‘Tis the Season for a Christmassy post. So the Intelligencer is taking a break from the usual listings and events information to bring you a page of Christmas links and cheer. There was avery wilfull & strict observation of the day com[m]only called Christmasse day Try as he might proto-Scrooge Oliver Cromwell couldn’t stop early [...]
Goldsmiths Department of History is seeking to immediately appoint a Visiting Tutor or Tutors to convene and deliver two undergraduate courses (one early modern in content) as detailed below. Teaching will commence in January 2011. Please email your CV to Vivienne Richmond, stating which course(s) you are applying for and your relevant expertise/experience. Closing date: [...]
Mondays at 17.00 in the Low Countries Room of the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU Autumn 2010 13/12/2010 Dr Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), ‘The creation of the archives of the Venetian Republic’ Spring 2011 10/01/2011 Dr Claudia Stein (Warwick), ‘Meaning-Making in a World of Resemblance: The Bavarian-Saxon Kidney [...]
An appealing early modern event at Dr Johnson’s House: A GEORGIAN TWELFTH NIGHT Thursday 6th January 2011, 6-9pm All too often in the twenty-first century early January is marked only by gloom and short-lived resolutions and Twelfth Night passes by uncelebrated. In Samuel Johnson’s day it was often the greatest occasion of the winter season. [...]
Call for Papers: ‘Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700’ Please find via the link below details of the CFP for an international conference on the theme of ‘Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700’, which is to be held at St Anne’s College at the University of Oxford on 5-7 September 2011. The deadline for the receipt of [...]