News

May 2, 2023
The  Library is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2023-2024 Fellowship and Travel Grant awards. To see the list of receipients, visit our Fellowship Awards page.
a short-statured figure with knees together, one hand raised in an oratorial gesture, the other holding a bag over his shoulder stands on a three-legged stool addressing an older man in a wig who leans down over a sign, a group of men sit on the left.
May 2, 2023
In this entry for the Scholars’ Progress blog, Miriam Wallace recounts her experience researching “ ‘speaking subjects’—that is, considering how the visual record...
February 13, 2023
Postponed: Date tba - 10:30 am - 3:00 pm The Lewis Walpole Library is pleased to host a collections-based seminar for graduate students around the exhibition Knight Errant of...
scene of a West Indies marketplace in 1806
December 20, 2022
The recently launched Scholars’ Progress blog has a new post. Teanu Reid, PhD candidate in the African American Studies & History Departments at Yale, writes on “Coast to...
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October 17, 2022
Dr. Andrew Rudd, Senior Lecturer, English Department, University of Exeter 28 October 2022, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time Eighteenth-century England witnessed a remarkable...
September 19, 2022
September 20, 2022 7:00 PM Andrew Rudd, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter In this talk, Dr. Andrew Rudd (University of Exeter, UK) will explore the rich and exciting...
September 19, 2022
Wednesday, September 21, 4:00-6:00 PM  Dwight Hall at Yale, 67 High Street, New Haven A Conversation jointly organized by The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University and...