BSECS resources

• Curious Travellers Digital Edition

BSECS Publications

• Criticks: Reviews of Events

  Open to all website users

• Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies

  You must be a subscriber or member of BSECS to read articles and reviews

• Studies in the Eighteenth Century: book series

  A new monograph series presenting the best current multidisciplinary research on the global eighteenth century. Published by Boydell and Brewer in association with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

BSECS Digital Prize Winners

Each year since 2009 BSECS has made an award to a new digital resource that assists scholars and students in the field of eighteenth-century studies. Links to these resources can be found here.

• Circulating Enlightenment

  BSECS Digital Prize winner – 2016

• Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew: A Multi-Media Edition

  BSECS Digital Prize winner – 2015

• Electronic Enlightenment

  BSECS Digital Prize winner – 2010

• Locating London’s Past

  BSECS Digital Prize winner – 2014

• London Lives 1690-1800

  BSECS Digital Prize winner – 2011

• The English Broadside Ballad Archive

  BSECS Digital Prize winner – 2009

• The History of Parliament

  BSECS Digital Prize winner – 2013

• William Godwin’s Diary

  BSECS Digital Prize winner – 2012

Eighteenth-Century Centres and Societies

Centres for Eighteenth-Century Studies

BSECS has long-standing connections with for the many eighteenth-century centres based at universities in the UK and beyond. BSECS can act as an organising hub, and we list these centres’ activities on our News and Events pages.

• Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre

• Cardiff Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Seminar (CRECS)

• King’s College London Centre for Enlightenment Studies

• North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies

• Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Queen’s University Belfast Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group

• Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• The TORCH Enlightenment Programme/Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment

• University of Cambridge, Faculty of English, Research Centre for Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies

• University of Kent, Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century

• University of Liverpool Eighteenth-Century Worlds

• University of Toronto Eighteenth-Century Group

• University of Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre

• University of York Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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.

• BARS (The British Association for Romantic Studies)

• Centre for John Clare Studies

• Defoe Society

• Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture

• International Laurence Sterne Foundation

• Jane Austen Society

• John Thelwall Society

• SEAA XVII-XVIII: Société d’Études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

• Society for Eighteenth-Century Music

Other resources

Other Societies

• 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association (BWWA)

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Australia and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Austrian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Bulgarian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society

• Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society

• English Goethe Society

• Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Johnson Society of London

• Polish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII

• Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo Diciottesimo

• Société d’études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles

• Société wallonne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle

• Swedish Eighteenth-Century Society

• The Bibliographical Society

• The Romney Society

• The Voltaire Foundation

• Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837

Specialist Links

World of Letters

• Ann Griffiths, Dolwar Fach

• Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales

• James Boswell

• Montesquieu.it

• The Hockliffe Project: Early British Children’s Books Online

• The Journal to Stella

• The Nichols Project Archive

• The Shaftesbury Project

• The Thomas Gray Archive, hosted by the Bodleian Library

Visual Art

• British Museum Collections

• Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Pages

• National Portrait Gallery

Other

• HRD

  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 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.

• The Incompleat Chymist

• The Material Cultures of Knowledge, 1500-1830. University of California Multi-Campus Research Group

General Eighteenth-Century Links

• C18-L Resources for 18th-Century Studies Across the Disciplines

• Curious Travellers Digital Edition

• Georgian Cities

• Jack Lynch’s Eighteenth-Century Resources

• Jim May’s Bibliographies

• Literature Compass: 18th Century

• Orlando: British Women’s Writing

• The Archives Hub

• The Dissenting Academies Project