Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
#QMCECS
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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/....
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
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/...
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/...
Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· Oct 22
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.
Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· Sep 29
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.
Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· Sep 18
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.
Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· Jul 16
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.
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.
Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· May 27
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.
Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· Mar 18
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
Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· Mar 13
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.
Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· Feb 24
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.
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...
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...
📣 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
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Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· Jan 28
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.
Markman Ellis
@markmanellis.bsky.social
· Jan 17
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/...