Early Modern Loneliness

Writing Early Modern Loneliness (@Palgrave, 2025), ed. by Hannah Yip and @ThomasCliftonA5. Both tweeting here about loneliness and precarity, past & present.

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

Our ‘Loneliness’ project is not only concerned with the history of loneliness in the early modern world. It also considers pressing matters relating to the loneliness, ostracism, and isolation – social and physical – of unaffiliated researchers in early modern studies.

[History of Emotions (NACHE) @NACHEmotion]

There's still time to register for our next colloquium with
@naomipullin, taking place online at 11AM (US Mountain Time) / 6pm (GMT) tomorrow! Find more information and the access link below ✨

[University English @UnivEnglish]

University English, along with the English Association and Institute of English Studies, has written a letter in protest at the proposed closure of English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University, and the redundancy of our excellent colleagues: https://t.co/jeRbCZ9gbx

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

'The Independent Historian' - online meeting @WarwickHistory on 2 December at 5pm, focusing on how independent historians maintain academic excellence and rigour without institutional affiliation. https://t.co/qIhekcGhHN

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

What's the experience of independent historians when it comes to research & journal publishing? https://t.co/Q0egI6ekDR

In this new 'Transactions @royalhistsoc' article, John Sanders assesses historical precedents and current realities of life beyond the academic mainstream 1/2

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

@wallyberry @onslies @EmmaKEdDev @cathfeely @DrKateAsh @RoyalHistSoc @bphillipsonMP @KateDeRycker @cathy_shrank

[Thomas Clifton PhD PGCE @ThomasCliftonA5]

@wallyberry 's keynote at our Early Modern Loneliness conference (back in the depths of 2020 lockdown) had us all laughing and increasingly pensive as we considered what it is to be an academic, and why we take the torture. It is all the more relevant in light recent events.

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

@eoin_price @BurtonsAnatomy @GEMMS_sermons Would also add that funeral sermons would often be repeated (that is, recycled)! There are many MSS in @GEMMS_sermons (often late C17th) which indicate that sermons were being reused over many years, even within the same parish.

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

@ThomasCliftonA5 @EvaMomtaz You’re mentioned in our Acknowledgements, Eva!

[Thomas Clifton PhD PGCE @ThomasCliftonA5]

She's here! She's the green emotionally sensitive solution to your modern day and early modern day lonelinesses.

Spring 2020 and the genesis of this project feels so close and yet so far. Thank you too all involved.

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

#NewProfilePic Cover proof! Book coming soon! @ThomasCliftonA5

[Fred Cooper @drfredcooper]

I'm really excited to finally share this piece of work for the @WHO_Europe BCI-HUB. Written with sixteen (!) other scholars, it makes the case for historical practice as an indispensable component of interdisciplinary research on loneliness going forward.
https://t.co/BGIT76jDAC

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

As I won’t be paying to keep this account open, I want to end on a high note: we have submitted our collection, Writing Early Modern Loneliness, for @Palgrave. Too many people to tag but we want to thank our collaborators and supporters over the past 2+ years! @ThomasCliftonA5

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

@TomosEvans01 @HannahCrawfort1 @unibirmingham Congratulations! 🥳 Now rest! 🎉

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

@DrDParry The work of William Gibson (Oxford Brookes), incl. an article about John Trusler in the Jnl of Ecclesiastical History

[Edward Worth Library @EdwardWorthLib]

The 2023 Bríd McGrath Fellowship for Independent Scholars, a joint fellowship scheme with @MarshsLibrary courtesy of our former fellow @BridMcGrath, is open for applications. Find out more at https://t.co/CsDhErhWUx

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

@TomosEvans01 Congratulations for these three things! 🥳

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

@ImogenPeck2 Our experience with Palgrave’s Early Modern Literature in History series has been extremely positive! Accepted with just proposal+abstracts

[Fred Cooper @drfredcooper]

PLEA FOR HELP

Twitter: who is currently doing work on the history of loneliness? Broadly defined, any time, anywhere?

I'm across quite a lot of it, particularly the major works and anyone who has a chapter in the recent Routledge volume, but don't want to miss anything!

[Kate De Rycker @KateDeRycker]

We're putting together a special issue of the journal 'English' on the topic of 'Precarity in Perspective' and want your articles, think-pieces, and book reviews! CfP: https://t.co/CulbSjQ5UW // Deadline: 15th July.

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

Our edited collection, contracted for publication with Palgrave, features Catholic exiles, Protestant clergymen separated from their wives, redundant statesmen, modern-day therapeutic writing practices compared with early modern counterparts, and much more. @ThomasCliftonA5

[Early Modern Loneliness @EMLoneliness]

A little late for 💞 Valentine's Day 💞 (not to mention the #ucuRISING strikes that day), but we are pleased to have been mentioned in @BostonGlobe! https://t.co/l1ppC9yoSs