Archive for October, 2007
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Slavery on Trial: The Somerset Case, 1772 A lecture by Michael Bundock Thursday 18 October 2007, 7:30pm The bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade has been widely celebrated this year. That was a great achievement, but it is often forgotten that in the eighteenth century slavery existed, not just in the colonies, but [...]
Material Readings in Early Modern Culture, 1550-1700
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007A Symposium at the University of Plymouth, 11-12 April 2008 This conference explores the significance of the materiality of manuscript and printed texts in the early modern period. By comprehensively focussing on the material aspects of texts (both in terms of their physicality and the materiality of social practices) as a new and valuable way [...]
New Bulletin!
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Our new Bulletin is out today!
Birkbeck History Research Seminars, Autumn 2007
Monday, October 8th, 2007BIRKBECK HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINARS AUTUMN 2007 To be held every Tuesday in Room 253, Malet Street, followed by optional dinner with the speaker. For more information contact Daniel Wilson or Kate Nichols 09-Oct 8pm Dr. Lawrence Goldman, St. Peter’s College, Oxford & Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Collecting Lives: Reflections on National [...]
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and Scientific Imagination Seminar)
Saturday, October 6th, 200706 October 2007, 14:00 – 16:00 Event Type: Seminar Speakers Felicity Henderson (King’s College, London) ‘Scattered remains: locating the books and papers of Robert Hooke’. Guest co-chair: Nadiya Midgley (Birkbeck & The Early Modern Society) Description Click here for the full programme. Dr Stephen Clucas and Dr Peter J. Forshaw Venue : Room NG14 NG14 [...]
More News from Wood Green
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The Wood Green Bookshop saga continues! See http://www.woodgreenbookshop.blogspot.com for an exciting new venture.
Comparative European History at the IHR, Autumn 2007
Thursday, October 4th, 2007European History, 1500-1800 Roger Mettam, Philip Broadhead, Julian Swann, Peter Campbell, Filippo de Vivo Mondays at 17.00 Low Countries Room of the Institute of Historical Research (University of London) Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON, WC1E 7HU AUTUMN TERM SESSIONS 2007 This year there is going to be a special emphasis on comparison every other session [...]
Tasteful Offerings at the IHR, 2007-2008
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Society, Culture and Belief, 1400-1800 The programme for the academic year 2007-08 continues SBCs series on The Senses, with the theme: Taste Convenors: Laura Gowing (KCL), Michael Hunter (Birkbeck), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary), Adam Sutcliffe (KCL). Seminars will take place in the Ecclesiastical History Room at the Institute of Historical Research on the following Thursdays [...]
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