Centre for Editing Lives and Letters

AnnouncementChristmas Cheer!

Posted December 17th, 2010 by Dr Matthew Symonds

As tradition dictates, CELL celebrated the end of the semester and Christmas with a swell party.

Through the miracle of pot luck, the dinner table heaved with goodies, from a joint of roast beef to a host of chocolate cupcakes, via cheese muffins, tiramisu, and bread and butter pudding, all washed down with homebrew beer and sensibly-priced cava.

Many thanks to all our students and guests for making it such a special moment for us all!

AnnouncementThe Humfrey Wanley Fellowship

Posted June 4th, 2010 by Dr Robyn Adams

Dr Robyn Adams, Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, has been awarded the Humfrey Wanley Fellowship at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

This fellowship is named after Humfrey Wanley, regarded as a pioneer in the study of manuscripts. As a member of staff of the Bodleian Library in the 1690s, Wanley was one of the first scholars to regard books as research materials in themselves and during this period he was instrumental in developing the skills that he would later deploy in ground-breaking publications.

Dr Adams' research project as Humfrey Wanley Fellow, entitled 'Building a Library without Walls: the Early Records of the Bodleian Library', explores the intellectual and friendship networks and spaces of the early years of the Library, developing directly from previous research on the period of Sir Thomas Bodley's diplomatic service.

AnnouncementQuentin Skinner on "Truth and the Historian"

Posted May 26th, 2010 by Dr Matthew Symonds

Professor Quentin Skinner's inaugural lecture, “Truth and the Historian”, is on Wednesday 2 June 2010 at 6.30pm.

All CELL students are very much encouraged to attend, in a speech act where “encouraged” is a word absolutely freighted with meaning.

PodcastMilton's Paradise Lost: Lecture I

Posted October 19th, 2009 by Dr Robyn Adams

Click to download 42:33 minutes (20.78 MB)

Rosanna Cox leads the listener through an examination of John Milton's epic poem, discussing themes of liberty, civic activity and methods of reading. This lecture was first delivered by Dr Cox at the University of Kent in Spring 2009, and is a companion to Milton's Paradise Lost: Lecture II.

AnnouncementRenaissance Seminars at Queen Mary

Posted October 8th, 2009 by Dr Matthew Symonds

Queen Mary's renaissance seminar, convened by Professor Kevin Sharpe, has an absolutely stellar programme for this academic year. Attendance is absolutely de rigueur for all CELL students, but the line-up is so attractive compulsion should be completely unnecessary.

EventThe HarperCollins History Lecture 2009 -- Your History: Stephen Fry in conversation with Lisa Jardine

Posted October 6th, 2009 by Dr Matthew Symonds

11/11/2009 - 17:30 to 19:30
RIBA, Portland Place, W1

The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters are delighted to announce that Stephen Fry will give the eighth HarperCollins Lecture in November 2009, in conversation with Professor Lisa Jardine.

ProjectLetters of a Stuart Princess: the Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

“The Letters of a Stuart Princess: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia” – published by Oxford University Press.

Volume 1: 1603-1631
Volume 2: 1632-1642

Volume 3: 1643-1662

PodcastMuffled Voices: Mary Powell, silent wife of Milton

Posted February 28th, 2008 by Dr Robyn Adams

Click to download 20:08 minutes (9.07 MB)

Rosanna Cox explores Milton's 1643 text 'The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce' in an attempt to question Milton's biographical stimulus and his own biographers. Critics have traditionally relegated Mary Powell to the role of 'unfit wife' based on her 'absent presence' around the margins of his famous divorce tracts.

AnnouncementCELL PhDs graduate!

Posted January 7th, 2008 by Dr Robyn Adams

CELL congratulates Dr Pete Langman and Dr Ellie Naughtie on receiving their PhDs!

EventCELL Early Modern Reading Group

Posted October 16th, 2007 by Dr Robyn Adams

18/10/2007 - 14:30 to 16:31
Lock-Keeper's Cottage

The CELL Early Modern Reading Group is run by postgraduates at Queen Mary, and is open to all graduate students and staff from QM and other institutions. We meet once a fortnight for informal, in-depth discussion of texts, taking the 'early modern' period in its broadest incarnation. All group members will have the opportunity to propose reading material and introduce a session.