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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar

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Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century

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@long18thsem.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:47 AM

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/...

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An event poster for the "IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar" for Autumn 2026.
The poster features a parchment-style background with faint historical illustrations and details six upcoming hybrid seminars held from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in the IHR Wolfson Room NB01.
The schedule lists the following events:
• Wednesday 7 October: Miles Ogborn (Queen Mary University of London) on ‘Law, violence and empire: Understanding the Jamaican uprising trials of 1832’.
• Wednesday 21 October: Jeanne Clegg (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) on ‘Dealing with property crime in 1720s London: The “plain and practical proposals” of Andrew Moreton, aka Daniel Defoe’.
• Wednesday 4 November: Angela McShane (Warwick) on ‘What should we do with drunken sailors? The conflicted politics of drink and drunkenness in the Royal Navy, c. 1660-1689’.
• Wednesday 18 November: Nicholas Dixon (Independent Scholar and Genealogist) on ‘The Revival of Freemasonry in King’s Lynn: Soldiers, Sociability and Subversion in Napoleonic Norfolk’.
• Wednesday 2 December: Ben Jackson (Manchester) on ‘Queering the Eighteenth-Century Clergyman: Bodies, Intimacies, and Faith’.
• Wednesday 16 December: Luca Scholz (Manchester) on ‘Mapping the Weather Wars: A Planetary Microhistory’ - A joint meeting with the IHR Planetary Histories Seminar.
@long18thsem.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 9:47 AM

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/...

@long18thsem.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:30 AM

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...

Screenshot of the Cambridge University Press website listing of the article
@long18thsem.bsky.socialFeb 13, 2026, 10:03 AM

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!

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