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Digital Collections
-the LWL’s digitized collection content
Horace Walpole’s Correspondence
-electronic version of the 48-volume
Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence
Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Collection
-art and artifacts from Walpole’s  collections, some now at the Lewis Walpole Library.
Please note that this resource has not been able to be updated for a number of years; corrections or additions have not been possible.
Horace Walpole at 300
-a blog that features items from the Lewis WalpoleLibrary’s collection associated with Walpole
Recent Antiquarian Acquisitions blog
-a blog that features new additions of early materials to the Lewis Walpole Library’s collection.
British Eighteenth-Century Studies Electronic Resources
-links to selected electronic resources particularly relevant to researchers working on Britain adn its world in the long eighteenth century.
Programs
Exhibitions
Street Life: The “Cries” in British Visual Culture, 1711-1877
Caricatures, Campagna, and Connoisseurs: Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy
The Paradox of Pearls: Accessorizing Identities in the Eighteenth Century
Knight Errant of the Distressed: Horace Walpole and Philanthropy in Eighteenth-Century London
William Hogarth’s Topographies
“The Five-Day Peregrination:” a journey through the topographical history of Kent
Decolonizing Sámi Representations and the Legacy of Colonial Topographies
Dangerous Sketching: Hogarth at the Gate of Calais
Doing Good by Stealth: The Philanthropy and Service of Annie Burr Lewis
Artful Nature: Fashion and Theatricality 1770-1830
Guided Tour of
Artful Nature
exhibit
Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire in the Age of Horace Walpole
Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain
Rescuing Horace Walpole: The Achievement of W.S. Lewis
Trial by Media: The Queen Caroline Affair
Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women
Lectures and Conferences
Art and Truth: William Hogarth and the English Enlightenment
Professor of Insects and Worms: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his Life-Made World
Pearl Drops and Blackamoors: The Black Body and Pearlescent Adornment in European Art
The Limits of Free Speech: Gillray, The Royals and Cencorship
Twenty-Sixth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture:
Music on the Dark Side of 1800: Listening to the Blind Virtuosa Mademoiselle Paradis
Horace Walpole and Philanthropy in Eighteenth-Century England
Print Philanthropy in the Age of Horace Walpole
Twenty-Fifth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture:
What are dogs doing in eighteenth-century British art?
Annie Burr Lewis’s Legacy of Philanthropy and Service in Farmington and Beyond
Black Bodies and Neoclassical Whiteness in the Age of Undress
Fashionable Enemies: Glamour as Argument, 1770-1830
Horace Walpole’s
The Castle of Otranto
: A Mini-conference. Morning Session
Horace Walpole’s
The Castle of Otranto:
A Mini-conference. Afternoon Session
Horace Walpole’s
The Mysterious Mother
: A Mini-conference. Session I
Horace Walpole’s
The Mysterious Mother
: A Mini-conference. Session II
Scholarly Editing of Literary Texts from the Long Eighteenth Century - Morning Session
Scholarly Editing of Literary Texts from the Long Eighteenth Century - Afternoon Session
The Many Lives of Horace Walpole
Concerts and Performances
Horace Walpole’s
The Mysterious Mother
: A Staged Reading
Audio-Visual Archival Content
A Visit to Wilmarth S. Lewis and Horace Walpole at Farmington
(video)
Mount Vernon Broadcast interview with Annie Burr Lewis
(audio recording)
Podcasts
Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
Research Guides
British Eighteenth-Century Studies Electronic Resources Research Guide
Finding Lewis Walpole Library Collection Material Research Guide
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill Research Guide
Lewis Walpole Library Fellows’ Guide
Social media
Pinterest
Just for Fun
Puzzles
Coloring Book I
Coloring Book II
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