November 2019
Mental Health and the Georgian World: The ‘Madness’ of George III
05/11/2019 @ 6:45 pm - 8:30 pm
This panel discussion focuses on a theme which both has great contemporary relevance in our own day as we begin to discuss mental health issues with a new openness and on which the Georgian Papers shed important new light as it makes available in many cases for the first time papers relating to George III’s […]
June 2019
American Patriots in England: the 2019 Mount Vernon Lecture: Zara Anishanslin (Univ. of Delaware, USA)
20/06/2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Lecture Theatre 1, Bush House South Wing, King’s College London Who do we think of when we think of ‘American patriots’ during the American War for Independence? What do we envision them doing to further their political cause? Where do we visualize them doing it? Chances are, most people picture an American white man […]
June 2019
Public Lecture: The Georgian Papers - the Royal Archives and Royal Library relating to the Georgian period, 1714-1837
10/06/2019 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
A talk to the Saffron Walden Museum Society Admission £1 to members, visitors £3. Professor Burns will introduce this remarkable archive and the project to make them more widely available, and share the latest findings.
March 2019
2019 Sons of the American Revolution GPP Lecture: Professor Katherine Carte (Southern Methodist University, Dallas), 'Royal Religion: King George III and the American Revolution’
21/03/2019 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Professor Katherine Carté (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and 2018 Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College London) Royal Religion: King George III and the American Revolution Thursday 21 March 2019 Professor Carté discussed the American war from the perspective of George III’s protestant empire. George III’s position as a Protestant king shaped […]
March 2019
GPP presentation to Digital History Seminar
12/03/2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Arthur Burns, Samantha Callaghan and Patricia Methven discussed the opportunities and challenges of the Digital Humanities dimensions of the Georgian Papers Programme. To view their presentation, go here. IHR, London
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
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