by chrisa | Jul 3, 2017 | CFPS
Printing Colour 1700–1830: Discoveries, Rediscoveries and Innovations in the Long Eighteenth Century Tuesday 10 – Wednesday 11 April 2018, Senate House (Conference) Thursday 12 April 2018, London collections (Object sessions) Institute of English Studies,...
by chrisa | Jun 19, 2017 | CFPS
Writing Romantic Lives Postgraduate Conference Saturday 25 November 2017, Business School, Edge Hill University Edge Hill University & Keele University Keynote Speaker: Felicity James, Leicester University “The best part of human language, properly so...
by chrisa | Dec 20, 2013 | Oxford University Press
Oxford University was a large mass-producer of books by the 1820s. Despite this, it was still occupying a very elegant but modest-sized neo-classical building in the centre of Oxford designed for it in 1713 by Nicholas Hawksmoor. By the mid-1820s this building was...
by chrisa | Dec 17, 2013 | Oxford University Press
Until the 1840s time in Oxford, and therefore at the University Press, was five minutes behind that of London. With no uniform national time until the coming of the railways and the telegraph, the sealed clocks carried by mail coaches would have to be adjusted to...
