IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar

We have now moved our social media efforts to @long18sem.bsky.social. This account will remain open for archival purposes. As always, please visit our website for an up to date schedule of our seminar history.ac.uk/seminars/briti…

CFP - Please share! @long18thsem is hosting its annual Lightning Talks session, aimed towards hearing presentations about the research of early stage PhDs working on Britain History in the long 18th century. See the attached poster for further information

#CfP Hello, if anyone is still here on X! I’m thrilled to be organising a conference with @lucyjanehavard on Plants and People. Please send abstracts and bios to us by Friday 14 March!

We’re kicking off our program for term 2 on Wed 22 Jan at 5:30-7pm at the IHR and online with Margaret Hunt (Uppsala) discussing her paper ‘Seventeenth-century Swedish sailors and their personal letters: evidence from the Prize Papers’ @ihr_history history.ac.uk/events/sevente…

A particular late eighteenth century challenge to arbitration was focused on the arbitrary nature of the process, with arbitrators being viewed as delivering summary justice.

In the late 19th century, the ‘Englishness’ of the Rule of Law and the letter of the law became a particular focus. Rule of law was sometimes contrasted with arbitration, with critiques of the two differing in nature.

Francis Boorman starting tonight’s seminar by providing an introduction to arbitration in eighteenth century England and its links to popular culture and the ‘Englishness of arbitration’.

TODAY'S THE DAY! Registration for #BSECS2025 closes at MIDNIGHT. Come and join us at Pembroke College, Oxford, 8-10 January 2025 #18thC #twitterstorians bsecs.org.uk/conferences/an…

Don’t miss out on our last seminar of term next Wednesday 4/12 from 17:30 in person and online as @boorman_francis (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) will discuss the “Englishness” of legal arbitration in Britain during the long 18thc @ihr_history history.ac.uk/events/true-en…

Register to join us next Wednesday, from 17:30 Online-via Zoom & C3.14 at the Institute of Education to hear Chris Jones (Foundling Museum) discuss the digitisation and transcription project of the Foundling Hospital Archive #twitterstorians #18c history.ac.uk/events/expandi…

Penelope Corfield introducing speakers Shinji Nohara and Elena Yi-Jia Zeng for tonight’s seminar on Adam Smith, David Hume in Context: Moral Philosophy and Enlightened Monarchy #18thc

ICYMI Don’t forget to register for our next seminar (Wednesday 6th November 17:30-19:30) for a stimulating seminar featuring Shinji Nohara (Glasgow/Tokyo); Craig Smith (Glasgow) and Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (Princeton) @ihr_history history.ac.uk/events/adam-sm…

Genesis of the 1770 Entail Improvement act was the Duke of Buccleuch’s private bill, drafted by Adam Smith, to loosen the entail on his land. The act, inspired by Dalrymple’s advocacy, left the scaffolding of the tailzie in tact.

The Tailzie debate reignited in 1764 post the Seven Years War, with the bill produced suggesting Tailzie reform, not complete abolition as suggested by Kames. Key to the debate was the interpretation of the state of entail in England.

For our third seminar of the 2024-5 year, Tom Pye (UCL) is tonight presenting his paper ‘the endurance of entail: feudal law, political economy, and land reform in late eighteenth-century Britain’