Dr Mary L. Shannon (@drmarylshannon.bsky.social)
@marylshannon
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Writer, speaker, and teacher @RoehamptonUni: 19thC cultural historian (Regency & Victorian eras). Billy Waters Is Dancing @YaleBooks. Views my own.
Joined February 2017
Full cover reveal!! Thanks so much to those who funded the research for this book, @LeverhulmeTrust @RS4VP @PaulMellonCentr @HoughtonLib @UR_ECW
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Lots of #BillyWaters events coming up over the next year or so...here are some of the highlights for your diary 🎼🎻📚 #BillyWatersIsDancing @yalebooks_history @yalebooks
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Developing a new writing project is like February gardening, I've decided... ...you have to cut back the dead wood to let the new shoots grow.
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RT @KateAGriffin: Congratulations to @OskarCoxJensen 🎉 #HellesHound - the witty, laugh-out-loud and utterly engrossing sequel to #HelleandD…
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RT @Marciathewriter: The Blackbirds of St Giles are now flying into a bookshop near you. Happy publication day to my co-writer @KateAGriff…
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RT @OskarCoxJensen: Also out today from @KateAGriffin and @Marciathewriter – the most rollicking historical yarn I've read in years...
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2025-6: Join me to hear more about #BillyWatersIsDancing @YaleBooks 5.2.25: Greenwich University, London (+ online) 8.4.25: Cecil Sharp House, London 12.6.25: No. 1 Royal Crescent, Bath (+ online) 25.3.26: 'Jump Billy!' Cecil Sharp House, London See
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Looking forward to seeing you at this 👇
Very excited to announce the brilliant Professor Mary Shannon @marylshannon speaking about 'Black Sailors in the Regency Navy' on Feb 5th at this term's first Narratives seminar, @UniofGreenwich Centre for Research in Language and Heritage - sign up below!
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#Writing #research Our question of the day from this modified post (ours) from 'Billy Waters is Dancing' author @marylshannon: "[how might we] tackle gaps and silences in the imperial archive?" In Twitter days, we'd call it an MP!
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RT @BBWaSA_UK: Gives readers an in-depth social, cultural and economic history of how Black Londoners were treated in the regency era with…
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Thanks so much for this notice @BBWSA_UK 📚🎻
Billy Waters is Dancing or, how a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain by @marylshannon , @YaleBooks, 2024 Naval man and street busker Billy Waters was known throughout regency London. Relatively unknown today. With this biographical work, the author has returned his voice
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RT @marylshannon: @KatarinaStenke I take it entirely as an honour and a compliment @KatarinaStenke ! Looking forward to talking about what…
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@KatarinaStenke I take it entirely as an honour and a compliment @KatarinaStenke ! Looking forward to talking about what Water's story tells us about ordinary sailors, marginalized people, and how we might tackle gaps and silences in the imperial archive
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Thanks so much @KatarinaStenke @UniofGreenwich for inviting me (also for promoting me to Professor: one day soon, I hope!) Looking forward to sharing the research for #BillyWatersIsDancing @YaleBooks @yalepress
@LeverhulmeTrust @RS4VP 📚📚📚
Very excited to announce the brilliant Professor Mary Shannon @marylshannon speaking about 'Black Sailors in the Regency Navy' on Feb 5th at this term's first Narratives seminar, @UniofGreenwich Centre for Research in Language and Heritage - sign up below!
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Just recorded episode of podcast 'Famous People You've Never Heard Of' with @selenarosescott, Ben Marsh of @Waterloo200org and host Lottie Walker, about our project 'Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows'. Shout-out to fellow collaborator @angelcakepie!
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TOMORROW! Looking forward to seeing you there 😊
Don’t miss @marylshannon talk on Billy Waters - a one-legged Black street entertainer from St Giles’s who became a Regency celebrity. 🗓️ Tue 21 Jan, 6pm 📍Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre, Holborn Library, WC1X 8PA 🎟️Free admission
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RT @PublicDomainRev: 🥁Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Im…
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Interested in Camden's Black history? Join me for my FREE talk! 'Finding Billy Waters: How A Black Camden Celebrity Found Fame in Regency Britain' Tuesday 21 Jan 2025 6pm Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre 2nd Floor, Holborn Library, 32-38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA
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