Archive for October, 2009
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy: An International Conference in honour of Professor William Doyle, FBA The British Academy 14-15 December 2009 Programme MONDAY 14 DECEMBER 9.00-09.45 Registration 09.45-10.45 Professor T.C.W. Blanning (University of Cambridge), ‘Bill Doyle and the Origins of the French Revolution’ 10.45-11.00 Tea/Coffee 11.00-13.00 Chair: Professor Malcolm Crook (Keele University) Professor Joël [...]
Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain in Edinburgh and London
Friday, October 30th, 2009Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain: A Bicentenary Exhibition 7th November 2009 – 7th February 2010 Admission free Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain looks at all aspects of Sandby’s career and includes studies of rural and urban views, street scenes, royal parks and ancient castles. Sandby explored a broader range of subject matter than any previous artist in [...]
Grotius and the Freedom of the Seas, 1609
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009In celebration of the anniversary of the publication of Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberum in 1609 the Yale Law Library Rare Books Department Blog is offering an online exhibition of books related to the debate about the freedom of the seas. Works by Grotius, Alberico Gentili, Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, John Selden, William Welwood, Juan de Solorzano [...]
Earliest Road Atlas up for Auction
Monday, October 26th, 2009The first road atlas of its kind in western Europe, a 17th century book showing a highway network in England and Wales of just 73 roads, is to be sold at auction for up to £9,000. The route atlas, published in 1675, includes 100 double pages of black and white maps laid out in continuous [...]
Purcell, Handel & Literature at Senate House
Monday, October 26th, 2009Purcell, Handel & Literature Senate House, University of London Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 November 2009 Institutes of Musical Research and English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Departments of Music and Literature, The Open University; The Handel Institute; The Purcell Society; Royal Musical Association This conference will be one of the concluding [...]
Cosimo and the Watch, Leonardo’s Fingerprint, and Mona Lisa’s Smile
Saturday, October 24th, 2009Art experts at the Science Museum think they may have found the world’s oldest painting to feature a watch in a hitherto unknown picture of a member of the influential Medici family. Read the story here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6349023/Science-Museum-unearths-unknown-portrait-of-Medici-lord.html Meanwhile, A previously unknown portrait by Leonardo da Vinci potentially worth tens of millions of pounds is thought [...]
Roger Mettam: Tonight!
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Dr Roger Mettam, ‘Absolute Monarchy and Provincial Identity in Louis XIV’s France’, 7 pm, 22 Oct 09, Malet St, room 633. You are warmly invited to our first event of the new academic year. Dr Roger Mettam is a distinguished historian of early modern France, the author of Government and Society in Louis XIV’s France [...]
Call for papers: The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Call for papers: The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment Durham University, 6-7 July 2010 An interdisciplinary symposium for early career researchers, supported by the Society for the Social History of Medicine Keynote speaker: Dr. Peter Mitchell (Department of English, University of Wales, Lampeter) At once an organ system, disciplinary target, metaphor, creation of [...]
George Orwell Lecture at Birkbeck: ‘More like a castle than a realm’: Thomas Cromwell’s Radical England
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009George Orwell lecture : ‘More like a castle than a realm’: Thomas Cromwell’s Radical England From the Birkbeck Events Team: Please note that Hilary Mantel’s lecture is fully booked as of noon 21 October. (But you can still read the books! –ed.) The winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel, will be speaking [...]
East India Company and Language, 1599-1857: Call for Papers
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009The East India Company and Language (1599-1857) An Interdisciplinary One-Day Conference British Library Conference Centre, 15 June 2010 For two hundred and fifty years, the English East India Company traded along the shores of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The Company’s presence was not only a commercial one: it operated across a vast region, [...]
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