Don’t miss our rescheduled LGBTQ+ History Month special seminar! Thomas Fleming from UCL will be presenting his paper titled ‘Refiguring ‘The Maternal’: The Body of Christ and Regimes of Sexual Difference in the Eighteenth-Century West’. Wednesday, 19th April 2023, 4pm…
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Weds 6th April 2022 Seminar – Ciara Stewart and Emily Rhodes ‘Women’s Petitioning’
6th April 2022 with Dr Ciara Stewart and Emily Rhodes, a duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning Join us for this duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning in our Spring Series, featuring Dr Ciara Stewart, with the paper titled: ‘”Tyrannous and Immoral…
Seymour Dorothy Fleming (1757-1818), part 2
Richard’s vengeance had badly backfired. He and his sexual proclivities were now the talk of London society. For the press, Richard’s hobby of collecting ancient art and showing it off to the public, gave rise to the question of whether…
Seymour Dorothy Fleming (1757-1818), part 1
Born in October 1757, Seymour Dorothy Fleming was the fourth of five children of Irish career soldier, Sir John Fleming and his wife, Jane Colman, granddaughter of the Duke of Somerset. Seymour was the surname of the Somerset dynasty and…