Early Modern Events
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Annual Ecclesiastical History Colloquium, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University Date: Wednesday, 30 June 2010 Time: 15:30 – 20:00 Programme 3.30 Panel: ‘Samuel Wesley: Family, Theology and Mission’ ‘None but Presbyterian Baptism: Samuel Wesley and the Lay Baptism Controversy.’ Professor William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University ‘A Critical Analysis of the Theology [...]
Power & the State: Early Modern Perspectives at Birkbeck
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Dr Laura Stewart has kindly forwarded details of her forthcoming conference, ‘Power and the State: Early Modern Perspectives’ to be held at Birkbeck on 13-14 July 2010. Details about registration will soon be available on the conference website: www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/powerandstate. Keynote lecture: Prof. Jim Collins, Georgetown, USA Speakers: Dr Catherine Casson (Newnham, Cambridge), Dr D’Maris Coffman [...]
Candlelight Concert at Newington Green: 26 May
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010Next Wednesday, 26 May, the London Gallery Quire will give a candlelit concert at Newington Green, starting at 8.00 pm. The Quire will sing a selection of songs and hymns from the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, typical of the music sung in churches at that time, the period of the first hundred and fifty [...]
April Events at the Hunterian Museum
Sunday, March 28th, 2010The Hunterian Museum will continue its series of events that reveal the connections between microscopy and medicine. The Lens of Life programme has been organised as part of the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary celebrations in 2010. Lunchtime Lecture: Blood under the microscope: William Hewson, an 18th-century anatomist Thursday 20 April, 1pm Join Tania Kausmally, historian [...]
Georgian Group Events, Feb 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010The Georgian Group is offering an interesting range of events this month. See http://www.georgiangroup.org.uk/docs/edu/events.php?id=6:2|2010:0:0 for information about booking. 4th February 2010 Lecture / The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh* 6 Fitzroy Square W1 6.30pm, £10 Jeremy Musson reviews the idiosyncratic magnificence of Vanbrugh’s country houses, from Castle Howard and Blenheim to Seaton Delaval, Grimsthorpe [...]
Renaissance Ball at the V&A
Sunday, January 24th, 201029 January 2010, 18:30-22:00 Drawing on the masked tradition of the Commedia del arte join the V&A on a night dedicated to the amazing new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries and explore the V&A collection with a museum-wide programme of live music and performance. Dig out your best sparkling ball attire as the Last Tuesday Society [...]
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 [...]
Skeletons in the Cupboard & Functional Breakdown
Monday, January 18th, 2010A Message from Our President: Prof. Alex Walsham, (Exeter), Skeletons in the Cupboard: Relics after the English Reformation, Friday 29 Jan, 6.30 pm, Malet St, room 321. Happy New Year! You are warmly invited to our first paper of 2010. Prof. Alex Walsham works on the religious and cultural history of early modern Britain, especially [...]
IHR European History Seminars, Spring-Summer 2010
Monday, January 11th, 2010European History 1500-1800 Conveners: Philip Broadhead, Julian Swann, Peter Campbell, Filippo de Vivo, John Henderson, Joël Félix Mondays at 17.00 in the Low Countries Room of the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU Spring 2010 18 January Professor Mark Greengrass (Sheffield), ‘Massacres and Elites: Antoine Caron’s Massacres [...]
Shakespeare’s Globe 2010 Season: Kings & Rogues
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010The Globe has announced its 2010 season which has the theme ‘Kings and Rogues’. Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole says: Shakespeare – something of a king and much of a rogue himself – understood that the world needs rogues, just as it needs kings. It needs the wildness, warmth and virtue of rogues, to balance against [...]
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