Archive for November, 2007
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007You never know what you’ll find when you go out for a pizza! See today’s Times for details: Missing Baroque Masterpiece Found in York.
Blake Anniversary Events
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007To mark the 250th anniversary of William Blake’s birth, BBC Radio 4 will broadcast his Doors of Perception at 1530 GMT on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Tate Britain marks the occasion with a free exhibition, ‘William Blake: “I still to on/Till the Heavens & Earth are Gone”‘ until 1 June 2008. Full details are [...]
History Lab conference – call for papers
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Annual Conference Turning points 26 – 27 June 2008 http://www.history.ac.uk/histlab/confs.html When do things change in history and why? What distinguishes one era, century or decade from another and how do we identify the moment of transformation? Periodization is a natural reflex for most historians, but does the use of ‘ancient’, ‘medieval’, ‘modern’ and ‘contemporary’ limit [...]
History Research Seminar at Birkbeck – 27 November.
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Professor Rob Iliffe University of Sussex “Apostasy, atrocity, apocalypse: Newton’s prophetic history of the world” 6pm, Tuesday 27th November, 2007. To be held at Birkbeck College, Room 253 (Malet Street). Seminar to be followed by drinks and optional dinner with the speaker. This seminar will be chaired by Nadiya Midgley (Early Modern Society committee member) [...]
BIRKBECK HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINAR – 8pm, Tuesday 20th November
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Professor Lyndal Roper Balliol College, Oxford The Fat Doctor:Luther and Biography 8pm, Tuesday 20th November, 2007. Birkbeck College,Room 253 (Malet Street). This event will be chaired by Stephen Brogan, President of the Early Modern Society.
Britain’s Icons: Writing, Images and Cultural Signs, 1450-1670
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007A London Renaissance Seminar Conference at Birkbeck College Venue: 23rd November Room G01 Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Sq, London WC1. 24 November, Room 101, School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, 30 Russell Sq, London WC1. Maps and Directions may be found on Birkbeck Map Programme Friday, 23 November 9:45-10:30 Registration and coffee [...]
Pre-Reformation Books of Hours: From Royal Favourite to Everybody’s Primer
Monday, November 12th, 2007On 14 November 2007 at 6 pm, Dr Cristina Dondi will offer an illustrated overview of the fortunes of a previously unknown book of hours, printed in Antwerp in 1531 for the English market on the eve of the Reformation, which the British Library has recently acquired. Dr Dondi will discuss the bibliographical tradition of [...]
Drama at Dr Johnson’s House, 15-16 November
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Mrs Piozzi’s Party, or, The Tale of Mrs Thrale’ Thursday 15 and Friday 16 November 2007, 7:30pm The setting is Bath, 1820 on the occasion of Mrs Piozzi’s lavish 80th birthday party, an event which scandalised many of the ‘uninvited prudes in Bath’. Mrs Piozzi looks back over her life, her marriages and her friendships…. [...]
Tue 13 Nov – Birkbeck History Research Seminar
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Dr. Duncan Bell (Christ’s College, Cambridge) will lecture on ‘Republican imperialism: J. A. Froude and the ambivalence of empire’ at 6pm, Tuesday, 13 November, 2007. Birkbeck College, Room 253 (Malet Street). The Seminar will be followed by drinks and optional dinner with the speaker.
Remaindered Book News
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Unsworths on Euston Rd has copies of Sheila O’Connell’s superb The Popular Print in England for a mere £8.99. It usually sells for £25 in the British Museum shop. Join the queue today!
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