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Monday 14 May 2012

• Professor Sir Brian Vickers and Dr Marcus Dahl respond to claims that All's Well that Ends Well was co-authored by Thomas Middleton

  

  Three weeks ago the Times Literary Supplement published an article by two Shakespearean scholars in Oxford arguing that All’s Well That Ends Well was the work of two hands, William Shakespeare and his contemporary, Thomas Middleton. Brian Vickers (Senior Research Fellow) and Marcus Dahl (... read more

Tuesday 01 May 2012

• Professor Steven Shapin’s programme of public lectures as the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow 2011-12 announced

  

  Professor Steven Shapin, Franklin L Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, will hold the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study for 2011-12. Professor Shapin, who has published widely in the historical sociology of scientific knowledge, will... read more

Thursday 26 April 2012

• School e-newsletter April-May 2012 now available

  

  The April-May 2012 e-newsletter of the School is now available. The latest issue includes news and updates on events, digital resources, fellowships, publications, research training and graduate study opportunities in the School. View e-newsletter April-May 2012 read more

Wednesday 25 April 2012

• Registrations now open for the 81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians on Ancients and Moderns

  

  5-6 July Senate House Registrations are now open for the 2012 Anglo-American Conference of Historians, the flagship event of the Institute of Historical Research. This year the conference will be held on the theme of Ancients and Moderns. With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an... read more

• Professor Ronald Schuchard elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  

  Professor Ronald Schuchard, Director of the T. S. Eliot International School and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The announcement was made by Emory University, where Professor Schuchard is Goodrich C... read more