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Janes Austen's Bookshop
This exhibition explores how readers and writers in winchester share printed material (books, playbills, engravings etc). Men and women, young and old, gentry and middle classes, rich and poor, Protestant and Catholic - all participated. The Austen family purchased literature from the bookshop of John Burdon (today still a bookshop), while scholars at Winchester College published their works in their own city. The newly
founded hospital produced annual reports, and local newspapers such as the
Hampshire Chronicle promoted all kinds of publications in advertisments and reviews.
Come to chawton House Library to learn more about book production and circulation. Find out what kind of material was published in Hampshire in the eighteenth century, and just what the Austen family might have read.
Adults £4 (accompanying children free)
Grand Opening: Monday 18th June, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
£7.50 including talk and drinks reception.
Meet the Curators: Sunday 1st July, 12.00pm - 4.00pm
£5 (children free) including introduction from the curators (Professor Chris Mounsey,
Dr. Norbert Schürer and Dr. Debbie Welham) and the option to stay for afternoon
tea and visit the grounds.
Bede’s Apocalypse Commentary and the Carolingians - Reception & Talk
Professor William Schipper, Memorial University, Newfoundland
Tuesday, 3rd April 2012, 5:30 pm – 7 pm
University of Winchester, King Alfred Campus, Room MB 2
For more details, please contact Carolin.Esser-Miles@winchester.ac.uk
Monsters & Bogeymen
Andrew Melrose, Dphil., is Professor of Children’s Writing at the University of Winchester, UK. He has over 150 film, fiction, non-fiction, research, songs, poems and other writing credits, including The Story Keepers film series, a “textual intervention” on the New Testament, broadcast worldwide, and 33 scholarly or creative books. He is also the editor of the journal Writing4Children and a founding member on the TEXT: journal of writing and writing courses and Axon: Creative Explorations international advisory boards.
In addition to his creative writing, Andrew has written a number of books, articles and book chapters on various aspects of critical and creative writing and on the cult and culture of the child, children and childhood. Here Comes the Bogeyman: Exploring contemporary issues in writing for children and Monsters Under the Bed: Critically investigating early years writing have just been released by Routledge (2012).
University lecturer appointed Hampshire Poet 2012
Brian Evans-Jones, Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing, has been appointed Hampshire Poet 2012. Introduced in 2008, this is a biennial post with a dual brief: to write poems for four paid commissions to commemorate local projects and activities during the year, and to use poetry to engage with the Hampshire community.
"I was chosen from 60 applicants", said Winchester resident Evans-Jones, who is the third Hampshire poet to have been received the award. "My first commission is to write a short poem to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of Lymington Library. The poem will be printed on postcards and given out to the public."
The poet is delighted with the opportunities the role will give him: "I like the idea of bringing poetry to a wide(r) public, and perhaps having the opportunity to take poetry to places and people it wouldn’t normally reach. I'll be aiming to use the year to using my experience of teaching to introduce people to the joys of writing poetry."
To find out more about Brian Evans-Jones, visit www.brianevansjones.com
Photo: Hampshire County Council
QUEER PEOPLE 5 - THE USES OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 14-17 July 2010
Speakers will include:
- George Haggerty
- Valerie Traub
- Laura Doan
- Emma Donoghue
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