News, events, and reviews
December 2013 JOHN BARRELL ELECTED TO PRESTIGIOUS FELLOWSHIP. At the Annual Congregation of King's College, Cambridge, John Barrell, Honorary Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature and co-founder of CECS, was elected a permanent Honorary Fellow of the College. December 2013.
Summer 2013
Congratulations to Adam Perchard and Ruth Scobie for organising a wonderf 2-day conference and art festival, Encounters, Affinities, Legacies: the Eighteenth Century in the present Day. There are some photos of the day up on the conference website.
Professor Harriet Guest has been awarded an honorary visiting professorship for the Autumn term 2013 at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales.
We are delighted to announce that John Barrell has been awarded an honorary professorship by the University of York senate.
CECS is delighted to announce the appointment from October 2013 of Professor Jon Mee. More
CECS warmly welcomes Richard Johns, who is to join History of Art/CECS in October. More
CECS student wins Patrick Nuttgens award
2013 More success for CECS student, Sophie Coulombeau
18th October 2012: CECS Student wins prestigious Keats-Shelley prize
23 June 2012: Desiring Fashion: The Consumption and Dissemination of Dress, 1750-1850
Serena Dyer organised this highly succesful and well attended day conference, and curated the very interesting exhibition that accompanied it. Photos of the CECS Day Conference
30 May 2012 Whitby trip photos
8th May 2012 CECS student Sophie Coulombeau wins praise for her much-anticipated first novel
January 27th 2012 CECS at the Huntington Library 2012
4-6th January 2012 CECS at BSECS 2012
6th December 2011 CECS Festivities Christmas Open Evening/Xmas party
CECS Summer 2011 Newsletter newsletter 2011 (PDF 
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11th June 2011 Review of CECS Postgraduate Conference by Sam Smith: Placing Faces: the Portrait and the Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century
8th January 2011 Review of CECS conference Writing Marginal Lives, or a medley of characters, by Rose Hendrie and Ruth Mather
4th December 2010 Review of Cecs Day Conference London Scenes by Sophie Coulombeau
5th July 2010 Honorary degree awarded
Professor John Barrell, a founder member of CECS, was awarded a second honorary doctorate on 5th July 2010. The first was from Chicago for his work in literary history. The second is equally prestigious, from the Courtauld Institute, the College of the University of London devoted to Art History.