Early Modern Events
« Previous EntriesGeorgian 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 and Kimbolton.
9th February [...]
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 bring [...]
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 [...]
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 the [...]
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 of the Triumvirate’
1 February
Dr [...]
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 [...]
Birkbeck Eighteenth-Century Research Events
Saturday, November 14th, 2009Birkbeck Eighteenth-Century Research: Reading Group session
Date: 17 November 2009
From: 13:00 to 14:30
Location: Room 630 Malet Street
Free entry; first come, first seated.
Speaker: Dr Ann Lewis, Dept of European Cultures and Languages
‘Julie and her father: text and image’
Rousseau’s bestselling novel Julie was illustrated many times over. In this reading group session, we will examine a range of [...]
Samuel Johnson and the Book Trade
Friday, November 6th, 2009Samuel Johnson and the Book Trade
Wednesday 25 November 2009, 7pm (door open 6:15pm)
‘I was bred a Bookseller, and have not forgotten my trade’ : An illustrated lecture by Margaret Willes
Dr Johnson was probably the leading man of letters in 18th-century Britain. But his connection with the book trade and publishing was not only as [...]
George Orwell Lecture at Birkbeck: ‘More like a castle than a realm’: Thomas Cromwell’s Radical England
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009George Orwell lecture : ‘More like a castle than a realm’: Thomas Cromwell’s Radical England
From the Birkbeck Events Team: Please note that Hilary Mantel’s lecture is fully booked as of noon 21 October. (But you can still read the books! –ed.)
The winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel, will be speaking at Birkbeck [...]
Johnson Symposium at the Royal Society of Medicine
Friday, October 2nd, 2009A symposium focusing on Dr Johnson and medicine will take place on Wednesday 21 October 2009 at The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE.
Programme:
1.30 pm Registration, tea and coffee
2.00 pm Welcome and introduction, Dr Tina Matthews, President of History of Medicine Section 2009-2010
Chair: Dr N Cambridge,
Chairman of the Johnson Society of London
2.05 pm Mental [...]