The Peter Chiene Lecture, 2017, will be delivered by Professor Michel Morin, Université de Montréal, on 3 November, 2017. The title will be: “The Survival…
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Some years ago this blog had an entry on the de la Vergne manuscript or volume, with photographs of it and Louis V de la…
Comments closedGuest blog by Ross Macdonald Anyone studying early modern legal texts knows that the text, and its authorship, may be “moveable”; they may appear successively…
Comments closedGuest blog by Ross Macdonald Readers with an interest in undiscovered antique legal texts will be fascinated by a recent report by scholars from Northwestern…
Comments closedAll British historians of slavery in the eighteenth century are familiar with the campaigning work of Granville Sharp. A civil servant, Sharp devoted much time,…
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