How does physical place inform the study of the eighteenth century? Can we access the past in different ways?

How does physical place inform the study of the eighteenth century? Can we access the past in different ways through either modern or historical senses? And how can the senses complement the use of traditional historical sources? This in person workshop explores how histories of eighteenth-century place and space can be reconstructed through using our senses as historians. From the dining table of George III to the streets of Bath, Edinburgh, and Liverpool, a sense of place is brought into sharp focus.

Dr Hillary Burlock, University of Liverpool

•Hunting for Britain’s Assembly Rooms

Dr Meg Kobza, Newcastle University

•Write Where Your Feet Are: Stepping into Georgian Bath

Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

•The Musical Sounds of Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh

Dr Sarah Fox, Edge Hill University

•Britishness on a Plate: nation and identity on the King’s Table

Professor Mark Towsey, University of Liverpool

•Place and the Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO) project

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