Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
Past events
CECS 25 Anniversary Celebration
Saturday 10 June 2023
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Tuesday 30 May 2023
Ralph Thoresby’s Museum: Indigenous Objects and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Yorkshire
Wednesday 3 May 2023
A Littoral Imperium: Wartime and the Flow of Worldmaking
Monday 24 April 2023
Cornelia's Comeback: Politics at home in Revolutionary France
Monday 17 April 2023
"The Flash Manner of Singing": Performing in the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London
Tuesday 28 February 2023
Tuesday 14 February 2023
Tuesday 31 January 2023
Talks by winners of the YGS Nuttgens award
Monday 23 January 2023
‘“The Creative Eye of Fancy”: Women and Visual Culture in Romantic-period Britain
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Tuesday 22 November 2022
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Launch of Jennie Batchelor's The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History
Tuesday 1 November 2022
'Slavery Shall Cease': The Millennial Mission of British Abolitionists, 1780-1840
Thursday 20 October 2022
Tuesday 18 October 2022
Institutions of Literature and Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: Introduction and launch
Tuesday 4 October 2022
Reproducing Race across the Black/White Atlantic: England and Jamaica in the mid-C18
Thursday 30 June 2022
Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and Beyond
Saturday 18 June 2022
London in 1810: Spanish American Independence at 27 Grafton Street
Tuesday 7 June 2022
Tuesday 24 May 2022
The long 18th century on screen: A Q&A about working as a historian behind the scenes with film & TV
Tuesday 26 April 2022
Gout shoes and the material culture of disability in Georgian Britain
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Tuesday 1 March 2022
Tuesday 15 February 2022
Friday's Accidental Blackness: Interpreting Race in Robinson Crusoe
Tuesday 18 January 2022
Pantheon Redux: Situating Opera in the Regency Development of London's West End, 1811-12
Tuesday 16 November 2021
Letitia Landon: The Poetics and Politics of the Page
Tuesday 2 November 2021
Cutting-and-Pasting Anecdotal History: scrapbooks and ephemeral print culture
Tuesday 19 October 2021
Defining a transnational colonial picturesque?- Ireland, Jamaica and Saint Domingue (Haiti)
Thursday 17 June 2021
Julio Cortázar and Lord Houghton’s “Everyman” Keats: Vida y Cartas, or Biography in Translation
Tuesday 8 June 2021
'About the World in every bodies pocket': Bluestockings in Ladies' Memorandum Books
Tuesday 1 June 2021
Celebrity Pornographic Characters and Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies
Tuesday 25 May 2021
Tuesday 18 May 2021
Tuesday 11 May 2021
'Whose Stories do we Tell?: Possibilities in Reframing our Approach to the Eighteenth Century'
Friday 7 May 2021
Entering the "Temple of Apollo": James Oswald and Musical "Branding" in Eighteenth-Century London
Tuesday 4 May 2021
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Merchants and Crises: The Bristol Sugar Market during the French Revolutionary Wars
Tuesday 20 April 2021
Friday 26 March 2021
Friday 19 March 2021
Book launch: Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Wednesday 17 March 2021
The Rebuilding of British Towns, 1760 -1830
Saturday 13 March 2021
Friday 12 March 2021
Tuesday 9 March 2021
Friday 5 March 2021
Tuesday 2 March 2021
Friday 26 February 2021
The personal network structure of urban elites in the urbanisation process of Chester: c.1750-1860
Tuesday 23 February 2021
Friday 19 February 2021
Anne Lister’s Queer and Natural History
Tuesday 16 February 2021
Laurence Sterne at Shandy Hall
Saturday 13 February 2021
Friday 12 February 2021
A Language of Love?: Anxiety and the Eighteenth Century Love Letter
Tuesday 9 February 2021
Friday 5 February 2021
Friday 29 January 2021
Tuesday 26 January 2021
Friday 22 January 2021
Tuesday 19 January 2021
Friday 15 January 2021
William Kent's Gothic at the Minster: Its influence on Georgian Gothic Design
Saturday 9 January 2021
Friday 8 January 2021
Friday 11 December 2020
Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone World
Thursday 10 December 2020
Saturday 5 December 2020
