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At the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, we have the historic city of York on our doorstep.

Our highly successful MA in Eighteenth Century Studies offers a wide choice of taught and practical modules, and our staff welcome proposals from students interested in pursuing a research degree.

News

Dr Catriona Kennedy publishes new book on women and the Irish public sphere

Thursday 11 September 2025

Warm congratulations to Catriona Kennedy on the publication of her book, Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution.

Call for Papers: Poetry and Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment, c.1580-1750

Monday 21 July 2025

We invite proposals for the final conference of the AHRC-DFG project, ‘Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, 1580-1750’.

New Student Bursaries for the CECS MA

Friday 13 June 2025

We're pleased to announce we have up to four student bursaries to award to students on the Eighteenth Century Studies MA programme for 2025-26.

News Archive

Events

Tue
30
Sep

Carrying On in Tom Jones; Jane Austen’s Consequences

All welcome at our first CECS research seminar. Please join us for two presentations from international scholars.

Tue
14
Oct

Care Networks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Archives

Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, discusses the ethics of care.

Tue
11
Nov

Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives

Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, addresses close and distant reading, and the computational analysis of manuscript archives.

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