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Yale's Lewis Walpole Library is a center for the study of the 18th century and Horace Walpole's world

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@lewiswalpolelib.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:36 PM

Bring your students to the Lewis Walpole Library, and we'll help them learn about book history, printmaking, connoisseurship, collecting, material culture, and more. What can we do for your class?
#18thc
#primarysources
#SpecialCollections

@strawbhillhouse.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:40 PMReposted by @lewiswalpolelib.bsky.social

🏰 CALL FOR PAPERS
Gothic 1730–1850: Traditions, Transmissions, Translations
πŸ“š Literature, art, architecture & material cultureβ€¨πŸ—“ 17–18 June 2027β€¨βœοΈ Submit by 4 January 2027
Read the full call below & please share! www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/gothic-confe...

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@cecs-york.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:00 AMReposted by @lewiswalpolelib.bsky.social

πŸ“’ Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 20 October with Elisabeth Gernerd presenting a paper on: "The Ugly Stepsister: Satirical Prints and Fashion History"

πŸ—“οΈ Tuesday 20 October, 5pm
πŸ“ H/G09, Heslington Hall & Zoom
πŸ”— www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

@lewiswalpolelib.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:23 PM

Symposium HOGARTH: HIS ART, LIFE, AND TIMES. A Tribute to Ronald Paulson. 14-16 October at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Free and open to the public.

walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/hog...
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#18thc
#YaleLibrary
#YalecenterForBritishArt
#YCBA

Detail from plate 4 of Harlot's Progress. A scene in Bridewell Prison with the harlot and other prisoners shown beating hemp, the warder standing over her, prodding her. They stand under a sign that reads "Better to work than stand thus."
@lewiswalpolelib.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:43 PM

Applications for the 2027-28 #Fellowship year are now being accepted through November 2.

Apply today apply.interfolio.com/186941
Questions? Email [email protected] info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
#Long18thCentury
#BritishStudies
#CommunityofScholars
#LewisWalpoleLibrary

@YaleLibrary

Detail from an 18th-century satirical print with 3 people (Louis 16 on Marie Antoinette's shoulders, and she on Edmund Burke's) and the words The Lewis Walpole Library Fellowships & Travel Grants in Eighteenth-Century Studies.
@lewiswalpolelib.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:35 PM

29th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture Emma Rothschild on "The Counter-Revolution of 1776 in France" 29th October 5:30 pm Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium L02 New Haven, CT @YaleLibrary

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 29th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture 
"The Counter-Revolution of 1776 in France"
Emma Rothschild
29th October 5:30 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium L02
New Haven, Connecticut
@lewiswalpolelib.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:16 PM

Welcome to Abigail Swingen, Executive Director and W.S.Lewis Librarian! A scholar of British history, Swingen will lead the library in furthering its goals as an internationally recognized research center for British #18th-century studies.

@abigailswingen.bsky.social

#YaleLibrary

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