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The Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture

The Centre for Early Modern Studies organises the Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture in early modern History. The lecture commemorates , formerly head of History at Exeter, the first female professor at the institution, and a distinguished historian of early modern Britain, who died in 2011. The lecture is an annual event, and is generously funded by Professor Youing’s nephew, Mr Peter Youings.

2024-25: Professor Catherine Hall, Emeria Professor of History UCL. 'Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic'. 

2023-24: Professor Alexandra Shepard (Glasgow), 'Who Cared? Looking After Children in Eighteenth-Century London'. 

2022-23: Professor Ronald Hutton (Bristol), 'The European Witch Hunt in World Context: Some Further Thoughts'.

2021-22: Professor Laura Gowing (King’s College London), 'Making Havoc: Young Women, Apprenticeship & Choices in 17th-century England'.

2020-21: Professor Jonathan Barry (Exeter), 'Bristol and Exeter compared: Researching Early Modern Cities'. .

2019-20: Professor Peter Marshall (Warwick), 'Kirk and Community in Early Modern Orkney'.

2018-19: Professor Lyndal Roper (Oxford), ‘Portraits of Luther, Then and Now’.

2017-18: Dr Peter Elmer (Exeter), ‘Murder, Magic and Witchcraft: the Politics of the Supernatural in Restoration Exeter’.

2016-17: Dr Todd Gray, ‘Carving out the Renaissance in Devon’.

2015-16: Professor Mark Stoyle (Southampton), 'The south western rebellion of 1549 revisited'.

2014-15: Professor Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge), ‘'Domesticating the Reformation: Material Culture, Memory and Confessional Identity in Early Modern England'.

2013-14: Dr John Guy (Cambridge), ‘What’s the Future of Tudor History?’