The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies promotes the study of all aspects of the global eighteenth century. 

BSECS is open to anyone interested in the ‘long’ eighteenth century.  Its members are scholars, students and members of the general public from all over the world with a diverse range of interests in the history, literature, science, society and culture of the eighteenth century. 

The Society publishes the Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies four times each year. It organises a major conference every January, and supports a number of smaller specialist or regional meetings and conferences. It is affiliated to the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

The Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JECS) is the official journal of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. It is received by all the Society’s members, in both print and electronic form, and is subscribed to by many individuals and institutions. The journal contents can be accessed at Wiley Interscience.

BSECS is proud to announce the first awards of two new annual prizes that have recently been instituted by the Society.

BSECS now circulates a fortnightly e-bulletin to our members' mailing list. If you have a notice that you would like published in the bulletin (and on the web site), please e-mail Daniel Cook. Please also contact Daniel for back issues.

Proposal submissions are invited for the 2010 Annual Conference. BSECS is looking for interesting and enlightening papers, panels and roundtables, as well as sessions in innovative formats, on any aspect of eighteenth-century studies.

'Women and Gothic' conference - 23rd Jan 2010, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers. Further details (pdf)

Representations of London in Literature An Interdisciplinary Conference

School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, 9-10th July 2009.

A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846.

By Boyd Hilton. Reviewed by Jeremy Black.

Handel's Operas 1726-1741.

By Winton Dean. Reviewed by Suzana Ograjenšek.

Exhibition review: Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1830.

Reviewed by Shearer West

Nicolas François de Neufchâteau, Paméla, ou La Vertu récompensée.

Edited by Martial Poirson. Reviewed by Mark Darlow

Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period.

By Tilar J. Mazzeo. Reviewed by Richard Terry