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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 [...]
Volunteers required for ‘British Printed Images to 1700′ website appraisal
Friday, March 5th, 2010Many of you will be aware of the British Printed Images to 1700 website (www.bpi1700.org.uk), an online library of printed images from early modern Britain that has been built under the directorship of Professor Michael Hunter of the History department at Birkbeck with funding from the AHRC. There are now plans to carry out an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The London Digital Humanities Group
Saturday, December 19th, 2009The London Digital Humanities Group consists of early career scholars involved in the creation of digital resources. It aims to provide a forum in which to discuss how new digital technologies can open new avenues of research in the arts and humanities. The group will also serve a practical function by enabling its members to [...]
Call for Papers: London Lives 1690-1800
Friday, December 18th, 2009Call for Papers: London Lives 1690-1800 5-6 July 2010, De Havilland Campus, University of Hertfordshire A call for papers and short presentations (due 28 February 2010) for a two-day conference to mark the launch of: www.londonlives.org. This new website will provide access, using an integrated search facility, to primary sources containing 240,000 pages of manuscripts [...]
Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
Sunday, December 13th, 2009The Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project is online. The impressive website will be useful for early modernists with many different interests. From the website: The Archive of Dulwich College in London, England, holds thousands of pages of manuscripts left to the College by its founder, the eminent actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626). This archive includes his personal and [...]
Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009The University of Toronto has an online archive of materials relating to Wenceslaus Hollar. The website introduction says: Hollar was born in 1607, the son of an upper middle-class civic official. Very little is known about his early life, but he evidently learned the rudiments of his craft by age eighteen, left his native Prague [...]
New Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Now Open at the V&A
Saturday, December 5th, 2009The V&A has opened its new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries. As they say on their website: Beautiful and innovative, the V&A’s new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries are home to one of the world’s most remarkable collections of treasures from the period. These range from delicately carved ivories and intricate metalwork to Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks [...]
Fugger Family Manuscripts at the Bavarian State Library
Friday, December 4th, 2009The Fugger family became one of Europe’s most powerful merchant dynasties. Ennobled at the beginning of the 16th century, the Fuggers started to withdraw step by step from business during the second half of the century. In the decades following 1600 they adopted an aristocratic lifestyle. The Bavarian State library acquired two manuscripts relating to [...]
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