#c18th is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 16 people shared 104 posts with it — around 3 a day. Activity is up 108% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 20 with 18 posts.
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Hanoverian Succession
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.
mimicofmodes.com
In Defense of Embroidery
Embroidery is routinely used in historical fiction to represent women's oppression. And I ask, why? And what if it weren't like that?
nltimes.nl
Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records
From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the...
uclpress.co.uk
No Country for Travellers?
No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...
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Letters and the Body, 1700–1830: Writing and Embodiment
This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men’s letters written from and to Britain, ...
literatureinc.substack.com
The first poem published by Phillis Wheatley Peters--in the Newport Mercury
“On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin”
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Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga
An uncomfortable history, but part of Britain's story. David Olusoga reveals the fullest picture yet of the British traders who trafficked millions of Africans into slavery.
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