Reading Lives of English Men and Women, 1695-1830

Polly Bull (Royal Holloway, University of London)

13 March 2013

A Quaker convert and the writing of fiction: the case of Amelia Opie

Isabelle Cosgrave (Exeter University)

7th May 2011

Britain's Lost Revolution: Remembering the Gordon Riots on their 230th Anniversary

A symposium with Ian Haywood and John Seed (Roehampton), Tim Hitchcock and Matthew White (Herts)

22 June 2010

Ecclesiastical Property: Social, Economic and Religious history? The Church and English social history, 1730-1800

Daniel Cummins (University of Reading)

2 March 2011

'Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': Politics and Performance in 1820

When historians talk about 1820 it is often to discuss the attempts by the new monarch, George IV to divorce his queen, Caroline of Brunswick. George IV became king on 29 January 1820 after the death of his father George III. However, due to his father’s lapses into mental illness, he acted as Prince Regent for almost a decade before then. George IV was not a popular king; leading an extravagant lifestyle; accused of wasteful spending during times of war; and losing public confidence over his divorce attempts. The Pains and Penalties Bill of 1820 was George’s attempt to dissolve his marriage through claiming Caroline to have committed adultery. The subsequent trial of the queen was heavily followed in the press with a negative response. Although the bill narrowly passed the House of Lords it was dropped by government before reaching the Commons. The politics surrounding this royal scandal were, however, far from the only concern in that year, and it is to a wider appraisal of 1820 that Malcolm Chase looks to in his paper.

Malcolm Chase (University of Leeds)

21 March 2012

Secularisation: Or Otherwise in Eighteenth-Century England?

John Seed (Roehampton University)

5 December 2012

Pechu kecha / Speed Presentations

Three minute papers from early PhD students.

30 October 2013

'Female agony and visionary experience: Jane Lead (1624-1704), her last days and its impact upon the Philadelphian Society, c. 1697-1704'

Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths)

12 June 2013

Material Culture Panel: The Significance of Things.

John Styles (Hertfordshire)

15 May 2013

Secularisation: Or Otherwise in Eighteenth-Century England?

Jeremy Gregory (University of Manchester)

5 December 2012