2025 news

Dr Deborah Russell to deliver lecture on Ann Radcliffe at Sheffield

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'.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent

Tuesday 6 May 2025

The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies will host our summer conference, Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent.

Researchers mark 250 years of Jane Austen and JMW Turner with major new exhibition

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.

New collaborative doctoral award announced

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.

Dr Alison O'Byrne publishes new book on eighteenth century London

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.