2026 Annual Lecture

The 2026 Annual Lecture will be delivered by long-term friend of the Library, Dr James Vigus, of Queen Mary University of London.

Hosted in partnership with the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, the lecture will take place, as ever, on the last Wednesday of October (28th) at 6.00pm. Venue ti be confirmed.

The lecture:

'The "Idle" life of Henry Crabb Robinson: Suffolk dissenter, European traveller, lawyer, literator'

Dr James Vigus is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. His research focusses on British Romanticism, especially its literary and philosophical connections to the European Continent, and its links to religious dissent. His book publications include Platonic Coleridge (2009) and a critical edition of Henry Crabb Robinson's Essays on Kant, Schelling, and German Aesthetics (2010); (co-)edited essay collections include Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics (2013); his articles include several on Robinson. Stemmimg from a fellowship at The Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) in 2021-22. he is researching British travellers to Hamburg-Altona after the French Revolution. This project so far includes articles on Henry Crabb Robinson's war journalism in Altona in 1807. and an article on Mary Wollstonecraft in Hamburg for the European Romantic Review.

For further details contact: director@dwl.ac.uk