Friday 4 December 2020
Wednesday 2 December 2020
Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London
Tuesday 1 December 2020
Friday 27 November 2020
Transformation of Royal Progresses and Royal Image in Britain, 1760-1830
Tuesday 24 November 2020
Friday 20 November 2020
Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture (2019)
Wednesday 18 November 2020
Tuesday 17 November 2020
"Republican Countess”: Lady Londonderry and the Irish Rebellion of 1798
Saturday 14 November 2020
Friday 13 November 2020
Alexander Walker, Historical Knowledge and Service in British India, 1791-1831
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Friday 6 November 2020
Colonialism and the idea of 'sex' in eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
Tuesday 3 November 2020
Queens at the Spa: Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena at Bath and Tunbridge Wells
Tuesday 3 November 2020
Friday 30 October 2020
Lewis Todd, Fossil Talk: Coleridge, Hutton, and the Geo-logic of Language
Tuesday 27 October 2020
Friday 23 October 2020
‘Sublime Archimedean Art’: Shelley’s Steam Engine
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Friday 16 October 2020
Tuesday 13 October 2020
New Insights into the Restoration of Fairfax House
Saturday 10 October 2020
Friday 9 October 2020
Tuesday 6 October 2020
Friday 2 October 2020
Friday 25 September 2020
Monday 3 August 2020
Thursday 11 June 2020
Approaches to Researching Material Culture
Tuesday 2 June 2020
'From "pleasant Remedy" to "odious Practice": Female Masturbation in the works of John Marten'
Tuesday 26 May 2020
Hannah Greg in the Age of Manufactures: Gender, Politics, and Class
Tuesday 19 May 2020
Women on the margins: Blended families and legal practices in the courts of early modern Scotland
Monday 18 May 2020
Using news: newsletter writers and readers in early modern England
Thursday 14 May 2020
Tuesday 12 May 2020
Reading and Researching a Correspondence: Reflections on Martha McTier
Tuesday 5 May 2020
'Linton had a very bad night': The Sleep of the Heir of Traquair, 1783
Tuesday 28 April 2020
#CANCELLED# Cordial Spirits: Drinking and Sociability in the very long eighteenth century
Saturday 4 April 2020
High Hair: From the Duchess of Devonshire to Amy Winehouse
Thursday 12 March 2020
Wren, beauty, and Trinity College Library
Monday 9 March 2020
Tuesday 3 March 2020
Thursday 20 February 2020
New Contexts for Remarks on Clarissa: Dialogues, Book Reviewing, and 'Scenes of Criticism'
Tuesday 18 February 2020
The Libraries and Reading Habits of British Prisoners of War in Napoleonic France and Mauritius
Tuesday 11 February 2020
“Burying our Money in Stone Walls”: Fortification and the East India Company, c. 1690–1740
Wednesday 5 February 2020
'The True State of Our Condition,’ Or, Where are Robinson Crusoe’s Insect Companions?
Tuesday 4 February 2020
The Rise and Fall and Rise (?) of Thomas Campbell
Tuesday 4 February 2020
'Queen of the Needle': Miss Linwood and her Embroidered Pictures
Tuesday 21 January 2020
Towards a Theatre of the Aesthetic
Tuesday 14 January 2020
Riley in Cairo: British art and Egypt in the 1980s
Monday 13 January 2020
Artists or Craftsmen? Carving a new interpretation of British sculptural history
Tuesday 3 December 2019
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Bankruptcy in the court of Chancery, 1650-1750
Wednesday 20 November 2019
Tuesday 19 November 2019
Identity in the Library: Elizabeth Thomas, Poetic Separates, and Intellectual Patronage
Tuesday 12 November 2019
Reading it Wrong: Misunderstanding in Early Eighteenth-Century Print Culture
Tuesday 5 November 2019
Filling the Scott Void: Catherine Gore Reimagines Early Nineteenth Century Writers
Tuesday 29 October 2019
The society of prisoners: Anglo-French wars and incarceration in the eighteenth century
Tuesday 22 October 2019
Humanities Research Centre Tenth Anniversary Celebration
Friday 18 October 2019
Tuesday 15 October 2019
[O]ur Englishman/ No word of Chinese spoke!': Satires of the Macartney Embassy to China, 1792-1805
Tuesday 8 October 2019
From Past to Present at the King's Manor
Saturday 21 September 2019
Thursday 11 July 2019
Crusoe at 300: Adaptations, Afterlives & Futures
Wednesday 10 July 2019
