2024 - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

A Library for Yorkshire: The Petyts and their World

Thursday 20 June 2024

This symposium will bring together some of the top scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, considering the context of early modern libraries, the Skipton of the Petyt brothers, and the political, legal and intellectual world of the two brothers.

Apostrophe as a Theory of History

Tuesday 11 June 2024

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“A British sword is Proof Against the World in Arms”: Omai and Harlequin's Invasion in the Contact Zone of British Romantic Stage and Empire

Tuesday 4 June 2024

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The Writer's Craft: Novel Making in the Eighteenth Century

Friday 31 May 2024

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Frances Burney’s Cecilia and Digital Humanities

Tuesday 28 May 2024

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York and the Georgian City: Past, Present, and Future

Saturday 18 May 2024

York Georgian Society and the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies present this conference aiming to re-evaluate the notion of York as a Georgian city, which was one of the founding premises of the York Georgian Society in 1939.

‘A spacious wound’: going underground with the picturesque home tour’

Tuesday 30 April 2024

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Which Prince of Wales? Ambiguous allegiance, party dynamics, and the political odyssey of John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland (1683-1762)

Tuesday 9 April 2024

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Wedgwood’s Model Colonies: Australian Clay, British Moulds, and the New Etruria

Tuesday 19 March 2024

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"But we find it to have been a mistake": Printing errors in the London Gazette, 1665-c.1720

Tuesday 27 February 2024

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