Rhys Kaminski-Jones

rhyskamjones.bsky.social

22 October 2026 21:47

Resenting the fact that I might be embarking on a project that apparently means I need an aristocratic family tree to hand (too many Herberts in too many places)

Rhys Kaminski-Jones

rhyskamjones.bsky.social

22 October 2026 21:44

It's probably just that I'm looking into a Welsh Marcher family that ends up in India, but I can't stop thinking "The East India Company is the eighteenth-century equivalent of a Marcher lordship, discuss"

Jesse Locker

jessemlocker.bsky.social

28 August 2026 21:00

Elisabetta Sirani, Timoclea throws the Captain of Alexander the Great down a well, 1659 (Naples, Museo di Capodimonte). Sirani died on this day in 1665 at just 27 years old, already successfully running a workshop and school in Bologna.

Rhys Kaminski-Jones

rhyskamjones.bsky.social

23 August 2026 01:02

Send an author one "I read your book and liked it" email, disproportionately increase the world's happiness/smugness quotient

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social

drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social

19 August 2026 16:17

Happy to share this statement from the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, which responds to recent comments about my position as Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Studies and work I supervise. Solidarity with all marginalised academics under attack by the peddlers of a culture war.