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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 [...]
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 (5,419 [...]
More on William Weston’s Voyage from Dr Evan Jones
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Dr Evan Jones of the University of Bristol has been in touch with more information about William Weston’s voyage to the New World in 1499 which I posted about last week. Dr Jones has also mentioned that there’s a Birkbeck connection to the story since Dr Alwyn Ruddock who did a lot of research on [...]
Imbas: Medieval Studies Conference at the University of Ireland
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009Imbas The National University of Ireland, Galway, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference, 13-15 November 2009. The University of Ireland, Galway would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas, an interdisciplinary medievalists’ conference being held in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway from 13-15 November 2009. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of [...]
British Printed Images to 1700 – Now Live!
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009A digital library of prints and book illustrations from early modern Britain The British Printed Images to 1700 website, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, makes available a database of thousands of prints and book illustrations from early modern Britain in fully-searchable form. It also offers ancillary facilities aimed to enhance users’ understanding [...]
Changes to the RHS Bibliography: Lobby Your Library Now!
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009The future of the Royal Historical Society Bibliography, Irish History Online and London’s Past Online The Royal Historical Society, Irish History Online and London’t Past Online will lose their charitible funding at the end of 2009. They will be switching to a subscription service on 1 January 2010. This is their message: The way in [...]
Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley – Online
Thursday, June 11th, 2009The letters of Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, which relate to his diplomatic service in the years prior to his bibliographical activities offer a rich resource for Early Modern Studies. This Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) project, in partnership with the Bodleian Library, Oxford, will produce an online edition of [...]
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