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Wednesday 10 December 2025 5.00pm

This seminar is co-hosted with the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, and followed by a CECSmas party! Drinks and nibbles provided.

Tuesday 25 November 2025 5.00pm

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth discusses the modeller, collector, inventor and businessman James Tassie.

Tuesday 11 November 2025 5.00pm

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

Saturday 8 November 2025 2.30pm

York Georgian Society Lecture with Mary Fairclough

Saturday 25 October 2025 2.30pm

York Georgian Society Lecture with Dr Lizzie Rogers

Tuesday 14 October 2025 5.00pm

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

Tuesday 7 October 2025 5.00pm

Mary Fairclough develops a new approach to Mary Wollstonecraft's rhetoric of devotional feeling.

Friday 27 June 2025 9.30am

Join us for a two-day conference celebrating Anna Letita Barbauld's work as the year 2025 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of her death.

Tuesday 3 June 2025 4.30pm

Karen Harvey explores conversations about the body in women's letters.

Thursday 29 May 2025 5.00pm

Come along to our Spring Ball and say farewell to King’s Manor, enjoy some cakes and a glass of bubbly, live music and perhaps even some dancing!

Tuesday 20 May 2025 4.30pm

Paul Keen examines the cultural work of periodical essays.

Friday 16 May 2025 11.00am

Come and find your next favourite read!

Tuesday 13 May 2025 4.30pm

Tita Chico addresses how temperatures and climate disruptions were experienced and understood in the eighteenth century.

Tuesday 29 April 2025 4.30pm

Nicolle Jordan explores Elizabeth Montagu's property ownership during the eighteenth century.

Saturday 12 April 2025 2.30pm

Part of the York Georgian Society 2024/2025 Autumn Lecture Series.

Friday 4 April 2025 2.00pm

Join us for a visit to the Minster Archives.

Tuesday 11 March 2025 4.30pm

Alison O'Byrne will discuss the perceptions of London in the eighteenth century within the European culture of travel and tourism.

Saturday 8 March 2025 2.30pm

Part of the York Georgian Society 2024/2025 Autumn Lecture Series.

Friday 21 February 2025 10.00am

Join us for our one-day Victorian Studies conference, on the topic of 'Victorian Expansions'.

Thursday 20 February 2025 2.00pm

Interested in admiring beautiful Georgian handwriting and discovering hidden histories? Join the CECS PG Forum on our visit to the Borthwick Archives!

Friday 14 February 2025 10.00am

Hosted by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, this event marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen.

Tuesday 11 February 2025 4.00pm

To celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen's birth, Emma Butler, PhD student at Edge Hill University, will join us to deliver her paper at this event, organised by the CECS PG Forum.

Saturday 8 February 2025 2.30pm

Part of the York Georgian Society 2024/2025 Autumn Lecture Series.

Saturday 11 January 2025 2.30pm

Part of the York Georgian Society 2024/2025 Autumn Lecture Series.

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