Seminars/Lectures
« Previous EntriesProf. Vanessa Harding’s Inaugural Lecture: ‘When Was the Great Fire of London?’, 5 pm, Monday 21 June 2010
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010Room B01, Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, London WC1. Admission is free and drinks will be served after the lecture. To reserve a place contact External Relations: 020 7380 3109/3118 or events@bbk.ac.uk This lecture will explore, not the exact date of the fire of 1666, or its status as the Great Fire, but its time, and [...]
Happy Birthday to Sir Hans Sloane!
Friday, April 16th, 2010One of my favourite people from history, Hans Sloane, was born 350 years ago today on 16 April 1660. He went on to have a varied and successful career as a physician, botanist, collector, and traveller. The immense collection of objects and books which he left to the nation after his death in 1753 was [...]
A Declaration of Indulgence: Assessing the Stuart Restoration and its Legacy
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010A Declaration of Indulgence: Assessing the Stuart Restoration and its Legacy A Lecture Series at the National Maritime Museum Dates: 25 March-29 April, Thursdays Times: 11.00-13.00 Fee: £48/£36 or £8/£6 per lecture Event type: Lectures & talks Booking: Booking required This year marks the 350th anniversary of the restoration of the Stuart monarchy. To mark [...]
Who were the Nuns? A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800
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 [...]
Shakespeare Domesticated: Private Theatricals and the Enlightenment Public Sphere
Sunday, February 21st, 2010Lecture: Shakespeare Domesticated: Private Theatricals and the Enlightenment Public Sphere Date: 09 March 2010 From: 18:00 to 20:00 Speaker: Prof. Michael Dobson Location: Room 218, 43 Gordon Square Free entry: first come, first seated. The Birkbeck Eighteenth-Century Research Group is delighted to announce that Michael Dobson, Professor of Shakespeare Studies (English and Humanities, Birkbeck) will [...]
Birkbeck Early Modern Society Events Update
Friday, February 19th, 2010The Birkbeck Early Modern Society now has dates and full titles for all of our remaining events this term. Our events start at 6:30 pm sharp unless otherwise indicated. All of the events take place at Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London. A map is available here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps. 5 March: Tim Knox (Director, Sir John Soane’s [...]
Royal Society Anniversary Lecture with Bill Bryson
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Royal Society Anniversary Lecture: An Even Shorter History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson Great Hall, Guildhall 30 September 2010, 6 pm Celebrated author Bill Bryson will give a lecture in the Great Hall at the Guildhall in honour of the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. Bill Bryson is the internationally bestselling author of many [...]
The Royal Touch: Brogan at the IHR
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Stephen Brogan, President of the Early Modern Society, will be giving a paper at the Seventeenth-Century British History Seminar at the IHR on Thursday 25 February 2010 entitled ‘The Royal Touch: Scrofula, Sin and the Restored Stuarts, 1660-88′. Venue: Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Time: 5:15 [...]
British History in the Long 18th Century: Spring Lectures
Monday, February 15th, 2010There are three seminars left in the Spring 2010 British History in the Long 18th Century Series at the IHR. 24 February Mark Wishon (University College London) British and German interactions in the 18th-century British army 10 March Isabelle Cosgrave (Exeter) A Quaker convert and the writing of fiction: the case of Amelia Opie (1769-1853) [...]
Melancholic Johnson at Dr Johnson’s House
Monday, February 8th, 2010Thursday 18 February 2010, 7pm Melancholic Johnson A lecture by Dr Jane Darcy Boswell was keen to present Johnson as an exemplary eighteenth-century Man of Feeling, a man whose melancholic moods were evidence of his refined sensibility. In so doing, he could play down evidence of Johnson’s distinctly odd behaviour, and most importantly, insist that [...]
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