'A work of time' The material decay and notional permanence of the Cotton Library

Will Burgess (Queen Mary University of London)

Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820

Thomas Keymer (University of Toronto)

'Halt ein, Kamerad! Um Gottes willen halt ein! Es ist mein Hauptmann!: The Representation of the Habsburg Common Soldier in Popular Print Culture, 1785-1815

Karl Baird (University of York)

York 1844 and all that: Ideas and themes 175 years on

A York Unconference Join us on March 12th for a gathering of enthusiasts focussing on a unique period in York's history!

Claude Prance's ephemera: a bookman's Charles Lamb and associative literary culture

Gillian Russell (York)

Peterloo at 200

Two days of public events to commemorate and understand the Peterloo massacre.

Wordsworth’s Anglo-French Pamphlet: Public and Private Codes in A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff

Professor David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London) will be giving the CECS Annual Stephen Copley lecture

Small Things in the Eighteenth Century

A British Academy funded conference

Crusoe at 300: Adaptations, Afterlives & Futures

The sixth biennial meeting of the Defoe Society