This article explores the epistolary activism of Richard Oastler (1791–1861). In his campaigning for the regulation of factory labour, abolition of child labour, and opposition to the New Poor Law,...

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) grants at least six Curran Fellowship awards each calendar year. Applicants may request any amount of support up to $6000; the Curran Fellowships…

Martin is repulsed by Debbie’s maintenance routine, while she says it’s just the fallout of being a busy woman. You decide if his body of evidence stacks up

Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire · Episode

For our first episode, some of us have gathered to talk about why we wanted to make this podcast in the first place, and ask the simple yet deceptively tricky question “What is hauntology?”

When Samuel Johnson called the Scots bookseller Andrew Millar “the Maecenas of the age” (Millar paid a record-breaking £800 for a Henry Fielding novel in

Dirt, sex and faeces abound in 18-century ilterature.

(Photo by Amy Craghill) Project Director Dr Adam James Smith Adam is an Associate Professor of English Literature at York St John University. His work explores the role played by … Continue reading "A...

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BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference