The Shakespeare Institute Review is a new online academic journal, which is funded by the University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law. It is run by four research students at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. Students at this institution, and on other postgraduate Shakespeare programmes, are invited and encouraged to contribute short papers for [...]
Taverns, locals and street corners Taverns, locals and street corners: Cross-chronological studies in community drinking, regulation and public space Project This AHRC Connected Communities pilot study on tavern culture (2012) ranges from early modern Europe to the present day. It investigates whether today’s real and imagined patterns of drinking – people congregating in public spaces at [...]
Art and Its Afterlives Fourth Early Modern Symposium Saturday 17 November 2012 The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN CALL FOR PAPERS Art and Its Afterlives aims to address the ways in which the work of art continues to resonate after its creation. While much art history takes as its focus [...]
The Society of Apothecaries celebrates its 400th Anniversary in 2017. Its hall was built on the site of the guest house of the Dominican Friary, dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538. On 26 June Dr Nick Holder will be giving a talk about the history of the site and the remains still extant. [He has [...]
We are pleased to announce our next event. Dr Alice Hunt, ‘Oliver Cromwell and the Rituals of the Republic’ 25 May 2012 6:30 pm Room B30, Malet Street Free to Members, £5 Membership, £3 Guests – All Welcome Alice Hunt explored early modern royal coronation rituals from 1509 to 1559 in her book, The Drama [...]