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My object of the week is this INCREDIBLE Album of Seaweed Pictures from 1848, now held at the Brooklyn Museum. The album was made as a...

Usually following a conference, I write some kind of post-conference report, where I reflect on the conversations and ideas that the...

Usually following a conference, I write some kind of post-conference report, where I reflect on the conversations and ideas that the...

On Friday I’m heading to the Slavery and the Scottish Country House event, a day workshop examining the connections between Scotland and...

On Friday I’m heading to the Slavery and the Scottish Country House event, a day workshop examining the connections between Scotland and...

The University of Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland have recently teamed up on the forthcoming MOOC, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the...

The University of Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland have recently teamed up on the forthcoming MOOC, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the...

For the next few days I’ll be in Umeå, Sweden for the 2017 Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History. This...

For the next few days I’ll be in Umeå, Sweden for the 2017 Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History. This...

Thanks to a 2016-17 Travel Grant from the Lewis Walpole Library (taken in April 2017) I was able to conduct crucial primary research for...

Thanks to a 2016-17 Travel Grant from the Lewis Walpole Library (taken in April 2017) I was able to conduct crucial primary research for...

It’s the first day of my two-week research visit to the Lewis Walpole Library, and I’ve just finished looking through the anonymous...

It’s the first day of my two-week research visit to the Lewis Walpole Library, and I’ve just finished looking through the anonymous...

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a Harry Ransom Center Short Term Research Fellowship in the Humanities to conduct research on my...

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a Harry Ransom Center Short Term Research Fellowship in the Humanities to conduct research on my...

Please join us for the next session of this year‘s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. The session...

Please join us for the next session of this year‘s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. The session...

Please join us for the next session of this year‘s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. The session...

Please join us for the next session of this year‘s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. The session...

First up, Dominic Janes’ post, ‘A Queer Taste for Macaroni‘, on the Public Domain Review. I recently had an article accepted for a...