David Norbrook

@victoriamoul One reason for posting on x!

I’ve just found a Latin poem in a very unusual metre written in praise of William Oughtred, inventor of the slide rule and (apparently) responsible for introducing the ‘x’ sign for multiplication. Let no-one say that I don’t live a very exciting life.

@engfac It is good to be reminded by Professor Hutson that alongside his extraordinarily wide-ranging critical work, John Carey was a formidable Renaissance scholar, though he wore his learning very lightly, and always with iconoclastic wit.

The English Faculty is saddened to hear of the death of John Carey, Merton Professor of English Literature from 1975 to 2002. Read a tribute to Professor Carey, written by Professor Lorna Hutson, on our website. english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/a-trib…

@profrhodrilewis Yes, one of the few very funny critics, with an astonishing range

Hugely sad to learn of John Carey's death. Brilliant, nervelessly funny, and easily the most important to me of those who taught me as an undergrad. Truly excellent to argue with, now alas only on the page. RIP.

Lucy Hutchinson is on the agenda at a conference on 'Memory of the British Revolutions in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries', Newcastle University 3 September 2024. eriac.univ-rouen.fr/memory-of-the-…

While Ludlow condemned Colonel Hutchinson for treachery at the Restoration, he discovered that Hutchinson had been seeking him out before he died, leading him to hope he had repented of his apostasy. Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs vindicate him, in part by blaming herself.

Ludlow’s work, though much more detailed, has many parallels with Hutchinson’s. Blair Worden brilliantly edited part of the surviving manuscript; there are now exciting plans for a digital edition of the entire manuscript.

A workshop at Newcastle University took a transnational approach to Edmund Ludlow’s Memoirs. Like Hutchinson’s Memoirs, the work was edited by the historian Charles Firth, in each case without access to the original manuscripts, which prove to have had strong millennial elements

Groundbreaking papers from the conference: Martyn Bennett, Alison Bumke, Hero Chalmers, Julie Crawford, Carme Font Paz, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, Jonathan Gibson, Angus Haldane, Ann Hughes, Paula McQuade, Erin Murphy, David Norbrook, Mihoko Suzuki, Anna Wall, George Yerby.

Just published on The Seventeenth Century: Lucy Hutchinson (1620-81): The English Revolution and Women's Writing.

Congratulations to Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille for the first monograph on Lucy Hutchinson, and the first study to approach the Memoirs not only through history but through form, analyzing for the first time the complex digressive structure. A milestone!

This hefty and wonderful volume just arrived today - delighted to have it! Congratulations to #ElizabethScottBaumann, #DanielleClarke,#SarahCERoss and all contributors - terrific work all round! @wgcemw @WSGUK @SSEMWomenGender

Original print of conjectural reconstruction of #Nottingham Castle (London Illustrated News, 1878) #castles

@EnglishRadical Henry Marten argued in an amendment that it was useless but not dangerous.

“The Commons of England, finding that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the People of England...have thought fit to Ordain and Enact that the #HouseOfLords, shall be and is hereby 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲...” March 1649.

@PEMcCullough Congratulations! There may be a slow burn on an edition like this - but it's for the future too!0

@AuthorMaca @JuliaWalworth Everything becomes innovative in time

@JuliaWalworth Ugh..... They've missed the thrill of physically flipping through the cards and finding EXACTLY what they were looking for....

Giving library welcome sessions for lovely new undergraduates today. They asked, ‘What are all those little drawers?’ Never seen a card catalogue before 😢. I explained how it worked. ‘Oh wow!’

Yesterday the #LucyHutchinsonConference2022 closed with a trip to Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire which is where the estate of Lucy Hutchinson and her husband John used to be!🏡@EditionLucy @ElizStJohn #LucyHutchinson #earlymodernliterature #seventeenthcentury