Prudence or Pathology? The Figure of the Miser in the Eighteenth-Century Money It-Narrative
Tuesday 18 June 2019
Art as Commodities / Commodities as Art: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Friday 14 June 2019
Tuesday 11 June 2019
Festival Film Screening: Peterloo
Sunday 9 June 2019
Peterloo: Mike Leigh in conversation
Sunday 9 June 2019
Small Things in the Eighteenth Century
Thursday 6 June 2019
Wednesday 5 June 2019
City of Beasts: How animals shaped Georgian London
Tuesday 4 June 2019
Living amidst the ruins: A social geography of eighteenth-century Whitehall
Tuesday 28 May 2019
Making Harewood and the Modern World
Wednesday 22 May 2019
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Wordsworth’s Anglo-French Pamphlet: Public and Private Codes in A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff
Tuesday 7 May 2019
Tuesday 30 April 2019
Poverty, Prisons, Death and Disease (PPDD) in 1840s York
Tuesday 16 April 2019
Writing a philosopher’s life: The case of George Berkeley
Monday 1 April 2019
Friday 15 March 2019
Claude Prance's ephemera: a bookman's Charles Lamb and associative literary culture
Tuesday 12 March 2019
York 1844 and all that: Ideas and themes 175 years on
Tuesday 12 March 2019
Tuesday 5 March 2019
Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820
Tuesday 26 February 2019
'A work of time' The material decay and notional permanence of the Cotton Library
Tuesday 19 February 2019
Intoxicants and the Invention of ‘Consumption’
Wednesday 13 February 2019
Tuesday 12 February 2019
Tuesday 5 February 2019
Clarissa Repurposed; or, How the Fictional Corpse Became Gothic
Tuesday 29 January 2019
'On Thin Ice': The launch of Thin Ice Press
Thursday 24 January 2019
Disrememberance of Things Past, or: À la recherche de l'histoire perdue
Tuesday 22 January 2019
Mary Guyatt on Careers in the Heritage Industry
Monday 14 January 2019
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Style Wars: Fashioning Hair in Early Modernity
Thursday 22 November 2018
Three Eighteenth-Century Lives: Challenges in Biography and Imperial History
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Women, Accounting, and Intertextuality in Eighteenth-Century England
Wednesday 14 November 2018
Agency, Resistance, and Popular Protest during the 1819 West Riding Miners' Strike
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Tuesday 6 November 2018
Peterloo: A Conversation with Jacqueline Riding
Friday 2 November 2018
The Theo-aesthetics of the Early British Gothic: Rejoice or Tremble?
Tuesday 30 October 2018
An End to War? Visions of Peace, Perpetual and Otherwise, During the Long Eighteenth Century
Tuesday 23 October 2018
Rethinking the Genius of Grinling Gibbons
Friday 19 October 2018
“In the Blood of Our Brothers.” The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Spain’s Atlantic Empire
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Criticism and Truth, on the Epistemology of Literary Studies
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Empiricism, Epistolarity and Landscape in Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence
Tuesday 9 October 2018
‘Forgive Me Awful Poet:’ The Redemption and Rewriting of Paradise Lost
Thursday 4 October 2018
Augustus Earle’s Pedestrian Tour in New Zealand: or, Get off the Beach
Tuesday 2 October 2018
Unfortunate Princes: The Stuarts in Exile and the Jacobite Rebellions
Thursday 27 September 2018
Thursday 19 July 2018
Friday 29 June 2018
The Worlds of Maria Edgeworth: Networks, Influence and Reception
Friday 29 June 2018
Tuesday 19 June 2018
New Directions in the History of Political Thought, 1500-1800: Dialogues at Disciplinary Thresholds
Thursday 14 June 2018
‘My Dearest Tussy’: Coping with Separation during the Napoleonic Wars
Tuesday 12 June 2018
Laurence Sterne: A sentimental picture
Friday 8 June 2018
Frankenstein at 200: The science of the novel
Thursday 7 June 2018
Frankenstein: A night at the movies
Wednesday 6 June 2018
‘Foul or Fair?: The English Provincial Fair in Popular Culture’
Tuesday 5 June 2018
“The poor Creature appears to be insane”: Women, Insanity and Spectacle in the late 18th century
Tuesday 29 May 2018
‘“Pitt and Liberty”- Material culture and the recalibration of elite identity in 1760s Virginia.’
