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10 Jun 10 >>

Historical Fictions & Fictions of History, 1680 to 1830.

A one day conference at the University of Portsmouth on Friday 2 July. The conference is being organised by the Centre for Studies in Literature (CSL) at the University of Portsmouth and the South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantics
Research Group (SCERRG).

For further information please see:

www.port.ac.uk/ fictionsofhistory

or email: benjamin.dew@port.ac.uk

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27 May 10 >>

New regional branch of the Jane Austen Society

A new regional branch of the Jane Austen Society has recently been formed in the South West of England, a part of the country much loved by Jane Austen herself.  The inaugural meeting will be held on Saturday, August 7th 2010 in an historic building in the Cathedral Close at Exeter, with a programme of speakers and the opportunity to socialise over lunch.  

Serving Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and South Somerset, the branch is honoured to have as its Patron Diana Shervington, a resident of Lyme Regis, who is doubly descended from Jane’s brother Edward Knight.  The provisional committee consists of Maggie Lane (Chair), Stephen Mahoney (Treasurer), Penny Townsend (Minutes Secretary), and Hazel Jones (Membership Secretary).

Regular meetings combining the scholarly and the entertaining are being designed for your delectation, with the next meeting to be held at the same venue in October, when David Selwyn will be one of the guest speakers.  It is hoped that this will become a vibrant and friendly branch, with future events, visits and meetings taking place in other parts of the region in response to members’ wishes.  

The branch also intends to interest itself in the Jane Austen garden in Lyme Regis, and to investigate the strange case of the missing bust ... watch this space!

Contact details will posted here soon.

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BSECS. Call For Papers for the 2011 conference

The annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference dealing with all aspects of the history, literature, and culture of the long eighteenth century.
Proposals are invited for papers and sessions dealing with any aspect of the long eighteenth century, not only in Britain, but also throughout Europe, North America, and the wider world. Proposals are invited for fully comprised panels of three or four papers, for roundtable sessions of up to five speakers, for individual papers, and for ‘alternative format’ sessions of your devising.

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Virgin Money Giving

The New Chawton House Library fundraising web site is now live.

Virgin Money Giving, are a new, not for profit, charity fundraising website. They differ from other similar fundraising web site's by not charging a monthly fee or large set up fees, which means more of your money goes to the charity of your choice.

Our dedicated website can be found by following the link below.

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Visiting Fellowship Applications in partnership with the University of Southampton

Applications are invited for 1-3 month visiting fellowships at Chawton House Library (CHL) to be taken up between October 2010 and the end of August 2011. The deadline for completed applications for these fellowships is May 30th 2010. All Fellows will be offered accommodation in the Elizabethan Stable Block at CHL, and office space in the main Library building. They will become visiting fellows in the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton, a privilege that grants access to both electronic and archival resources at the Hartley Library.

For more information click Here

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