I was saddened to learn of the death of Bill Speck in February
2017. He will, I'm sure be sadly missed by the whole community of
eighteenth-century studies. I first met him at the University of Nottingham at
a meeting of the Historical Association, a society which he was a great
advocate and past President. I would later work alongside him co-convening the
University of Nottingham Interdisciplinary Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar
(2009-2011). His passion for History, and the Eighteenth-Century in particular,
was infectious and he rapidly became a friend and mentor. He was a regular and
popular figure at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual
Conference, where we continued to meet after I left Nottingham. His work has
left an indelible mark upon the history of the reign of Queen Anne, and his
later work on the poet Robert Southey demonstrated his intellectual talent and
adaptability, publishing across the length and breadth of the long
eighteenth-century.
Rest in Peace Old Friend.
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