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Blog #6: My First (Big Girl) Conference
Reflections on presenting research on Catharine Macaulay at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference and navigating a first major academic gathering
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Blog #5: Archives Wrapped
Three unexpected archival finds offer a glimpse into the strange, contested intellectual world surrounding Catharine Macaulay
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Scholarly Writing #3: Macaulay’s Refutation of Hobbes
Why Catharine Macaulay believed Thomas Hobbes was wrong about monarchy — and what she proposed instead
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Blog #4: A User’s Guide to the British Library
What it’s really like to work at the British Library, from requesting materials and navigating Reading Rooms to finding the best nearby lunch spots
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Scholarly Writing #2, Part 2: Liberty Embodied: The Iconography of Catharine Macaulay and Phillis Wheatley
How images of Catharine Macaulay and Phillis Wheatley reveal the politics of liberty, race, and classical tradition in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world
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Scholarly Writing #2, Part 1: Liberty in Print: The Political Philosophy of Macaulay’s History, Volumes II and III
How Catharine Macaulay turned the story of Charles I of England and the English Civil War into a powerful argument for liberty and popular rights
