Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York

🎥 We're hosting a special screening of a new documentary on the 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley Peters.
📍 9 March at 5pm in V/N/045, Vanbrugh College
🎟️ This is a free event, but booking is essential at the link on our events page: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 10 March with Ruth Larsen presenting a paper on "Well bred? Enlightenment Thought and the Formation of an Aristocratic Ideal in Britain"
🗓️ Tuesday 10 March, 5pm
📍 H/G09, Heslington Hall & Zoom
🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

We have seen the teaser for Pride and Prejudice, a new adaptation about hands. What other novels from the long 18th c should be adapted? We’ll start: Frances Burney’s Evelina #18thCentury

Snowdrops encircling a tree with Heslington Hall and its 18th century topiary in the background

Daffodils in a long stone planter sitting on paving in front of the 18th c topiary garden behind Heslington Hall.

Cheerful signs of spring at Heslington Hall at the Univ of York, home to the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies #18thCentury #snowdrops #daffodils #topiary

TODAY: Jane Austen, Empire & Scotland 👇 #18thCentury

AS CECS MA student Nusrat continues, "What makes the course so distinctive is its genuinely interdisciplinary approach. I’ve been able to engage with perspectives from archaeology, history, literature, and art history, all of which open up new ways of understanding the global eighteenth century."

Current students will be part of the Taster Day. Current MA student Nusrat shares that the CECS MA: "has given me the opportunity to explore this fascinating and transformative period in real depth, supported by an exceptionally broad and welcoming academic community at Heslington Hall."

📢 CECS will be at York's Masters Taster Day on 18 March. Meet CECS director Chloe Wigston Smith at Heslington Hall to learn about our interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies, our student bursaries for 2026-27 and our funding for PG research.
Book your place: www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Congratulations to CECS staff member Sophie Coulombeau on this well-deserved recognition for her excellent book! 🏆📚 Reading with the Burneys 📚🏆

📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 24 February with Désha Osborne presenting a paper on “Of a ‘lively dark eye’ or ‘chilly and tender’: Jane Austen, the Morality of Empire, and the Hidden Scottish Presence"
🗓️ Tuesday 24 February, 5pm
📍 HG/21, Heslington Hall
🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Roses are red
Violets are blue
To the longest eighteenth century
Our hearts remain true ❤️
#18thcentury #18thC

18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP

Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026.

Please see the poster for further information!

TODAY our first CECS seminar of 2026, details 👇

Need more #18thC in your life??
OF COURSE YOU DO!

Click below for an incredible programme of events from our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️

www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and Performance Published in Women's Writing (Ahead of Print, 2025)

You guuuuyyyys, Reading With The Burneys got reviewed in Women’s Writing!

“A fascinating micro-history in the print ecology of the long Romanticism, reconstructed with critical acuity…a useful lens through which to reinterpret an entire cultural landscape…”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Upcoming symposium: 'Uses of Romanticism' at University College Cork, 18-19 Feb 2026

This symposium will explore the uses and relevance of the term 'Romanticism'. More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6312

The CFP deadline for our upcoming workshop on 'unwanted non-human life', broadly conceived, here at York has been extended a couple of weeks. Do send in an application if it appeals to you, we've already got a great pair of keynotes lined up!

📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 10 February with Susan Carlile presenting a paper on “Thinking Globally in The Lady's Magazine, or Polite Companion, 1759-1767"
🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall & online
🔗 Register www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Co-organised by some of our phenomenal @crems-york.bsky.social and @cecs-york.bsky.social PhD students!

Register at this link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 2/2

Join CECS & HECAA for an online conversation about #Turner in 2025. CECS staff @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Richard Johns will discuss the #AustenTurner exhibition, and be joined by Lucinda Lax at the Yale Centre for British Art and Melissa Gustin at the Walker Art Gallery. 1/2

Vacancy: Content Engineer Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (2 years) Hours: Full time (37.5 hours); part time considered at minimum of 0.6 FTE We are a busy and friendly research department within the Humanities Division…

📣 Come work with us! #18C 📣

This one is for the #DH crowd!
We seek a Content Engineer to assist in maintaining and developing the digital resources of the Voltaire Foundation.

More information and application process on our website:

voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/va...

Sorry, not sorry.

18th century 📚 on sale from @yalebooks.bsky.social, including postage in the UK #18thcentury

🪨 Romantic Elements 🪨 Have a look at this upcoming conference at the Univ of Manchester, 25-26 June, 2026 ⤵️

Job Vacancy: Research Fellow, 1660-1832 House of Lords - The History of Parliament The History of Parliament are excited to advertise for a research fellow to join our House of Lords 1660-1832 project.

📣 We’re hiring!
The History of Parliament are seeking a Research Fellow for our House of Lords 1660-1832 project. @georgianlords.bsky.social

We’re looking for a historian with a PhD in 18thC British political or cultural history to join our expert team.

🔗 Details below:
#AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs

Women stood in a hall next to a projector and screen. The screen shows a slide with a portrait of Austen and a shaw she stitched

I had a terrific day on Saturday recording a podcast interview and then giving a talk at the Jane Austen Society London branch on Jane Austen, Her Writing and her Craft! It was fantastic turnout with lots of terrific questions.women stood

Photo courtesy of Laura Rocklyn.

There's still just over two weeks left to apply to our workshop exploring historical approaches to non-human life.

It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides.

PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!

Our CECS director will deliver the #BSECS2026 keynote this afternoon.