Had a lovely, lazy day catching up with friends in #Salisbury . It was long overdue!

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We seek a Research Assistant who will work on updating an existing legacy database and transforming it into a sustainable and functional open access resource as part of the ‘Voltaire Studio’.

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Just released: my new, Open Access article about politics in the Holy Roman Empire in the wake of the fall of Constantinople: doi.org/10.1017/S00672…

This is a first step in an exciting new project examining late medieval crusading and imperial reform. #medievaltwitter

The Queen of the Night, from #Mozart ’s ‘The Magic Flute’, as depicted in 1794. Although the accompanying text noted the #opera ’s renown, it still explained the scene for those theatregoers who hadn’t yet seen it.

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Music history c.1850–1950. Teaching required = 19C music and popular music studies (anything from Victorian ballads to Broadway to the Beatles)

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Welcome to the page of the ERC-Project “Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe, 1815-1914”. Check out our website! gkr.uni-leipzig.de/en/erc-transop…

A relaxing day out in #Dorchester . Lovely views of Maiden Castle, among the largest #ironage #hillforts in Europe. Having visited it many times, it made a nice change seeing it from a distance, even if it isn’t quite as impressive from so far away.

#OTD 1782: Grétry’s 1771 #opera ‘Zémire et Azor’ (Beauty and the Beast) was staged in Erlangen by a children’s troupe under director Felix Berner. His was among other troupes of children performing at #theatres in that area (Amberg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Nürnberg, and Passau).

Productivity hack: 📱 🚮

If you missed the In Our Time episode on Napoleon's 100 days this morning, you can listen to me (Kate Astbury), Dr Zack White and Michael Rowe talking to Melvyn Bragg here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… If you'd like to know more about the period, then visit 100days.org.uk

Academia is either:
- Do you have capacity in the next 40 minutes to review this book?
OR
- Apologies for the late response but the past decade has been hectic, still keen to chat?

We invite short abstracts of c.250 words for proposed articles on Depicting the Eighteenth Century in Media Entertainment. Deadline for abstracts is 30 April. Please email all abstracts/queries to Rachel Bynoth at [email protected] 18th Century Studies Dr Robertson-Kirkland IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar

Looking forward to presenting new work: this time on #Holocaust surivors who retunred to their home towns of #Haigerloch and #Rexingen in #BadenWuerttemberg sunydutchess.edu/alumni-giving/…

Eighteenth-Century Music welcomes submissions featuring any materials and methods relating to music of the long #18c (c1660-1830). Full-length articles should normally be between 6,000 and 10,000 words long, and reviews and reports up to 1,500 words. #musicology
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