"Correspondence is not a major feature of the collection. Dalton’s own letters tend to be domestic in nature and reveal little of his scientific ideas. However, he received several interesting letters from scientific correspondents..." James Peters writes about the...
Naomi Billingsley, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the JRRI and one of the Lives of Letters team, writes:At the end of November, I wrote a post about some of the ways in which the letters of William Blake are useful to scholars researching his work.Here, I’m going...
Our first of two workshops this semester is now fully booked. To register for the waiting list, please fill out our Google form.This workshop will engage participants in interdisciplinary conversation on the theme of the ethical and interpretative challenges of...
Naomi Billingsley, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the JRRI and one of the Lives of Letters team, writes: Today is the birthday of poet, painter and visionary William Blake (1757-1827). Blake's letters are an important resource for scholars of his work for a number...
Please join us for our third seminar this semester. Four lightning talks will consider issues involved in working with private and public correspondence, with discussion following.14 December, 5pm - 6:30pm, Christie Room, The John Rylands Library. All welcome!We will...
To mark Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday this weekend, we are reposting this blog from the John Rylands Library Special Collections blog. Letters from the Front: A Soldier's Experiences in the First World WarPenny Blackburn, an archive volunteer, writes: The...
The Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network’s three events for semester 1 take the form of four 10-minute lightning talks with 40 minutes of interdisciplinary discussion following, with a special focus on methodological issues and the sharing of best practices.The...
Please join us for our second seminar this semester. Four lightening talks will spotlight projects and emerging issues related to curating correspondence, followed by discussion (full details in poster below). 9 November 2017, 5pm - 6.30pm, The Christie Room, The John...
Editing Modernist Letters WorkshopThursday 2nd November 2017 Venue: Special Collections/MERL, University of Reading, 6 Redlands Rd, Reading, RG1 5EX The archival turn in modernist studies has been closely intertwined with the publication of private correspondence....
Poster design: Andrew Wilshere @andrewwilshere ‘Network & Individuals' 12 October, 5-6.30pm, The Christie Room, the John Rylands Library 10-minute lightning talks and discussion focused on researching individuals within networks through letters. Session will...
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