All forthcoming events in CECS

Winifred Gales & Radical Print Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Sheffield

York Georgian Society Lecture with Adam Smith

Of a ‘lively dark eye’ or ‘chilly and tender’: Jane Austen, the Morality of Empire, and the Hidden Scottish Presence

CECS research seminar with Désha Osborne, University of Edinburgh

Screening of In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters (Askew Pictures)

Delve into the extraordinary life of Phillis Wheatley Peters, the first globally recognized African-American female poet. The film explores her remarkable resilience, quest for freedom, and her lasting legacy.

Well bred? Enlightenment Thought and the Formation of an Aristocratic Ideal in Britain

CECS Research Seminar with Ruth Larsen, University of Derby

“Be-Nelsoned all over”: Patriotic Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

York Georgian Society Lecture with Serena Dyer

“And who is to look after the horses, eh?”; exploring the duties, accommodation and wages of country house stable servants

York Georgian Society Lecture with Elizabeth Jamieson

The Edgeworths, Ireland’s Bogs, and Improvement

CECS Research Seminar with Harrie Neal, University of York

The sense of touch and the shaping of the woman artist in the eighteenth century

Annual Copley Lecture with Ros Ballaster, Mansfield College, University of Oxford