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Early Modern Time: Our next event with Dr Matthew Shaw
By Karen | 22 February 2012
Dr Matthew Shaw, ‘Early modern time: the case of the French Republican Calendar’, Malet St, room B02, 18:30.
Dr Matthew Shaw works at the British Library as North American Curator, and Project Coordinator for theEuropeana Collections 1914-1918. He is an expert on the French Revolution, having just published Time and the French Revolution: The Republican Calendar, 1789-Year XIV (The Royal Historical Society, 2010). At Birkbeck he has taught a number of courses on early modern Europe. This Friday’s paper promises to be very stimulating, our first on the concept of early modern time.
Membership of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society or the academic year remains at the recession-proof price of just £5, or single papers can be attended at £3 each.
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