News, events, and reviews

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 , 208kb)‎  

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.