Archive for February, 2009
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009As part of the upcoming Henry VIII exhibition at the British Library, a love letter written by the king to Anne Boleyn will be on display. The letter was probably written in January 1528 and according to BBC News ‘…shows a softer side to the infamously bloodthirsty royal as he pursues her. He assures Anne [...]
Monument Reopens
Monday, February 16th, 2009The Monument is to re-open today following a £4.5 restoration project. From BBC News: The Monument, in the City of London, will welcome visitors from midday on Monday following a £4.5m face-lift. Restorers have cleaned and repaired its stonework and regilded its famous golden orb. The site was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert [...]
Wonders and Marvels on the Web
Monday, February 16th, 2009I’ve recently found a website called Wonders and Marvels: a Community for Curious Minds who Love History, its Odd Stories and Good Reads. It lives up to the name with a wide selection of historicial articles, book reviews, and links to other resources. There is a strong emphasis on medical history and there is always [...]
Defoe’s Review
Friday, February 13th, 2009Defoe’s Review: An annotated and annotatable edition of A Review of the State of the British Nation In many ways Defoe’s Review functioned more like a modern weblog than like the periodicals that developed from the Tatler. The democratic qualities of the Review – its inexpensiveness, wide circulation and its role as a catalyst for [...]
Library of Evolution at Erasmus Darwin House
Thursday, February 12th, 2009Erasmus Darwin was the grandfather of Charles Darwin whose birthday is celebrated today. Erasmus was born in 1731 and Erasmus came up with a coherent theory of evolution a full 70 years before Charles turned his mind to it. He expounded this in his extraordinary book Zoonomia, or, The Laws of Organic Life which, first [...]
Interdisciplinarity in the Arts and Humanities
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Interdisciplinarity in the Arts and Humanities: Research, Policy, Publishing The Swedenborg Society in Bloomsbury, London, on Friday 20th March 2009 Registration 9:30 am; Conference begins at 10:00 am. There is no conference fee for attendees, but please RSVP to Sharon Sinclair. This conference sets out to consider the emergence of interdisciplinary research within the Arts [...]
Our Next Event: James on Spinoza
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Prof. Susan James, ‘When Does Truth Matter? Spinoza on Philosophy and Religion’, 6.30 pm, 20 Feb 09, Malet St, Room B36 You are warmly invited to our first early modern philosophy paper. Prof. Susan James teaches at Birkbeck, and has published widely on Spinoza. Her forthcoming book is entitled Spinoza on Politics and Religion. The [...]
Edward Lhuyd Conference
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Edward Lhuyd International Conference Aberystwyth 30 June–3 July 2009 LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, ANTIQUITIES AND SCIENCE Keynote Speakers: Michael Bassett, David Cram, Nancy Edwards, Dyfed Elis Gruffydd, Arthur MacGregor, Graham Parry, Brynley F. Roberts To mark the tercentenary of the death of the great Celtic scholar Edward Lhuyd, the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies will [...]
Quentin Skinner on Liberties at the British Library
Monday, February 9th, 2009Talk and Discussion at the British Library Taking Liberties The Lost Liberty of the English Revolution Quentin Skinner Wednesday 18 February 2009 The constitutional upheavals of the 17th century gave rise to the view of individual liberty to which we have basically subscribed ever since; that our liberty consists in our not being unnecessarily interfered [...]
Royal Historical Society Meetings 2009
Sunday, February 8th, 2009The Royal Historical Society Meetings 2009* Friday 6 February 2009 at 5.30 p.m. Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL ‘Refashioning Puritan New England: the Church of England in British North America, c. 1680 – c.1770’ Dr Jeremy Gregory Friday 8 May 2009 at 5.30 p.m. Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL “Oliver Cromwell and the [...]
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