IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar

AUTUMN 2026-7 Term Card Kicking off tonight at 5:30pm, we have a full slate of seminar papers planned for this term covering a range of topics across the long eighteenth century. Registration to attend will be available at the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social

Really touched to receive the 2026 Arthur Burns Prize for my paper on medical and maternal authority in Georgian childcare. Arthur was a much-loved, much-missed colleague at the seminar and during my time at @kingshistory.bsky.social. Thank you @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social. #18thC

Join us next Wed 21 oct in person at the IHR or online (17:30-19:30) for Jeanne Clegg’s paper ‘Dealing with property crime in 1720s London: The “plain and practical proposals” of Andrew Moreton, aka Daniel Defoe’ Register 👎 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social

We are back for 2026-7! Join us in person at the IHR or online Wed 7 Oct 5:30pm for @milesogborn.bsky.social’s paper titled ‘Law, Violence and empire: Understanding the Jamaican Uprising Trials 1832’ Register 👎 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

In 2024 Susan Whyman presented to the seminar her research on Edmund Rack. The resulting article is now published and available online in Urban History: ‘Edmund Rack: Master of knowledge, scientific societies, and social networks’ Urban History, 1-21 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We have reached our last seminar of the year! Next Wednesday 24-6 from 17:30 in Senate House and online, @sallytuckett.bsky.social will present her paper titled ‘Transatlantic Threads: Scottish linen and society in the eighteenth century’ Make sure to register! 👇 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Annual CEMS Colloquium - 11th June! This year's theme is 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Featuring three panels and a roundtable. Join us on 11th June. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

Next Weds 10 June we welcome @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (KCL) to our seminar, who will present their paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship’ Register below to join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

IT'S TIME! The #CFP for #BSECS2027 has been released! This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity'. The deadline for submissions is the 15 September 2026. The conference will by the 6-8 January 2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Hello London! This Thursday (4 June, 5.30pm) I'll be talking at the @ihr.bsky.social North American History Seminar about "Liberty, Dissent, and the Internal Enemy in Britain's American Revolution" www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Very much enjoying Anna Harrington's talk on Empire's Imagined Spaces @long18thsem.bsky.social

ICYMI: Join us tomorrow from 5:30pm, in person at the IHR or online to hear @amdharrington.bsky.social discuss her PhD research in a paper titled: ‘Empire’s Imagined Spaces: Time, Connection, and the Making of British Imperial Identities, 1757-1840’ Register 👎 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Very much looking forward to Naomi Pullin @naomipullin.bsky.social talking about 'The Pleasures and Perils of Aloneness' @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social next Wednesday. All welcome, either in person or online, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

@brendantam.bsky.social will be presenting the next Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, on Tuesday 5 May. Read about Brendan's paper discussing political sociability in late Hanoverian Britain on our website, alongside information on how to join the session:

We're about to start this year's British History in the Long 18th-century annual PhD Lightening Talks. Live posting once we are under way in case you're keen to know what's happening in our field. 1/x

We are kicking off term 3 next Wed 29 April with our annual flagship event! Join us from 5:30pm at the IHR or online for our PhD Lightning Talks event. We have an exciting lineup of 12 early stage (1st or 2nd year) PhDs covering a range of 18th cent topics! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Very much enjoying Baz Bowdler's paper on British and Dutch newspaper networks @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

ICYMI: Don’t forget to register for our last seminar of the term on Wednesday, taking place in person at the IHR and online from 5:30. Baz Bowdler takes us back to the start of the long eighteenth century, to discuss ‘News Management and Diplomacy in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1685-1713’

Great to see that the video of Imogen Peck's recent talk @long18thsem.bsky.social on 'Family Archives in England, 1650-1838' is now available online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨 CFP deadline extended - 31st March 🚨Apply for our @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR Conference in Montpellier in September! Theme is Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation. We can’t wait to see your abstracts! Details below ⬇️ #18c @royalhistsoc.org @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social

The @long18thsem.bsky.social is on the road again! At Warwick to hear Imogen Peck talk about family archives

We are taking the seminar on the road tomorrow to the University of Warwick! Join as either in person or online, 4pm-6pm, to hear Imogen Peck (Birmingham) discuss her paper ‘Family Archives in England,1660-1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History’ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

ICYMI: Submissions for our annual PhD Lightning Talks event closes this Friday 13 March! If you are in the first two years of your PhD, work on the field of British history in the long 18th cent (1660-1830) and are looking to share your research, get in touch! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/ihr...

Really pleased to see the recording of Phillippa Hellawell (TNA) & Liberty Paterson (TNA)'s seminar on The Ship Bedford and the slave trade @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Register to join us next week, either in person or online on 25 February to hear Warwick final year PhD @brendantam.bsky.social present his paper titled: ‘A Christ Church Set’: Exploring the Discourse of Political Friendship in Late Hanoverian Britain, 1780s-1830s www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A great talk by Philippa Hellawell and Liberty Paterso on ship biography and the 18th c. slave trade @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

At the IHR @long18thsem.bsky.social for a special event, an appreciation of the work of Penny Corfield

Join us this Wednesday 28th January from 17:30 at the IHR or online as we celebrate the contributions Penelope J Corfield has made to our seminar over the past 40 years. The panel we have formed will discuss ‘Towns, gestures, elections, sociability and time’ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

@kategibson.bsky.social giving a great paper on fostering in the 18th century to @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

We hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Year break! Our seminar recommences this week 14-1 with @kategibson.bsky.social presenting her paper titled “fostering in eighteenth century Britain” Register below to join as in person at the IHR or Online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Great audience for Helen Wilson's paper on Black participation in 18th Britain. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

Tonight Helen Wilson will speak at a joint session of the IHR’s Parliaments, Politics and People and British History in the Long 18th Century seminars, discussing her paper on 'Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'. You can attend online or in-person:

Next Wednesday 3-12 we are holding a joint seminar with @histparl.bsky.social! Join us at 17:30 at the @ihr.bsky.social or online via zoom to hear Dr Helen Wilson discuss ‘Black & Political: Black Political Participation in Britain, 1750-1850’. Register now! 👎 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Really pleased to see that Helen Esfandiary's excellent talk last week to @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Helen Esfandiary giving a great paper on elite maternal authority over the care of children in the context of the professional medical market place in the 18th c. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

Really looking forward to Samia Khatun's talk next wk: What is the Human? Recuperating Histories of Textiles Workers in Bengal from British East India Company Archives @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome, online or in person, register here. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

@polly-lowe.bsky.social delivering her excellent paper tonight, describing how a rhetoric of slavery was used in debates surrounding the practice of bound Scottish colliers in the eighteenth century.

Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history! The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory

Great to see the recording of @richardjansell.bsky.social 's recent paper on travel journals and servants' lives on the Grand Tour is now avaiable on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website. @long18thsem.bsky.social See: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...