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Monday, March 1st, 2010Who were the Nuns? A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800
Since September 2008, the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project team at Queen Mary has been making a comprehensive study of the membership of the English convents in exile. That is, the period between the opening of the first English convent [...]
New Publication Series for French History
Sunday, February 14th, 2010The Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St Andrews, together with the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University and the University of London Institute in Paris, is pleased to announce the launch of a new publication series for French history.
The history and historical culture of the [...]
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 [...]
Turning the Pages at the Royal Society
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010The Royal Society’s ‘Turning the Pages’ online gallery offers ‘high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible’. Some software downloading is required but once that is in place you should have access to some treasures from the Royal Society’s collection. (There are three different [...]
H-Albion Book Editor Wanted
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009H-Albion is looking for candidates to serve as Book Review Editor for England, Wales, and Scotland (1540-1689). Applications are invited from scholars specializing in the early modern period. The successful candidate will serve as book review editor for two years and will be responsible for commissioning and editing book reviews.
H-Albion is an H-Net discussion group [...]
Dr Roger Mettam, ‘Absolute Monarchy and Provincial Identity in Louis XIV’s France’
Friday, October 16th, 2009Dr Roger Mettam, ‘Absolute Monarchy and Provincial Identity in Louis XIV’s France’, 7 pm, 22 Oct 09, Malet St, room 633.
You are warmly invited to our first event of the new academic year. Dr Roger Mettam is a distinguished historian of early modern France, the author of Government and Society in Louis XIV’s France [...]
Mary Rose: Museum and Appeal
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Winston Churchill reputedly summed up naval tradition as “nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash”, but a trove of objects discovered in the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose suggests that one could also add “the latest fashions and personal grooming”.
Artefacts recovered from the remains of the vessel but never put on display owing [...]
Margaret of York’s Library
Friday, October 9th, 2009Following on from the I See Dead People’s Books project at LibraryThing, here is an analysis of Margaret of York’s collection by ‘feminist medievalist contrarian historian oenophile francophile fromage-fancier’ Barvardess.
See the analysis here:
http://bavardess.blogspot.com/2009/10/riffling-through-margaret-of-yorks.html
Carnivalesque 54 at Early Modern Notes
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009There are some weird and wonderful early modern links at Early Modern Notes.
Carnivalesque 54 has links to blogs with serious – and not so serious! – links to early modern history, politics, and literature. Enjoy!
‘I see dead people’s books’ at LibraryThing
Monday, September 7th, 2009LibraryThing.com is website which allows library enthusiasts to create their own online library catalogues. It also hosts a growing selection of historic collections which were owned by famous people.
The catalogues range from early modern times to the (almost) present. Some early modern examples include the libraries of Marie Antoinette (736 books), Thomas Jefferson [...]