Early Modern History Fellowship, Cambridge
By Karen Baston | July 4, 2009
Fellowship in Early Modern History, Churchill College, Cambridge
Deadline: August 1 2009
Applications are invited for a Research Fellowship in Early Modern European History to be held at Churchill College, Cambridge. The Fellowship is open to graduates, men or women, of any university, with no age limit, but will normally be awarded to candidates who will have submitted their doctoral thesis by the commencement of the Fellowship. Candidates are warned that competition is likely to be intense.
Candidates should submit a CV, a list of publications, and the names, professional positions and email addresses of two referees, by 1 August 2009. All application materials should be sent electronically (attachment or PDF file) to Mrs Sharon Knight at: Research Fellowships
The closing date for applications is 1 August 2009. Shortlisting will take place on 6 August and the College will ask referees of shortlisted candidates to write on their behalf by 12 August. If your referees are likely to be out of email contact in the period 6-12 August, please ask them to send references directly to Mrs Knight, at the email address provided, at any point before that.
Found at W4RF and pasted from http://earlymodernhistory1.blogspot.com/2009/07/fellowship-at-churchill-college.html
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St Anne’s Annual Bach Festival
By Karen Baston | July 2, 2009
St Anne’s in the City of London will once again be hosting its annual Bach Festival this July. The last concert of the festival is always timed to be on the anniversary of Bach’s death on 28 July 1750.
Here is this year’s line up:
Tuesday 21 July at 13.10
Bach: Trio Sonatas 1-3 (arrangements of Bach’s
organ trio sonatas for various instruments)
Wednesday 22 July at 13.10
Bach: Trio Sonatas 4-6 (arrangements of Bach’s
organ trio sonatas for various instruments)
Thursday 23 July at 13.10
Bach Famous Organ Works
Prelude and Fugue in C-major, BWV 547
Partita “Sei gegrüßet”
The Six Schübler Chorales
Friday 24 July at 13.10
Händel 250 years Anniversary Concert
capella vitalis berlin, dir Almut Schlicker
Händel: Trio Sonatas, Organ Concerto in F major
Saturday 25 July at 19.30
Gala Evening Concert
Bach: Concerto for two violins in D-minor
Cantata BWV 51 “Jauchzet Gott”
Harpsichord Concerto No. 1
Vivaldi: Concerto for bassoon
Sunday 26 July at 18.00
Bach Festival Vespers
Sweelinck Ensemble, dir. Martin Knizia
With cantata “Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht” BWV 186
Monday 27 July at 13.10
The Bach Legacy
Lecosaldi Ensemble, dir. Peter Lea-Cox
Works by Mendelssohn
Tuesday 28 July at 13.10
Bach the Art of the Fugue
Performed on one and two harpsichords and organ
19.00: Bach the Art of the Fugue performed as a
concert at Bach’s hour of death.
Ticket prices
£5 (SAMS members £4)
Gala Concert £10 (SAMS members £8)
The St Anne’s website is here:
http://www.stanneslutheranchurch.org/upcoming%20music.htm.
For more information, contact St Anne’s at St Anne’s.
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Changes to the RHS Bibliography: Lobby Your Library Now!
By Karen Baston | June 30, 2009
The future of the Royal Historical Society Bibliography, Irish History Online and London’s Past Online
The Royal Historical Society, Irish History Online and London’t Past Online will lose their charitible funding at the end of 2009. They will be switching to a subscription service on 1 January 2010. This is their message:
The way in which the RHS Bibliography and London’s Past Online are published will change from 1 January 2010. The new service, under a new name - Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) - will be a partnership between the Royal Historical Society, the Institute of Historical Research and Brepols Publishers. Our existing editorial team, with its close links to academic historians, will continue to be involved. The aim is to maintain and to improve upon the standards and facilities of the current Bibliography, and of course to keep the Bibliography up-to-date by adding information about new publications, which currently entails adding well over 10,000 records each year.
As a result of these changes, the service will no longer be available free of charge, but the RHS and the IHR have concluded that this is the only way to secure the updating and improvement of the database in the long term, and thus to ensure the on-going usefulness of the work that has so far been funded by several charities (including the Leverhulme Trust and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), and by the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council. The RHS and IHR will be increasing their financial commitment to the Bibliography in order to keep subscriptions as low as possible.
