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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Humanities are under threat at King’s College, London. One of the proposals is the elimination of the Palaeography Chair. You can read about that – and find some useful links including Mary Beard’s blog post at – http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2010/02/palaeography-at-kings-college-london.html.
There is also a Facebook Group which is keeping track of developments and links available here.
You can sign [...]
Follow a Museum on Twitter
Monday, February 1st, 2010Today is ‘Follow a Museum Day’ on Twitter. Lots of museums around the world use Twitter to communicate with their followers. It’s a great way for them to promote exhibitions and events. So spread the word about musuems on Twitter! And don’t forget to use the hashtag #followamuseum when you follow museums!
You can find out [...]
Walpole Treasure Hunt
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009As restoration work continues at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, the Strawberry Hill Trust is hoping to acquire missing items which were once part of Walpole’s massive collection of art and objects. The Trust has launched an appeal with the hope of restoring Walpole’s collection to its original setting. Strawberry Hill will open to the public [...]
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 to have [...]
Mary Rose: Museum and Appeal
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Winston Churchill reputedly summed up naval tradition as “nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash”, but a trove of objects discovered in the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose suggests that one could also add “the latest fashions and personal grooming”.
Artefacts recovered from the remains of the vessel but never put on display owing [...]
Sir Brian Proves Shakespeare Authorship of Edward III
Monday, October 12th, 2009From The Times:
The 400-year-old mystery of whether William Shakespeare was the author of an unattributed play about Edward III may have been solved by a computer program designed to detect plagiarism.
Sir Brian Vickers, an authority on Shakespeare at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, believes that a comparison of phrases used [...]
Early Modern News
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Here are a couple of early modern stories recently in the news.
First, a lost painting by Ludovico Mazzolino aka Mazzolino da Ferrara dating from 1522 has been found in a Cheltenham pensioner’s collection. It was packed away in 1950. The painting will be sold by auction. See the Duke’s auction page here: http://www.dukes-auctions.com/Catalogues/PF011009/page8.html. (The painting [...]
Happy 300th Birthday, Dr Johnson!
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009To celebrate Samuel Johnson’s 300th birthday, his house in London will be open for free this Friday and Saturday.
Friday 18 September, 11am to 5:30pm
Celebrate Johnson’s 300th birthday by paying a trip to the House where he compiled his Dictionary of the English Language. Open for free all day.
Help youself to some birthday cake (whilst [...]
Battle of Flodden to be Commemorated in Steel
Friday, September 4th, 2009From Journal Live: (And as a resident of Edinburgh, I’m posting this with rather mixed feelings!)
BLACKSMITH Stephen Mather has forged a memorial to one of the North East’s bloodiest battles. Steel gates which incorporate images from the Battle of Flodden in 1513 will be installed at the site where the English army camped before and [...]
More on William Weston’s Voyage from Dr Evan Jones
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Dr Evan Jones of the University of Bristol has been in touch with more information about William Weston’s voyage to the New World in 1499 which I posted about last week. Dr Jones has also mentioned that there’s a Birkbeck connection to the story since Dr Alwyn Ruddock who did a lot of research on [...]
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