Archive for January, 2009
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009The Tudor Effigies Database offers 76 main images of civilian effigies from churches in Hampshire and Sussex. The project seeks to track changes in fashion from 1485 to 1603 by tracking, comparing and contrasting the images. Men and women are represented as are people from varying social classes. There is also an introduction to the [...]
1649 and the Execution of King Charles
Friday, January 30th, 20091649 and the Execution of King Charles Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, London 7 February 2009 30 January 1649 is the day when King Charles 1st was beheaded and the Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell, the foundation of modern Parliamentary democracy, came into effective being. It was a revolutionary moment and it brought onto the [...]
Clarendon, 1609-1674: A quartercentenary conference
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Clarendon, 1609-1674 A quartercentenary conference at the Vere Harmsworth Library, Oxford, Friday, 6 March 2009 The Clarendon conference, on the four-hundredth anniversary of his birth, provides an opportunity to assess the current state of the reputation of the politician and historian Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674), and to encourage further work on a [...]
Social Cohesion in Pre-Modern England, 1500-1800 at Lincoln College, Oxford
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009An interdisciplinary symposium on social cohesion and the social order, to be held at Lincoln College, Oxford, on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009. The key themes of the day will be * New approaches to the forces of social cohesion and their relation to larger social structures * Theories of long-term social change and the continued [...]
The Enlightenment Gallery at the British Museum: Fifth Anniversary
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009250th anniversary of the public opening of the British Museum This Autumn marks the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Museum’s Enlightenment Gallery. To mark the occasion there is a series of lunchtime gallery talks and readings and evening lectures organised by King’s College, London, which will provide fresh new perspectives inspired by the [...]
Tudor Ports at Gresham College
Monday, January 26th, 2009As part of a series of talks sponsored by Gresham College, Anthony Payne will lecture on ‘Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history’ on 28 January 2009 at 6pm. The event will take place at Barnard’s Inn Hall. Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended both to record past maritime achievement [...]
Burns Weekend Special Issue
Saturday, January 24th, 2009To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s favourite poet on 25 January, here are some links to Robert Burns related sites. This is not meant as a comprehensive listing of all the information about Burns available on the web but it should give anyone who wants to do a bit of celebrating [...]
Call for Papers: Religion and Modernity in Sussex
Friday, January 23rd, 2009Sussex Centre for Intellectual History Post-Graduate Conference: Religion and Modernity Secularism is often regarded as one of the defining features of modernity, and it is an idea which remains central to the image of an ‘enlightened’ society. Secularism can be seen as an ideology promoting secularity within social relations, structure and organisation. Secularity itself is [...]
Palladio Exhibition at the Royal Academy
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009The first exhibition devoted to Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) to be held in London for over 30 years will celebrate the quincentenary of his birth. The Royal Academy of Arts will present large-scale models, computer animations, original drawings, books and paintings which will the full range of this exceptional architect’s output and his legacy, demonstrating why [...]
Henry VIII at the NPG
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009The National Portrait Gallery in London has an exhibition on ‘Henry VIII Remembered’ which features lesser-known printed images of the king, dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and also includes portrait prints of some of those involved in the key events of his reign. The display is on until 12 July 2009 and [...]
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