Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
Website of the AHRC-funded 'Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900' research network
(Many thanks to John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin University) for providing a summary of the fascinating talk on the emergence of mechanics’ institutes that he gave at the ‘Institutions as Networks’ workshop, along with a copy of his PowerPoint.) The talk focussed on how innovation and demands for education came from Read More
(Many thanks to Roey Sweet (University of Leicester) for sending a post summarising the thought-provoking reflections that she presented in the roundtable session on the network metaphor at the ‘Institutions as Networks’ workshop.) My own research is on antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Read More
We’ve now held the second workshop in the ‘Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ series, ‘Institutions as Networks’; this took place at the Society of Antiquaries in London last week (on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th of July). As with the previous ‘Institutions as Curators’ workshop, there were a wide range of Read More