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Thursday 3 May 2018
Tuesday 1 May 2018
Seeing Black Women in Georgian London
Tuesday 17 April 2018
Tuesday 13 March 2018
A Sentimental Journey to the past: Sites of Memory in Maria Graham’s Journal of a Voyage to Brazil
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Looking backward at eighteenth-century English pornography
Tuesday 27 February 2018
Piranesi in the Valley of Uncanny
Monday 26 February 2018
Tuesday 20 February 2018
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Monday 12 February 2018
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Authoring the Museum: Mary Hamilton and Bluestocking Antiquarianism
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Tuesday 16 January 2018
Friday 1 December 2017
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Erasmus Darwin's Speaking Machine
Tuesday 21 November 2017
How Novels Begin: Some Nineteenth-Century Test-Cases
Wednesday 15 November 2017
Authentic Dross: Irish Poetry and Song - Moore, Mangan and (Jack) Yeats
Tuesday 14 November 2017
Fibres and Fashion in the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1800
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Contested Inheritances, 1750-1830
Saturday 28 October 2017
The Reform Debates of 1830-32: A 'Four Nations' Approach
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Gender and Things in Pope and Austen
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Monday 16 October 2017
The Influence of the Epic Genre in Eighteenth-Century History Writing
Tuesday 10 October 2017
So You Want to Submit a Journal Article! Strategies for Navigating Peer Review
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Tuesday 6 June 2017
Joining Scholarly Conversations: Academic Publishing, in Theory and Praxis
Monday 5 June 2017
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Tuesday 9 May 2017
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Tuesday 28 February 2017
Tuesday 14 February 2017
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Tuesday 17 January 2017
Saturday 3 December 2016
“First Impressions”: Faces, clothes, and bodies, 1600-1800
Thursday 10 November 2016
Thursday 14 July 2016
Sheridan, theatre and public opinion workshop and conference
Friday 17 June 2016
‘Laurence Sterne's Textual Commerce’
Tuesday 7 June 2016
Celebrity parts: from Nell Gwyn's breasts to Colley Cibber's shirts
Tuesday 31 May 2016
Tuesday 31 May 2016
‘"She who is milk-white", Galatea among the Marbles. Or: the Connoisseur's Women’
Tuesday 24 May 2016
Tuesday 17 May 2016
Tuesday 17 May 2016
‘Consuming Tyranny: Radical Critiques of Meat-Eating in the 1790s’
Tuesday 10 May 2016
'Fashion Victim: High Society, Sociability and Suicide'
Tuesday 3 May 2016
‘A Poetic Battle: Epigraphic Rivalry in the Tatler and the Female Tatler’
Tuesday 3 May 2016
Inside Empire Looking Out: The view from Dent's veranda
Tuesday 19 April 2016
Saturday 5 March 2016
'Conté’s Machines: Drawing, Atmosphere, and Erasure in Post-Revolutionary France'
Tuesday 23 February 2016
Tuesday 9 February 2016
Tuesday 26 January 2016
Tuesday 12 January 2016
EVENT CANCELLED 'Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Print and Narrative'
Tuesday 8 December 2015
Friday 27 November 2015
Tuesday 24 November 2015
‘Smell and the Eighteenth-Century 'Perceptual Revolution’'
Tuesday 24 November 2015
Tuesday 17 November 2015
'The Radicalism of Female Rule in Enlightenment Britain'
Tuesday 10 November 2015
‘Military orientalism and the Soldier-Traveller in Egypt, 1801’
Tuesday 10 November 2015
'Lord Byron's Preposterous Liberalism'
Tuesday 3 November 2015
'“No More in Trifles Take Delight”: Redefining Eighteenth-Century Women’s Sociable Verse'
Tuesday 3 November 2015
‘Feudalism, Chivalry and Chevaliers: Exploring Masculinity in the works of Ann Radcliffe’
Tuesday 27 October 2015
The Yorkshire Election of 1807
Tuesday 20 October 2015
Tuesday 6 October 2015
Fifth Anglo-Italian Eighteenth-Century conference
