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InScribe - palaeography learning materials

InScirbe is the UK’s first – and freely available to all – online modular training course on palaeography and manuscript studies. It provides a set of distance learning materials suitable both for someone interested in exploring palaeography for the first time as well as for those in need of a refresher course.Topics covered include general palaeography, the history of medieval scripts, diplomatic, codicology and illumination.

InScribe has been developed by the School's Institutes of Historical Research and English Studies, with support from the Senate House Library  and Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives and King’s College London .

View a video excerpt from the introductory module

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Professor Kimberly Coles

The School Visiting Fellow for 2012–13

Professor Kimberly Coles, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, has published numerous articles on the topics of women’s writing, gender and religious ideology. Her book, Religion, Reform, and Women’s Writing in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2008; paperback 2010) examines the influence of women writers on religious identity and its cultural expression in the 16th century. She is based at the School from Jan to June 2013 where she is working on her current research project entitled “A fault of humor”: the constitution of belief in Early Modern England, which investigates how the confessional categories of Protestant and Catholic functioned in early modern England as material categories.

Prof Coles will give a free, public lecture at the School on 12 June entitled, ‘Moral Constitution: Elizabeth Carey’s Tragedy of Mariam and the Color of Blood’

PROF COLES' PROFILE

Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change

Lennox, Corinne Waites, Matthew

  Human rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity are at last reaching the heart of global debates. Yet 78 states worldwide continue to criminalise same-sex sexual behaviour, and due to the legal legacies of the British Empire, 42 of these – more than half – ...