Dr Adam James Smith

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

New episode, featuring some chat about artificial intelligence in Gulliver's Travels (alongside many many other things): open.spotify.com/episode/0tli... #18C #Podcast #Satire #BadApples #AI #SouthPark

CFP: Fiction in Victorian and Edwardian Socialist Periodicals (Abstract Deadline: 10/31/2026) navsa.org/News/13728410

Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social

My newest article is in preprint! Part of a special issue on The Radical North in honour of the late Malcolm Chase, my article explored Richard Oastler's use of the periodical and pamphlet press to become a Yorkshire political celebrity in the early 19th century: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The laudable @countbinface.bsky.social was not the first... "Beneath the giant helmet is a very old idea: sometimes satire works best when it gives its argument a face, a personality and a voice of its own." theconversation.com/some-of-the-... #18C #18thC #18thcentury

📢 It's Curran Fellowship time! These awards support research on #19thC periodicals as objects of study in their own right. Multiple awards of up to $6,000 (USD) are given each year, thanks to the generosity and enduring legacy of Eileen Curran. Apps due 15 Oct. Full guidelines here: buff.ly/Vw4Q3Tr

"But then one would have to decide what is style and what is meaning, a question which—but here I was actually at the door which leads into the library itself." Woolf on the "18th-century style" of Thackeray's Henry Esmond in A Room of One's Own... Very cheeky. Very Sternean. #18c #Woolf

Belatedly... Some scenes from this year's @cecs-york.bsky.social symposium on RADICAL PRINT IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY It was a remarkable day and a joy to be involved in organising this with Chloe & Sarah 🙏 #18thC #18C #PrintCulture

A full day at the York Georgian Festival with talks by @historymatt.bsky.social & @brycchancarey.bsky.social & the launch of a new student-led edition of the correspondence between Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne. #18C #18thCentury @bsecs.bsky.social

I’m in #York today, 10 August, where at 5.30pm I’ll be talking about my book The Unnatural Trade as part of the York Georgian Festival at the Mansion House. Tickets are available on the door. More information and the rest of today’s excellent programme at www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia...

Come and see us at the York Georgian Festival next week! My @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students & I will be presenting: SANCHO & STERNE: A MEETING OF MINDS IN GEORGIAN BRITAIN 10th August, 3.30pm York Mansion House Tickets: www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia... #18thC #18C @bsecs.bsky.social

The power of laughter: Thomas Rowlandson, English caricaturist, satirised absurdities of Georgian England, born #OTD 1756. Doctor Convex & Lady Concave 1802; A Little Tighter 1791; A Little Bigger 1791: coloured etchings. Royal Collection Trust

Come and see Professor Brycchan Carey at the York Georgian Festival next week! THE UNNATURAL TRADE Monday 10th August 5.30pm, York Mansion House Book tickets: www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia... #18C #18thC @bsecs.bsky.social @brycchancarey.bsky.social

Come and see Professor Matthew McCormack at the York Georgian Festival next week! SHOES & THE GEORGIAN MAN Monday 10th August 1.30pm, York Mansion House Book tickets: www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia... @historymatt.bsky.social #18C #18thC @bsecs.bsky.social

He's a good boy. #18thC

Loving the fact that the opening @bars.bsky.social plenary is a collaborative onez, bringing together Jonathan Sachs, Jon Mee and Kevis Goodman to kick off the conference, introduced by Matt Ward. #BARS2026

Explores the power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in a fascination with Don Quixote and a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers. 📚 buff.ly/PILcpfS MNG's exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/TiIMH7o @bucknellupress.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

I have just returned from my first time attending a @bars.bsky.social, trying out some new work on a different topic to usual (was greeted by several people saying "oh so it IS you in the programme" 🤣). It was a really wonderful conference, huge congrats to the organisers 🙏 #18C #18thC #Romanticism

In the wake of a man dressed as a Human Fox stepping out of the Clacton by-Election because it had "become a farce", we ask what happens when actual satire takes the stage in actual politics... By public demand, this is our Binface Girl Summer episode: open.spotify.com/episode/0Zrj... #CountBinface

I'm proud to have smuggled a surprising amount of 18th-century content into the inaugural episode of The Hauntology Podcast, in which I appear as a guest alongside my esteemed colleague Robert Edgar 👻 substack.com/@thehauntolo... #18c #18thCentury #Hauntology

It's a @bsecs.bsky.social take over at the York Georgian Festival this year, with events featuring @historymatt.bsky.social & @brycchancarey.bsky.social 🎉 Book your tickets: www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia... #18C #18thC #18thCentury #YorkGeorgianFest

Kier Starmer/Andy Burnham Energy

Had a blast presenting at @cecs-york.bsky.social ‘Radical print symposium’ in York. Thanks to @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, @elementaladam.bsky.social and Sarah Griffin @uoyborthwick.bsky.social for organising the event!

Had a great time in York yesterday attending/presenting at @cecs-york.bsky.social ‘Radical Print Symposium’. Thanks to @elementaladam.bsky.social, @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social, and Sarah Griffin at the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social for putting it together and for the morning workshop on the archives!

Today! #18C #18thC

It was a real pleasure to speak at yesterday's "Hawleypalloza", an event in honour of the career (so far!) of the inimitable Judith Hawley. #18C #18thCentury

I've just been alerted to this very lovely review of People of Print: 18th-Century England in this week's @thetls.bsky.social, penned by none other than the remarkable Thomas Keymer 😵: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat... #18thC #18C #BookHistory

Haven't been on in a while, so in case you missed it...Masquerade is out now and you can find her in a good bookshop near you (or online!) 💖✨ #18thC #history #nonfiction @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to Shaun McGuinness editor of Bangor Episcopal Acta, 1092–1306 & Rhys Kaminski-Jones, author of Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain 1707–1819 who are 2025 Francis Jones Prize co-winners! Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/An3d5PC @rhyskamjones.bsky.social @shaunmcguinness.bsky.social

Merch. #18c

I think McKenzie Crooke should run #DoctorWho for two short seasons, small scale but creepy and magical in a cozy folk horror kind of way, with a beguiling bohemian doctor who is somehow both charming and awkward at the same time. And the Doctor should have a steampunky gothic vibe.

It's a good day when you get to bust out a sentence like this. #18C

Savage House’s filth and farce are closer to the real bawdiness of the 18th century theconversation.com/savage-house... #18C #SavageHouse

Delighted to be speaking at this symposium in York next month. A fascinating theme and a terrific lineup. My paper examines how lawyers and doctors were caricatured in Georgian Dublin! See the🧵for the full schedule!

Meet the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students working on this year's installment of the YSJU Critical Editions Project, a new fully accessible digital edition of the correspondence between Charles Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne: blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ysjucritical... #18C

Proud to have played a key role in bringing this fascinating project to fruition, and excited to see the implications of the research for heritage interpretation and practice over the coming year(s).