Archive for July 25th, 2011
Intellectual Geography Conference, St Anne’s, Oxford, 5-7 September 2011
Monday, July 25th, 2011Online booking is now open for the interdisciplinary conference ‘Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700’ (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 5-7 September 2011). The event brings together studies and conceptual papers exploring the roots of local, regional and national intellectual traditions within concrete features of political, economic, confessional, and physical geography. There is an exciting [...]
Professor John Morrill’s Five Must Read Books on Oliver Cromwell
Monday, July 25th, 2011John Morrill, professor of history at Cambridge asks why Oliver Cromwell remains Britain’s most controversial ruler, and what the morbid story of Cromwell’s head after his death has to say about British history. Visit The Brower’s Five Books Interview to find out what five books, past and present, he recommends for studying the life and [...]