Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
News
Monday 20 October 2025
Warm congratulations to recent English / CECS PhD, Sharon Choe, on the acquisition of her first novel!
Monday 20 October 2025
Congratulations Elizabeth!
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Congratulations to CECS director, Professor Chloe Wigston Smith!
Thursday 11 September 2025
Warm congratulations to Catriona Kennedy on the publication of her book, Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution.
Monday 21 July 2025
We invite proposals for the final conference of the AHRC-DFG project, ‘Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, 1580-1750’.
Friday 13 June 2025
We're pleased to announce we have up to four student bursaries to award to students on the Eighteenth Century Studies MA programme for 2025-26.
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Congratulations to CECS director, Professor Chloe Wigston Smith!
Monday 19 May 2025
Warm congratulations to Jim Watt and Alison O'Byrne on the publication of their collection of essays, Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours.
Friday 9 May 2025
Tickets for the second Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now lecture are now live! Join Dr Deborah Russell (University of York) on 16 May 6pm to 8pm for 'Ann Radcliffe and Women's Gothic Writing'.
Tuesday 6 May 2025
The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies will host our summer conference, Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent.
Friday 4 April 2025
Researchers at the University of York are working with Harewood House to shed new light on the social and cultural life of the country house in celebration of 250 years of novelist, Jane Austen, and painter, JMW Turner.
Monday 10 February 2025
We are pleased to announce a new collaborative doctoral award in partnership with the National Trust on At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist.
Thursday 23 January 2025
Warm congratulations to Alison O'Byrne on the publication of her book, The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700–1830.
Wednesday 12 June 2024
Warm congratulations to Sophie Coulombeau on the publication of her book, Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance.
Saturday 25 May 2024
Warm congratulations to Chloe Wigston Smith on the publication of her book, Novels, Needleworks, and Empire Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.
Friday 24 May 2024
Congratulations to Professor Jon Mee!
Tuesday 15 August 2023
On Saturday 10 June, the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CECS) celebrated 25 years since its foundation. More than 50 students and staff, past and present, gathered to mark the occasion in the King's Manor, where CECS has been located since its establishment.
Tuesday 12 April 2022
Dr Omar F. Miranda is this year's winner with the article 'The Global Romantic Lyric'.
Tuesday 28 September 2021
CECS Director Professor Gillian Russell is co-winner of the 2021 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
Wednesday 15 September 2021
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