January 2019
Flora Fraser, Georgian Papers Programme Mount Vernon Fellow Lecture: 'In Search of Flora Macdonald’
23/01/2019 @ 5:30 pm
With the welcome aid of a 2018 Mount Vernon Georgian Papers Fellowship, historical biographer Flora Fraser spent two months researching in the Georgian Papers in the Royal Archives and one in the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. Her lecture focuses on her Fellowship research in each place, […]
November 2018
The Madness of George III: National Theatre Live Relay
20/11/2018 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
On 20 November 2018 NT Live will be relaying a live performance of Alan Bennett’s The Madness of King George III from Nottingham Playhouse. The broadcast will go to venues across Europe in real time, and then across the world at hours appropriate to the timezone. For more information on venues and times, click here. […]
Ngā Taonga Mokemoke: Indigenous Communities and their Lonely Treasures
20/11/2018 @ All Day
Paper by Samantha Callaghan, King’s College London and GPP team member, which will include discussion of the Georgian papers. To be presented at Memory institutions: uncomfortable pasts and legacies panel at Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities DCDC18 Conference, Birmingham
November 2018
George III as Map Collector: Society of Court Studies Seminar
12/11/2018 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A lecture by Peter Barber (King’s College London), GPP team member. FREE TO ATTEND: registration for NYU security purposes only at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-for-court-studies-seminar-prof-peter-barber-12th-november-2018-tickets-49888079589
November 2018
"King George in his own words: new findings from the Georgian papers at Windsor Castle": Pre-performance talk at Nottingham Playhouse - The Madness of George III
08/11/2018 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
A talk by Professor Arthur Burns
November 2018
The Madness of George III: Nottingham Playhouse
02/11/2018 - 24/11/2018 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
A new production of Alan Bennett’s classic play (you can see Bennett and the director of the first production, Sir Nicholas Hytner, discussing it for the Georgian Papers Programme here). Arthur Burns from the Georgian Papers Programme will give a pre-performance talk in Nottingham on 8 November, and the project has been supporting the production. […]
October 2018
North American Conference on British Studies, Providence RI, USA, Georgian papers Panel
28/10/2018 @ 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Friday, Session 1, , 8:30-10:00 4. Investigating the Archive: The Georgian Papers Programme (Round-table) Narragansett B Questions about how the constitution of archives has structured scholarship have become central to our understanding of historical inquiry. The Georgian Papers Programme, a collaborative project to digitize, disseminate, and interpret the papers of the Georgian monarchs at the […]
October 2018
Digital Humanities and Political History
16/10/2018 @ 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Digital Humanities and Political History (16 October 2018) The Parliaments, Politics and People seminar would like to invite you to a round table discussion on digital humanities and political history, in memory of the History of Parliament’s former director, Valerie Cromwell. Valerie, who founded the parliamentary history seminar at the IHR, was an early enthusiast […]
October 2018
George III as revealed by the Georgian Papers: HA North London Branch, Enfield
09/10/2018 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
September 2018
Editing Eighteenth-Century and Early Modern Texts
04/09/2018 @ All Day
University of Stirling Presentation on teaching editing to undergraduates in the GPP module at King’s College London
June 2018
George III as Revealed by the Georgian Papers Programme: :Lecture to Saffron Walden Town Library Society
21/06/2018 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Lecture by Professor Arthur Burns to Saffron Walden Town Library Society.At Saffron Walden Town Library Society, Saffron Walden Library. Admission Free and non-members welcome.
June 2018
"As written: An Exploration of the Georgian Papers Programme Digital Archive", Omohondro Institute 24th Annual Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
14/06/2018 @ All Day
Presentation by Angel Luke O’Donnell (King’s College London GPP team) and Jim Ambuske (OI GPP fellow)
May 2018
WMQ-EMI Workshop on Archives-based Digital Projects in Early America, Huntington Library, Pasadena CA
18/05/2018 - 19/05/2018 @ All Day
May 2018
'Culture and Communication', Annual BECC-Warwick Symposium
17/05/2018 @ All Day
Angel Luke O’Donnell and Oliver Walton delivered a keynote presentation on the Georgian Papers. University of Warwick
March 2018
Spain and the American Revolution: 2018 SAR GPP Lecture
26/03/2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Presented by Professor Gabriel Paquette, 2017-18 Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College London. For more and to listen to the lecture, see http://georgianpapersprogramme.com/2018/02/12/2018-sons-american-revolution-annual-lecture/. Venue: Great Hall, Strand Campus, King’s College London. The SARS professorship generously funded by the Sons of the American Revolution
March 2018
Treating Royalty: Conflict, Agency, and the Illness of Princess Amelia
22/03/2018 @ 8:30 am - 11:00 am
A paper given by Dr Carolyn Day, associate professor of history at Furman University, South Carolina, and King’s College London GPP fellow, to ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies) in Orlando, Florida USA.
February 2018
Lives of Letters Project Workshop on Ethical and Intrepretative issues at the University of Manchester
16/02/2018 @ All Day
The GPP made a presentation. For more details, see http://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:l2s-jcvw1hf4-36ocqu/lives-of-letters-workshop-ethical-and-interpretative-issues.
January 2018
George III as Revealed in the Georgian Papers: Lecture to Taunton Deane Branch of the Historical Association
10/01/2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
A talk by Professor Arthur Burns, academic director of the Programme, to the Taunton Deane Branch of the Historical Association (10 January 2018)
January 2018
The Georgian Papers Programme: opportunities and challenges for the history of the eighteenth century in Britain and beyond
05/01/2018 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
A panel at the Annual Conference of the British Association for Eighteenth Century Studies. Speakers Oliver Walton (Royal Archives), Arthur Burns (Academic Director GPP), Suzanne Schwarz (Univ. of Worcester, GPP Omohundro Fellow) and Andrew Beaumont (Hertford College, Oxford, Omohundro GPP fellow).
December 2017
Georgian Papers Symposium: Library of Congress, Room LJ-119 Thomas Jefferson Bldg, 1st floor
01/12/2017 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
WATCH THE SYMPOSIUM or READ TRANSCRIPTS HERE http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8298 202-707-8807 or scholarly@loc.gov Request ASL and ADA accommodations five days in advance at 202-707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.. Speakers: Jim Ambuske, Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, University of Virginia Law School Arthur Burns, Academic Director of the GPP and Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London […]
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