Seminar on St Paul’s Cross: Preachers, People and Power Date: 25th September 2012 Venue: Wren Suite, St Paul’s Cathedral Time: 3.00pm – 4.30pm Paul’s Cross, located in the gardens of…Read More >
Mendham Collection at Kent
The University of Kent is campaigning to prevent the Law Society from breaking up a historic collection of early printed books and manuscripts. For details, following the link: http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/mendham-collection/2012
Graduate research – UROP scheme
Anna Murdoch, a second year undergraduate in the English Department, has been appointed on the UROP scheme as the undergraduate research assistant on the Verse Miscellanies Online, and has been…Read More >
Verse Miscellanies Online: Printed Poetry Collections in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Alice Eardley and Michelle O’Callaghan were busy in June and July delivering papers on Verse Miscellanies Online: Printed Poetry Collections in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, starting with the annual…Read More >
Launch of website
Alice Eardley and Michelle O’Callaghan will be launching the website at the EEBO-TCP conference, “Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012, which will…Read More >
Italian Academies, 1525-1700 international conference
Booking is now open for the Italian Academies, 1525-1700 international conference, held at the British Library on 17-18 September 2012. Keynote speakers include Prof. emerita Alison Brown, Prof. Virginia Cox,…Read More >
Facebook concept
Our Facebook concept is not new – it was used by sixteenth century scholars who similarly created networks of members and shared information on books, plays, art works and news….Read More >
Institute for Scottish Historical Research Conference
Institute for Scottish Historical Research Conference, University of St Andrews, 29-31 August 2012: Function, Form and Funding: What are universities for – and who should pay for them? (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ishr/ICHU/index.htm)
Call for Papers, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Call for Papers, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society Joint Conference with the International Adam Smith Society, University of Paris, Sorbonne, 3-6 July 2013: Scotland, Europe & Empire in the Age of…Read More >
Conference on ‘Paul’s Cross and the culture of Persuasion, 1520-1640’
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 16-18th August, 2012. Papers will be presented on various aspects of this famous pulpit in the life of early-modern England, and especially with respect to the…Read More >