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SELECT TALKS AND LECTURES

TEACHING ANXIETY: HISTORY OF EMOTIONS AS AN APPROACH TO STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN HISTORY 

AGE OF FEAR CONFERENCE, JANUARY 2025

18TH CENTURY MARRIAGE MART REASSESSED

BATH ASSEMBLY ROOMS, OCTOBER 2024

TEACHING THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOW (ROUNDTABLE SPEAKER)

BSECS, JANUARY 2024

TEACHING THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOW (ROUNDTABLE SPEAKER)

BATH ASSEMBLY ROOMS, OCTOBER 2024

AN IMPASSIONED EMOTIONAL DEFENCE: THE LETTERS OF MARY ANNE CANNING AND HER SON, GEORGE

BSECS, January 2022, nominated for the President's Prize; Longer Version: IHR Life Cycles Seminar January 2022

GERALD AYLMAR SEMINAR (IHR, RHS AND THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES) PANELLIST FOR NEW WAYS TO WORK FOR HISTORIANS AND ARCHIVISTS

September 2021

ANXIETY AT TIMES OF DEATH IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Social History Society, July 2021

ANXIETY AND THE FUTURE IN THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CANNING FAMILY 1760-1830

SWWDTP Futures Festival, June 2021

EMOTIONAL DISCOMFORT IN LETTER WRITING

Discomfort in the Eighteenth-Century Workshop April 2021

THE ANXIETIES OF GEORGE CANNING: INTERLINKED FAMILIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE

Correspondence 1400-present Conference April 2021

THE ANXIETY OF LOVE?: ANXIOUS LANGUAGE AND EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FAMILIAL CORRESPONDENCE

Northampton University History Seminar Series February 2021 and a shorter version at the CECS York PG Seminar Feb 2021

 THE EMOTIONAL LETTER: USING MATERIAL CULTURE TO CONTEXTUALISE EMOTIONS IN 18TH CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2021

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