!
Replying to @beccbham
"Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies." Here's the full call for papers; deadline for proposals is Friday 1 November. blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2024/09/…
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That includes discussions of *teaching* the eighteenth century in and across disciplines. It also includes *representations* of the eighteenth century across media, in public spaces, and in fiction. If it's about the eighteenth century as such, we're interested!
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Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC retweeted
CFP now open to November 30!
Join us on 7 March 2025 at the University of Warwick to explore the pervasiveness and irresistibility of decay imagery from the 18th century to today. Submit your abstract by 30 Nov 2024 to irresistibledecay@gmail.com. Kindly founded by @HRCWarwick.
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Congratulations to Birmingham PhD students Annabelle Gilmore and Montaz Marché on this recent publication!
New approaches to Black British Histories in 'Transactions @RoyalHistSoc': what's the experience of early career historians? bit.ly/3Y6IdM3 'Emerging Scholars Researching Black British Histories (mid-18th to mid-19th cent.)' now available #openaccess #twitterstorians
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Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC retweeted
CfP deadline for CEMS Conference on Rethinking State and Society in EM Britain coming up - 15th October. Full details below.
CEMS Conference - Rethinking State and Society in EM Britain. 17th December 2024. Join us for a conference on all things early modern Britain - organised by CEMS and Dr. Jonah Miller (@kingshistory). CfP deadline: 15th October. Full details: kingsearlymodern.co.uk/event…
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Next June, BECC will be twenty, and we're throwing a party! Ok, we're holding a conference. Maybe with a party. Definitely cake... Please save the date: 26-27 June 2025.
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"Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies." Here's the full call for papers; deadline for proposals is Friday 1 November. blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2024/09/…

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Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC retweeted
Launching our exchange fellowship between @unibirmingham and the Huntington Library. Hear me discuss our collections inc @BarberInstitute and Cadbury Research Library in this webinar: tinyurl.com/bdz5w56z. @TheNACBS @AHAhistorians @SHAFRhistorians @The_OAH

We're excited to announce our new Exchange Fellowship with the Huntington Library in California! Applications to be the ‘Huntington Fellow’ in Birmingham for 2025-2026 are now open, closing on 15 November 2024. To find out more and apply, visit: birmingham.ac.uk/university/…
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Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC retweeted
We are delighted to announce that the next @EighteenthCSSS conference, 'Scots and the Environment', will take place 17-20 June 2025 @StirUni. CFP available for download here: stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/a… Abstracts due 15 Nov 2024. Please RT and we hope to welcome you next year!
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Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC retweeted
If you're in the midlands (or want to be!) and you work on the eighteenth century, we'd love to see you at this year's Midlands Eighteenth Century Research Network workshop! 1-5pm on Tuesday 25 June. blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2024/04/…

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