Prof Vanessa Harding: ‘Domestic Economies: London Households in the 16th and 17th centuries’ We are delighted to announce our next event a talk by Birkbeck’s own Professor Vanessa Harding entitled ’Domestic Economies: London Households in the 16th and 17th centuries’. The talk will take place on 26 April in Birkbeck Malet Street building room B30 at 6.30 and will [...]
Impetuous Huzzahs and Horrid Noise Katherine Hunt 22 February 2013, 6:30 pm We are delighted to announce our next event, a talk by Katherine Hunt entitled ‘Impetuous Huzzahs and Horrid Noise’: the sound and the practice of bell ringing in seventeenth-century England. Katherine Hunt has recently finished her PhD at Birkbeck/The London Consortium on the [...]
Cutting Up Books in Early Modern England 25 January 2013, Birkbeck’s Dr Adam Smyth, ‘Cutting up Books in Early Modern England’ Malet St, room 538, 6:30 pm Members free (membership £7), non-members £4 For our next event we are delighted to welcome back Dr Adam Smyth, a stalwart supporter of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society, [...]
Second Barry Coward Memorial Lecture Friday 14 December Professor Sir Brian Vickers, ‘Can We Distinguish Science from Magic?’ Malet St, room 532, 6.30 pm Followed by our Christmas party in Malet St 151 We are delighted to welcome back Professor Sir Brian Vickers who will present the Second Barry Coward Memorial Lecture. In recent years [...]
Beyond the Closet: Material Props for Domestic Devotion in Post-Reformation England Dr Tara Hamling Friday 30 November, Malet St, room B02, 6.30 pm We are delighted to invite you to our next lecture. Dr Tara Hamling works at Birmingham University where she teaches courses on both Shakespeare and the Reformation. She has published widely on [...]