New publication! Edited by me, Nicole Aljoe and Olly Ayers, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, first published in 1782. Now out with Oxford World’s Classics, with extensive introduction and commentary.

QMCECS Seminar 28 April Rowan Boyson (KCL) ‘"Who owns the wind?": Air, Commons and Poetics in the long eighteenth century.' Date: 28 April 2026 Time: 17:15. In person: ArtsOne, Room 1.36, QMUL Mile End Campus, Mile End, London — entrance at the rear of the building.

QMCECS Seminar 14 April Jonathan Sachs (Concordia) 'The Pace of the Present: Slow Time and Temporal Culture in Cowper’s The Task' More info: tinyurl.com/2uy8668m Date: 14 April 2026 Time: 17:15. In person: QMUL Mile End Campus ArtsOne, Room 1.36 (entrance from the rear of the building).

Today: QMCECS Seminar 31 March Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (Edinburgh) 'Richard Steele and the Corps of Comedy' More info: tinyurl.com/2uy8668m 31 March 2026 Time: 17:15. UK Time. Location: QMUL Mile End Campus ArtsOne, Room 1.36 (entrance from the rear of the building).

QMCECS Seminar: 3 March 2026 Richard Coulton & Matthew Mauger (QMUL) 'Manuscript Journeys: Locating Lives and Data in East India Company Ship’s Logs' Time: 17:15–19:00. QMUL Mile End Campus: ArtsOne, Room 1.36 (entrance from the rear of the building). More info: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...

QMCECS Seminar 17 February 2026: Esther Chadwick (Courtauld): 'Art, Bureaucracy and the Stamp Office'. In person at Queen Mary Mile End campus, ArtsOne 1.36, starting at 17.15. All welcome. More info: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/....

QMCECS Seminar 3 February 2026 Emma Newport (Sussex) 'Silence at the Tea Table: Abolition, Empire and The Woman of Colour (anon., 1808)' Time: 17:15–19:00. ArtsOne, Room 1.36 (entrance from the rear of the building); Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS. All welcome

QMCECS Seminar 9 December 2025 Hazel Wilkinson (Birmingham) Typography and 'The Adventure of the Black Lady' Time: 17:15–19:00. Location: ArtsTwo 3.20, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS All welcome. More info: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...

QMCECS Seminar 28 October 2025: Amy Wilcockson on Thomas Campbell's Networks (1794-1844). In person in Mile End (ArtsTwo 3.20) or online (sign-up: tinyurl.com/4ua3cun8). Time: 17.15 UK time. All welcome.

QMCECS Seminar 30 September: John Gilmore (Warwick) on Slavery and the Poetic Imagination in the 18th Century: 5.15pm in ArtsTwo 3.20 (Mile End) or online on zoom. More info and zoom sign-up here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/.... All welcome.

QMCECS seminar for Autumn 2025. Programme below and here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/.... All welcome, online and in-person at Mile End. Tuesdays, 5.15-7.00pm. See you there.

New book: 'Bluestockings and Landscape in 18th-Century Britain: The Prospect of Improvement'. Edited by Markman Ellis and Jack Orchard, available from Boydell and Brewer. 10 essays on the Bluestockings and landscape by (amongst others) Steve Hindle, Jemima Hubberstey, Ve-Yin Tee & Millie Schurch.

QMCECS Seminar 3 June: Prof Colin Jones (QM/Chicago) on Robespierre's Lists. 5.15pm on campus or online. More info and online sign-up: tinyurl.com/9u8s4dnm. All welcome!

QMCECS Seminar 6 May: Herman L. Bennett (CUNY / QMUL) 'Slave Insurgents and the Political Impact of Free Blacks in a Revolutionary Age: The Revolt of 1795 in Coro, Venezuela'. More info and online sign-up: tinyurl.com/9u8s4dnm. Time: 17:15. In person: QMUL Mile End Francis Bancroft 1.01.1.

QMCECS Seminar 25 March: Maks Del Mar (QMUL Law) on 'Lucian's Enlightenment: Moral Philosophy and the Comic Imagination' in Hume and Smith. 5.15-7.00 pm in person in FB 1.01.1 at QM's Mile End campus, or online on zoom. More info and sign up here: tinyurl.com/bbrphfzk. All welcome

QMCECS BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship 2025. An award to conduct C18 research in London (£500 for travel and living, and accommodation at QMUL's Mile End campus (£400). More info, small print, and application form here: tinyurl.com/pxxwxt3w. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2025.

QMCECS seminar Tuesday 4 March: Eliza Haughton-Shaw (Cambridge): 'Rationality and Eccentricity in Fielding's and Collier's The Cry (1751)'. Online and in-person, 5.15-7.00pm GMT. More info and sign-up here: tinyurl.com/bdz3evje. All welcome.

📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

QMCECS Seminar 11 February 2025 Professor James Chandler (Chicago) 'Lord Byron, Madame de Staël, and Santa Croce Romanticism' Time: 17:15–19:00. Place: Francis Bancroft 1.01.1, QMUL Mile End, London, E1 4NS. Online on Zoom: qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

QMCECS Seminar 28 January: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton): 'In Search of Francis Williams'. In-person only. Seminar starts 5.15pm in room 1.01.1 in Francis Bancroft building at QM's Mile End Campus. More info here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/.... All welcome.

QMCECS Seminar Jan 28 2025: Fara Dahoiwala (Princeton), 'In Search of Francis Williams', 17.15-19.00. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4.... In-person only: at Francis Bancroft building, room 1.01.1 at QMUL's Mile End campus, London E1. All welcome. More info here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...