Monthly Archives: September 2012

OU Book History Seminar Series – Documents of Shakespearean Performance

Monday 29 October 2012 sees the first in a series of seminars on how Shakespeare’s plays were transmitted from manuscript to print. Organised by the Open University’s Book History Research Group and the Institute of English Studies at the University … Continue reading

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Ford Madox Ford International Conference and Celebration event

The Ford Madox Ford Society holds its international conference “Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End: Modernism and the First World War” 27-29 September 2012 at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. First published as Some Do Not. . . … Continue reading

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Major OU BBC landmark series ‘History of the World’

A major collaboration between the OU, the BBC and the Discovery Channel in the USA, the biggest exploration of human history since the BBC’s landmark series Civilisation, hits the screens on BBC One on 23 September. The programme has been … Continue reading

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Prof James R Hamilton speaks at the OU: “What goes on there?”

Prof James R Hamilton of Kansas State University is the world’s leading philosopher of theatre. Visiting the UK, he will be giving a talk at the Open University entitled ‘What Goes on There?’ on 4 October at 2.00pm, in Meeting … Continue reading

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British Crime Historians Symposium

6-7 September 2012, The Open University, Milton Keynes The International Centre for Crime, Policing and Justice (based in the History Department) hosts the British Historians of Crime Symposium at Walton Hall on 6-7 September 2012. This bi-annual event is an … Continue reading

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Heather Richardson’s writing workshop at 1st East Belfast Arts Festival

Heather Richardson, author and Creative Writing tutor at The Open University in Ireland, gives a workshop in creative writing at the first East Belfast Arts Festival, which runs from 5-9 September 2012. The Inventing History workshop runs on 10.30-13.30 on … Continue reading

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