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From the York Georgian Society:

Celebration of the York Georgian Society’s 2024 Nuttgens Award Winners:

Charlotte Goodge and Constance Halstead

York Medical Society, 18 June 2025, 6pm

Organised by Jemima Hubberstey, Charles Martindale, and Moira Fulton

York Georgian Society is delighted to host two talks given by our 2024 Nuttgens Award Winners: Constance Halstead and Charlotte Goodge. The event will start with a drinks reception in the garden of York Medical Society (weather permitting). Then in the Lecture Room, Professor Mary Fairclough (University of York) will give an introduction, followed by our award winners who will deliver two short talks. It will be a wonderful opportunity to network with other members of the Society and hear exciting new research in eighteenth-century studies. Current students at the University of York also have the chance to learn more about the Nuttgens Award and how the York Georgian Society supports early-career research. Ticket are £15 for members, £25 non-members, and free for students who book in advance. Booking is available here; please note that ticket purchase and free ticket registration must be done separately. In case of any questions, please email jemimahubberstey@hotmail.co.uk.

Charlotte Goodge | Colonial Strategies for Disempowerment and the ‘Deformed’ Mammae of Khoekhoe Mothers

Dr Charlotte Goodge submitted and successfully defended her AHRC-funded PhD thesis in December 2024. Her interdisciplinary doctoral research broadly examines the cultural constructedness of female fatness in the period, demonstrating that both the real-life and the fictional fat female figure was variously used as a vehicle through which ideologies of femininity, class hierarchy, and civilisation were reinforced. Charlotte has held fellowships at the Huntington Library (2023) and Chawton House (2021) and was recently awarded the ASECS Race & Empire Caucus’s Graduate Student Essay Prize (2024). Her work has been published in The Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2023), Eighteenth-Century Life (2025), and in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2025). This talk will explore the way in which eighteenth-century European commentators and travel writers depicted Khoekhoe mothers and their breastfeeding practices in South Africa.

Constance Halstead | ‘Surely It Was Not Platonic’: Anne Lister’s Queer Account of the Ladies of Llangollen

Constance Halstead is a second year PhD student at the University of York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, where her research is funded by the Sally Wainwright Scholarship for the Study of Anne Lister. Her thesis, titled “Telling ‘All as It Really Is’: Form and Formation in Anne Lister’s Manuscript and Digitised Journal,” offers a literary study of Lister’s journal. It focuses on Lister’s generic, material, and textual negotiation of eighteenth-century traditions of diary writing. Constance completed her BA at the University of Oxford and MLitt at the University of St Andrews.

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The Nuttgens Award is named in honour of Patrick Nuttgens (1930–2004). A well-known and warmly remembered figure, both locally and nationally, Nuttgens was founding director of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies within the University of York and successively served as secretary, chairman, and president of the York Georgian Society. The Nuttgens Award was first offered in 2008, the result of a fruitful collaboration between York Georgian Society and the University of York. It provides a grant of £500 to be awarded annually to two PhD students researching any aspect of the Georgian period.