The WSG offer regular events and activities throughout the year. Below, you will find our annual calendar. The calendar is updated each September, with minor updates capturing any changes made in January each year.
WSG Events Calendar for 2026 – 2027 Updated 27 July 2026
| Day/Date/Time | Event | Event details |
| Sat 17 October 2026, 13:30 for 14:00 (GMT) | In-person seminar Foundling Museum. | Abigail M. Carr, ‘This poor woman’: the importance of compassion and perception for Wet Nurses of the London Foundling Hospital; Amory S. Zhao, The Automated and the Autonomous: Frances Burney’s Scribulerations; Angela Escott, ‘I swung and walked a great deal upon deck’; women at sea; Peter Radford, A rediscovered, but untitled, anonymous, and old (but undated) engraving of women playing cricket – the search for its ‘meaning’. |
| Tues 26 October 2026 19:00 – 20:00 (GMT) | Online Reading Group: Her Stories – K Lipsedge | ‘The History of Mary Prince: By Herself’ (1831) |
| Thurs 12 November 2026 18:45 – 19:00 (GMT) | Online seminar | Sara Read, A Physician’s Wife? Revisiting the Biography of the German Princess Using Digital Genealogy; Valerie Schutte, A Comparison of the Coronation Rings of Queens Mary I and Elizabeth I; Ailsa Maxwell , Women’s Home(work): Creating Sweets and Sausages in Georgian Britain. |
| Thurs 10 December 2026, 19:00-20:00 (GMT) | Online Reading Group: Her Stories – K Lipsedge | ‘A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke …’ (1755) |
| Sat 16 January 2027 13:45 for 14:00 (GMT) | In-person seminar Foundling Museum. | Luisa Signorelli, Misogyny and Shakespeare’s Eighteenth-Century Women Critics; Dr Jean G-Owen, Poachers in Petticoats: ‘Unwomanly Practices in Rural Britain’; Teresa Jung-Sin Hsie, The Afterlives of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Eliza Haywood, and the Long Eighteenth Century in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. |
| Sat 30 January 2027 (Time to be confirmed) | Online seminar | WSG at 40: Afterlives |
| Sat 11 February 2027 18:45 for 14:00 (GMT) | Online seminar | Francesca Saggini, A pen to correct the imbalance. Metaphors and communicative asymmetries in Frances Burney’s ‘A Mastectomy Letter’; Tabitha Kenlon, A Disabling Education: Gender, Knowledge, and Disability in Fanny Burney’s Camilla; Flávia Varella, Familiar Conversations and Historical Learning in Elizabeth Penrose and Elizabeth Helme |
| Thurs 20 March 2027 13:45 – 14:00 (GMT) | In-person seminar: Foundling Museum. | Mary Nevin, At the Hearth of Taste, Propriety, and Decorum: Female Consumers and the Eighteenth-Century Chimneypiece; Laura Granda-Mateu, Ladies of Liverpool and their lost collections: natural history knowledge-making in the North West, c. 1768–1837; Eszter Kovácz, Anne Conway and Ancient Wisdom. |
| Thurs 29 April 2027 18:45 – 19:00 (BST) | Online seminar | Elisabetta Marino, Not Just ‘the Mother of…’: Frances Trollope and the Beginning of Her Literary Career; Laura Giuliano, Writing Art Across Borders: British Women Travellers, Artistic Identity, and Cultural Comparison in Eighteenth-Century Italy; Adriana Marinelli (Parthenope University of Naples), Reclaiming Parthenope: Women Travellers and the Neapolitan Myth of the Siren. |
| Sat 17 April 2027 Time to be confirmed | In-person celebration Foundling Museum. | An informal in-person gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the WSG. |
| NOTES: Full Seminar paper titles and abstracts are available here. For Seminar queries please email 2wsgevents@gmail.com. For Support Network Workshops, Reading Group and Online In-conversation Event queries please email k.lipsedge@kingston.ac.uk. | ||
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