Collaborations

Eighteenth-Century Worlds collaborates with a range of organisations locally and internationally.

Heritage collaborations

Athenaeum Liverpool

The Athenaeum Liverpool is a private members' club, founded in 1797 as a gentlemens' club with the intention to provide its members with the latest newspapers and pamphlets. Furthermore, a library for the use of the merchants and professional men in the city was created and so the Athenaeum became a pleasant meeting place for the exchange of ideas and information.

The Athenaeum Library is in the centre of the Athenaeum; the reading room is frequently used as a TV and film location. The Library has some 60,000 items in stock in the reading room, on two floors, one of which is glass. A further three bookcases stand in the Newsroom and Committee Room housing rare books and the Roscoe Collection.

We are able to use the Athenaeum premises for teaching and research events, including an annual public lecture and associated workshop for postgraduates and early-career researchers.

National Museums, Liverpool

National Museums Liverpool (NML) is a diverse group of museums and galleries. Its collections are among the most important and varied in Europe, and contain everything from Impressionist paintings and rare beetles to a lifejacket from the Titanic and artefacts from ancient Egypt.

Steering committee member Pauline Rushton's special interest lies in fashion and textiles from 1700 to the present day, her feature on Getting Dressed in the 18th Century shows how a well-off woman was dressed by her maid servant at that time. 

International collaborations

Collaborating institutions

Visitors

We are happy to accommodate visitors, including members of university staff, postdoctoral scholars and research postgraduates from around the world. We welcome enquiries from prospective visitors and those seeking an institutional base from which to carry on funded research. If you are interested in visiting the centre please contact Mark Towsey, Centre Director at towsey@liverpool.ac.uk

Visiting researchers enjoy the use of our library facilities, which include access to one of the UK’s largest collections of digital resources (primary and secondary) in 18th-century studies. They are invited to participate in all the Centre’s activities and to observe and/or contribute to our teaching while they are here.

In the spring of 2014 we welcomed a group of university teachers from Xian Jao Tang University as observers of our undergraduate teaching, as part of a training semester organised by Liverpool University’s English Language Centre.

In 2012 we hosted a visit from a group of 29 master's students from the University of Bonn on a programme dealing with 18th- and 19th-century English studies directed by Professor Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp.

Individual guests have included:

  • Annie Linnéa Mattsson (Uppsala, 2015-16)
  • Charles Edouard Levillain (Paris-Diderot, 2015)
  • Franca Dellarosa (Bari, 2013 and 2014)
  • Sophie Vasset (Paris-Diderot, 2014)
  • Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Paris-Diderot, 2012)
  • Antonio Juan Calvo Maturana (Madrid, 2011-12)
  • Robert Mankin (Paris-Diderot, 2011)
  • Eva Krause Jørgensen (PGR Aarhus, 2013-14)
  • Joanna Szpendowska (PGR Poznán, Erasmus trainee, 2012-13).

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