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« Previous EntriesVolunteers required for ‘British Printed Images to 1700′ website appraisal
Friday, March 5th, 2010Many of you will be aware of the British Printed Images to 1700 website (www.bpi1700.org.uk), an online library of printed images from early modern Britain that has been built under the directorship of Professor Michael Hunter of the History department at Birkbeck with funding from the AHRC. There are now plans to carry out [...]
Save Palaeography at King’s Petition
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 [...]
Past Caring: A Celebration of Love in History
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Celebrate Valentine’s 2010 with Love in History Week
6-14 February 2010
From walks exploring Bloomsbury’s romantic past to workshops on Valentine cards and love letters of old, the Past Caring festival will take place in some of London’s leading museums, archives and historic houses. The primary aim is to encourage new and existing audiences and to engage [...]
‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England: 30% Discount for EM Intelligencer Readers!
Monday, January 11th, 2010‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England: Writing Women’s Identities
Ulrike Tancke
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. VIII, 266 pp. (Costerus NS 180)
ISBN: 978-90-420-2808-1 Paper
ISBN: 978-90-420-2809-8 [...]
A Christmas Cracker
Friday, December 25th, 2009Welcome to the Birkbeck Early Modern Intelligencer’s Christmas Cracker!
Instead of the usual news and events reporting, today will be just for fun.
UK readers will need a break between the Queen’s Speech (also for the Commonwealth, of course!) and Doctor Who so here is some early modern stuff to send you back in time until The [...]
CFP: Writing Central Eastern Europe
Friday, December 11th, 2009Call for Papers: Writing Central Eastern Europe
Conference at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 11-12 June 2010
In his inspiring and provoking book, Larry Wolff analyses the invention of Eastern Europe in the time of the Enlightenment. The question is whether Eastern Europe as a concept existed earlier? What about the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first centuries? In [...]
Christmas at Shakespeare’s Globe
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Christmas at the Globe
7 December 2009 – 3 January 2010, 10am–6pm
Except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day
To complement Shakespeare’s Globe’s first ever Christmas show, Footsbarn’s Christmas Cracker, there will be charming Christmas cabins nestling in the shadow of the iconic Globe Theatre as well as a magnificent Christmas tree.
Traditional wooden cabins offer scrumptious festive fayre [...]
Holiday Shopping
Monday, November 30th, 2009There’s no denying the holidays are approaching and that if you’re getting or giving presents this year you’ll need to get shopping. (I did say IF. See the Money Saving Expert’s PRE-No Unncessary Presents campaign. Ideal for those of us who are students or poorly paid academics!)
If you’re shopping at Amazon.co.uk this year, I’d like [...]
E-mail Updates: A Note for Subscribers
Saturday, November 21st, 2009Because of ongoing problems with our e-mail subscription service as well as security issues, I have decided to suspend the Early Modern Intelligencer’s e-mail alert service.
Fortunately new technologies have come to the rescue and I’m happy to announce that the Birkbeck Early Modern Society now has its very own Twitter account! You can follow us [...]