Seminars/Lectures
« Previous EntriesA 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 this occasion the National [...]
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 convent [...]
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 be giving a lecture on his [...]
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 House), [...]
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 books, including Mother Tongue, Notes [...]
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 in [...]
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)
24 March Jake Pollock [...]
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 Johnson had never [...]
Georgian 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 [...]
German Historical Institute Seminars & Public Lectures
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010The German Historical Institute London regularly holds seminars and lectures on topics of general interest to British and German historians. Seminars are usually held every second Tuesday at 5pm during term time. Seminar papers are normally presented in English; knowledge of the German language is not necessary for participation.
Spring 2010
19 January
PD DR MARGRIT PERNAU (BERLIN)
Civility—An [...]