Sheridan Project

A Leverhulme-Trust funded project, based at the Universities of Leeds and Bristol. We are producing an Edition of Sheridan's Political Works.

[Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC @beccbham]

Anyone can join in with this year's reading group, in person or online; and on Friday 17 November, we'll have @PennyCorfield with us to talk about the book!

[Sheridan Project @OldSherry]

@DrAlexisWolf @NPGLondon @300ReynoldsPSM has. See their recent tweet.

[Sheridan Project @OldSherry]

@emmcgirr Mary Tickell reports on her career (as threat/rival to Drury Lane) in her letters to her sister Elizabeth Sheridan in the mid 1780s.

[Sheridan Project @OldSherry]

@emmcgirr Is she ever referred to as 'the Brunton', or 'the Merry'? Is she is (and I think she might be), then I would think that a useful guide - as certainly her public name; or her name-as-a-celebrity.

[TheVictorianCommons @TheVictCommons]

Our new blog from @KathrynRix draws on her paper from the @HistParl @UEA_History 'Politics before Democracy' conference to look at the changing backgrounds of MPs after the 1832 Reform Act: https://t.co/0mOoZxQ3lR

[The Georgian Lords @GeorgianLords]

New blog from @HistParl looking again at Queen Charlotte...
#twitterstorians #RoyalFamily
https://t.co/MGXnf3iyLZ

[The Georgian Lords @GeorgianLords]

#OnThisDay 1812 #PrimeMinister Spencer Perceval was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham.
The only British PM to be assassinated, his last word was "murdered"
#HistParl #twitterstorians

[100 Days @100Days1815]

Really looking forward to being a respondent at this event next month and catching up with @sburdett22 and @David_F_Taylor - come & join us https://t.co/tpkUtir8Go

[Sheridan Project @OldSherry]

The reference to Sir Fretful occurred on 19 April; a couple of weeks later Lord North quoted Bob Acres: 'I fight to prevent any misunderstanding'. Sheridan was not entirely amused.

[Sheridan Project @OldSherry]

A rare find in the newspapers today - Sheridan referring to his own dramatic works in the House of Commons. Specifically, comparing Dundas to Sir Fretful Plagiary (from The Critic) in April 1792.

[Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) @Montagu_Letters]

As part of our new 'Digital Discovery' tab, you can now find The Yorkshire Places Mapping Project!

Elizabeth Montagu had many connections with Yorkshire; this project provides an exciting visualisation of those connections, along with an array of information.

[Women's History Network - at Bluesky and LinkedIn @WomensHistNet]

We are inviting paper submissions for our upcoming Autumn Seminar Series! Details below👇

[The Georgian Lords @GeorgianLords]

Great view of #Westminster Hall in the year of the Gordon Riots (1780) showing what a cobbled together set of buildings #Parliament and the law courts had become by then...
#HistParl #twitterstorians

[Sheridan Project @OldSherry]

@CRUlph @dyfrig Try Menai Bridge (the town, by the bridge).

[Sheridan Project @OldSherry]

It is likely to be a person, perhaps a stage performer (actress, singer, dancer); or a sports personality (jockey, boxer); or its a place, or a club.

[Sheridan Project @OldSherry]

It is likely to be a person, perhaps a stage performer (actress, singer, dancer); or a sports personality (jockey, boxer); or its a place, or a club.

[Sheridan Project @OldSherry]

What might this mean, to whom might it refer? Its a comment made in a debate on bull baiting, and is probably quite unpleasant:
Colonel Grosvenor quipped that ‘The higher orders had their Billington; and why not allow the lower orders their Bull?’ [25 May 1802] (PR, xviii, 500).

[AphraBehnConference2024 @AphraConference]

The 8th International Conference of the Aphra Behn (Europe) Society is going to be held in Canterbury, UK. Get those diaries out and hold 2-4th July 2024. Call for papers goes live next week.