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Lecturer in Music History (Education & Research, Grade 6)
King’s College London

Permanent, full-time post specialising in historically European music (anywhere in the world) in the long eighteenth century. Teaching includes common-practice-period theory at undergraduate level. PhD required; strong research profile and inclusive teaching essential.

Deadline: 12/03/2026

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/138148-lecturer-in-music-history

#Musicology #MusicHistory #EighteenthCentury #HigherEducation

“ #Twentieth-century social life turns out in key part to be the concrete and dramatic re-enactment of #eighteenth-century #philosophy” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, After Virtue

📢 ERTHYGL NEWYDD 📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢
VALENTINE MORRIS (1727 - 1789), colonial administrator and landowner
'On his father's death in 1743, Morris inherited the Piercefield estate, along with substantial plantations in Antigua including a great number of enslaved people. These included Looby's, Crabb's, and Martin's in St Paul Parish in southern Antigua and Jolly's in St Mary Parish in western Antigua. In 1776, Morris was rated as owning 1,004 acres on the island, which was worked by 284 enslaved people. As Ivor Waters strikingly puts it, 'The elegant Valentine Morris owned Piercefield in Monmouthshire, worth £50,000 and Piercefield, a slave in Antigua, worth £10.' He was largely an absentee plantation owner while in Britain, apart from a visit to Antigua in 1754 following a period of drought there.' -- Adam Coward

Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-MORR-VAL-1771

#histodons #Wales #BritishEmpire #EighteenthCentury #Bywgraffiadur #DiversityProject

Darlun/Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valentine_Morris_(1727-1789),_Governor_of_Saint_Vincent,_by_Allan_Ramsay.jpg

Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/13/edinburgh-mound-excavation-recycling-centre-scotland #Edinburgh #OldTown #NewTown #TownPlanning #UrbanHistory #Scotland #ScottishHistory #HistoricalGeography #18thCentury #19thCentury #EighteenthCentury #NineteenthCentury #Archaeology

Some doodles in Earlston Presbytery minutes 1704-1716 (NRS reference CH2/118/2) #ScottishHistory #ScottishBorders #ChurchCourts #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #Scotland #History #Doodle #Doodles #Drawing #Drawings #Art

Now looking through Selkirk Presbytery records (freely available online at ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk). And marvelling at one 1715 spelling of Buccleuch. So much more interesting! #Scots #ScotsLeid #Palaeography #ScottishHistory #ScottishBorders #ChurchCourts #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #Scotland #History #Handwriting #PlaceNames #DukeOfBuccleuch #Buccleuch

Jacobite references in Cupar Presbytery minutes of 1716 https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/jacobite-references-in-cupar-presbytery-minutes-of-1716/ #ScottishHistory #History #Scotland #Fife #Jacobites #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury #ChurchCourts #ChurchOfScotland #Cupar #Kettle #Falkland #Logie

Continuing my browse through Cupar Presbytery records, trying to distract myself from the quite horrific crime recorded in 1745. Pleased to be finding Jacobite references in 1716. Reports of local Fife Jacobites. As well as women scandalously dancing late at night with the "highland men" / "Rebels". #Jacobites #Scotland #Fife #ScottishHistory #History #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #ChurchOfScotland #ChurchCourts #Crime

@ianhunt

"As it is from suffering, and not from inflicting torment, that the true idea of them is gained."

A real find (for me), thank you for the recommendation! Jane lived not far from where I live now.

I too like to dip into the 18th century, occasionally,
--- my soul however lives somewhere in continental 19th century ... :-).

#JaneCollier #literature #EnglishMoralists #EighteenthCentury

Pleased to see the March 2024 issue of Burns Chronicle is newly out from EUP. This issue includes my book review of "Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830" edited by Daniel Cook - a review free for all to read online. In a nutshell I really liked it, though since I was asked to write about 1000 words in my review I said much more than that! https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/burns/133/1 #ScottishLiterature #ScottishPoetry #RobertBurns #Poetry #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #Scots #ScotsLeid #Gaelic #Poems #BookReview #Scotland

@[email protected] I just received an email that chirp.social, which hosts the ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) group, is shutting down. I am creating a replacement group at @[email protected] . If you follow @[email protected], it should provide the same functionality: When you tag the group, everyone in the group should see the post

@[email protected] #ASECS #ASECS2024 #ASECS24 #C18 #C18th #18thC #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #C18studies #18thCenturyStudies

> The principal strength of the telegraph was its capacity to move information, not collect it, explain it, or analyze it. Photography joined with telegraphy in re-creating our conception of information, since photography is preeminently a world of fact, not of dispute about facts or of conclusions to be drawn from them. The way in which the photograph records experience is fundamentally different from the way of language.
#NeilPostman #EighteenthCentury #PostmanOnPhotography #TheTelegraph

> Undoubtedly, as a practical age the eighteenth century was a success. If you had asked one of the wisest and most typical of its ancestors, who just saw its commencement, I mean John Locke, what he expected from it, he would hardly have pitched his hopes higher than its actual achievements.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611
#ANWhitehead #WhiteheadOnEighteenthCentury #EighteenthCentury
#ScienceAndTheModernWorld

Ooh, just got my copy of Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now, edited by Kate Parker and Miriam Wallace, with essays by Tiffany Potter, Ziona Kocher, Kate Parker, Teri Doerksen, Christine D. Myers, Diana Epelbaum, Matthew L. Reznicek, Travis Chi Wing Lau, Emily C. Casey, and Eugenia Zuroski. I'm not someone who gets many pedagogy books, but that lineup is full of people who have reshaped my thinking about the #EighteenthCentury #C18Studies over and over. Looks exciting!

Just browsing the mid 18th century #Melrose parish #kirkSession minutes online (#Roxburghshire, #Scotland). And when I got to a sentence in 1747 of #excommunication for #incest I have to say I expected a closer relationship than "She being his Grand Uncle's Wife"! #ScottishBorders #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Morality #Immorality #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #ChurchOfScotland

‘Your wife wants to see you’: 18th-century Spanish letters seized at sea by British published online
#history
#histodons
#NavalHistory
#EighteenthCentury

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/23/your-wife-wants-to-see-you-letters-seized-by-18th-century-privateers-opened-for-first-time?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Finally from 2022 in #UrbanHistory there's the #openAccess article "Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern #Hamburg" by Gabrielle Robilliard https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/novel-popular-fashionable-and-partisan-making-coffeehouses-burgherly-spaces-in-early-modern-hamburg/2C4DFC99DFAA1E77A4D94A2A75911DFA #17thC #18thC #Coffee #Drinking #SocialHistory #GermanHistory #Germany #SeventeenthCentury #EighteenthCentury

Some things are faster on their way to publication than others. Turns out, the head editor of the #Bywgraffiadur is a fast reader and gave the green light for my unabridged, original version to get published on my blog.

So for those of you who enjoy their #HistoryOfMedicine, #MiningHistory, #EighteenthCentury and immigrants from #Germany with opinions about #MineralWaters in #Wales, I offer you a short biography of Diederich Wessel Linden (d.1769).

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/diederich-wessel-linden-fl-1745-1768-d-1769-medical-doctor-and-minerologist/

The Guardian: Archaeologists uncover rare 18th-century cold bath under Bath Assembly Rooms
#archaeology
#history
#histodons
#EighteenthCentury

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/08/archaeologists-uncover-rare-18th-century-cold-bath-under-bath-assembly-rooms

Buying us this to watch. I haven't seen it since 1978, but remember it well. #DavidMcCallum #ScottishTV #EighteenthCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #Kidnapped #ScottishLiterature #Jacobite #70sTV