1. BSECS Resources
1) BSECS Publications
Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies (You must be a subscriber or member of BSECS to read articles and reviews)
Online reviews of books (You must be a subscriber or member of BSECS to be able to log in)
Reviews of Events (Open to all website users)
2) BSECS Digital Prize winners
The History of Parliament (BSECS Digital Prize winner - 2013)
William Godwin's Diary (BSECS Digital Prize winner - 2012)
London Lives 1690-1800 (BSECS Digital Prize winner - 2011)
Electronic Enlightenment (BSECS Digital Prize winner - 2010)
The English Broadside Ballad Archive (BSECS Digital Prize winner - 2009)
3) BSECS Associate Societies
The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies has interaction with many organisations with interests in studying and researching the eighteenth century. However, it also promotes links with a number of Associate societies dedicated to eighteenth-century figures, subjects and issues.
The Defoe Society
The Jane Austen Society
Historians of Eighteenth-century Art and Architecture
Society for Eighteenth-Century Music
2. Other Resources
1) Academic Institutions
Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment
Birkbeck: MA in Romantic Studies
Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre
University of Bristol, Centre for Romantic Studies
University of Cambridge, Research Group for Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies, Faculty of English
The Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing at Chawton House Library
University of Kent, Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century
University of Liverpool, Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre
University of London's Institute for Historical Research: British History in the Long C18 seminar
The North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
Queen’s University Belfast, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group (SCERRG)
Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies
University of Warwick, Eighteenth-Century Centre
The Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies
The University of York Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2) Other Societies
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Austrian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Bulgarian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Classical Reception Studies Network
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association (BWWA)
The Bibliographical Society
The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture (HECAA)
The Johnson Society of London
The Romney Society
Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo Diciottesimo
Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII
Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Société Française d'Etude du Dix-Huitième Siècle
Swedish Eighteenth-Century Society
The Voltaire Foundation
3) Specialist Links
a. World of Letters
James Boswell
Ann Griffiths, Dolwar Fach
The Hockliffe Project: early British children's books on-line
Montesquieu.it
Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales
The Journal to Stella
The Nichols Project Archive
The Shaftesbury Project
The Thomas Gray Archive, hosted by the Bodleian Library
b. Visual Art
British Museum collections
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun pages
National Portrait Gallery
c. Other
The Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, London’s first home for abandoned children which was established in 1739, and of three pioneering figures involved in its work: its campaigning founder Thomas Coram, Hogarth and Handel.
HRD is the largest documentary database on any composer. It covers not only Handel's life, career, and reception, but also touches on London's theatrical life during much of the 18th century.
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons From the beak of a giant squid brought back by Captain Cook to the diseased bones of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Hunterian Collection provides a unique insight into the art and science of Georgian medicine.
The Incompleat Chymist
The Material Cultures of Knowledge, 1500-1830. University of California Multi-Campus Research Group
4) General Eighteenth-Century Links
C18-L Resources for 18th-century studies across the disciplines
The Archives Hub
The Dissenting Academies Project
Jack Lynch's Eighteenth-Century Resources
Jim May's Bibliographies
Literature Compass: 18th Century
Orlando: British Women's Writing
