Dr Adam Bridgen

What do naval surgeons, theatre cleaners, and Ozzy Osbourne have in common? - to find out come and listen to us at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sat 21st March!!! Book via the link: birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/british…

Interested in a FREE, 2-day symposium on post-extractive visualities? We've organised one @durham_uni's Centre for Visual Arts and Culture. Last year was superb - abstracts due 27 Feb. CFP: durham.ac.uk/research/insti… History IS included (the past was 'post' once!)

Just 5 tickets left for our book launch in Birmingham this Thursday, with talks on naval surgeons and abolition, chartist poetry, and the invisible work of theatre cleaners. Free wine, good cheer! book here: nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmingh…

Next month, Leverhulme Early Trust Career Fellow Adam Bridgen, with John Goodridge, unveil their new book, British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700, published by @UoLPress 🎉 The talk is arranged by @nationaltrust. Read more here: 👉 tinyurl.com/557pz96s

@DrAnindyaR Thanks so much Anindya! Hope you're well :)

@AdamJBridgen Congratulations! This looks great!

If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm. For further details & tickets: nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmingh… @MidlandHistory @TheIronRoom @brumhippodrome @BM_AG

Steaming this eve (GMT) I'll be speaking on abolitionism and naval medicine in the 1780s at the 'Science and Revolution' conference'. Full programme: #paragraph-3192" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">amphilsoc.org/science-and-so… Both days of the conference will be available via livestream here (times EST): youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Looking forward to kicking off the 'Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions' conference next week @amphilsociety, on the 'Science on the Front Lines' panel. I'll be tackling naval medicine + abolition It's free and open to the public! amphilsoc.org/science-and-so…

Blessed sunshine at last to accompany the start of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Summer School today! + found out I'm in a video about last year's conference on 'Animal Thinkers': vimeo.com/1094757932?fl=…

Very much looking forward to presenting, and in the presence of Linda Colley!

You can now register for our twentieth anniversary conference! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/08…

Very pleased with my recent collaboration with the superb @MMoR_KCL project !(about slavery, naval medicine, and the early shaping of abolitionism)

Interested in getting your work published #OpenAccess but not sure about the different paths available? Join our free intro to OA publishing training session online on Monday 24th February with our Publisher @emma_gallon. Book your place here: sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Very much looking forward to giving my first departmental talk at Durham (and snippet of forthcoming book!)

@thehistoriann @ACUmedia Congratulations Kristie!!!

📢Our Minerals Online Roundtable II: 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' happening on Nov 21, 3-4:10 pm (Dublin time)! Join us for a discussion with @danielle_kinsey from Carleton, @RebeccaMacklin_ from Aberdeen, and Dr Nick McGee from Durham. imperialminerals.ie/events/mineral…

Our @DurhamIAS Fellows' seminar series is booking up fast. Our next talk on 28 Oct, 1pm 'The Neuroscience of Literary Time-Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance' by Prof Paul Armstrong has a couple of places left. Book now at forms.office.com/e/3U74cPym7N @READEnglish

We are back to our usual MEMSA Mondays for our second talk of the term on the 28th Oct to hear from Sarah McAllister, also one of the chairs of MEMSA 2023/4. She will be discussing 'Illustration or Exploration: William Blake's Interpretation of Thomas Gray's Old Norse Odes'