Our new partners, Brepols (http://www.brepols.net), who publish the International Medieval Bibliography (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imb/index.html), will also contribute their extensive experience in the online publication of bibliographies and reference works for scholars.
BBIH will be available by institutional and individual subscriptions, and we hope that our existing users will be able to use it. You can help by telling your library about the changes and encouraging them to subscribe to BBIH.
BBIH will be available for institutional trials from October 2009 and will be launched on 1 January 2010, when the existing Bibliography website will close.
The launch of BBIH will also entail changes to our partner project, Irish History Online (http://www.irishhistoryonline.ie). An announcement about this will be made later in the year.
We have prepared answers to some of the questions that we think users are most likely to ask (http://www.history.ac.uk/partners/rhs-bibliography/faq). You can also read the press release (http://www.history.ac.uk/sites/default/files/BBIH_press_release_June_2009.pdf) from the RHS and the IHR, or see Brepols’ leaflet (http://www.brepols.net/publishers/pdf/Brepolis_BBIH_EN.pdf) advertising the forthcoming service. We will publish further news on the Bibliography website and through our mailing list as soon as it becomes available.
The existing Bibliography website will still be updated in autumn 2009, as usual.
A 30 day free trial will be offered for institutions. Free access will continue until the end of this year. Get researching!
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Summer Events at Dr Johnson’s House
By Karen Baston | June 25, 2009
Curator’s talk on Samuel Johnson and London
Saturday 27 June, 1pm
Part of the Story of London, in partnership with London Shh… (Small Historic Houses) http://www.londonshh.org.uk. Free with admission, no booking required
Music in the Age of Dr Johnson
Thursday 16 July, 7pm
Solo performance by cellist Annabel Gordon including selections from Handel’s Sonata in G, Bach’s Suite No 5 in C, Telleman’s Phantasie in Bb, Gabrielli’s Ricercar in Eb and 17th and 18th century dance tunes and songs, played in the atmospheric setting of the Withdrawing Room of Dr Johnson’s House
£12/£10 concessions, includes a glass of wine. Many unavoidable steps.
Choral Evensong in the Temple Church
followed by drinks in the Master’s Garden, Temple
Wednesday 22 July, 5:45pm
Preacher: The Rt. Hon. The Lord Bingham of Cornhill
The Temple Church and the Samuel Johnson Tercentenary Committee warmly invite you to join them for a choral evensong celebrating Samuel Johnson and his connections with Fleet Street and the Temple, followed by summer drinks in the Master’s Garden.
Evensong is free, to book tickets for drinks reception (£6 each) please visit http://www.templemusic.org/events/2009/7/22
The House of Words exhibition events
The House of Words is an exhibition of interventions and installations by seven contemporary artists who have been inspired by Samuel Johnson, his work, his legacy and his home. There are a series of free events running alongside the exhibition including:
Curators’ tour:
Exploring the House of Words with Tessa Peters & Janice West
Friday 3 July, 12:30pm
Free with admission, no booking required. Many unavoidable steps
Artist talk:
Jason Cleverly discusses his interactive Dictionary
Saturday 4 July, 2pm
Free with admission, no booking required. Many unavoidable steps
Walking tour:
London and Letters with Phil Baines and Catherine Dixon, freelance designers and lecturers at Central Saint Martins
Saturday 11 July, 2pm
Free tour about eighteenth century London and typography - places must be booked in advance. Starts at Dr Johnson’s House
The exhibition is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Golden Bottle Trust
For booking and more information on these and other events please visit the website:
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Tonight! Peter Burke on ‘The Rhetoric of Autobiography’
By Karen Baston | June 24, 2009
24 June 09: Prof. Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), ‘The Rhetoric of Autobiography in 17th-Century Europe’, 6.30 pm, room 532, Malet St. Followed by our end of year party in room 538.
You are cordially invited to our last academic paper of this term. We are delighted to welcome Prof. Peter Burke to Birkbeck. He is a distinguished historian of early modern cultural history, whose many books include Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
As this is the last paper of this academic year, we have decided to not charge for this event and to open the doors to all, so if you want to be sure of a seat then please do arrive early! Afterwards we will have our end of year party in room 538.
