2025 events

James Tassie: A Maker of the Scottish Enlightenment

Tuesday 25 November 2025

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

Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives

Tuesday 11 November 2025

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

Anna Laetita Barbauld, eighteenth-century polymath, two-hundred years on

Saturday 8 November 2025

York Georgian Society Lecture with Mary Fairclough

Jane Austen and “a most beloved sister”

Saturday 25 October 2025

York Georgian Society Lecture with Dr Lizzie Rogers

Care Networks in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Archives

Tuesday 14 October 2025

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

Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice

Tuesday 7 October 2025

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

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent Conference

Friday 27 June 2025

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.

Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820

Tuesday 3 June 2025

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

Spring Ball: Farewell to King's Manor

Thursday 29 May 2025

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!

The Dust of Accidents: Rethinking the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Paul Keen examines the cultural work of periodical essays.

The Great CECS Book Sale

Friday 16 May 2025

Come and find your next favourite read!

Copley Lecture: The Great Frost of 1708/09: Thermometers and Representations of Climate Disruption

Tuesday 13 May 2025

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

Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800): Literary Landscaper

Tuesday 29 April 2025

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

York Unplanned: Reflections on a Changing City in the 21st Century

Saturday 12 April 2025

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

Visit to the Minster Archives to view 18th century source material

Friday 4 April 2025

Join us for a visit to the Minster Archives.

Strangers to the City: Travel and Tourism in Eighteenth-Century London

Tuesday 11 March 2025

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

A Maze without a Plan? Display in Sir John Soane’s Museum

Saturday 8 March 2025

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

Victorian Expansions 2025

Friday 21 February 2025

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

Visit to the Borthwick Archives to view 18th century source material

Thursday 20 February 2025

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

Jane Austen Keywords

Friday 14 February 2025

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

"But what shall we do with a doctor here?": The Ridiculous Invalid at the Seaside in the Novels of Jane Austen

Tuesday 11 February 2025

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.

The Ingenious Mr Flitcroft

Saturday 8 February 2025

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

Emotional Labour, Elite Women and the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Saturday 11 January 2025

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