Dr Adam Bridgen
@AdamJBridgen
@LeverhulmeTrust ECF @READenglish| Studying working-class writing on empire & extractivism in 18thc British literature | Prev. @Staenglish, @LeedsAHRI & @engfac
Very pleased with my recent collaboration with the superb @MMoR_KCL project !(about slavery, naval medicine, and the early shaping of abolitionism)
Check out the latest blog in our series, Adam Bridgen on 'Thomas Trotter’s Observations on the Scurvy (1786)', now live on the MMoR website here bit.ly/3YRjQle #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory
The Radical North 1779-1914 symposium CFP, closing next week. Would be nice to have a good showing of Romanticists (I hear John Goodridge is hoping to attend too...). Please circulate @BARS and @EHUNineteen.
Our next research seminar of the term for current postgrads and academic staff will be taking place 28 Nov, 4-5pm, in ER155. Dr Adam Bridgen from @durham_uni will be talking about 'Covert Challenges: Antislavery before Abolition and Work at Sea.' 👉durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…
Very much looking forward to presenting, and in the presence of Linda Colley!
You can now register for our twentieth anniversary conference! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/08…
You can now register for our twentieth anniversary conference! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/08…
Interested in getting your work published #OpenAccess but not sure about the different paths available? Join our free intro to OA publishing training session online on Monday 24th February with our Publisher @emma_gallon. Book your place here: sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev…
Very much looking forward to giving my first departmental talk at Durham (and snippet of forthcoming book!)
Our next research seminar of the term for current postgrads and academic staff will be taking place 28 Nov, 4-5pm, in ER155. Dr Adam Bridgen from @durham_uni will be talking about 'Covert Challenges: Antislavery before Abolition and Work at Sea.' 👉durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…
📢Our Minerals Online Roundtable II: 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' happening on Nov 21, 3-4:10 pm (Dublin time)! Join us for a discussion with @danielle_kinsey from Carleton, @RebeccaMacklin_ from Aberdeen, and Dr Nick McGee from Durham. imperialminerals.ie/events/mineral…
Our @DurhamIAS Fellows' seminar series is booking up fast. Our next talk on 28 Oct, 1pm 'The Neuroscience of Literary Time-Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance' by Prof Paul Armstrong has a couple of places left. Book now at forms.office.com/e/3U74cPym7N @READEnglish
We are back to our usual MEMSA Mondays for our second talk of the term on the 28th Oct to hear from Sarah McAllister, also one of the chairs of MEMSA 2023/4. She will be discussing 'Illustration or Exploration: William Blake's Interpretation of Thomas Gray's Old Norse Odes'
📣Registration is now open for 'The Radical North, 1779–1914: A Symposium in Memory of Malcolm Chase' ⏲️29 November 2024 🏢Leeds Uni 🎟️Free event with 3 panels of papers, roundtable & book launch eventbrite.com/e/the-radical-… Run by @NorthernHist; support from SHS 📢Please share!
Hello - for anyone based in Oxford, Electronic Enlightenment is running a half-day symposium on the letters and legacy of Charles Ignatius Sancho and his family at the Weston Library on 5 Nov: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/a-sympos… @TORCHOxford @BSECS @EngFac18thC @BARS_official @bodleianlibs
Finally sent off our manuscript for British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700, ed. John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen! 2 years, 115,000 words and 18 chapters; just waiting for clearance on cover image - this superb Unity Theatre poster from the 1930s. Workers incoming...
Our next speaker is Dr Melissa Bailes (Tulane), 19 June, 7pm (BST), Online via Teams. Melissa will be speaking on ‘’Most Punctual Birds’: Migration, Time and Socio-ecology in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain’. All are welcome! Please contact @PWhickman for the link.