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Walks with Early Modern Themes
By Karen Baston | June 19, 2009
Please note these walks are NOT organised by the Birkbeck Early Modern Society. Please follow the links below for more information about them.
Big Smoke Walks with Karen Chester
FRIDAY 19 JUNE at 2pm:
Lost Churches of the City - rediscovering lost London
Meet: Mansion House Station, Bow Lane exit 4,in the garden courtyard in front of St Mary Aldermary Church, Bow Lane.
Before the Great Fire of 1666, there were well over 100 churches in the City of London. In more recent centuries fire, war and municipal vandalism have contributed to the disappearance of many more of them. But they haven’t vanished entirely; you can still see them if you know how to look.
SATURDAY 11 JULY at 11am:
Samuel Pepys’ City - a stroll though Restoration London
Meet: Tower Hill Station, next to the statue of the Emperor Trajan
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was a respected civil servant and a Member of Parliament. But most of us don’t remember him for that! We remember him for the secret diary in which he recorded his candid and uncensored opinions of the people he met and the events he witnessed. His first-hand accounts of the Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666 still bring 17th-century London vividly to life.
Both the above walks are organised by Karen Chester. They last about two and a half hours, with a break at ‘ye olde pub’ along the way. Just turn up at the appointed meeting place and pay the guide. £7 per person, DISCOUNT £6 for Early Modern Society members and their guests, email Big Smoke Walks.
4 July and 5 July: ‘London a Hanseatic City’ Walks
These walks are part of the City of London Festival and are called a ‘London a Hanseatic City’ . They will be led by one of our members, John Gibson. For more details, or to book, see www.colf.org and find the events for 4th or 5th July on the calendar. The cost is £10.
The theme of the Festival this year is ‘The latitude of 60 degrees’ and John, who is a City Guide, was asked to do the walk because he is researching a book on Elizabethan London. He assures us that, despite its title, the walk will be entertaining as well as informative.
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Tonight! Early Modern Film Night
By Karen Baston | June 19, 2009
Birkbeck Early Modern Society Film Night
Friday June 19th 2009, 6.30 room B36, Birkbeck Malet Street Building.
We are pleased to be able to screen ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’, a magnificent swashbuckling epic that will melt the heart, starring Gerard Depardieu.
Usual refreshments, free of charge, all welcome.
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Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley - Online
By Karen Baston | June 11, 2009
The letters of Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, which relate to his diplomatic service in the years prior to his bibliographical activities offer a rich resource for Early Modern Studies. This Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) project, in partnership with the Bodleian Library, Oxford, will produce an online edition of all the letters between Bodley and his correspondents between the years 1585-97, which relate to his time spent as Elizabeth I’s representative on the Council of State in the United Provinces (1588-97).
CELL has started to release the Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585-97. Version 1, which comprises letters in English written between Bodley and his correspondents in the years 1585-88, is now available. Letters from later years will be released in chronological sections over the next few months.
You can find about more about the project and start searching here:
http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/projects/diplomatic-correspondence-thomas-bodley-1585-1597
Cell says: ‘An exciting and innovative component of this project is the pioneering transcription method. The letters have been encoded in such a way as to permit readers to custom-build their own transcripts, according to their research preferences. For instance, a general reader may wish to view the letters in their complete, non-abbreviated form, while a scholar interested in orthographic and material features of the period will want to see these reproduced in the transcripts. ‘
The project homepage is here:
http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/bodley/bodley.html
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Call for Papers: A Reminder
By Karen Baston | June 10, 2009
This is to remind you of the call for papers for our third annual students’ conference, ‘Revolution and Evolution’, to be held on Saturday 25 July.
Please note that deadline for proposals for papers is Monday 22 June. Our last two conferences have been very stimulating events and this year we once again welcome creative interpretations of our theme! The conference is an ideal opportunity to try out a chapter or an essay (or a summary of one of these) on a lively audience, and practice presentation skills. Click the link above for the full call for papers and more details about the conference.
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Birkbeck Early Modern Society Film Night, 19 June
By Karen Baston | June 9, 2009
Birkbeck Early Modern Society Film Night
Friday June 19th 2009, 6.30 room B36, Birkbeck Malet Street Building.
We are pleased to be able to screen ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’, a magnificent swashbuckling epic that will melt the heart, starring Gerard Depardieu.
Usual refreshments, free of charge, all welcome.
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