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Thursday, October 6th, 2011Careers in the Early Modern 2 November 2011 UCL, Galton Lecture Theatre, 1-19 Torrington Place 4:30 pm An event for anyone interested in working with early modern culture — books, textiles, houses — but not in a traditional academic way. A perfect session for students from undergrad to PhD. Lucy Worsley (Historic Royal Palaces) and [...]
1611 & All That: All Hallows by the Tower and Clio’s Company Event
Monday, August 15th, 2011All Hallows by the Tower and Clio’s Company will present 1611 and All That – an evening of words, medley and song from the age of King James – on 15 September 2011. The proceeds from the event will go to support an Arts in Education project and will help fund the church’s Relighting Project. [...]
Thomas Paine in Lewes and London, 1768-1774
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Lecture at Benjamin Franklin House: Thomas Paine in Lewes and London, 1768-1774 Paul Myles 28 February: 12:00 – 15:00 Benjamin Franklin’s support was the key to Thomas Paine’s success in America. The radical’s incendiary pamphlet Common Sense helped unify the American colonists and galvanise support for the War of Independence. During the war, Paine’s 13 [...]
Georgian 12th Night at Dr Johnson’s House, 6 Jan 2011
Saturday, December 4th, 2010An appealing early modern event at Dr Johnson’s House: A GEORGIAN TWELFTH NIGHT Thursday 6th January 2011, 6-9pm All too often in the twenty-first century early January is marked only by gloom and short-lived resolutions and Twelfth Night passes by uncelebrated. In Samuel Johnson’s day it was often the greatest occasion of the winter season. [...]
All Go at the Globe: Winter Events and a New Season Announcement
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010It may be an open air theatre but that’s not stopping Shakepeare’s Globe from celebrating the winter season in style. The Globe’s Winter Wassail will run from 1-3 January 2011. It will feature the Gabrieli Consort & Players – many of whom are regular musicians and singers at Globe productions. Gabrieli will present a choral [...]
Raphael Cartoons and Tapstries Re-united: Special Events at V&A
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Sacred Masterpieces from Renaissance Rome Friday 17 September 17.30-18.45 or 20.30-21.45 Private View, V&A Raphael Gallery 19.00-20.15 Concert, The London Oratory Enjoy the art and music of the Renaissance at a private view of the reunited Raphael Cartoons and Tapestries at the V&A and/or a concert in the dramatic setting of the Brompton Oratory. The [...]
Annual Ecclesiastical History Colloquium, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University
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 [...]
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