For C16 historians: Thomas Harriot lecture at Oriel College, 5pm, 31 May

‘The whole earth, a present for a Prince’: Molyneux’s English globes and the creation of a global vision in Harriot’s time Thursday 31 May 2012 at 5pm in The Champneys Room, Oriel College by Dr Lesley B Cormack, Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta After the lecture, it [...]

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Bibliographical Society Lecture on Early Printing on Wed 30 May

Oxford Bibliographical Society Lectures – Annual General Meeting Wednesday, 30 May 2012 in the Freind Room, Lee Building, Christ Church, at 5.15 p.m Lotte Hellinga on  “Explorations in Early Printing Houses” Dr Lotte Hellinga was Deputy Keeper (The British Library) and is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Correspondent of the Netherlands Academy [...]

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More books added to HFL book sale

We have added some more books to our book sale.  Come along to the HFL to browse through the titles – they are nestling next to the entrance and staff desk.  Hardbacks £2 and paperbacks £1. Available titles include: Pophanken & Billeter (hgg), Die Moderne und Ihre Sammler : Franzoesische Kunst in Deutschem Privatbesitz vom [...]

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Maison Francaise talk on the Political History of Climate Knowledge

Date: Monday 21 May 2012, 4-6.30pm Location: Rees Davies Room, History Faculty, George St, Oxford The Maison Française d’Oxford, The Faculty of History (University of Oxford), Oxford Brookes University and The RUCHE  announce the following seminar:  The Climate Question (18th-19th Centuries)  Fabien Locher, CNRS-EHESS, Paris “The Great Climate Controversy. A Political History of Climate Knowledge [...]

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Great War Centenary Talk on Friday 18 May

Speaker: Katie Longo (Balliol College, Oxford) Title: Towards to Great War Centenary: selections for an exhibition Location: Seminar Room, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Date: Friday 18 May 1pm On Friday 18 May Katie Longo will give a talk, Towards the Great War Centenary: selections for an exhibition (1:00 pm, Seminar Room, Pitt Rivers Museum).  This [...]

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Call for papers: “Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”? Conference: EEBO-TCP 2012

“Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012 University of Oxford 17-18 September 2012 To mark a decade of the Text Creation Partnership (TCP)’s work at the Bodleian Libraries, producing searchable, full-text transcriptions of works in Early English Books Online (EEBO), we invite proposals for research papers and posters [...]

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History Thesis Fair this afternoon

Don’t forget to come along to the Thesis Fair this afternoon.  Subject specialists will be at the North Writing Schools in the Exam Schools on the High St 2-4pm to help second year History undergraduates get ideas about resources for their thesis. Full details at www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/thesisfair

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Digital humanities lunchtime session 8 June 2012

Course Title: Make: Data – Towards a digital toolbox for researchers in the Humanities Date: Friday 8 June 12:30-13:30 Location: OUCS The session will present how two DPhil projects in History apply various digital tools (text encoding, data visualisation, corpus linguistics, semantic web) to analyse medieval texts.  The session is aimed at anyone interested in [...]

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History Thesis Fair in 3rd week

Thesis Fair: Thursday 3rd Week in Trinity Term – 10 May 2012, 2-4pm, Exam Schools All 2nd year history undergraduates are encouraged to drop in on the Thesis Fair which will give you the opportunity to discover the University’s vast information resources including library, archive and electronic materials. Library experts and academic historians will be [...]

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Lyell Lectures 2012

The Lyell readership in bibliography at Oxford University is endowed by a bequest from James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871–1948), a solicitor, book collector and bibliographer. Each year since 1952, a distinguished scholar has been elected to deliver the lectures, usually six in number, on any topic of bibliography, broadly conceived. Lyell Lectures 2012 Lukas Erne, [...]

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