December 2020
George III and the Law of Nations: The Sons of the American Revolution Annual Lecture 2020, King’s College London
16/12/2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
A live online lecture by David Armitage (Harvard University), Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College London 16 December 2020, live on Zoom at 17.00 GMT /12 pm EST This lecture examines how George III, from his early years as Prince of Wales in the 1750s […]
November 2020
Reassessing the ‘Mad’ King: George III as revealed in the Georgian Papers at Windsor Castle
02/11/2020 - 14/11/2020 @ 12:00 am - 3:00 pm
An introduction to the Georgian Papers and the light they shed on George III. Part of the programme for the Historical Association Virtual Conference 2020. Presentation available to delegates from 2 November; live Q&A Saturday 14 November 2-3 pm. For more details see https://www.haconference.com/about-the-virtual-conference/
October 2020
George III as revealed in the Georgian Papers
15/10/2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A lecture by Arthur Burns to the Canterbury branch of the Historical Association. An introduction to the Georgian Papers and the light they shed on George III.Location /online to be confirmed.
July 2020
Arthur Burns & Zara Anishanslin discuss the Georgian Papers for the Washington Library, Mount Vernon
14/07/2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
May 2020
Historical Association Annual Conference 2020: 2 presentations by the Georgian Papers Programme [CONFERENCE CANCELLED: RESCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER
15/05/2020 @ 12:15 pm - 4:45 pm
At the Historical Association Annual Conference, Arthur Burns will talk about George III as revealed by the papers, and then will join Katie Hall in a workshop on using the papers in the classroom. The events are open only to those attending the Historical Association conference. For more details, see here|: https://www.haconference.com/about-the-conference/
April 2020
The Georgian Papers at the University of Worcester
22/04/2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
University of Worcester, School of Humanities Research Seminar. All welcome! Dr Oliver Walton (Royal Archives) ‘Worcester Source(s)? Exploring the potential of the Georgian Papers in the Royal Archives’ and Professor Suzanne Schwarz (Worcester) ‘Royal Attitudes to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries’.
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 focused 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. It is also one on which the Georgian Papers Programme sheds important new light as it makes available in many cases for the first time papers […]
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 […]