Save the Cleveland St Workhouse from demolition!
Save The Strand Union Workhouse on Cleveland St, in Fitzrovia, London, from demolition! It was built in the 1770s, when the area was still mostly fields, and is unique in being a purpose-built...
View ArticleHunter Paper Published in Notes and Records of the Royal Society
Michael Hunter’s paper ‘The Royal Society and the decline of magic’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society (January 2011), which he presented presented to the Society last year in an earlier form, is...
View ArticleCleveland Street Workhouse Petition
A Georgian workhouse has been discovered on Cleveland St, central London, which needs to be listed if it is to avoid demolition. This is a very rare survival and it may have an important literary...
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Remembering Professor Barry Coward
John Croxon (Birkbeck Early Modern Society) writes: Professor Barry Coward The Early Modern Society is sad to announce the death of Professor Barry Coward who died on the 17th March 2011 aged seventy...
View ArticleBarry Coward Memorial Fund
The Barry Coward Memorial Fund The Historical Association are starting a special fund in Barry Coward’s name to support the Great Debate and, hopefully, to raise money to support adults returning to...
View ArticleSamuel Pepys Award to Michael Hunter
From The Bookseller: Samuel Pepys Award to Michael Hunter 26.10.11 | Katie Allen Academic Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his “fascinating” biography of 17th-century scientist...
View ArticleThe Women’s Library is seeking a new home
On Wednesday 14 March, London Metropolitan University’s Board of Governors announced that they will be seeking a new home, custodian or sponsor of The Women’s Library’s collections. If a new home is...
View ArticleStop Senate House Library selling their first four Shakespeare folios!
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View ArticleNew Book: Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage: New Perspectives Edited by Philip Major, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama...
View ArticleNew Book: The Royal Touch in Early Modern England: Politics, Medicine and Sin
The royal touch was the religious healing ceremony at which the monarch stroked the sores on the face and necks…
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