Michael Smith is an Early Career Researcher who works on the history of emotions and religious culture in the early modern period. During summer 2018, Michael held an Early Career Fellowship at the John Rylands Research Institute, and his project was focused on...
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Project spotlight: Heinrich Simon, Prussian Double-Agent
Stephen Parker and Matthew Jeffries (German) were recently been awarded a Leverhulme Project Grant for their project 'Double Agent: Heinrich Simon's Constitutional Mission in Neo-Absolutist Prussia'. The three-year project, which began life as a small seed-corn...
Touching the past: Using letters and printed works to reconstruct literary communities and study the spread of ideas
Oscar Seip is a PhD student at the John Rylands Research Institute. In the below post, he talks about his research into 16th century literary networks....
Project spotlight: Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network
Naomi Billingsley is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at The John Rylands Research Institute. In 2017, she and her colleagues set up the Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network using a JRRI Collaboration Grant. Here she talks about the network, its successes so far,...
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