The Lewis Walpole Library

Programs & Exhibitions

The Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

In recent years the Lewis Walpole Library Lecture has brought noted scholars in the field of eighteenth-century studies to New Haven to speak on a topic often, but not always, directly related to the collection. The annual Lewis Walpole Library Lecture is now an established feature of Yale's intellectual calendar.

Upcoming Lecture

2012: Nineteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

"Robert Burns and Scottish Independence"

Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature, University of St. Andrews

September 20, 2012

Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

Scotland's greatest poet, Robert Burns, championed the value of the "independent mind." In this public lecture poet and Burns biographer Robert Crawford asks whether this means that Burns also supported Scottish political independence.

Past Lectures

2011: Eighteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

"Family Life Makes Tories of Us All": Love and Power at Home in Georgian England

Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History, Queen Mary, University of London

October 21, 2011

Click here to view a list of past Lewis Walpole Library Lectures.