Members of EMECC with earlier interests may be particularly interested in the keynote speaker.

This year's Social History Society conference will be hosted by Keele University on 11-13 June 2018. The conference will include a special roundtable session on History & Diversity with Dr Jonathan Saha and others to be confirmed, as well as a keynote lecture from Professor Keith Wrightson of Yale University.

Until Friday 2 February we are happy accept proposals for papers, panels and posters addressing one or more of our conference strands:

• Social Action, Social Justice & Humanitarianism - a one-off strand convened by Professor Pam Cox
• Diversity, Minorities & "Others" - a new strand convened by Dr Daniel Grey
• Self, Senses & Emotions
• Global, Local & Transnational
• Politics, Policy & Citizenship
• Deviance, Inclusion & Exclusion
• Life Cycles, Families & Communities
• Economies, Cultures & Consumption

We warmly accept submissions from new and established historians, covering (pre)medieval, early modern, modern and research, from the local to the global.

Call for papers. For more information, please visit https://socialhistory.org.uk/

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George Campbell Gosling

Communications Officer, Social History Society

socialhistorysoc@gmail.com

Contributions are invited for an edited volume that aims to investigate the ways that early modern denizens became the unwitting victims or voyeurs and manipulators of the fluidity (rather than the fixity) of the spaces in which they inhabited. Themes for papers may include (but are not limited to): literary, visual. political, theological, historical, material, musical, polemical or any other treatments of the topics of domestic liminality in print or manuscript in the context of reformation-era England.

Full details: https://liminalityanddomesticspacesinearlymodernengland.wordpress.com/

Dr David Taylor has organised two events to mark the 200th anniversary of William Hone's trials for blasphemous libel.

The first is an academic workshop on Saturday 25th November, in Warwick (town) with a panel of speakers covering many aspects of the case, including the role of parody, politics, civil war and the spy system. Further details and registration

The second is a dramatic re-enactment of the Hone trials, at which the audience will have a chance to give their own verdict. This event is part of the Warwick Words festival. Further details and ticket purchase

You are invited to register for participation in this year's Symposium, organised by the Eighteenth Century Centres at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick, and hosted this year at Birmingham.

This year the event will also include discussions to consider forming a larger Midlands Eighteenth Century Research Network. It will be principally a workshop with a few keynote talks and plenty of opportunity for group discussion and meeting people. It is free and lunch is included. Full programme

You can register to attend and/or to be kept in touch with future developments here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/events/10may2017workshop

Rita Dashwood, a PhD student in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, working with Dr David Taylor and Dr Tina Lupton, has won this year's President's Prize for best postgraduate paper at the annual conference of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.