Plymouth University researcher Professor James Daybell, has been awarded the international prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and in collaboration with the University of Oxford, the award-winning project is entitled Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO) and provides a meeting place for researchers of… Continue reading History Academic wins International Prize
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Call for Proposals: Routledge Book Series in ‘Material Readings in Early Modern Culture’
This series, edited by Professor James Daybell (University of Plymouth) and Professor Adam Smyth (Balliol College, University of Oxford), provides a forum for studies that consider the material forms of texts as part of an investigation into early modern English culture. The editors invite proposals of a multi- or interdisciplinary nature, and particularly welcome proposals that combine… Continue reading Call for Proposals: Routledge Book Series in ‘Material Readings in Early Modern Culture’
Feature: Women’s Early Modern Letters Online and the Dutch Royal Archives
By PROFESSOR JAMES DAYBELL On 23 September 1633, the Constantijn Huygens, the Golden Age Dutch polymath and secretary to two Princes of Orange (Frederick Henry and William II) wrote to Amalia von Solms-Braunfels, wife of the Dutch Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik von Oranje-Nassau (1584–1647) reporting that her husband had given orders for his army to break camp… Continue reading Feature: Women’s Early Modern Letters Online and the Dutch Royal Archives
Professor James Daybell launches new online history resource at the University of Oxford
On Wednesday 6 July 2016, Professor James Daybell (University of Plymouth) and Dr Kim McLean-Fiander (University of Victoria), co-directors of the British Academy/Leverhulme-funded digital humanities project ‘Women’s Early Modern Letters Online’ (WEMLO), will publicly launch their new online resource at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. The project is major collaboration with the Mellon-funded Oxford-based… Continue reading Professor James Daybell launches new online history resource at the University of Oxford