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Thursday, April 21st, 2011http://earlymoderncommunities.com is a website associated with a literature review project entitled ‘Urban Communities in Early Modern Europe c1400-1700′. This AHRC Connected Communities scoping study aims to examine recent directions in research that takes community as a central theme. The project is run by Fabrizio Nevola and David Rosenthal through the University of Bath. Between now [...]
History Carnival Reminder
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010The Early Modern Intelligencer will be hosting the next History Carnival on 1 November 2010. If you’ve read (or indeed written) some great blogging about history, we want to know about it. And just this once, The ‘Intelligencer will be travelling beyond the bounds of the early modern era – contributions from all eras of [...]
October History Carnival up at Notes from the Field
Friday, October 1st, 2010The October History Carnival is up at Notes from the Field. Happy reading everyone! (Some great selections here – if you’ve not checked out history blogging lately now is your chance!) The November edition will be hosted by none other than The Birkbeck Early Modern Intelligencer! Send your nominations via the form at http://historycarnival.org/carnival-nomination-form/. More [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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