As part of LGBTQ+ History Month, Strawberry Hill House hosts a series of online talks which explore the House, its occupants and our cultural understanding of LGBTQ+ history during the long 18th century. Anne Damer’s Place in Queer History – Caroline Gonda Wednesday 24 February, 7pm Anne Seymour Damer (1748- or 1749-1828) found fame in […]
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Following a successful bid for a competitive research grant, Dr Mary Newbould begins a new collaborative research project: ‘The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts’
‘The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts’ is supported by a 3-year ‘Opus’ grant awarded by NCN, the Polish government-funded National Science Centre. It involves a collaboration between Kazimierz Wielki University (Bydgoszcz) and Poznań University with some significant research outputs: besides conference activity and journal articles, Dr Newbould will co-edit a major collection of essays […]
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