Dr Daniel Starza Smith (Oxford) ‘The Curious History of the Conway papers’

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The Conway Papers were amassed between 1550 and 1700 by a family of statesman, soldiers, authors and collectors, including two secretaries of state – but when the family line expired, the archive was lost to history, apparently destined to suffer the vagaries of damage and dissolution. Thankfully they were rescued from obscurity by Horace Walpole, before passing through the hands of a great many people who weren’t quite sure what they were, or what to do with them. Only in the last twenty years have we been able to examine them and understand them properly. What do the Conway Papers contain? How can we piece them back together? And what research questions still lie among them?

Monday 26th January (week 3), 1.10-2.30pm, Henley Business School, G03

A joint seminar with the Early Modern Research Centre