⏰ Reminder ⏰ Tomorrow is the deadline for our CFP, so make sure you send us your abstract in time!

We’ve got a fantastic lineup for the CECS seminar programme this term! Don’t miss our first event on Tuesday 17 Jan, when Dr McCue will be talking about ‘“The Creative Eye of Fancy”: Women and Visual Culture in Romantic-period Britain’. More details below:

The 8th International Conference of the Aphra Behn (Europe) Society is going to be held in Canterbury, UK. Get those diaries out and hold 2-4th July 2024. Call for papers goes live next week.

It is likely to be a person, perhaps a stage performer (actress, singer, dancer); or a sports personality (jockey, boxer); or its a place, or a club.

Great view of #Westminster Hall in the year of the Gordon Riots (1780) showing what a cobbled together set of buildings #Parliament and the law courts had become by then... #HistParl #twitterstorians

We are inviting paper submissions for our upcoming Autumn Seminar Series! Details below👇

As part of our new 'Digital Discovery' tab, you can now find The Yorkshire Places Mapping Project! Elizabeth Montagu had many connections with Yorkshire; this project provides an exciting visualisation of those connections, along with an array of information.

Really looking forward to being a respondent at this event next month and catching up with Dr Sarah Burdett and @David_F_Taylor - come & join us ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

#OnThisDay 1812 #PrimeMinister Spencer Perceval was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham. The only British PM to be assassinated, his last word was "murdered" #HistParl #twitterstorians

New blog from History Of Parliament looking again at Queen Charlotte... #twitterstorians #RoyalFamily thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2023/05/18/alm…

Our new blog from Dr Kathryn Rix draws on her paper from the History Of Parliament UEA History 'Politics before Democracy' conference to look at the changing backgrounds of MPs after the 1832 Reform Act: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2023/06/12/the…

Scandal! Personal rivalries! Gossip! There's still time to submit to panels, so come and join us at #ASECS2024 as we dive into the world of eighteenth-century celebrity

Anyone can join in with this year's reading group, in person or online; and on Friday 17 November, we'll have Penelope J. Corfield with us to talk about the book!