Monthly Archives: July 2012

Graduate research – UROP scheme

Anna Murdoch, a second year undergraduate in the English Department, has been appointed on the UROP scheme as the undergraduate research assistant on the Verse Miscellanies Online, and has been working diligently on the project in June and July.

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Verse Miscellanies Online: Printed Poetry Collections in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Alice Eardley and Michelle O’Callaghan were busy in June and July delivering papers on Verse Miscellanies Online: Printed Poetry Collections in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, starting with the annual international SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and … Continue reading

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Launch of website

Alice Eardley and Michelle O’Callaghan will be launching the website at the EEBO-TCP conference, “Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012, which will be held at the University of Oxford, 17 to 18 … Continue reading

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Italian Academies, 1525-1700 international conference

Booking is now open for the Italian Academies, 1525-1700 international conference, held at the British Library on 17-18 September 2012. Keynote speakers include Prof. emerita Alison Brown, Prof. Virginia Cox, Prof. Giovanni Muto, and Prof. Paolo Procaccioli. For information and … Continue reading

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Facebook concept

Our Facebook concept is not new – it was used by sixteenth century scholars who similarly created networks of members and shared information on books, plays, art works and news. They created humorous nicknames for themselves and developed emblems and … Continue reading

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Institute for Scottish Historical Research Conference

Institute for Scottish Historical Research Conference, University of St Andrews, 29-31 August 2012: Function, Form and Funding: What are universities for – and who should pay for them? (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ishr/ICHU/index.htm)

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Call for Papers, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society

Call for Papers, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society Joint Conference with the International Adam Smith Society, University of Paris, Sorbonne, 3-6 July 2013: Scotland, Europe & Empire in the Age of Adam Smith & Beyond (http://www.ecsss.org/meetings.htm

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Conference on ‘Paul’s Cross and the culture of Persuasion, 1520-1640’

McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 16-18th August, 2012. Papers will be presented on various aspects of this famous pulpit in the life of early-modern England, and especially with respect to the prominent role played by preaching at Paul’s Cross in shaping … Continue reading

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New Statue of John Donne Unveiled

A new statue of John Donne, Dean of St Paul’s, has been unveiled in the new garden to the south of the cathedral. It is a bronze bust, designed by Nigel Boonham (FRBS), and is inscribed with two lines from … Continue reading

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