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 […]

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

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

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  

"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

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 […]

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 […]

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.

"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

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

Sons of the American Revolution Lecture

26/03/2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Join King’s College London on March 26, 18:30, as they welcome Gabriel Paquette, professor at The Johns Hopkins University and Georgian Papers Programme fellow, as he delivers a lecture entitled “Spain and the American Revolution.” Register here. Professor Paquette will lecture on Spain’s role in the American Revolution. He is especially interested in the Anglo-Spanish relationship, […]

February 2018

Lives of Letters Project Workshop on Ethical and Intrepretative issues at the University of Manchester

16/02/2018 @ All Day

The GPP made a presentation. For more details, see http://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:l2s-jcvw1hf4-36ocqu/lives-of-letters-workshop-ethical-and-interpretative-issues.

January 2018

George III as Revealed in the Georgian Papers: Lecture to Taunton Deane Branch of the Historical Association

10/01/2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

A talk by Professor Arthur Burns, academic director of the Programme, to the Taunton Deane Branch of the Historical Association (10 January 2018)

December 2017

Georgian Papers Symposium: Library of Congress, Room LJ-119 Thomas Jefferson Bldg, 1st floor

01/12/2017 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

WATCH THE SYMPOSIUM: READ THE TRANSCRIPT: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8298 202-707-8807 or scholarly@loc.gov Request ASL and ADA accommodations five days in advance at 202-707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.. Speakers: Jim Ambuske, Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, University of Virginia Law School Arthur Burns, Academic Director of the GPP and Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London Andrew […]

October 2017

Mapping the Georgian world: global power & maps in the reign of George III

09/10/2017 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Watch the talks here:   Monday 9th October 2017, 6:30-8:00pm Edmund J Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s College London   Main speakers: Peter Barber OBE (former head of Map Collections at the British Library) Dr Max Edelson (University of Virginia, USA, and creator of the digital visualization platform MapScholar). Chaired by Professor Arthur Burns, […]

February 2017

The Men Who Lost America: A Lecture By Professor Andrew O'Shaughnessy

13/02/2017 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

This lecture is jointly hosted by the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War and the Georgian Papers Programme, and supported by funds from the Sons of the American Revolution. Date: 13th February 2017 Time: 18:30-19:30 Location: Great Hall, Strand, King’s College London Register for a free ticket here. The loss of America […]

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