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Augustine and Aristotle's Categories 21 Jun

Friday 7 July 1665 8 Jul

The Winter’s Tale @ Shakespeare’s Globe 30 Jun

Sunday 16 July 1665 17 Jul

Call for Papers | Reading the Country House 3 Jul

Almshouses and Parish Welfare 11 Jul

Evening Note for Friday, July 6 7 Jul

New Book: Sullón Barreto, “Extranjeros Integrados” 26 Jun

CFP New Book Series: Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective (Amsterdam University... 22 Jun

New Book | China’s Philological Turn 13 Jul

16 Dissertation Listings from CAA 27 Jun

A PhD is a PhD is a PhD! 14 Jul

Dashed Off XIV 23 Jun

Breaking News… 27 Jun

Christian Frederick Cole, the first Black African scholar at Oxford, depicted in...

Christian Frederick Cole (1852-1885) depicted in one of the Oxford cartoons from 1879.What images do we have of Black students at Oxford? The picture above...

The Conveyor • 27 Jun 2018

Slavery Advertisements Published June 28, 1768

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The...

The Adverts 250 Project • 28 Jun 2018

The Two Noble Kinsmen @ Shakespeare’s Globe

Barrie Rutter’s Northern Broadsides were one of the first companies to perform in the incipient Shakespeare’s Globe, and in many ways that...

The Bardathon • 1 Jul 2018

ST. RUTH'S FATAL GAMBLE. THE BATTLE OF AUGHRIM 1691 AND THE FALL OF JACOBITE IRELAND

Released today on the anniversary of the Battle. By Michael McNally. New title from Helion. 

Wars of Louis Quatorze • 12 Jul 2018

June 19

What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? Boston Weekly News-Letter (June 16, 1768).“A great Variety of Callicoes.”...

The Adverts 250 Project • 19 Jun 2018

Visite présidentielle au Château de Voltaire

Françoise Nyssen (ministre de la Culture) et Emmanuel Macron. ©Aline Morel Ce fut une belle journée… Annoncée depuis plusieurs...

Voltaire Foundation • 19 Jun 2018

June 18

What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Providence Gazette (June 18, 1768).“Lessening the unnecessary Importation...

The Adverts 250 Project • 18 Jun 2018

Exhibition | The American Revolution: A World War

Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberge, The Siege of Yorktown, 1786; gouache on panel, 24 × 37 inches(Private Collection of Nicholas Taubman) ◊ ...

Enfilade • 4 Jul 2018

Tartar Salt

So-called "wine diamonds," (harmless)Potassium bitartrate deposits which can accumulatein bottles and barrels of wineTartar salt is an example of an alchemist's...

Conciatore • 29 Jun 2018

Strawberries and cream: a Wimbledon tradition with a long history

With the commencement of Wimbledon, our thoughts – naturally – turn towards that perennial British summer favourite, fresh strawberries and...

All Things Georgian • 3 Jul 2018

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