#18c #17c #drama #Behn

My Substack is issuing a new poem drawn from an eighteenth-century newspaper--where poems abounded--every week. Here's the latest, on a poem published in 1784 about the first balloon flight in London that year.
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#18c #c18 #c18th #poetry #18thcentury

RIP #18c

#18c !

New episode, featuring some chat about artificial intelligence in Gulliver's Travels (alongside many many other things):

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#18C #Podcast #Satire #BadApples #AI #SouthPark

#18c

There's nothing like an archival doodle to collapse the distance between the past and the present. #18C

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The Long-Eared Aesculapius: Asses' Milk and Georgian Medicine' - wp.me/p3JTNy-39b #mondayblogs #c18 #18c

Reupping for the Saturday crew. Still time to submit. Get misinformed about the #18c!

When I teach #18c novels like Crusoe or Smollett, I tell them to regard their leads as amoral heroes like Tony Soprano or Walter White, i.e., Quality Television

Were giving away 20 copies of TWO MEN OF LETTERS to the first 20 people to book onto our #BHM event:

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#18C #18thC @bsecs.bsky.social

Join my students and I for a #BHM26 event exploring the life & writing of Ignatius Sancho, including his letters to Laurence Sterne.

12 October 2026, 6–7.15pm

Free to attend: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-hist...

The first 20 to book get a free printed copy of our edition. #18c #18thCentury

There's still time to submit to #ASECS! Please consider submitting to my roundtable on #18c weaponized misinformation, a topic which is sadly relevant right now.

Did you know that Phillis Wheatley Peters's first poem was published in a newspaper? Well, it was. Read all about it my latest Substack post. And subscribe for an essay on a poem found in an 18th century newspaper every week--it's free!
#c18th #c18 #18c
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From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The perilous role of the Georgian Firefighter' - wp.me/p3JTNy-6rs #c18 #18c

From the archives of All Thing Georgian, find out more about the infamous William Habberfield aka ‘Slender Billy’ of Pimlico - wp.me/p3JTNy-66R #18c #c18

Seen this many times in #18c works, so I think it must have to do with assembling a book, including tipping in illustrations or adding texts, at the end of the process. Do others know a rationale for this?

#18c !

#18c

ICYMI: A new Substack post on Elizabeth Carter's "A Midnight Ode to Wisdom." #18c, #18thcentury
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