Fitzwilliam College Literary Society Talk, 5.30pm, Upper Hall 1, Fitzwilliam College Professor Helen Hackett (UCL)                                                                                       The Elizabethan Imagination                                                                                            All welcome. Drinks will be served after the talk. No booking requirement but please contact Hero Chalmers (hac26@cam.ac.uk) if you have any questions.

London Shakespeare Seminar, 5.15pm Senate Room, Senate House Library               Preti Taneja (QMUL)                                                                                         Shakespeare responses to the Syrian conflict: a presentation of research from Jordan and Syria 2015-16                                                                                                 Katherine Hennessey (Warwick)                                                                                      ‘All the Perfumes of Arabia’: Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula

Things, (Re)constructing the Material World: Alcohol, 12.30pm, Alison Richard SG1         Dr Richard Stone (History, University of Bristol)                                                             What is Cider?  What was Cider?  Recovering Seventeenth Century Material Culture        Dr Deborah Toner (History, University of Leicester)                                                    Pulque and Pulquerías

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Richard Ansell (Leicester)                                                                                     Education, Travel and Family Strategy in Britain and Ireland, c. 1650–1750

Bibliographical Society Lecture, 5.30pm, Society of Antiquaries, Piccadilly, London     Scott Mandelbrote                                                                                                        Isaac Newton, his library, and the history of scholarship More information here.

History of Material Texts Seminar, 5pm, SR24

Friday 22nd January

Crossroads of Knowledge, Reading Group                                                              Contact Tim Stuart-Buttle (ts630) for more information.

Graduate Lecture Series, 1pm, GR06/07                                                                Rosalind Lintott                                                                                                    Everything you always wanted to know about Isidore of Seville (but were afraid to ask)

Early Modern French Seminar, 2pm, Free Gallery, Whipple Museum                           Simon Schaffer (Downing College, Cambridge)

Optical Philosophy in the Republic of Letters

Authorship and Attribution in Early Modern Drama: John Marston and Others             Room 114, 43 Gordon Square, London, more information here.

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