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Thursday 6 June 1667 7 Jun

June 5 5 Jun

Wednesday 3 July 1667 4 Jul

How to Research in the Online-Only World, part VI 15 Jun

Slavery Advertisements Published June 18, 177 18 Jun

June 27 27 Jun

Slavery Advertisements Published June 25, 177 25 Jun

Pronominal Innovation 30 Jun

Total Possibility 15 Jun

Analyzing the History Department’s CLOs by Year of Instruction (2020) 10 Jun

And Rest and Silence Reign Profound 8 Jun

The Three Grand Requisites 15 Jun

June 23 23 Jun

Tuesday 4 June 1667 5 Jun

Online Lecture | Amelia Rauser, Black Bodies and Neoclassical Whiteness

Agostino Brunias, ‘A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica’, 1779, engraving on laid paper (Lewis Walpole Library, 779.02.15.01) ◊ ...

Enfilade • 17 Jun 2020

Print Quarterly, June

The eighteenth century in the current issue of Print Quarterly: Print Quarterly 37.2 (June 2020) Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of Jan Six, 1647, etching,...

Enfilade • 20 Jun 2020

5 Georgian era drinking scenes

To commemorate the re-opening of pubs, bars, nightclubs and restaurants on 4 July 2020 following England’s (pointless IMO – but don’t...

Naomi Clifford • 4 Jul 2020

Online Lecture | Diana Davis on Furniture for the Anglo-Gallic Interior

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury, by William Henry Hunt, 1823 (New York: Cooper Hewitt Museum, Thaw Collection, 2007-27-4) ◊ ...

Enfilade • 23 Jun 2020

Philips Norton 1685

Today is the anniversary of this battle of the Monmouth rebellion. I have a Facebook group 'Monmouth Rebellion 1685' if you are interested. We are all...

Wars of Louis Quatorze • 27 Jun 2020

“The Militia…would never act against the Rioters”

In August 1765, eighteen years after Gov. William Shirley struggled to deal with anti-impressment riots, his successor Francis Bernard faced a similar...

Boston 1775 • 5 Jun 2020

Sonnet for a Barber

Possible portrait of Lodovico Domenichi,British Museum, inventory #1867,1012.650This is a post about a 16th century poet who was best friends with alchemist/glassmaker...

Conciatore • 15 Jun 2020

Getting creative. Did Shakespeare write King Lear in lockdown?

The title page of the First Folio, 1623 When lockdown was first imposed, in March 2020, it was pointed out that Shakespeare had written King Lear while...

The Shakespeare blog • 17 Jun 2020

Newly Installed British Galleries at The Met

Press release (24 February 2020) from The Met, with the audio guide here: A highlight of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary in 2020...

Enfilade • 13 Jun 2020

BLM 2020: Breathing, Resistance, and the War Against Enslavement

By Kerry Sinanan On May 20, 2020 many celebrated the birthday of Haitian revolution leader, Toussaint L’Ouverture against a backdrop of ongoing murders...

Age of Revolutions • 10 Jun 2020

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