Wednesday 2 September 2015
THREE-DAY CONFERENCE Waterloo: Representation and Memory, 1815-2015
Friday 26 June 2015
A changing Magna Carta: Past, present and futures
Thursday 11 June 2015
Disseminating Dress: Britain and the Fashion World
Thursday 28 May 2015
Waterloo 200 public lecture series
Tuesday 26 May 2015
Waterloo 200 public lecture series
Tuesday 19 May 2015
‘Connections through Comedy: The Evolution of a British Sense of Humour’
Tuesday 12 May 2015
Waterloo 200 public lecture series
Tuesday 5 May 2015
Waterloo 200 public lecture series
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Tuesday 28 April 2015
‘Calico made 'em mad: riot and consumption in 1719-20’
Tuesday 21 April 2015
Waterloo 200 Public lecture series
Tuesday 14 April 2015
Networks of Improvement: British Literary Clubs and Societies 1760-1840
Friday 13 March 2015
'The sacred and the profane: European oriental scholars and the interpretations of religious rituals
Tuesday 10 March 2015
'The Birth of Naval History: Audience and objectivity in 18th-century historical writing'
Tuesday 3 March 2015
Tuesday 24 February 2015
'Travel and family strategy in the late seventeenth century: The Percevals of Co. Cork'
Tuesday 17 February 2015
'A "small invisible man": Putting Nevil Maskelyne on display in Greenwich'
Tuesday 13 January 2015
Tuesday 25 November 2014
Tuesday 25 November 2014
Tuesday 18 November 2014
Tuesday 11 November 2014
Tuesday 4 November 2014
Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Eighteenth Century
Saturday 1 November 2014
Tuesday 28 October 2014
Tuesday 28 October 2014
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Saturday 28 June 2014
'Electrick communication everywhere': Order and Chaos in the Arts and Sciences 1740-1840 II
Friday 20 June 2014
'Electrick communication everywhere': Order and Chaos in the Arts and Sciences 1740-1840 I
Tuesday 17 June 2014
‘The Return of the Mummy: Napoleon’s Funeral, History and the July Monarchy’
Tuesday 3 June 2014
‘Captain Morris in Full Glee, Or, The Poetics of Conviviality’
Tuesday 27 May 2014
Saturday 17 May 2014
Tuesday 13 May 2014
'The Sea Triumph of Charles II'
Tuesday 29 April 2014
Saturday 8 March 2014
Wednesday 5 March 2014
Tuesday 4 March 2014
Michael Eaton and the Good Humour Club
Wednesday 26 February 2014
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Tuesday 18 February 2014
Tuesday 11 February 2014
Tuesday 28 January 2014
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Tuesday 14 January 2014
CECS Research Seminar week 9 Autumn Term 2013
Tuesday 26 November 2013
CECS Research Seminar week 7 Autumn Term
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Saturday 9 November 2013
CECS Research Seminar Week 6 Autumn Term
Tuesday 5 November 2013
CECS Research Seminar Week 4 Autumn Term
Tuesday 22 October 2013
CECS Research Seminar Week 3 Autumn Term
Tuesday 15 October 2013
Tuesday 30 April 2013
CECS Day Conference: Medical Matters
Saturday 9 March 2013
‘Ulster Truism: Francis Hutcheson and William Hazlitt’
Tuesday 5 March 2013
‘New College, Hackney and the Liberal Dissenting Academies, 1751-96’
Tuesday 19 February 2013
‘New College, Hackney and the Liberal Dissenting Academies, 1751-96’
Tuesday 19 February 2013
‘Domesticating Wonder: Late-Eighteenth-Century Children’s Writing and the Home’
Tuesday 5 February 2013
Tuesday 29 January 2013
Robespierre: Authenticity and Terror in Revolutionary Politics
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Yorkshire Tourism in the Eighteenth Century
Saturday 8 December 2012
Tuesday 20 November 2012
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Saturday 3 November 2012
Tuesday 23 October 2012
Thursday 11 October 2012
CECS Day Conference at the King's Manor
Saturday 23 June 2012
Landscape and the Local: A Workshop
Saturday 9 June 2012
CECS Day Conference: Cultures of Collection
Saturday 10 March 2012
CECS Autumn Workshop: the Grand Tour in Britain and Ireland
Saturday 3 December 2011
Tuesday 18 October 2011