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The American Society of Church History and the Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS)
The American Society of Church History and the Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) will hold a joint meeting in in Oxford, UK 3-5 April 2014. The primary theme of the conference is Migration and Mission in Christian History. Further details may … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, culture and belief
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Prize-winning essay
An essay by EMRC member, Rebecca Bullard, has been awarded the Sylvia Bowerbank Award 2013 by the International Margaret Cavendish Society. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was an extraordinary woman — one of the first female scientists in England, she … Continue reading
Posted in Gathered texts
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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.
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
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
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
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
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)
Posted in Britain and the Wider world
Tagged Scottish research, University of St. Andrews
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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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Tagged Adam Smith, Papers, Scottish Studies, University of Paris
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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
Posted in Reformation cultures’
Tagged Early-modern england, McGill University, Paul's Cross, Stuart, Tudor
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