Archive for September, 2009
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce its provisional programme of academic events for 2009-2010. Events start at 6:30 pm unless stated otherwise. 22 October: Dr Roger Mettam, ‘Absolute Monarchy and Provincial Identity in Louis XIV’s France’, Malet St, room 633. 12 Nov: Karen Hearn (Curator of 16th-and 17th-Century British Art, Tate Britain), [...]
Carnivalesque 54 at Early Modern Notes
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009There are some weird and wonderful early modern links at Early Modern Notes. Carnivalesque 54 has links to blogs with serious – and not so serious! – links to early modern history, politics, and literature. Enjoy!
Birkbeck at Edinburgh
Monday, September 28th, 2009Two of the Scottish History Research Seminars for 2009-10 have Birkbeck connections. First, Dr Laura Stewart, currently of Birkbeck, will speak on Authority, Agency and the Scottish Church in the Mid-Seventeenth Century on 19 Nov 2009. And on 11 Feb 2010, yours truly (who did an MA at Birkbeck) will do a talk on An [...]
Staffordshire Hoard
Sunday, September 27th, 2009This post isn’t really early modern but the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard is surely too exciting an event to miss on a history blog! You can see a set of images of the find at http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/. The text at Flickr explains: This hoard is perhaps the most important collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in [...]
Early Modern News
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Here are a couple of early modern stories recently in the news. First, a lost painting by Ludovico Mazzolino aka Mazzolino da Ferrara dating from 1522 has been found in a Cheltenham pensioner’s collection. It was packed away in 1950. The painting will be sold by auction. See the Duke’s auction page here: http://www.dukes-auctions.com/Catalogues/PF011009/page8.html. (The [...]
Happy 300th Birthday, Dr Johnson!
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009To celebrate Samuel Johnson’s 300th birthday, his house in London will be open for free this Friday and Saturday. Friday 18 September, 11am to 5:30pm Celebrate Johnson’s 300th birthday by paying a trip to the House where he compiled his Dictionary of the English Language. Open for free all day. Help youself to some birthday [...]
‘I see dead people’s books’ at LibraryThing
Monday, September 7th, 2009LibraryThing.com is website which allows library enthusiasts to create their own online library catalogues. It also hosts a growing selection of historic collections which were owned by famous people. The catalogues range from early modern times to the (almost) present. Some early modern examples include the libraries of Marie Antoinette (736 books), Thomas Jefferson (5,419 [...]
Border Families & their Books in Northern England and in Scotland, c.1480-c.1620
Saturday, September 5th, 2009Call for Papers Border Families and their Books in Northern England and in Scotland, c.1480-1620: A Symposium Merton College, Oxford, 16-17 April 2010 This symposium will explore the literary activities, tastes and book collections of family groups based in or connected to the border regions of northern England and Scotland from the late fifteenth to [...]
Battle of Flodden to be Commemorated in Steel
Friday, September 4th, 2009From Journal Live: (And as a resident of Edinburgh, I’m posting this with rather mixed feelings!) BLACKSMITH Stephen Mather has forged a memorial to one of the North East’s bloodiest battles. Steel gates which incorporate images from the Battle of Flodden in 1513 will be installed at the site where the English army camped before [...]
More on William Weston’s Voyage from Dr Evan Jones
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Dr Evan Jones of the University of Bristol has been in touch with more information about William Weston’s voyage to the New World in 1499 which I posted about last week. Dr Jones has also mentioned that there’s a Birkbeck connection to the story since Dr Alwyn Ruddock who did a lot of research on [...]
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