The Spouting Club: A Workship

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Ellen Brewster (University of Oxford)

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

Reviving the Credibility of the Criminal Law: Robert Peel’s reform and resistance to Jeremy Bentham’s radicalism

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Cheng Li (University of York)

Making Harewood and the Modern World

Department of Archaeology 40th Anniversary Open Lectures Series

Living amidst the ruins: A social geography of eighteenth-century Whitehall

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Juliet Learmouth (Birkbeck University of London)

City of Beasts: How animals shaped Georgian London

CECS Research Seminar with Thomas Almeroth-Williams (University of Cambridge)

Beer and Ballads

Join us at a local tavern as we recreate the convivial atmosphere of the radical meetings of the early 19th century

Small Things in the Eighteenth Century

A British Academy funded conference

Peterloo: Mike Leigh in conversation

Join Mike as he discusses the film and its making.

Festival Film Screening: Peterloo

Join us for a special Festival screening of Mike Leigh’s epic film Peterloo.

The Aesthetics of Autonomy

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Marte Stinis (University of York)

Art as Commodities / Commodities as Art: An Interdisciplinary Conference

This conference will demonstrate the centrality of markets to art’s modern cultural ascendancy, while also recasting art objects as bodies of knowledge and vehicles of cultural exchange through networks of global trade.

Prudence or Pathology? The Figure of the Miser in the Eighteenth-Century Money It-Narrative

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Charmaine Falzon (Queen Mary University of London)

Crusoe at 300: Adaptations, Afterlives & Futures

The sixth biennial meeting of the Defoe Society

A Contemporary Robinsonade

Peter Robinson (University of Reading) reads from The Constitutionals: A Fiction (2019) and discusses the praxis of adaptation