2023 Events

CECS 25 Anniversary Celebration

Saturday 10 June 2023

Celebrate the 25 anniversary of CECS with us in King's Manor.

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Tuesday 30 May 2023

Awaiting further details.

Cancelled: International Perspectives on Opera, Ballet and Theatre c1790-1930

Friday 12 May 2023

Event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a different date.

Ralph Thoresby’s Museum: Indigenous Objects and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Yorkshire

Wednesday 3 May 2023

Professor Robbie Richardson (Princeton University) presents this keynote lecture looking at the collecting career of Thoresby, and his interaction with Indigenous objects and cultures to reflect on the broader dynamic of coercion and exchange between Indigenous North American nations and Britain.

A Littoral Imperium: Wartime and the Flow of Worldmaking

Monday 24 April 2023

Awaiting further details

Cornelia's Comeback: Politics at home in Revolutionary France

Monday 17 April 2023

Awaiting further details.

"The Flash Manner of Singing": Performing in the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London

Tuesday 28 February 2023

Details to be confirmed.

Continuity, Stability and Prosperity: Eighteenth Century British Historiography in Journal Literature in the 2010s

Tuesday 14 February 2023

Join Trevor Burnard as he discusses continuity, stability and prosperity in eighteenth century Britain in journal literature in the 2010s.

“To Share your Griefs and to Soothe your Sorrows” Entangled in their Grief: Separation and Loss during the Engagement of Sydney Owenson and Thomas Charles Morgan

Tuesday 31 January 2023

Details to be confirmed.

Talks by winners of the YGS Nuttgens award

Monday 23 January 2023

Join us as Rachel Feldberg and Dr Roseanna Kettle present their YGS Nuttgens award winning talks.

‘“The Creative Eye of Fancy”: Women and Visual Culture in Romantic-period Britain

Tuesday 17 January 2023

Details to be confirmed.